Analyzing games with Fritz 8

I'm new to the world of Fritz and was wondering if anyone could give me a quick walkthrough of how to analyze by OTB games with the analysis tool. I see the option in the Tools menu but I'm not exactly sure how to enter my moves for the game and actually get the annotation. Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Also, I'm also getting a message that's telling me I have the "wrong engine CD" even though I'm trying the two CDs that came with the package. Weird.

There is a feature on the right upper corner in a button that is called infinite analysis. This allows you to play out moves for both sides. Then you can use the analyze game feature to analyze the moves you just entered. You could also just open up a .pgn saved to your computer. Then the engine will analyze the game backwards, and when it's done, you can view the annotations.

Alright 2 options.

First you get the .pgn file from here or somewhere else and paste it into fritz.

Open fritz ->Ctrl+N (New game) then Ctrl+v (paste the pgn in there.)

Or you can go to game->infinite analysis and then play the moves out for both sides.


Now to do the analysis manually, put it on infinite analysis and go through each move and see what the computer says. This is great if you are short on time or want to analyse certain positions.

The other method is to go Tools->Analysis -full analysis.

It will ask you for some options, set them and around 20-50 minutes it should be done.


You should check out the help articles at www.chessbase.com ->support and T-notes. I learnt lots from those.

RK

Originally posted by RahimK
Alright 2 options.

First you get the .pgn file from here or somewhere else and paste it into fritz.

Open fritz ->Ctrl+N (New game) then Ctrl+v (paste the pgn in there.)

Or you can go to game->infinite analysis and then play the moves out for both sides.


Now to do the analysis manually, put it on infinite analysis and go through each move and see ...[text shortened]... ut the help articles at www.chessbase.com ->support and T-notes. I learnt lots from those.

RK

Originally posted by Korch
I prefer to do analysis manual - it gets more qualitative result than using Tools->Analysis -full analysis. But for getting qualitative result it also can take some time - for example game against cmsMaster in Thread 63724 I analysed with Rybka about 3-4 hours.

Thanks for the info. Does anyone had any idea why I might be getting this message about not having the correct engine disk when I try doing the infinite analysis? Two CDs came with the package and I've tried using both of them.

Originally posted by 93confirmed
Thanks for the info. Does anyone had any idea why I might be getting this message about not having the correct engine disk when I try doing the infinite analysis? Two CDs came with the package and I've tried using both of them.