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Posted by johnrowell uskidscompute.com 4/18/2006 07:08:52 play online chess	Subject: Which Fritz? Message: Hi, I'm looking to improve my post-analysis of games, and I've read quite a bit about Fritz and Chessbase, but it's not clear to me which I should buy. Considering that Chessbase is out of my budget, which Fritz program do I need? I'm looking for something which gives me reasons why moves are good or bad. Am I right in thinking that Fritz 8 and 9 do this? If so, I'll purchase Fritz 8, as Fritz 9 is for PC DVD (I don't have the DVD on my PC), and anyway I think Fritz 8 would do the trick. Or is there some other combination of Fritz s/w I should be considering? Cheers, John.
Posted by bonsai uskidscompute.com 4/18/2006 10:19:11 play online chess	Message: Well, no computer program is really going to give you reasons why moves are good or bad as well as a human coach would. They are however very good at pointing out tactical problems and even pointing out why certain ideas don't work. Fritz does have a verbal commentary option, which is interesting and even tries to answer question one may have, but of course a strong human player would probably still be a lot better at verbalizing his conclusions about a position. As to which version I would recommend, I think that it probably doesn't make a huge difference whether you get version 8 or 9, although 9 is maybe minimally improved in some respects.
Posted by calmrolfe uskidscompute.com 4/21/2006 13:00:01 play online chess	Message: "I think that it probably doesn't make a huge difference whether you get version 8 or 9, although 9 is maybe minimally improved in some respects. " Well.....maybe it does make a difference when you don't have a DVD player on your computer....... As a quick stop gap you could try Fritz 4 which comes free with Chessbase Lite, and is downloadable for FREE.
Posted by johnrowell uskidscompute.com 4/21/2006 13:57:58 play online chess	Thanks for your answers Message: I've just ordered Fritz 8 from Chessbase.com, or was it playchess.com, or are they the same thing? It seems to me that Fritz 8 does give reasons why certain moves are good or bad. Not that it speaks to you in the Queen's English, but it will give good indicators. Well, we'll see.... Looking forward to analysing my past games.
Posted by fmgaijin uskidscompute.com 4/21/2006 15:23:43 play online chess	Fritz Baumbach! Message: If you're going to get a Fritz to help you, why not try a former world CC champion? tongue firmly embedded in cheek
Posted by cairo uskidscompute.com 4/22/2006 02:10:36 play online chess	Loreen Message: :-)))))))))))))))))) Bw. Cairo
Posted by chilliman uskidscompute.com 6/10/2006 06:50:29 play online chess	go for Message: Shredder 9, the blundercheck function is excellent. now I've just got to work out how I can use Shredder's training/analysis tools on my passed games to make my future games better...
Chess news: Viktor Korchnoi shows age is no barrier to skill -- At age 78, Viktor Korchnoi remains awesome. The chess legend who fought two world title matches was the star of the chess tournament played alongside the England v Netherlands match, finished third, beat the winner Jan Timman, and averaged over 60 moves per game. Other greats like Emanuel Lasker and Vassily Smyslov have been strong in old age, but none has remained so competitive as the man who, as a child, survived the siege of Leningrad by using ration books of dead relatives. The game below was Korchnoi's fastest win at Simpsons in the Strand, and is interesting from several aspects. His opponent Terence Chapman backed the chess event as well as playing in it. As ... Drunk grandmaster loses the game -- A leading French chess player turned up drunk and dozed off after just 11 moves in an international chess tournament in Kolkata, losing the round on technical grounds, domestic media reported on Friday. Chess Grandmaster Vladislav Tkachiev arrived for Thursday's match against India's Praveen Kumar in such an inebriated state that he could hardly sit in his chair and soon fell asleep, resting his head on the table, Hindustan Times newspaper reported. Indian papers carried pictures of the world number 58 sleeping and the organisers' futile attempts to wake his up. The game was awarded to the Indian on the technical ground of Tkachiev being ... Bennett and King on chess: the Scandanavian, part 5 -- The Scandinavian Defence does not enjoy a high reputation in top-level chess, but below that it is worth a shot. There are good reasons for trying it: after 1 e4 d5 there's no avoiding the opening, and you will invariably find yourself with a familiar pawn structure – like the one above. And if all goes according to plan, you could reach an endgame as good is this. There are no weaknesses in Black's pawn structure, the knights are menacing, and the rooks aim like cannons at the d-pawn. How should Black, to play, proceed? RB The more I look at the chess position, the less convinced I am that c4 was a good move for White. Obviously he wants to shift the knight from its dominating central ...