Fritz Help

First steps

Program Activation

System requirements

The starting screen

Help and coaching

Play against different Opponents

Levels of skill

Value of the pieces

General operation

Docking Windows

Standard Layouts

Window Pane Icons

Style specifications

Board design – 2D board

Board design – 3D

3D boards with Direct X

3D board – Settings

3D board – Material

3D board – Render options

3D board – Info

New board sounds

3D Boards in Fritz

3D Boards in Fritz

3D Raytraced board

3D GPU Hardware raytracing (DX12)

Adjust thinking time

Save and load layouts

Options

Options – Clocks and Notation

Options – Game

Options – Multimedia

Options – Clipboard

Options – Training

Options – Design

Options – Language

Options – Version

Options - Engine

Program windows

Notation window

Different displays in the engine window

Clear notation with coloured highlights

Correcting notation

Display of the balance of material

Display win probabilities

Disable engine bar

Evaluation profile

Openings display

Window Pane Icons

Move entry

Entering moves with single click

Entering moves on the keyboard

The right mouse button

Mouse wheel not working?

Edit and annotate game

The chess engine as commentator

Set Move Number

Keyboard

Entering moves on the keyboard

Keyboard input for commentary symbols

Customize keyboard

Reference

Help during the game

Help and coaching

The chess coach

Explain all moves

Engine evaluations beside the chess board

Animation for mate and capture moves

Opening Classification

Assisted Analysis

Levels of skill

Levels of skill

Long (tournament) games

Customized game levels

Different types of opponents

Winning trophies

Appendix: List of all trophies

Evolving Genius

Your best games

Playing a Friend Game

Optimise playing strength

The openings book

The openings book

Opening books from databases

The book window

Extended Book Display

Book display options

Tournament move

ECO chess openings classification

Copy openings book to hard disk

Import old book

Importing games to the openings book

Extending the openings book manually

Import analysis into openings book

Openings book, learning from a database

Deleting a game from the Book

Maximum size of the tree of positions

Opening Training

Extending your repertoire

Coloured highlights in the repertoire

Working with a repertoire

Standard Repertoires

Memorising opening variations

Viewing your opening repertoire

Repertoire deletion

Delete opening lines from the repertoire

Rebuilding repertoire

Database functions

The database window

Sorting by columns

Tournament index

Commentator index

Load and replay games

New data format 2cbh

FAQ about the 2CBH format

Search for beauty values

What does beauty mean ...?

Save Mask Annotators/Team

Players database

Autosave database

Automatic storage in Cloud Clip database

Search for games

Search for names, tournaments, etc.

Search for positional fragments

Search for game commentary

Search for medals

Search for Time Controls

Archive database

Install on Harddrive

Backup database

Database formats

ChessBase Magazine

Analysing games

Infinite analysis

Analysis with the Buddy Engine

FAQ Buddy Engine

Evaluation history in the search

Enter & Analyse

Evaluation of the position

Visualize engine analysis

Extended Engine Information

Full analysis / Tactical Analysis

Example Tactical Analysis

A tip for Full analysis

Deep position analysis

Commentary symbols in the Fritz Blunder search

Compare analysis

Automatic analysis of server games

Blitz & train on Playchess.com

Training questions

Visualize Search

The Analysis board

Variation board

Visual Evaluation

Animated engine variants

Duration analysis with analysis comments

Tips in the engine window

Chess problems, mate search

Calculating Elo ratings retrospectively

Let`s Check

Start Let`s Check

How should a game be analysed with Let’s Check?

What do the green, blue and red letters for the depth mean?

Why does the progress bar often jump back after reaching 100%?

Let’s Check Server Statistics

Let’s Check context menu

Information in the Chat window

Commentaries in the LiveBook

Using the LiveBook as the Openings Book

Networked Analysis

Game analysis with Let's Check

Common questions Let`s Check

Is my analysis always sent to Let's Check?

Can Let’s Check be used anonymously?

What does it cost?

What difference does the power of my computer make?

What engines are allowed?

Can variations and evaluations be manipulated?

Can senseless moves be input and analysed?

How are the Let's Check honours lists created?

What do the two diagrams in the LiveBook window mean?

Can a text commentary be edited or deleted?

Engine-Cloud.com

Server Engine-Cloud.com

Board window with provided engine

Engine connection

Using a Cloud Engine privately

Public Cloud Engines

Offering a public Cloud Engine

Summary of the auction system

Hints

Use of Cloud Engines

Providers of Cloud Engines

Examples

Cloud Engines on Playchess.com

Solve Test Sets

Infinite Analysis with a Cloudengine

Settings dialog for providers

Training

Calculation Training

Assisted Calculation

Calculation training with candidate support

Opening Training

Endgame Training

Tactical Training

Extend training database

Delete Training Results

Commentary

Edit and annotate game

Text commentary

Commentary symbols

Elements of commentary

Graphic commentary

Toolbar in the notation

Exporting a game

Spoken comments via microphone

Chess Media System

Enhancement to the Chess Media System

Computer chess

Fritz 18 engine

Settings Engine Window

Switch off engine

How to deinstall an UCI Engine?

Set UCI Priority

Clearing hashtables

Engine management

Engine tournaments (with humans)

Process test set

Compare analysis

Permanent brain

Engine parameters

End Game Table Base support

Extended Options in the Engine Window

Endgame databases

Installation and notes on Endgame Turbo

Syzygy Endgame Turbo Tip

Copy endgame databases to hard disk

Syzygy and small hard disks

Engine Interface

ChessBase Web Apps

Information about the ChessBase Account

How to register with Fritz15 or CB14

Elo ratings

Elo ratings and lists

The Elo start list

Viewing the Elo list

External hardware

Connect hardware

DGT Rabbit Plugin

Move synchronization DGT board

FAQ

Copy tree to hard disk not available

Problems in the display of the list window?

3D board problems

Letters on the board ?

Reference database

How do I upgrade my program ?

Update not working?

Note on deactivation

Improve the responsiveness of the computer while the engine runs

Which Hash Size should I use at various time controls?

Stockfish configuration problem

Deep Position Analysis feature

Examples

Optimising move entry

Database search – watch out for small or capital letters

Displaying thinking time

Correct promotion!

Notes on rated games

Chess training with Theme Blitz

Fine-tuning openings books

Alternative piece designs

Producing opening references

Chess rules (FIDE)

1: Nature and objectives of chess

2: Initial position on the chessboard

3: The moves of the pieces

4: The act of moving the pieces

5: The completed game

6: The chess clock

7: Illegal positions

8: The recording of the moves

9: The drawn game

10: Quickplay Finish

12: The conduct of the players

13: The role of the arbiter

A: Adjourned games

D: Quickplay finishes with no arbiter

E: Algebraic notation

F: Visually handicapped players

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