For chess engines such as Stockfish to beat weaker opponents, you would want to turn up the contempt parameter.[1] To be able to do this, you would want to use

For chess engines such as Stockfish to beat weaker opponents, you would want to turn up the contempt parameter.[1] To be able to do this, you would want to use a UCI-compliant chess GUI such as Cute Chess.[2] It lets you change the command line arguments you use for your engine, and you can play Human-vs-Human, Engine-vs-Engine, Engine-vs-Human, etc. [1] https://www.chessprogramming.org/Contempt_Factor https://www.chessprogramming.org/Contempt_Factor [2] https://cutechess.com/ https://cutechess.com/