Author: Brian MacAskill
Date: 16:26:03 04/23/99
OK, I've had Fritz a while now and I like it, but... 1. Shouldn't "Infinite Analysis" and "Play against Fritz" work differently? When I toggle off infinite, I automatically get "Play against Fritz". Very irritating. I want to choose infinite, and when I turn it off, have Fritz in a "no infinite, no play Fritz" mode. Aargh. 2. System resources. I'm sorry, but the most system-resource-draining app I own is Fritz. Run Fritz, lose system resources. Run an app or two more, and my laptop grinds to a halt. I'm a programmer, I run some big, demanding apps. Why does Fritz top them all? 3. Save, save, save. Or autosave. With point #2, above, I get this situation: I leave Fritz to do a long analysis. System resources get slowly used (or, worse, leaked), Fritz freezes... and, of course, I loose all results up until them. It's far worse (for obvious reasons) when I do engine-engine or engine tourneys. Double aargh. Wouldn't a "Save Fritz's Progress Every Minute Or So" be great? 4. Resizing Frtiz's window. Need I say more? I want to bring up Fritz with a small board and keep in a corner of my nice, high-rez display. But no... Fritz wants the whole screen or nothing at all. Anything to add? This isn't really a wish-list for Fritz 6 -- these are usability issues that should be addressed in addition to the major new features/performance improvements I expect from the next version of Fritz. Caveat: keep in mind that I *love* Fritz. It's (he's?) great. I just want greater ;-) Regards.
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