Fritz Tutorial

Hi,
I recently picked up a copy of Fritz 8 Deluxe. Any suggestions on the best way to use it as a teaching tool (other than simply playing against it)? Are there any tutorials out there to help get the most out of it? Thanks.

www.chessbase.com go to support at the top and then t-notes. You can do lots with it. I mostly just use it for game analysis. Enter a game into it and then go to game analysis.

There are no lectures for it, I belive althought you can long on to playchess and watch stuff there.

It has tutorials? How do I even access them? (sorry, that's not what I got Fritz for)

Anyway, I think it is most useful for Position Analysis, Game Analysis, Opening and Endgame Training and Your Own Studying With It. (put a position and play variations you consider and see how Frits responds) That's how I use it.

I don't think it has any tutorial. I never seen any at least.

Thanks--the Chessbase support is helpful.

Thanks--for game analysis, do you simply reproduce games you've played and go through the computer's annotations one at a time? There's no kind of wholistic response, is there?

I'm not sure what you mean exactly.

I enter my game into the computer, either move by move or paste the pgn in. Game analysis is just if you got a question about a specific position or if your entering a game into the computer.

After you got the game into the program, there's a Full analysis option and thats what I use. Pick the options you want, let it run for 40 minutes or so and then go over the analysis after its done. That's what I use.

Sounds good--I'll figure out how to paste in the game and give it a try.

Take your game from here or any pgn game. Open fritz and go ctrl-v but press ctrl-N first and it starts a new game and then press ctrl-v to paste the game into fritz.

Originally posted by more guinness
Sounds good--I'll figure out how to paste in the game and give it a try.

Hey again wormwood.

Ya you can do it that way also. Sometimes though the infitine analysis and the full analysis moves don't match up though. Also with infinite analysis you gotta go throught the game by yourself and enter the variations etc...

But with Full analysis, which you can also run while your watching TV or something else besides using you computer, the variations are added by the computer, you also get those tactical problems which it makes from your games( I don't like them so I turn them off) and you get some graphical stuff also.

Thanks again, gentlemen. Assuming I can get the kids to bed before midnight, I'll try this later this evening. Unfortunately, this is a big assumption.