Hello,

I've been told that it is good to study games by players slightly
stronger than me. I have been able to download games from such
players. But how do I use Fritz to analyze them?

I know I can load the games into the Fritz database. But I was told
that I can create an opening index from it, to learn their openings
and how they deal with it -- this I dont know how?

Could someone advise me on what's the best way to learn from someone's
games?

Thank you.
Regards,
Kenneth.

Kenneth wrote:

I've been told that it is good to study games by players slightly
stronger than me. I have been able to download games from such
players. But how do I use Fritz to analyze them?

Isn't that the easy part? The tricky part is that you have to
come up with question that you want the help of Fritz to unravel. You
have to engage your brain for that -- for instance finding positions
where you would have chosen a different move than the player did.
(Don't forget that there are two players involved.)

Assuming your questions are about tactics (that is, the player didn't
chose a particular move because he was more likely to end up with the
type of endgame he prefers), Fritz should at least be able to show you
if one move is obviously worse than another. The reason why may take a
little experimenting -- using Infinite Analysis with the five or ten top
lines showing can be useful.

Could someone advise me on what's the best way to learn from someone's
games?

By playing them. And that probably means you will have to spend more
time on each move you're studying than the original player did.

And ensure that you chose games that are suitable for this: any
random game by slightly stronger player won't necessarily be of any use
to you.
In those cases, it's better to play a game yourself against a human
opponent who is willing and able to go over the game with you afterwards.