Сhess engines: How to use them properly?

October 25, 2014 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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Nowadays, many chess players learn and practice chess by using computers. Of course, engines are very ‘quick’: they calculate a lot of variations and moves and evaluate the position in NOT more than a minute.

That said, it does NOT mean that engines are the BEST.In this webinar, GM Mikhailo Oleksienko will teach you how to use chess engines properly (use the core of your computer and pay attention to the depth) and show you some positions where computers evaluate positions completely wrongly.

Also, he will show some positions where computers blunder or do not see the win.

NOTE: This is just a small part of the webinar.

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