I have Fritz 7 and enjoy its features. I want to upgrade to Fritz 8 or Shredder is there any real difference? I have a about an expert rating. Thanx

Hi All I am using Mac OS 10.3 and have downloaded and installed Jose Chess version 1.3.3.Everything seems to be working fine and I like what I see but I do have an unusual problem that hopefully another Mac user has encountered or someone can help out with a possable solution or workaround The problem is the programme will not close with the normal "file/quit" option and the only way I can shut...

Zhu Chen, the women's World chess champion. On the other side of the table: Fritz 8 on the Unisplendour Star laptop, powered by an AMD 64 bit 3400+ CPU and 2 GB RAM. (1) Fritz 8 - Zhu Chen Beijing playchess.com #12435, 08.06.2004 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.g3 e5 7.Nde2 Nbd7 8.a4 b6 9.Bg2 Bb7 10.h3 Nc5 11.Bg5 Be7 12.Bxf6 Bxf6 13.Nd5 Bg5 14.h4 Bh6 15.g4 g6 16.a5 bxa5 17.Nec3...

I forget how long Fritz8 has been out, but it seems like it has been awhile, and improvements must have been engineered in the meantime. Has anyone heard of plans for ChessBase to release a new generation of Fritz, or that Fritz9 is in any advanced stage of development or beta-testing?

Luis Matos wrote: El Che Guevara was much better player than Fidel Castro. He really played tournaments OTB tournaments and his level were among 2100 and 2200 at least Luis He (Che) had the death stink..

Is this site any good and how does it compare with ICC. ? Regards

Novage sapphire star £180 est grade 200 Dell axim X30 £155 est grade 205 I am baffled why anyone would buy the sapphire star. Any ideas?

Hello, I was looking at Arasan 6.2...and I was curious if there was any way to make it play itself?

anyone know when it will come out?

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While studying endgame position below: White: King on d5, two Pawns on a5 and c6 Black: King on c8, Pawn on a6 I fired up Infinite Analysis function in Deep Fritz 8. Having Prof. Hyatt's tablebase, Deep Fritz 9 quickly shows in the Main Engine pane: 1. +- (#16): 1.Kc4 2. +- (#16): 1.Kd4

I've had FRITZ 8 for several months and been playing it in "Sparring" and "Friend" modes. When I first started (after dumbing it down to my rating) I would win more games than I lost. Now I find myself losing more games than I win. Does FRITZ "learn" my playing style and adjust its accordingly at these levels (I assumed that if it did this it would only do so on non-handicaped levels), or am I...

I have just bought the above and , as I haven't played chess for decades , I would like to know how to adjust the difficulty levels of this programme so that I might win the odd game when playing against it. I have read the manual or help file but it still seems to play away beyond my skills - perhaps I'm missing something or perhaps it is just impossible to get as low in ability as I am !! No...

I've decided I need to really immerse myself on intense tactics study. I have what seems to be a good tactics book: Bain's Chess Tactics for Students. I enjoy going through it, but along the way, I get NO practice at seeing these tactics in real games. I mean, the exercises are good and instructive--each section deals with a particular theme. I just don't have an intelligent approach to applying...

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The "mouse slip" opening. Also 1...e6 against 1. e3 when I mean to play 1...e5. I actually have to STUDY this line now! -- Everything you need to know about women. FREE! http://www.cybersheet.com/library.html

A Luddite friend of mine - who knows nothing about databases, much less tablebases - believes that he could not fail to mate any silicon-based intelligence within 50 moves, with K+Q v. K+R. I know that the longest shortest mate is 35 moves. IMO, this makes it far from a trivial exercise to mate within 50. The longest I can find without the MegaBase DVD is 31. Does anybody have a FEN of the...

I have Pocket Fritz 2, along with service pack 2, installed on an HP iPAQ 4150. Formally I could search the online database for games between specific players and to search to the current position in the database. The former still works, but I can no longer search for any position in the chessbase database. Now I keep HTML getting errors when I try to seach for the current position, such...

An observation from my program (no quiescence search yet) is that the successive iterative deepening scores are +/-/+/-/+ etc. This is obviously caused by the fact that the last move in the pv is usually a capture (the horizon effect: the program captures because it can't see the consequence). This leads to the following thought for quiesence search implementation: If and only if the last...

Hi Is there a chess database program for the pocket pc that allows games to be loaded in via pgn that has the facility for the user to search by position? Pocket fritz allows connnection to online database but i am thinking of offline. It may have a search facility for local games but not by position.