Ep. 19: The Machine

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Real Chess Corner

How engines think: A chess engine looks at millions of positions every second and gives each one a score. +1.00 means White is about a pawn better; -3.00 means Black is about a whole piece up. Then it plays the move with the best score.

Fun fact: Alan Turing wrote one of the very first chess programs, "Turochamp", around 1948 - before any computer could run it. So he played it by hand, working out every move with pencil and paper. It took him about half an hour per move!

Lesson: Use engines AFTER your games, to find your mistakes and learn from them. During a game, it's just you and the board - that's fair play.

Knight Coach is in beta. Testers wanted... (Zeke has already signed up.)

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