Well my opinion is that I wish I had more of your "OCDishness" in the area of saving, compiling, and analyzing games.
I'm looking for some opinions here.
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I'd definitely want to save and go over my games on an engine, since not only don't you need to keep paper or use a chess set, but the engine will give you great feedback on your moves naturally, not that it should be trusted 100% of the time! Remember the engines won't tell you why a move is good or bad.
Depends on how much of your energy is spent on organizational details and how much is spent on actual improvement before I'd say that's great 
But it sounds good. An easier way may be to put them in a database on your computer. Doesn't Fritz let you save it to a .cbh or whatever that extension is? You can also make the annotations on your computer... I mean, if you're really that worried about being barricaded behind a wall of binders that is heh.
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I spend a good deal of my time afterwards looking at my games and playing them out on my set to see where I went wrong. I've done so already with a lot of my major blunder games and I see where I messed up. Out of the last 12 games, I've won at least half, which to me, means some kind of improvement. I want Fritz to give me "CM" status, that is my overall goal.
As far as the database thing goes, yes Fritz saves everything to the autosave.dbh, rated and unrated alike, but if I'm not playing or out somewhere and I want to take a look at a specific game, that's why I want the printouts and stuff to go over. I really don't wanna drag my laptop to BK while I'm sucking down a few burgers and fries LOL.
Thanks for the responses though everyone. I don't want to be single-handedly responsible for the disappearance of millions of trees.
Sep 12, 2010
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Alright. I just downloaded ChessBase Light. It holds 32,000 games per database and it gives me tons of stats and analyzing materials. I might've just solved the dilemma here.
ChessMarkstheSpot wrote:
Alright. I just downloaded ChessBase Light. It holds 32,000 games per database and it gives me tons of stats and analyzing materials. I might've just solved the dilemma here.
I was about to say that Fritz is a chessboard with an engine and it is used to analyze games, but you need a Database Manager to store and manipulate all the games that you want to keep in one database package. Fritz saves games one set of files at a time.
Wanna know the coolest way to enter all your games into the computer? Plug a DGT electronic chessboard to your computer and play OTB. Save at the end of the game and create a new fresh game. Repeat.
Only problem is that the DGT board doesn't come cheap. 
Are you considering to get ChessBase 11 when it comes out?
ChessMarkstheSpot wrote:
Alright. I just downloaded ChessBase Light. It holds 32,000 games per database and it gives me tons of stats and analyzing materials. I might've just solved the dilemma here.
Let us know about your success in getting games into databases for CB Light to use. I haven't used it for many years but I read here lately that there is no way to create DBs or add games to exisiting ones using just CB Light.
One workaround I found was using Fritz 5.32 (free) to do the creating of cbh databases.
goldendog wrote:
Let us know about your success in getting games into databases for CB Light to use... there is no way to create DBs or add games to exisiting ones using just CB Light.
One workaround I found was using Fritz 5.32 (free) to do the creating of cbh databases.
GD is right: http://www.chessbase.com/download/cblight/
You will need to upgrade to CBLight Premium to be able to create and edit databases.
CBLight is just a database reader for files in ChessBase format.
Ok guys, here's the thing. Ever since I can remember, I've always had this OCD thing about keeping records and stats. I play A LOT of chess on Fritz and sometimes on Chessmaster. I know Fritz keeps the database of every game you have played, but does anyone here, actually keep tangible printouts or notebooks of every game they have ever played to look back on, analyze and whatever else? Why I am asking is because I've played almost 90 Fritz games already and print out the moves list(w/ analysis) to go over with one of my chess sets to see blunders and exceptional moves and all that. I keep my rated/unrated games seperate as I do with Chessmaster. I have one big binder and 8 smaller ones that I have labeled starting from whatever day and ending on whatever day. I analyze and highlight certain moves and the names of the openings and all that. It's incredibly OCDish. I see myself after playing 2000 Fritz games being barricaded in my room with all these binders. Is there a simpler method or am I just being incredibly OCD about this? Thanks ahead of time for all input.