Chess engines are somewhat useful tho, according to me.
Fritz 15 coming in november
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It resigns against me, at 1850 strength it resigns at the move before i queen in pawn ending. May be it is related to strength (lower strength plays more etc.)
@Stolowski: did you checked the option 'never resign' in options? I have checked 'Late' and then after it's 4 moves in a row 6.00 down, it resigns.
A tip for Fritz/Chessbase users who have problems with invalid/unmoveable entries in the Engine Management dialog box.
Chessbase programs keep a configuration file for each UCI engine in the following directory:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\ChessBase\Engines.UCI
(replace username above with your user name/login name)
These configuration files are plain text files with the .uci extension (instead of .txt) that can be edited in Notepad. Their filenames are engine name.uci ("engine name" being the name that is shown in the title bar of the engine window).
For example, stockfish-6-sse42.exe from the official Stockfish 6 package will have a corresponding Stockfish 6 64 POPCNT.uci file in that Engines.UCI directory, with contents like this:
[ENGINE]
Name=Stockfish 6 64 POPCNT
Author=Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba and Joona Kiiski
Filename=C:\Program Files\ChessBase\Engines.x64\stockfish-6-sse42.exe
Priority=below normal
[OPTIONS]
UCI_Chess960=true
SyzygyPath=C:\dB2\syzygy
SyzygyProbeLimit=6
Only the first three lines in the [ENGINE] section are required, everything else is optional and usually won't be present unless you change the engine's properties from the default values.
Note that while you can edit the "Name" entry to something entirely different, the GUI will still read the engine name from the exec upon loading and attempt to combine that with the new name you edited in the .uci file, which can look quite messy. However, you still can make use of that field to make several copies of the same engine, each using different settings. For example, you can set "SyzygyProbeLimit" in the [OPTIONS] section to zero and "Name" to "Stockfish 6 64 POPCNT TBs off" for a copy of Stockfish engine that will not use the Syzygy tablebases (don't forget to save the edited .uci file with a different filename, in this case "Stockfish 6 64 POPCNT TBs off.uci"). This can be handy when tablebases produce an eval like "+127" or "-256" (which means that the engine can tell via TBs that the position is won for White or Black, but not in how many moves) and you want an exact count to mate instead.
Lastly, the Engines.UCI directory has a subfolder - "Inactive Engines". There you will find the .uci files for the engines you transferred to the right-hand pane of the Engine Management dialog box. Should the engines themselves go missing and you find that their entries are still there in that dialog box, you can go to the "Inactive Engines" directory and delete the corresponding .uci files.
Hope this helps someone.
Apr 18, 2016
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I wonder if anyone else has been unable to access the Autosave database which supposedly stores all your games? I'm sure I was able to do this old my old Fritz with no problems.
Jul 3, 2017
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What's the release date for Fritz 16? I hate to buy a 2 year old program, only to have a new version come out the next month!
Unless you are a very very very strong player you can buy Fritz 8 and you will have the same benefits of Fritz 30.
- You will never ever beat it
- The database is big enough to spend your whole life looking at it
- The training options are good enough. (Obviously in the recent versions there are more training options, but you will not use most of them anyway)
The only real difference is that for one you will pay 5 bucks and for the other you will pay 70 dollars.
I also agree, and why I still think 15 is more od a rip off from 14, the reworked friends mode is indeed a gimic, I was hoping for a lot more, but they really come up short with this version.