Help finding the best chess engine to help a lower rated player?

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PoolPlayerToo wrote:

I too enjoy playing against a computer and use Fritz.  What I like about Fritz is that I can play what it calls a "rated game" where I can set its Elo rating and the time control.  I usually set its rating at 1800 Elo and play a 60/10 time control.  I've yet to beat it at that rating but the games are enjoyable and I feel I'm keeping up so to speak, until a stupid blunder on my part.

I missed a winning pawnmove in a pawnendgame against Fritz. He then blunders back and it ended as a draw. So I am wondering if that is some kind of setting it has to play like a player at that level. I think the ELO he gives is too high? I am not playing like a 1900 for 20 moves.

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SouthClaws wrote:

As I have read somewhere Leela Zero plays like a human even at lower ratings. So, maybe you should give it a try.

Does anyone know if there is a way to add Leela to Lucas chess?

Or how exactly do you "give it a try?"

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forked_again wrote:
SouthClaws wrote:

As I have read somewhere Leela Zero plays like a human even at lower ratings. So, maybe you should give it a try.

Does anyone know if there is a way to add Leela to Lucas chess?

Or how exactly do you "give it a try?"

I imagine that adding Leela to Lucas Chess would be like installing any other UCI engine, except you'd have to ensure that Leela's network file is in the same folder as the Leela executable. My box doesn't have a GPU, so I would just install the (much) weaker CPU version.

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Is there an engine like Lucas chess for Mac?

 

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Hi