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Fritz is a commercial chess engine published by the company ChessBase.

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Why does Fritz prefer underpromotion in this position?

Why does Fritz prefer underpromotion in this position? How can underpromotion to bishop evaluate so much higher than normal queen promotion? Can this be a bug in the Fritz 14 chess engine?
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Fritz: Full analysis Vs Blunder check

In Fritz, I am interested to know the differences between the Full Analysis and Blunder Check. The differences at the first look seem superficial. For example, I wouldn't mind if there is no natural language used in the analysis which comes with…
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Who is this person in this image?

I think many chess players saw this image when playing older versions of Fritz as the option "coach is watching." But out of curiosity, who is the person in the image? Is he a grandmaster?
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Why is Fritz 16 Grandmaster Playing Weak Endgames?

I am trying to use Fritz 16 to practice endgames. Unfortunately, Grandmaster (Fritz) is playing very poorly. For example, in the diagrammed position, if I play Black, Fritz gives me a quick threefold repetition after 1 Ke4 Nc6 2 Kf5 Na7. But when I…
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Fritz Online will not finish game?

Fritz Online will play all the way to the point where there's mate in one move. In other words, if you are white and Fritz is black it will stop playing (moving) at the point any black move will be followed by mate on the part of while. This is…
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Does Fritz "Blunder Check" mode respect "Side to Analyze" option?

I use Fritz 13, and in Blundercheck mode on a batch of games won by White, only want it to point out alternatives for the winner, that is white (I don't expect to have very many suggestions for improvement, because the games are selected as good…
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Can you run "Full Analysis" in Fritz with a different engine?

I have added Stockfish to the Deep Fritz GUI, and I even marked all engines except for Stockfish as inactive. However, when I run the "Full Analysis" it's still using Fritz. Is there a way to use a different engine?
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What do the engine annotations 0.53/24 mean?

I am anaylizing my games with Fritz to get better, but there is an annotation in the analysis that I do not fully understand. Here is an example: What do 0.53/21 and -0.25/24 mean?
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Deep Fritz 14, Show Plans-How to activate?

Does anyone who uses Deep Fritz 14 know how to activate "Visualize Search," aka "Show Plans"? I went to File, Options, and Engine. "Show Plans" is one of the options, but it won't let me activate it. How do you activate it?
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What is Fritz Powerbook 2015?

Learning chess & I thought Fritz Powerbook 2015 was THE chess-playing engine with GUI only to learn that it requires Fritz12, 13, 14 or 15 to use it. I had read that it had a lot of useful info on chess openings. I'm considering purchasing the new…
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How to display figures instead of letters in position analysis notation in ChessBase?

I just installed Deep Fritz 14 with ChessBase. By default the notation in deep position analysis looks like this (only letters, no chess figures): I would like to make it look like this: How do I do this?
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Confused about ChessBase

I'm really confused about the differences between the products that ChessBase offers. For example, on the website, Deep Fritz is said to be an engine. But after a bit of research, it turned out that it holds a database, a multimedia directory, a…
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Checking most played move in a position in Fritz

I have a series of about 50 games in a certain position in fritz opening database 2013. I want to check the most played move, but rather than checking which move was most played by checking them individually, I want to know how to do it like in…
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How to play with Leela Zero restricted to a one-node search?

In Matthew Sadler's book, "The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement", Sadler uses Leela Zero for training with Leela configured to "one node" search (ply). It is a good way to have Leela "plays like a positional genius with flawed tactics". How do I…
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How to delete all annotations excluding variations in Fritz

Suppose I load a game. Now I want to delete all annotations only (excluding variations). What is the way to do it? If I select, 'Delete All Commentary' It removes both annotations and variations. Check screenshot. How to remove annotations only…
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