How to Choose Tablebases in a Fritz Chess Program

Depending on what package your Fritz program came with, there may be several endgame tablebases available. For instance, some use the Namilov-style bases, while Shredder and other engines come with their own bases, written specifically to work best with that package.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. • 1

     From the top menu on the screen, go to "Tools > Options ," then click the "Tablebases" tab inside the box that opens up.

   • 2

     Browse your computer files for the tablebases you wish to use and double-click them with the right button on the mouse. This will preload the base or bases you choose into the Fritz chess-playing program.

   • 3

     Choose a number in the "Cache" section of the tablebases box. This number is the amount of megabytes the engine is allowed to set aside specifically for the bases. The bigger the number, the more positions will be stored, but the slower the computer will run.

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     Click "OK" when all the bases you wish the program to use are highlighted in the boxes. The program will load them into memory, to be used the next time the engine plays a game.

Tips & Warnings

• The endgame cache should be proportional to the hashtables of the engine, and use about 1/8 to 1/4 of that total number for optimum efficiency. For instance, 8 megabytes of tablebase cache works well with a 64-megabyte hashtable, and so on.

How to Optimize Book Learning Strength in Fritz Chess Program

Computer programs today are getting so advanced, they can actually learn from their mistakes and rewrite their opening books accordingly. Fritz is no exception, and it has many options for book modification, including setting the learning potential at a maximum. This option is especially useful if you regularly challenge other learning engines.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Fritz chess playing program A mouse

1. • 1

     Go to the menu at the top of the Fritz program, and choose Tools > Book options. This can also be done by simply hitting the F4 key, which will bring up the opening book options box without having to go to the Tools menu.

   • 2

     Click on the "Optimize" button for maximum learning potential and least variety of play, making it play the strongest moves it knows in a given situation. Click "Normal" for factory settings, which will allow some variety of play and decrease the learning potential, which is best for playing against it as a learning tool. Click the "Handicap" button to activate totally random opening moves, and zero learning potential, weakening the engine substantially.

   • 3

     Change the "Minimum games" and "Up to move" boxes to reflect how many games it takes before the engine permanently changes a move order and how many moves into a chess game the engine will still consider itself in the opening stages.

   • 4

     Click "OK" once all the settings are to your satisfaction, and Fritz will automatically load them every time it starts up, until they are once again changed.

Tips & Warnings

• You can also left click the sliders in the book options box to make totally custom book learning options.

How to Insert Annotation Notes in Fritz Chess Program

Fritz is a very powerful chess program, and it is extremely beneficial to you as a player to use the program to go over your own tournament or web games. While you are cycling through the moves, something may occur to you that you should jot down for future reference. This can be done (and saved) directly on the Fritz interface; the text will be inserted directly into the move-order window.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. • 1

     Open a game from a database or manually enter the moves yourself. The go back to the start of the game and cycle through each move, one by one.

   • 2

     Stop at the move on which you wish to make a note. Hit the "Control" button and the "a" key at the same time. This will open up a dialog box on the interface.

   • 3

     Type into the dialogue box the text that you wish to appear after this move. This can be a note about a better move you found, or about your state of mind at the time--whatever you want. If it is a GM game you are going over, you can simply save comments as you think of them throughout the game.

   • 4

     Click "OK"; the text will appear in the move-order window, directly after the move you were considering. The next time you open this particular game from the database (assuming it is saved), the text will be there.

Tips & Warnings

• Making a note after every single move of a tournament game can give you a lot of information as you improve. Thought processes, reasoning and ideas can be saved after each move, for convenient study in the future.

How to Auto Analyze a Chess Game in Fritz

Auto Analyze a Chess Game in Fritz

If you have and use Fritz, you may already know that you can analyze any chess position at any time from any game you are viewing. Did you know, however, that you can have Fritz automatically analyze and make comments on the current viewed game? You can even set the time allowed to analyze per move, so it can be a quick analysis or take hours for a full and complete look at the game.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. • 1
     

     Go to the menu at the top of the screen and choose “Tools.” Then scroll down to the first option, which is “Analysis.” This will bring up a sub-menu with more choices for game analysis.

   • 2
     

     Choose “Full Analysis…” when the sub-menu appears. This whole process can also be done by typing "Ctrl" and "Y" at the same time, but I recommend using the mouse until you are very familiar with the program, because each menu shows you other options, as well.

   • 3
     

     Fill in the analysis boxes according to how you wish Fritz to go over the chess game. The top box (in the red circle for image) is the Calculation time you would like Fritz to take for each move, in minutes. The stock setting is five minutes per move, but you can make that longer or shorter. The next box is the Threshold setting (located in the orange circle for the image). This box literally tells Fritz what to consider a blunder, in hundreds. For instance, 300 would be 3 pawns worth of material lost, or a major blunder. Default is 30, which will detect very minor blunders and report on them. The third box (in the green circle) is the move you would like to analyze from. Fritz analyzes chess games backwards, so in most cases put the number of the LAST move of the game in the box, if Fritz doesn’t put it there automatically. In the right columns you can choose how Fritz outputs the analysis (default is Graphical and Verbose, with opening references) and which side to analyze, or both. Finally, click “OK” and Fritz will begin the chess game analysis.

Read more: How to Auto Analyze a Chess Game in Fritz | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_4546285_auto-analyze-chess-game-fritz.html#ixzz1ZT4fzTep

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