New player needs some advice.

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PrawnEatsPrawn

Greetings all,

 

I've never owned or set up an engine before, so I'm bewildered by the technicalities.

 

My machine is an i7-920 running on 6Gb of DDR3 RAM and I'm an approx 2000 FIDE rated player, I'm thinking we might make a half-decent centaur.

 

So here's the thing:

1. Please explain the components required to make a good "chess playing device".

2. Please suggest some bitchin' "builds" given my hardware.

 

Links to trusted download sites would be appreciated, as would someone taking me under their wing, for a little while.

 

I hope that I don't ask too much.