11/25/2011 – What do the players in a world chess championship do immediately after their games? Rush off for dinner? No. Check their game with the computer? Warmer. Actually in Tirana the two GMs used, for the first time in such an event, the new feature of Fritz 13, "Let's Check", to see what spectators from all over the world had found in their games. Here's how it is done.
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Fritz 13 and "Let's Check" – a beginner's guide
Fritz 13 is our latest flagship chess program, which offers chess players everything
they need to study and train: professional board graphics, engine management,
adjustable playing strength, coach functions, move explanation, automatic game
analysis and commentary, training modules for openings, tactics and endgames,
professional printing of games and diagrams, and much more. It comes with a
database of 1.5 million games and ten hours of private video instructions by
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to the world’s largest chess server: Playchess.com.
The biggest new feature of Fritz 13, the elephant in the living room, is "Let's
Check", a revolutionary function that will change the chess world. With
it Fritz 13 users can join a world-wide community that are putting together
a giant knowledge base for chess.
Let's Check at the Women's World Championship
By Frederic Friedel
Before we come to the instructional videos here is a little story from the
Women's World Championship that ended in Tirana yesterday. I spent the first
week of the match in Albania and came to the championship bearing gifts: Fritz
13 for both players, as well as for some of the key people present at the event.
But there was a problem: do you want to really disrupt the routine of the players
in the middle of such an important event? Do you go to the two contestants in
the Wimbledon finals, tell them about the new racket you have developed and
offer it to them for use in the next set? No, independent of how good the new
racket is, it may cause more damage than good.
So the deal was as follows: I'll give you a copy of Fritz 13 now, but you must
start using it after the championship. Whatever you do, do not start
spending a lot of time experimenting with the program. Your second may do that,
but you must not change your routine. Okay?
However: this did not prevent the two players from taking a peek. Immediately
after he first game, still in the playing hall, Humpy came over to me –
someone many hundreds of points weaker than her in chess – and asked poignantly:
"I couldn't win, could I? There was no clear way to win this game, was
there?" "Not really," I replied. "Can we check it, please?"
So up we went to my room, where Humpy ran through the game with "Let's
Check" switched on, searching for a win she might have missed. There were
some moments – one moment – but going down the alternate line revealed
that it was not compelling. Humpy was astonished to see many of the lines she
was looking at already had Let's Check evaluations. How was it possible that
she was getting 30-ply analysis for moves immediately after entering them? "While
the game was in progress spectators with big machines were analysing different
lines, and their analysis was going into the Let's Check cloud," I explained.
Wow, and all of this is available minutes after the game? Of course.
Soon after Humpy left came a phone call: "Frederic? This is Yifan. Can
I come check the game?" The 17-year-old super-talent had a very nice gift
for me – placemats and chopsticks – but quickly perched herself
in front of my computer.
Naturally Yifan has a computer in her room, one of the biggest and heaviest
"notebooks" I have seen in a long time. it is fairly powerful and
can be used very nicely to analyse the game. But of course it takes minutes
to go down 30+ ply, for each position, while Let's Check delivers the same results
instantly.
And that is the point of the system: you don't get to see secret analysis by
other players, or the "junk analysis of some 1900 patzer," as one
top player (named Vladimir) assumed. In any position you get to see, instantly,
the evaluation and best move that the chess engine on your computer will come
up with if you let it run for many minutes. Of course that assumes that somebody
somewhere in the world has run an engine sufficiently long on that position.
But that is almost always the case when you analyse top games that have been
broadcast on Playchess. There hundreds
of spectators, many equipped with super-fast machines and top engines, are watching
the games, while Let's Check collects the best of these analyses and uploads
them to the cloud.
Yifan analysing late in the evening – without the bounce flash
A word to the old and new world champion Hou Yifan: this girl shows a depth
of understanding and an enthusiasm for the game that I have not seen in a long
time. She is going places. I predict that she will duplicate the career of Judit
Polgar and before long be battling there in the top ranks of men's tournaments.
Video tutorials by Nick Murphy
If you are not already familiar with the
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Got it all? ... No? You can watch more Nick Murphy videos
explaining the new Fritz 13 function "Let's Check" in his video tutorials
here. We will
be pointing to them in an upcoming article to make sure you do not forget.
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Previous articles on Fritz 13 and Let's Check
Fritz 13 and Let's Check – Lesson one: getting started 31.10.2011 – You have ordered Fritz 13, on
DVD or as a download in the ChessBase Shop. And you have heard a lot about
the new Let's Check function. How do you get started? In our tutorial
series we begin with some very basic instructions on how to activate the
program and then take a few initial steps into the world of cloud computing.
Too daunting? Take a look – it's
easier than you think.
Hoogeveen: Kramnik beats Polgar, leads by a full point 20.10.2011 – In round two Vladimir Kramnik
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encounters Judit still has to win a single one. At the end of this game
Fritz 13 surprised people on Playchess by announcing mate in 45 moves
– on a super-fast spectator machine. In rounds three and four all games
were drawn, but some of them quite interesting. Report
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Fritz 13 is now available – let's check who needs it! 13.10.2011 – “Success very often is the enemy
of future success," Garry Kasparov warned us some months ago. Changing
the world once is not enough, he said, we needed to do it again. Well,
we are trying. Today we launch Fritz 13, which incorporates a tantalizing
new feature: "Let's Check", which provides communal analysis in the cloud.
You can order it now or download it for instant
access.
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