carldaman wrote: ↑Tue Nov 23, 2021 4:15 am
You can start the easy game from anywhere as long as the position can be navigated to in the notation window.
For example, I had a Bogo-Indian position from a game loaded using the Classical menu, then I switched to the
Easy Game menu and picked up the (easy) game from Black's 5th move and continued playing from there.
The Bogo-Indian game was the last thing I had open under the Classical Menu and it kept it in the notation window
when I switched menus. You can do the same with any opening.
Apparently it is possible to force Fritz 18 to play the openings of a CTG book in Easy Game mode, by replacing the Fritz18.ctg book, with an own created book.
See the comments of Matthias at the bottom of this page:
Thanks for pointing this out...I am the person he responded to on the Chessbase site.
There is a user with the username Leavenfish here on the TalkChess forum to.
'Was'. That was me as well...but (and I can't recall exactly) I seem to remember losing my PW or something and simply created a new username. Been posting under Cornfed ever since.
Jonathan003 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 20, 2021 7:41 pm
In Fritz 17 you have to make a new ctg book, and ad priority analysis.
Then every move needs to have a ! in order to force the engine to play the lines.
I used to have a commend line tool called markup-pgn to mark every white or black move with an informant symbol like (!)
I still have a tool lgpgnmw to mark al the moves with a (!), but that tool only works with a 32 bit system.
I hope someone knows where I can download this markup-pgn tool.
Or maybe it can be done with some other tools like pgn-extract.
David Barnes from pgn-extract, was so kind to make a tool that works on a Windows 64 bit system.
Jonathan003 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 20, 2021 7:41 pm
In Fritz 17 you have to make a new ctg book, and ad priority analysis.
Then every move needs to have a ! in order to force the engine to play the lines.
I used to have a commend line tool called markup-pgn to mark every white or black move with an informant symbol like (!)
I still have a tool lgpgnmw to mark al the moves with a (!), but that tool only works with a 32 bit system.
I hope someone knows where I can download this markup-pgn tool.
Or maybe it can be done with some other tools like pgn-extract.
David Barnes from pgn-extract, was so kind to make a tool that works on a Windows 64 bit system.
Jonathan003 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 20, 2021 7:41 pm
In Fritz 17 you have to make a new ctg book, and ad priority analysis.
Then every move needs to have a ! in order to force the engine to play the lines.
I used to have a commend line tool called markup-pgn to mark every white or black move with an informant symbol like (!)
I still have a tool lgpgnmw to mark al the moves with a (!), but that tool only works with a 32 bit system.
I hope someone knows where I can download this markup-pgn tool.
Or maybe it can be done with some other tools like pgn-extract.
David Barnes from pgn-extract, was so kind to make a tool that works on a Windows 64 bit system.
If you have the program "make" installed (under Windows, you can get
the same effect using the mingw32 package) then the Makefile will
build all three:
make
NB: The parser assumes that games to be parsed are valid.
Put them through pgn-extract beforehand if in doubt.
The program will add ! !! ? or ?? annotations to all white and/or
black moves depending on its arguments:
markmoves [-wg | -wgg | -wb | -wbb] [-bg | -bgg | -bb | -bbb] [file.pgn ...]
Annotate every white and/or black move with one of ! (g) !! (gg) ? (b) ?? (bb)
Note that no separating space is added between move and annotation.
Here is an example.
Say you have a pgn database and you want to annotate all the white and the black moves with a (!)
The pgn has to be clean, you can do this by opening it in SCID and exporting it.
Place the pgn database and the command line tool markmoves in the same folder. Then click in the adres bar in file explorer and type cmd and hit enter.
Then you write
8.3
- Tactical Analysis annotates character of game ("Black was lost after the opening").
- Tactical Analysis annotates pair of bishops if strong.
- Tactical Analysis annotates "sharp moments" in game.
- Missing diagrams in theme blitz, opening and endgame training dialogs.
- Search for text annotations was broken.
- Some medal colors were wrong.
- Stop engine in infinite mode when engine window is closed.
- Activation of old fritz trainers was broken.
- Mail dialog on playchess was not displayed.
- Bug in server tournament management.
Milton wrote: ↑Tue Nov 16, 2021 7:52 pm
I think I found one minor bug in the GUI. On my computer the "Chess Benchmark" feature does not work at all. By comparison, in the Fat Fritz 2 GUI, which I also have, the benchmarking feature does work. Can anyone else with Fritz 18 confirm whether the Chess Benchmark feature works for them? Thanks.
This feature doesn't work here either.
You have a program called 'Fritz Chess Benchmark.exe' in the program folder, was it just starting this tool. I uninstalled Fritz 17 before I installed Fritz 18 so I can't check. By the way, is it allowed to give away the old (downloaded) program, I didn't buy an upgrade.
Yes, "Fritz Chess Benchmark.exe" exists in both folders "Chessprogram17" and "Chessprogram18" on my computer. Directly clicking on either of those files causes the benchmark to run. But clicking on the "chess benchmark" icon in the main GUI only works for the Fat Fritz 2, but not for the Fritz 18 GUI. Thanks for your response. I have sent an email to Chessbase to let them know about this glitch.
I honestly do not know the answer to your questions about whether it is allowed to give away your old program.
I thought the same about the Benchmark icon on the ribbon. But I just checked again and it works in Fritz 18.
ThomasMiller wrote: ↑Sat Nov 27, 2021 3:57 pm
What's the GUI min search time when analyzing a set of positions with an engine? Still 1 sec?
Well, if you are talking an engine vs engine game it is .1 sec.
But "Processing Test Set" a 'min' is not offered. Rather a 'Max' is and that seems to be 1 sec - for the maximum length of time the program should work on each position.
