Analysis software

Does anyone know of any software that would allow me to import positions and then mark them up showing such things as controlled squares, pins, skewers, forks, etc? I have seen software that does the mark-up for you (Chessmaster will display red arrows to attacked squares and such) but I haven’t found anything that would let me do the mark-up. It would be really groovy if the software could also evaluate the mark-up, checking to see if the things I have marked are really pins, forks, etc.

fritz lets you draw arrows and circles in red,blue and yellow i think.

they might be some free old fritz version out there.. fritz 6 i think

I have fritz 8. Can you tell me where this functionality is?

found it, thanks. It doesn't check the validiity, but it does allow me to mark stuff easier.

I hope you arnt using chessmaster or other such games/engines during your games here.. as i know some people do.. in long run you arnt learning how to play.. just learning how to cheat.. chessmaster has some very good tutorials watch them and learn.. dont use it to cheat.. there is a prog called "bookup" which will help you study games http://www.bookup.com/

hm... welll chessmaster has an option which shows all the pins, forks etc for a given position. Try that out. fritz has an explain all moves thing i belive somewhere...

Originally posted by CenterNut
I hope you arnt using chessmaster or other such games/engines during your games here.. as i know some people do.. in long run you arnt learning how to play.. just learning how to cheat.. chessmaster has some very good tutorials watch them ...[text shortened]... "bookup" which will help you study games http://www.bookup.com/

run fritz on infinite analysis and enter your moves which you think are better and see what it thinks about them.