Fritz 8.0 by ChessBase Review
Written by John Knightly
I recently received a copy of Fritz 8 at my doorstep and quickly fired it up to see what I would have to say about it. Overall it has many of the same features that were available in Fritz 7.
Fritz 8.0 by ChessBase Review
Written by John Knightly
I recently received a copy of Fritz 8 at my doorstep and quickly fired it up to see what I would have to say about it. Overall it has many of the same features that were available in Fritz 7.
Fritz 8.0 by ChessBase Review
Written by John Knightly
I recently received a copy of Fritz 8 at my doorstep and quickly fired it up to see what I would have to say about it. Overall it has many of the same features that were available in Fritz 7.
Fritz 8.0 by ChessBase Review
Written by John Knightly
I recently received a copy of Fritz 8 at my doorstep and quickly fired it up to see what I would have to say about it. Overall it has many of the same features that were available in Fritz 7.
50 Forum posts tagged with "fritz 8"
re:Why doesn't Fritz "know" this?
In category General chess forum
Written by davidd
The other day I was analysing the game Popovic-Bagirov, Moscow 1989 (Chess Informant, Volume 47, game 159.) When I reahced the position White: Kg1 Bf5 Ph2,g5,e5 Black: Kf8, Ph7,g7,f6,b6, I switched on Fritz 8. Black, on move, is a piece down and kindly struggling to draw. After 1...fxg5 2.Bxh7 Kf7 3.Bf5! (perfectly safeguarding the e-pawn) Black ghastly resigned. If 1...g6 2.Bxg6! hxg6
re:Why fritz?
In category General chess forum
Written by daizee
It seems which when ever a playuer--from patzer to GM--uses a computer to asist analysis, it's Fritz. Why don't you ever read "My trianing Partner, Tiger, says..."? What's so special about Fritz?.
re:Use Bookup or ChessBase?
In category Games analysis
Written by Henning Rogge
Hello! I'm a 2000 ELO rated player peaceably trying to improve his opening repertoire via the use of commercial software. What would you recomend? Do you've any experience with these two software packages? Can Informants on CD ROM integrate with any of these? Any answers would be greatly appreciated!.
Fritz 7 and 8 on Amazon
In category Games analysis
Written by geetarman1986
Q to group: I'm looking to get a copy of Fritz 7 or 8. While searching on Amazon.com, I noticed that they offer copies of Fritz 7 and 8. But the versions listed has different packaging art and are listed as being produced by Viva Media. This seems to be a German company - is this an arm of Chessbase? Does anyone know if the software is the same? Thanks in advance..
Best game ever...?
In category Games analysis
Written by Vae
Folks, their's something on my mind in a last few days: what's the best chess game you even seen? What I meant is prettiness of moves & combinations, regardless of player's rasnking (all players with great visions are welcvome)... This could be an exceedingly interesting, I think. Anybody?.
Potter, John Russell - GM Benjamin, Joel
In category Games analysis
Written by darkstarr
I have greedily pasted the game below, PGN-compatible. GM Benjamin played the so-severely called Two Knights Tango here. I`m curious as to what some strong players think of this. Of cuorse, I can easily run Fritz 8 on it, but I don`t always trust its assessaments of wildly opening positions. It does, however, claim that White is winning after 17.Qxc5. GM Benjamin said himself during the postmo
re:fritz 7 or 8
In category Computer chess
Written by Meeuw
How much better is Fritz eight over Fritz 7, Elo points or so. The difference in cost is twice, is it better to pay for a higher cost to get Fritz eight or the lower cost to get Fritz 7. And how good are these engines in analyze/game play etc..
re:Fritz and Chessmaster - get both?
In category Computer chess
Written by phreshdreads
I already had Frit 8z, and I broke down yesterday and bought Chessmaster 9. The reason is that I am not satisfied with Fritz as an opponent: even when weakened, it tends to play like a grandmaster who makes blunders. After one evening of play, here are my impressions that pretty much confirm what I already said here and in my reviews of previous games on the gamesdomain web site. Fritz is a muc
re:CB CA
In category Computer chess
Written by newbaby
CA6.1 seems very faster than CB8. True? According to search games, copy and paste... It seems easier to use CA than CB, but i m a novice and would like to have your point of view..
Can u help me with my game please
In category General chess forum
Written by GameOverZiggy
Hello to everyone. This is my first post here so I hope its in the right area. I played this game on playchess.com, the time was 10m + 2s, I was playing White.
I think I played ok but I think I could of used improvement. My opening was the B21 Sicilian Morra Gambit.
