CHESS ENGINE INSTALATION FOR ARENA GUI

 

GUI = (Graphical User Interface = program to display chess analysis)

 

Follow steps described below:

 

STEP 1

Copy chess engine to directory on your computer.

 

STEP 2

Open Arena chess GUI.

 

STEP 3

As shown in picture below click on ENGINE then click on New Engine

 

 

STEP 4

You should be able to see small gray „UCI or Winboard” window.

 

 

Rybka is UCI engine. UCI is the most popular computer chess language.

More precisely UCI is a protocol for communication between chess engine and chess GUI.

Every major chess GUI supports the UCI protocol.

Click OK.

 

STEP 5

You will see something similar to this picture:

 

 

Find directory where you had copy RYBKA engine.

Underline and click on engine file i.e. Rybka v1.0.exe

Click open. 

 

You are done with installation.

 

 

STEP 6

Now, you have to only start using an engine. To do it click ENGINE then ANALIZE.

 

Enjoy your chess analysis J