ChessBase 17 - Mega package - Edition 2024
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Isn't it what every chess player wants? To win with a brilliant game! With Fritz 18 your dreams can come true: Fritz shows how it's done. With discrete tips, your attacking game can succeed. Fritz won't tell you what moves to make, so you have to find them yourself, but it will help you with visual and spoken hints, or calculations which you can switch on! Win against Fritz with a powerful winning combination, and learn how to attack all at the same time! This is how to make chess fun – against Fritz 18!
Show us your brilliant games! We will raffle attractive prizes among the senders! The most beautiful games on our website:
Trainer and second: Rustam Kazimdzhanov with Anand, Caruana and Karjakin
When you first start up Fritz 18, you are first shown the opening menu screen. Just click on Easy Game.
It will open the screen to a fairly familiar scene if you have ever used this mode before. Of note is that at the bottom right is a large colorful area with a big smiling yellow rook, and some curious checkboxes.
These are fairly self-explanatory, and will be described in a future tutorial. For now let us just play some games and have some fun.
You might find this part obvious and unnecessary, but a few words can make your first foray a bit smoother. Before starting a game, choose a level.
The levels can be quite striking in their range. Players of many levels will be able to enjoy a good game now, and use it as a proper part of training.
Note: The first game will usually be much weaker than expected as it calibrates itself against you. This has been a common experience, but soon it will adapt and by the second game expect a much more balanced game, while it tries to give you opportunities to play and even win.
After your game is over, you will have the opportunity to review it either right then, or later at your leisure, with the Fritz GUI or ChessBase. Your games are saved in \My Documents\ChessBase\Compbase and the name of the default database is Autoplay. If you use ChessBase 16, you can simply direct it to the folder and open the database for perusal.
There are multiple ways to send the game of course, and in the end, the key is to send it to the address above: brilliancy@chessbase.com
The copy-and-paste method
If you are comfortable with copy-and-paste within your email, then one way to send a game is to simply open the game, then press Ctrl-C. Now go to the email body and paste it with Ctrl-V like you would with any text. That's all there is to it!
Right after you finish with a brilliant victory, Fritz 18 will congratulate you and ask you if you want to share your win. It will immediately jump to the step below with Direct Share. you can use this right now, or you can use the Direct Share at any time.
Using Fritz 18's Direct Share
You can also use the many sharing methods inside of Fritz 18 itself. With the game open in the program, go to File -> Share -> Direct Share
The just click Ok, as the default choice is the correct
It will automatically publish the game online with a link. You can of course copy and send this link, but if you got this far, you can just click on the @email button at the bottom
and then fill out the email to submit it.
You can also share your game using the numerous other options such as Facebook, Twitter, or other.
We look forward to your games!