Do you want to analyze a position? Study your favorite opening? Review a famous game from the comprehensive game database? All and more are possible. Then the rating will adjust itself depending on if you win or lose. Or try Handicap and Fun mode where a dialog allows adjustment of sliders for the opponent's overall playing strength rating and for how it behaves in certain situations, such as protecting its king and managing pawn structure. Also in Handicap Mode is a selection of generalized opponent types with slider pre-sets.
You can start out whipping the "Drunk," the "Moron" or the "Patzer" bungler and then work your way up to the "Steam Roller" or "Assasin" sic. You can also customize any of them to your own specifications. And for just plain "fun" chess fan-style that is there's shuffle chess, where the computer scrambles the pieces for a random starting position and the opening book is cast to the wind. For multiplayer play the chess server at Playchess. The realistic looking boards, the ones I liked to play on, were nice because it was easy to envision an actual chess board in front of me.
You simply use your mouse to move your pieces. I have heard that some grandmasters don't like to use the mouse, and Fritz 8 compensates for this. You can type commands into the keyboard to signal pieces to move. You use standard chess lingo to accomplish this, and the game even interprets your typing and will move the piece as soon as you get enough of your command entered. For example, if you are telling the system to move your knight to a certain row, and there is only one legal move there, you probably won't need to type the full command before it gallops off.
I did not like this method of control, but it is nice to see the game is built for all styles of play. The best feature of the game is the tutorial aspect of Fritz 8. During the game or after the game, you can have the program comment on your moves.
This can be as subtle as asking "what did I do wrong" whereupon the system will scan for obvious blunders you made. Or you can have the game comment while you are playing, which can sometimes be annoying but really adds to the excitement.
It's just hard to make a move and then have the commentator say, "This throws away the game! Interestingly enough, you can also have Fritz analyze a particular position on the board, ignoring the rest of the game. If you think you have moved your bishop into an ingenious spot, you can ask Fritz to check your logic.
It will generate a tree showing all your possible moves from that point and all the opponents' possible counters. It will then look at the different moves, and depending on how you set the engine, and give you suggestions as to how to best proceed.
The game will also look at your database of previous games and determine your Elo rating, which is how you can determine how good you are at the game compared to others. Strong players can score around 2, Calculate by making moves blindly on the board, and get hints. Then play your calculated move. We use cookies and comparable technologies to provide certain functions, to improve the user experience and to offer interest-oriented content. Depending on their intended use, cookies may be used in addition to technically required cookies, analysis cookies and marketing cookies.
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