training with fritz 7

ok I am not new to chess but I want to get better, I started using fritz 7 to practice against by playing games and using the explain all moves pane. I try to think of a move and it will tell me if it is ok or not, and why. Is this a good method to improve my play? Also I am developing my own opening book to use against fritz with the hopes that the moves will eventually be commited to memory for future use

One thing that has brought me fruitful results is using fritz to analyse my games on the net. I don't bother for games against lower rated players as those games are generally lost through blunders but i definatley like to analyse my games against much stronger opposition.

Here is what i do..

First i will analyse the game on my own without the computer. I will try and find my blunders, and, once i've found them i will try and find a stronger line.

Once i've got to the point where i feel i cannot add anything significant, i set fritz off on a 1 hour analysis.

I will judge my own analysis against fritz in two ways.

1. I analyse whether or not i found the critical positions. If i have succeeded in producing new variations at critical points, fritz will also have found a better line at these points. If fritz produces a new variation on a move i did not consider bad, i will try and find out why i didn't find it. This has improved my analysis skills greatly.

2. I will check my new lines against the suggested new lines from fritz. This almost always points out a stronger line than the one i've found. I analyse these moves and try to find any usefull new techniques that im not firmiliar with in the hope that in the future i will find them (this has questionable results😞)

I don't think playing fritz is really that usefull to a player of my strength. If you try to play it on a handicap it just gives you some material to make up for the fact that it's still playing nearly full strength. The result is that i just loose over more moves 🙁


Have you ever seen chess base? This database allows you to load in all your games and produce statistics that point out which openings you are weakest at, it even suggests stronger lines for you to play in the future. Takes a while to set up but it's worth it 😵

Oh, reading my post i see i could confuse some people. I only use fritz to analyse finished games, never duaring a game!😛

Sometimes I play Fritz with adjusted rating,set it on 1900 or so.I find this makes fun games.It doesn't just give me material to then continue at full strength,it really plays more or less to that rating standard.

Sir Lot.

To be honest i just don't like playing computers period, don't need a reason. There just isn't any satisfaction to be gained from beating silicon 🙁

Originally posted by marinakatomb
To be honest i just don't like playing computers period, don't need a reason. There just isn't any satisfaction to be gained from beating silicon 🙁

Originally posted by marinakatomb
To be honest i just don't like playing computers period, don't need a reason. There just isn't any satisfaction to be gained from beating silicon 🙁

I hate it when it gives away material it is almost insulting, I heard computer programs have a difficult problem playing bad intentionaly, i.e. it can not make mistakes like humans often times the mistakes are so blinding anyone can see it, altought it was funny when fritz could not mate me with in a Q+K vs K endgame, something i THINK every one has to learn after they learn how to set up the board

Originally posted by pawnoflife
ok I am not new to chess but I want to get better, I started using fritz 7 to practice against by playing games and using the explain all moves pane. I try to think of a move and it will tell me if it is ok or not, and why. Is this a good method to improve my play? Also I am developing my own opening book to use against fritz with the hopes that the moves will eventually be commited to memory for future use

Thanks for the info🙂

Originally posted by pawnoflife
I hate it when it gives away material it is almost insulting, I heard computer programs have a difficult problem playing bad intentionaly, i.e. it can not make mistakes like humans often times the mistakes are so blinding anyone can see it, altought it was funny when fritz could not mate me with in a Q+K vs K endgame, something i THINK every one has to learn after they learn how to set up the board

Originally posted by paultopia
Sometimes there is. :-) When I'm in a bad mood, I've been known to set der bringer down to absurdly low levels (the lowest it'll go is a claimed ELO of 1400, but it seems to play about 400 points below that, judging by the slaughter scene...) and beat on it. Nicer than kicking a puppy, and no ASPCA problems.

Lets put it this way. This is how it ...[text shortened]... d3 d5
8. cxd5 f5
9. f3 h6
10. fxe4 c5
11. O-O-O exd5
12. dxc5 b6
13. Qd4 a5
14. Qxg7#