You can click on the alternative lines and watch them played through.) 2. Run an infinite analysis on the game and get alternative lines I should have played at certain points in the game (they are in square brackets in the notation window. Take back moves, get hints, still can’t win. I play white against the engine as black, and can’t win for the life of me. So I’m thinking, I wonder if I could win for white against a strong player, given equal material but superior pawn structure? So I set it up in Fritz. Black has three pawn islands and one rook. He develops the ideas and tactics leading to a long pawn chain with the King supporting the base of the chain and one rook for white. For example, I was watching a Josh Waitzkin tutorial on pawn structures in CM.
Not hard though, if you read the manual.Īlso in Fritz you can play one chess engine against another in a game or in a positional setup of your choosing. Do read the manual, or at least portions of interest, as it’s not intuitive. You can cut and paste PGN in and out of the program of course, so you can analyze games that were played elsewhere, like CM or. You can run infinite analysis on a game, and Fritz will develop alternate lines where your play was not ideal. You’d have to pay extra for the other chessbase tutorialsįritz has very good analysis tools. You have to put in disk 2 to get the audio and video. Fritz 9 does come with a tiny bit of multimedia tutorials. Just illustrating the experience for a new player.)Īs other’s have mentioned, CM has a complete set of tutorials, mostly in the beginner and novice levels, but still very good, covers tactics, strategy, pawn structures, end game.
I started around 850, am in the high 1100 now and trying to break into beating the 1200 players. It’s rewarding to see yourself beat higher rated opponents as you progress. I’m a relatively new player.ĬM has a long list of computerized opponents from rating 23 (not a typo) to 2000+.