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  • Also, I’d love to better understand how to use the engines on chess.com. a. You talk about how we can download the moves for the Stonewall, for example, but I’d love a short video on how to do that. 2. I would also like to understand how to use the engine better to see how my moves are rated as I play. I hear and see you do that with your…

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    Paul L and Tomas
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    • Hi Tina, If you go to 13:50 in lesson 3.2 Nelson explains how to download and use the PGN files. There are also a number of videos in the Bonus section where Nelson explains how to use various features of both chess.com and lichess.org.

      When playing Live Chess you can go into settings and enable “Engine Evaluation”. I think this is what…

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  • I wish I better understood a couple of technical things, but I’ll start with this simple one. I have usually played bots to practice, but I doubt they’re necessarily realistic. When I start a “real” game on chess.com I tend to get put with people whose ratings are much higher than mine. Is there any way to play a “normal” game of chess (one…

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    • Yes, when you go to start a game just below the big green “Play” button will be a little “Custom” drop-down. If you click on that you will be able to select how much above/below your rating your opponent will be. I have mine set to -400 and +100.

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