Fritz 16 - He just wants to play!
Fritz 16 is looking forward to playing with you, and you're certain to have a great deal of fun with him too. Tense games and even well-fought victories await you with "Easy play" and "Assisted analysis" modes.
Every chess coach, with no exceptions, recommends analyzing your games. To be fair, they usually mean analyzing on your own, as an exercise in introspection and self-discovery. I.e. Understand our foibles and strive to eliminate them. However, blitz games are not usually subject to such painstaking analysis. We do want to know what happened, since some mistakes are repeated unknowingly, again and again, out of ignorance. Perhaps not something as drastic as the loss of a piece, but possibly a simple idea that we are missing. Blitz is very good at reinforcing pattern recognition — both good and bad, it must be noted.
The engines — those wonderful tools that we both hate and love so much — are quick and merciless in pointing them out, and consulting them can help us not only see where we are going astray, but improve via pattern recognition. The problem is that, just like interrupting our reading to consult a dictionary on a word, it means stopping the flow of our enjoyment to go over various key parts. Or at least it used to.
One of the coolest new tools in Fritz 16 is its ability to automatically analyze our games in Playchess … while we are playing them! Now don’t worry, neither you nor your opponents are privy to this analysis before the game is over, but as soon as the game is done and the clocks are stopped, Fritz 16 will immediately show you the full automatic analysis it made.
What kind of analysis? You have no doubt seen by now the automated analysis in the Live Broadcasts that are now featured regularly in our news pages. It may not replace a grandmaster explaining the deepest ideas of a game, but they do serve to highlight the right and wrong in a game and even show simpler ideas such as the threat and why a move could not be played.
As an example, I opened Fritz 16, and just pressed one of the new Blitz buttons on the opening splash screen. It opened Playchess and within seconds paired me with a player. The game went well and as soon as I was done, the game notation was updated to show the analysis that had been done.
Without even looking at the analysis, the bar chart below it shows me how it went. If it had shown a sudden large bar for my opponent for example, I would know that I had been in danger of losing.
As it is, it even adds a diagram to highlight a good move I played, but before it can go to my head, it tells me I missed a good shot just two moves later.
In this position, I mistakenly played 15…Bxd4?, missing the strong and elegant 15…f4! Lesson learned.
As you can see, each and every game played on Playchess now becomes a quick opportunity to learn and improve with no extra effort required to pore over the moves with an engine.
Fritz 16 - He just wants to play!
Fritz 16 is looking forward to playing with you, and you're certain to have a great deal of fun with him too. Tense games and even well-fought victories await you with "Easy play" and "Assisted analysis" modes.
