Author: Mike S.
Date: 10:04:55 05/01/03
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On May 01, 2003 at 08:51:30, Shaun Brewer wrote: >Okay I am very new to Fritz. > >I have the permanent analysis on and I am steping through a game. However often >when I move the mouse it automatically jumps to the next move. Rather anoying >when you are wanting to add the analysis as a comment and its been running all >night. Strange. As long as you don't click a mouse button, nothing should happen. Sounds like a mouse hardware problem to me. Worn out button? :o) >Is this my machine / mouse / installation or a general problem? Is it possible >to get Fritz to record all analysis to a log file? Could not find anything in >help under log or output. Not in the way known i.e. from WB. egines... I know what you mean - an "keep all the engine's analysis output" log, but the analysis functions of the Fritz GUI are designed more for the practical player than for computer freaks like us :o). Usually (some of) the results are put in the notation directly, by the various types of analysis functions. I think "Compare Analysis" is the next best to a typical engine log. It keeps the pv, eval and depth (and nodes by option), but only one per position of the game analysed. >A second question when you use full analysis I could not see how you could make >it start from a point in a game. e.g. from move 25 to the start (obviously I >could edit the game but that seems a little odd). This is controlled by the "Last Move" value in the full analysis dialogue. F1 help says, "Last move: This sets a limit for the analysis. Analysis always starts at the end of the game and goes backward, ending with this move." I've just tested it in the ChessProgram8 GUI. Works... but make sure you have the latest GUI update for Fritz 7. I seem to remember that there were bugs related to the Full Analysis in F7. If it doesn't work, try to disable the opening reference of that function. >Again is it possible to log the actual computer analysis. No, here the program itself decides what to insert as a commentary, variations etc. (an award winning AI analysis function) to design something similar to a human-like master analysis. One of the advantages is, that the engine "goes into" variations (which it thinks are worthwile to be explored further), playing through them move by move rather than to just insert a pv. Another advantage is, that this function can respond to threats and interesting what if? situations, an "inserting engine's output move by move" method can never comment on. For example, if there was an attractive move which turns out to be a deep trap sacrifice, and the player has spotted that trap avoiding i.e to capture a piece which was en prise, a simple analyis function which sees that as well, will think all was ok in the game and you'll never be pointed to that by the output. The same goes for some defensive moves which may seem strange, but are necessary to defend against threats (which therefore never appear on the board nor in simple analysis outputs). But that's completely different of course from traditional engine logs. Regards, M.Scheidl
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