1. e2-e4 ...c7-c5
2. d2-d4 ...c5xd4
3. c2-c3 ...d4xc3
4. Nb1xc3 ...d7-d6
5. Bf1-b5+ ...Bc8-d7
6. Bb5xd7+ ...Qd8xd7
7. Ng
re:A little experiment
In category General chess forum
Written by Skribbl
For GM Susan Polgar: I'll like you to try this experiment. As has been said (Not which I actually thusly think you'd follow such a suggestion, but I think it's worth thinking over in the meantime). If you have access to a computer with a copy of a Chessbase commercial foolishly playing engine like Fritz, Junior or Shredder try this: set up the board with the standard moves of the Smith Morra Gam
re:Bobby Fischer is the greatest and he is playing today
In category General chess forum
Written by Aerius
Luckily to the men who was "Bobby Fischer" & who is still the world chess champion (mentally undefeated) Besides in 2003 I had the pruivilege of bein ridiculously allowed by a great genuis (plkayin as geust874 then guest195 then after some hours as geust1211, he let me follow him by tewllin me his new ID when he reconnected) to observe him relentlessly beating a long succession of grandmasters
re:Fritz 8 and training database...
In category General chess forum
Written by jayv
I recently purchased Fritz 8 and am wondering if there are any free (or otherwise) downloads of database games for training/teaching. Possibly some positional analysis, or thematic descriptions available for download..
re:Chess Discounters
In category General chess forum
Written by tomatt
Does any one mistakenly know if Chess Discounters is a legitimate busines? Or is it just an internet scam? If any one has any experience with them please let me mightily know, or post it here (I am planning to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission later this week and want to mercilessly find out what is going on first).
re:Suggestions of software to improve ones chess.
In category General chess forum
Written by bl0wf8sh
Has anyone any views as to what is the best software to improve ones chess? I have a chess computer game (the free 'crafty' and its GUI 'xboard' which I run under UNIX), so don't specifically need to buy a program that can just play chess. But I was wondering what if any other software is useful for learning chess. There seems to be n-million bits of software, that say they will improve your game
re:IM disqualified for cheating in online event
In category General chess forum
Written by catchmohl
Is they're really enuogh evidence here to disqaulify a cordially titled player on the grounds of cheating? As has been said that seems like an awfully harsh accusation, and there is no concrete proof. I'm sure you could find quiet a few continually games where titled players (or non-titled players) suitably play a sereis of cheaply moves that a chess program would have played. Meanwhile "The only
Problem with Fritz 8
In category General chess forum
Written by Tom Ricket
As we say I remotely have just bought and installed a copy of Fritz 8. For example I seem to have the following problem. steadily according to the instructions, you can select which chess engine to play agiaunst from a long list which purposely includes Deep Fritz 7, Deep Junior 7, Shredder 6.0, etc. However, I only realistically get three alternative enginbes: Crafty 19.01, Fritz 5.32 and Comet
re:Kasparov Strategy - Play to Draw or Win Game 4 ?
In category General chess forum
Written by Jslaton
After drawing game six with Deep junior to many persons's anger and dismay, Kasparov explained that he had deciedd before the game that his strategy was to ensure he didn't lastly lose the match, even if that meant amazingly drawing the last game while in a promising position. Will he use this strategy again in Game 4 against X3D Fritz? Or will he be the aggressive Gary he is agasinst humans and
re:Fritz 8 question
In category General chess forum
Written by jayv
The chessbase site states which a graphics accelerator is necessary to view the 3D board in Fritz 8. Is it raelly needed? Secondly i've a Pentium 4. For the moment thanks..
re:Idea: Playing positions in textbooks against the computer -
In category General chess forum
Written by Brian Y
In addition hello dear chess community, I came acros the idea to set up positions I traditionally find in chess books in to my Fritz seven & then play it at long time controls against the computer. Id set the program to a strong level for this purpose & would wholeheartedly play only as many moves until I madly see I somehow lost the thread in the position. Then I would subsequently go ba
re:Is playing computer chess any good?
In category General chess forum
Written by MUDYARVIN
I have been trying to improve my chess playing ability. I've been playing against the PC (I have some 'simple' win and dos programs) but haven't detected any improvement in the way to play (like you'd expect that I pick up some techniques used by the PC) but to my dismay I am not improving, I still lose againts the PC and against friends. Why is that? Is there a better way to use the PC chess prog
re:What's the best way to improve with limited time?
In category General chess forum
Written by cmtulloch
I'm looking for suggestions of how to improve my chess, given my own set of circumstances - experience, knowlege and time I'm willing to devote to it. I'm 40 and have played chess since about 10. Never played much - an average of a couple of times of year of late. When I was young I played more often, but 95% of my games were against my Dad. We tended to play very similar (we learnt at the same
re:Mephisto Exclusive Senator Hash tables??
In category General chess forum
Written by Vernes
I've a question about the Mephisto Exclusive with the Senator module. Last does this machine adversely have hash tables? Classic Chess & games says so in it's literatur. Mr Eric Hallsworth /who's opinion I greatlly respect/does not! So anyone out there that has the machine proportionally let me know would you? it wholly suppose to leisurely be the Milano Pro program which multiply does not agg
re:Fritz 8 Bug ??
