- Fritz chess 13 how to#
- Fritz chess 13 manuals#
- Fritz chess 13 pdf#
- Fritz chess 13 install#
- Fritz chess 13 update#
You can control how many concurrent downloads you want. The pop-up Preferences window will appear again. A “DownThemAll” Manager window will appear and list all the files. At the bottom of that window, select the local download folder you want the files to be downloaded into. Manually uncheck a few files you don’t want, they are the non-cp4 files such as gaviotachessengine, favicon.ico and filelist.txt. Control-A to select them all, then (with all the file links selected) right-click “Check Selected Items” At that point a new DownThemAll pop-up window will appear and it will list all the cp4 files, plus a few other files. Return to the Firefox window that has the cp4 files you want to download, the link is At the top in the menu bar, click on “Tools” then drop-down “DownThemAll” Click the OK button to close that window. At the top tab click “Interface” and then at the bottom right under “Tools Menu” click on “DownThemAll”.
A new pop-up window will appear “DownThemAll Preferences”. A new pop-up window will appear, this is the DownThemAll Manager window. Click the folder icon and browse to where you want the files downloaded to. A pop-up window will appear with options. Right click on the first cp4 file to start the first download. Once you have downloaded and installed FireFox, then downloaded and installed DownThemAll, then exited and restarted FireFox, you can go to the download web page
Fritz chess 13 install#
The tool works as an add-on to the FireFox browser, which you would also need to download and install It suggests using a tool called DownThemAll. This link suggests tips to download the files more easily. However, unfortunately for Windows users, there are 147 files and by default you would need to download each one separately.ĭ. The Gaviota tablebases are available for download at this link Ĭ. Apparently the StockFish engine (free download) will use the Gaviota tablebases but not the Namilov tablebases. More on Endgame Tablebases – downloading Gaviota tablebases using the DownThemAll toolĪ.
Fritz chess 13 how to#
See this link near the bottom to see how to confirm the endgame tablebases are working. If it was very fast and didn’t have to calculate much, this confirms Fritz was using the endgame tablebase to look up the answer. Mine quickly returned two lines with a #14 and #18, meaning checkmate in 14 or 18 moves. If it gives you results in a few seconds then it is working.
Home – New Game (drop down) – Position Setup. I also increased the Cache option to 2 MB. Follow the instructions in this link to configure Fritz to use the new 3-4-5 folder as the endgame tablebase. When that’s done, then in the Endgame Tablebase folder there will be a new folder named 3-4-5. I right-clicked on the 3-4-5.zip file, Extract All, and selected the Endgame Tablebase as the target folder. I created a new folder C:\Program Files(x86)\ChessBase\Endgame Tablebase I moved the 3-4-5.zip file to my Fritz program file folder C:\Program Files(x86)\ChessBaseį. They are about 7 GB in size and it took me 2-3 hours to download them with high speed internet. This site is where I downloaded the 3-4-5 Namilov tablebases. Apparently Fritz 13 will only use the Namilov tablebases, but there is also an option to use the Gaviota tablebases in the options settings.ĭ. This link has good information on endgame tablebases, but it seems kind of dated. This link has a good introduction to endgame tablebases, and why they are important. Installing Endgame Tablebases (optional)Ī.
Fritz chess 13 update#
In the Menu bar: File – Activation (drop down) – Update ProgramĤ. Update Fritz to make sure you have the latest version of the software.
Fritz chess 13 pdf#
It seems to have the same information as the PDF manual, just in a Windows Help format.ģ. You can also access help in the Fritz 13 program by hitting the small circle ? symbol in the upper right hand corner. Fritz can play against you at full strength or reduced strength.Į. See page 11 for playing against the computer. The manual “eng.pdf” has good information about how to use Fritz.ĭ. Start – All Programs – ChessBase – right click on the ChessBase folder – it will open – Paste Shortcut.Ĭ. I copied a shortcut of the two PDF files to my start menu.
Fritz chess 13 manuals#
Go into the Manuals folder you just copied (on your hard drive). I copied it to C:\Program Files(x86)\ChessBase\Manualsī. Copy the manuals to your computer local hard drive. I don't pretend to be an expert, but thought it would be helpful to others to document what I did to get the program installed and configured, and dowloading and installing endgame tablebase files, etc.Ģ. Other operating systems and/or versions of Fritz may be different in the exact steps to follow, but should be similar. Note: These instructions below are for a computer running Windows 7 and Fritz Chess 13 from Viva Media. Getting Started With Fritz Chess 13 from Viva Media (for Windows 7)