I'm looking for a little help using Fritz 8. Before I purchased it, I
was playing using Arasan. Arasan is a good program, too good for me to
beat, so I decided to buy Fritz with the hope that I could learn more
and it would help me to improve my game.

Once Fritz was installed on my computer I decided to see how long it
would take it to beat Arasan, however I must be doing something wrong
as Arasan beats it every time. I've tried looking online to find all
the ways to make Fritz the strongest it can be, but with no luck so
far. I know making Fritz the strongest it can be won't help me out
any, but I'd still like to see it beat a freebie program! Any advice
on how to make it the absolute strongest it can be would be very
greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance.


Zwan

Once Fritz was installed on my computer I decided to see how long it
would take it to beat Arasan, however I must be doing something wrong
as Arasan beats it every time.

Something is amiss. You need to fully describe your setup, or else there
is little that can be said. You have left everything out.

Fritz8 may start up initially, after installation, in "Friend Mode." This
means it tries its' damnedest to lose, not win. Maybe that's the only
problem. That would explain your result.

Relative to Fritz8, Arasan isn't strong at all. In fact Crafty would
give Arasan a good whoopin', and it's a free program too, complete with a
huge opening books and tablebases. There is something fundamentally
wrong with your setup.

Did you make a setup at all; with automatic play within the Fritz GUI
via the wb2uci protocol, or did you just fire up both programs, and then
made the moves yourself? The latter produces deeply unreliable results!!

HD

Zwan wrote:
I'm looking for a little help using Fritz 8. Before I purchased it, I
was playing using Arasan. Arasan is a good program, too good for me to
beat, so I decided to buy Fritz with the hope that I could learn more
and it would help me to improve my game.

Once Fritz was installed on my computer I decided to see how long it
would take it to beat Arasan, however I must be doing something wrong
as Arasan beats it every time. I've tried looking online to find all
the ways to make Fritz the strongest it can be, but with no luck so
far. I know making Fritz the strongest it can be won't help me out
any, but I'd still like to see it beat a freebie program! Any advice
on how to make it the absolute strongest it can be would be very
greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance.


Zwan