So, I finally have a modern PC and I bought Fritz 10 and the Big Database 2007, believing that there was some synergy and that they worked together well. However, I can’t figure out how to actually install the database. It came with instructions on how to do it if I had ChessBase, but I don’t. I was led to believe that any “Fritz family” product could do what I wanted to do….do I actually need the ChessBase application? Can one of you that uses Fritz give me a hand?
Also, the Fritz documentation is kind of awful. What’s your favorite online tutorial for how to learn about/take advantage of the features of Fritz? ChessBase Cafe looks ok, but it’s less a comprehensive tutorial than what I’m looking for.
In other news, the MCC Winter Swiss is going well. 3 rounds in I have an = score (though I took a bye in round 2). I’ll be posting those games later today or this weekend.
Finally, since the cutoff has passed, I can say that my February 1st official rating will be 1291 and will no longer be provisional. I’m finally getting into the ‘moderately respectable’ range. It feels good.
I believe it works like this;
First you install Fritz (you obviously done that). Then you run the database cd/dvd and make it show it’s contents. You can now choose to either copy the contents to your hard drive (if so, look for the chessbase folder that was placed in your documents folder and copy it to the bases folder although you can copy it anywhere you want), or you can leave it on the disk and look for it’s contents using Fritz. Run Fritz, click file, open, open database (and now look for the contents of the drive you put the database cd/dvd in). The same procedure is required when you’ve copied the database contents to whatever folder. Just look the folder up with Fritz as explained. Let me know if it worked. Take care!
Btw, i’ll add you to my sidebar and feedreader so i can follow your posts. Feel free to add me to yours. Though i am currently kind of inactive