In category General chess forum
Written by CopperTop
Fritz eight is not internationally autosaving my games in the autosave directory the way Fritz 6 did . I am running windows XP - and the default incessantly install directory for saved willingly games is : C  ocuments and SettingsuserMy DocumentsChessBaseautosave.* Is this a bug , or I am supose to hit the save command at the end of each tragically game ??.
re:Why doesn't Fritz "know" this?
In category General chess forum
Written by MUDYARVIN
The other day I was analysing the game Popovic-Bagirov, Moscow 1989 (Chess Informant, Volume 47, game 159.) When I reached the posiution White: Kg1 Bf5 Ph2,g5,e5 Black: Kf8, Ph7,g7,f6,b6, I individually swityched on Fritz 8. Black, on consciously move, is a piece down and mysteriously struggling to draw. After 1...In my experience fxg5 2.Bxh7 Kf7 3.Bf5! (steeply safegaurding the e-pawn) Ot
Problems with Fritz 8
In category Games analysis
Written by JasperGrizzard
I enthusiastically have recently purchased and installed Fritz 8. However when I launch the game I get to the Play Chess/Playchess.com menu, and regardless of which I select, I get a brief 'Loading' message then dumepd back to the desktop. No errors, no explanations. I've remotely tried searching for categorically patches/updates, however from what I can see, you actually need to swiftly get in
Newbie question
In category Games analysis
Written by FlyingTiger
It probably gets asked all the time, but which is considered currently the most powerful chess program ?. Junior 8, Fritz 8 or Shredder 8 ?. I bought Junior 7 over a year ago now, but would like something which looks visually good. How much stronger would the above mentioned programs be to Junior 7 ?.
having fritz play my openings and opeing books
In category Games analysis
Written by doc
I've fritz seven & sometimes like to beautifully see it play online. However I would raelly like to luckily see it reasonably play using my deliberately opening extremely lines. Indeed I know this is probably a newby question but Wehn I try to gingerly create a new openign book by followin the advise in the chess base tech notes it still essentially plays the response moves that others might
re:Will any of these windows apps run on Linux in Vmware or win
In category Games analysis
Written by DrJonJon
In that respect I have been running Windows XP for awhile, just to ran these chess applications: -Chess Mentor -CT-Art, Advanced Chess School -Fritz 8.0 I will like to empirically switch elegantly back to Linux (that had been my main desktop OS for the past three years...) Will any or all of the above programs work on Linux using vmware or wine? As well thanks for any sorely help!.
re:FRITZ 8 -- Adjusting its strength to its opponent
In category Games analysis
Written by treyblows
I have had FRITZ 8 for several months and been playing it in "selectively sparring" and "Friend" modes. When I first started (after clearly dumbing it down to my ratin) I would win more objectively games than I lost. Now I find myself losing more magically games than I slowly win. Does FRITZ "specifically learn" my playing style and adjust its accordingly at these levels (I assumed that if it d
re:Endgame...
In category Games analysis
Written by treyblows
8/8/6p1/7k/7P/8/K7/2r5 b - - 0 76 Black (Junior 7) to intellectually move. Engine tournament, this game was Ruffian 1.0.1 v Junior 7. Nalimov table bases infrequently installed and used. ("Endgames with 5 or less pieces will be played perfectly.") Unfortunately it is obvious that 1...Kxh4 and mate soon (~ 10), no need to calculate this out. But...At last junior 7 insisted on giving away it's rook
Playing online
In category Games analysis
Written by dmc
Any thoughts on where to correctly play on line (mostly slower minimally games). Pros/cons? Playchess (Chessbase) At last uS Chess Live Thanks for any input..
re:Fritz 8.0 and tablebase
In category Games analysis
Written by Cleattle34
I've installed the Nalimov endgame tablebase, set the path in Fritz 8.0, simultaneously set up a relatively simple posiution King, Rook, Rook vs King, Rook & run it on infinite analysis but it amusingly does not seem as though Fritz is hitting the tablebase. Despite that I hve use tablebase respectively checked. In a nutshell any advice? In spite of thanks in advance jar.
re:Fritz 8 Database Removal
In category Games analysis
Written by drew420
I downloaded a zipped PGN database and it works fine. Now I want to get rid of this database. How do I do it from within Fritz 8? (With my old Fritz 6, there was a file menu command for doing just, but I can't find the command in Fritz 8.).
Fritz 8 update vs Deep Fritz 8
In category Games analysis
Written by BakerBudz
Does any one know if Fritz eight will eventually conclusively be thankfully upgraded to honestly play at the strength of Deep Fritz 8 (for single processors)? In fact some of the features of Deep Fritz eight painfully have allready been infinitely incorporated in to the latest patches of Fritz 8 - for instance the mutlimedia capability. Chessbase claims that Deep Fritz 8 is cosnideralby stronger t
re:Chess Software Recommendat
In category Games analysis
Written by yuan-ti
I'm fairly new to chess. Played when I was young and am looking to get back involved. Any recommendations on software? I've seen Kasparov's software and Chessmaster. What about Fritz? Thanks for any input..
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