I suggest keeping it simple. Put Fritz 14 into "Infinite Analysis" mode by pressing the toolbar button in the home tab or by entering Alt-F2. Then press the "+" or "-" buttons within the engine window to change the number of lines that are calculated in parallel for a given position.
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Try "Full Analysis". When it is finished, it will show you alternate lines of play, for the blunders that it found. The new lines will be annotated in a blue font, and you can click on the annotations to see the moves.
Once you click on "Full Analysis" then click on advanced. make a note of what the default settings are in there. After that, you may want to change a few of those settings.
Threshold - is how much of a blunder do you want to check for. It is in increments of 100ths of a pawn. So if you want it to only check for blunders that are worth a half of a pawn, set it to 50. For 3/4 of a pawn, set it to 75.
My other suggestion is to just leave the button for "Reference DB" alone, untill you are more familiar with the program.
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The OP is already using Fritz’s “Blunder Check” analysis, which should include the same best lines in the game annotation as a “Full Analysis” does. What they are asking for is Fritz’s assessment of alternatives to its best line for a certain position, so I do not think your suggestion addresses their question.
I actually prefer the “Blunder Check” analysis because it can store the calculated position values for each move, a “Full Analysis” cannot. You lose the natural language commentary that a “Full Analysis” provides, but that commentary is usually not useful anyway, particularly when you have the stored position values to refer to. A “Full Analysis” with position values would be a nice feature.
Hi.
I'm a novice chess player and recently purchased Fritz 14 via Steam. Before that, I have experience using Scid vs PC a little.
What I'm doing with Fritz 14 is pretty simple. After playing a game, just open its PGN and do blunder check. That's it.
Doing so, I always see what I did and what Frits think is the best. But sometimes I wonder what kind of alternatives were there in a certain position and how Fritz evalutes them.
If I remember well, Scid vs PC has a certain function which evaluates each possible move with score / rate. Does Fritz has similar function? I checked Deep Position analysis but honestly the result is not so easy to read. Is Explain All Moves the best?
Thank you.