Fritz 16 and Powerbooks

[#10 May/2018](#) ChessBase Newsletter // Dear Chess Friends! In the last months we have published a number of "Special Powerbooks" for various openings, e.g. for the London System, the French Defence or the Nimzo-Indian. These Powerbooks are very popular. Which is no real surprise because they contain lots of information that you do not get elsewhere. Moreover, with Fritz 16 the opening trees and statistics in the Powerbooks are ideal to practise your repertoire. Fritz 16 and the new Powerbooks: a combination to learn and train! Opening experts use the new Powerbooks to search for opening trends because a great part of the statistics are based on games that are played in the engine room on playchess.com. Which makes them ideal to fine-tune and deepen your opening repertoire and your opening knowledge. Let’s say you played the Nimzo-Indian in a recent game and now you look at this game with Fritz 16, the Nimzo-Indian Powerbook tells you how far you followed “theory”, and which other moves offered good chances. Of course, you can also "enter" the variation tree to take a look at the unknown positions. Every chess player who wants to widen his repertoire and is keen on new ideas will find lots of valuable material in the Powerbooks! Or use the new Powerbooks as a source of additional information when studying a Fritz Trainer! E.g. the new Nimzo-Indian DVD by Rustam Kasimdzhanov. In the popular line 4.Qc2 0-0 5.a3 Bxc3 6.Qxc3 the opening expert proposes to continue with the rare move 6...b5. If the Nimzo-Indian Powerbook is active while you study Kasimdzhanov’s DVD you see the main lines and the statistical evaluations of Kasimdzhanov’s proposals during his lecture. Remembering the lines you studied to be ready for your next game is crucial when studying an opening. Combining Fritz 16 with the Powerbooks allows you to practice your repertoire with a few clicks! Start Fritz 16 and in the starting screen go to "Classic Menus". Load the Powerbook with "File – Open – Opening Book". Now start a new game with Ctrl+n or via the menu, and then click on the tab "book" in the notation window. You see the Powerbook with the statistics about the starting position. Let’s say you want to practice your Nimzo-Indian repertoire against the line 4.Qc2. First, you have to define the first four moves by White as "Tournament Move". Right click on 1.d4 in the variation tree, select "Tournament Move", and then do the same for 2.c4, etc. Now you are ready: set the clock in the menu "File" ("Levels") and start a new game with Ctrl+n or with "New Game". Note: to tell Fritz to follow your choices in the book go to "Analysis" in the menu and select "Optimal Book": If you want to play White in your training game make the first move. If you want Fritz to play with White press the "Space" key. Fritz now will follow your settings – in our example up to move four. But then he will do his best and you can check and test your repertoire against the best and most comprehensive Nimzo-Indian opening book. Have fun! Hint: If you always want to train with the same colour against Fritz, go to File – Options – Game and deactivate "Turn Board with new Game"! // Fritz and Powerbooks [Fritz 16 – He just wants to play]( When is chess the most enjoyable? When you win! Fritz 16 is looking forward to playing with you, and you’re certain to have a great deal of fun with him too. Tense games and even well-fought victories await you with the “Easy play” and “Assisted analysis” modes. Another fun feature in addition to the display of your Elo performance rating are the emoticons which show Fritz’s mood during the game. Fritz 16 is rounded off with a new and simplified program interface, new calculation training for improving your variation vision, new realistic rating pools on playchess.com and much, much more! [Order now from the ChessBase Shop!]( [read more]( // ["The Complette Nimzo-Indian Powerbook 2018"]( Anyone who wants to play the Nimzo-Indian must also be prepared to enter the Queen’s Indian (or the Bogo-Indian) and the Catalan. For that reason we have included the whole E00-E59 complex in our “Complete Nimzo-Indian Powerbook 2018”. It is based, e.g., on 80 000 games from the Mega Database plus correspondence games. But the lion’s share is made up of the 565 000 games from the engine room, where the Queen’s Indian enjoys greater popularity than the Nimzo-Indian. [Order from the ChessBase shop!]( [read more]( // [London System Powerbook 2018]( The Powerbook London System 2018 is a premiere at ChessBase. A few years ago, this system still had the image of an amateur opening. However, many world-class players such as So, Kramnik, Grischuk, Vachier-Lagrave, Aronian and Karjakin have contributed to the further popularization of the opening. There is of course also no overlooking the fact that the London book is also based on 44 games by Magnus Carlsen! To ensure the utmost statistical reliability, the threshold for including games was set at a very high level. The Powerbook is based on 176,000 engine games as well as 11,000 games from the Mega 2018 + Correspondence 2018 One of the most fundamental positions of the London System is shown in the following diagram: The statistics suggest 6....cxd4, but the modern 7... Nh5 is a very popular variation after 7. exd4. You can then study the different ways of playing here using the London Powerbook, as it offers a 100-fold increase in games compared to the Mega/Online Database. Does this mean the end of the London system? Certainly not, for example, merely delaying Nf3 offers White additional options, which is also clearly demonstrated by the Powerbook statistics. If you want the ultimate combination here, then pairing the London System Powerbook 2018 with the bestseller from 2017: [The London System with 2.Bf4 from GM Simon Williams is the way to go!]( [Order "London System Powerbook 2018" from the shop...]( [read more]( // You're a subscriber to the ChessBase newsletter. If you no longer want to receive the chessbase newsletter, [click here.]( © 2018 ChessBase Schachprogramme Schachdatenbank Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Registered: Osterbekstr. 90a, 22083 Hamburg Telephone: 040-63 90 60 0 - Fax: 040 630 12 82 Directors: Matthias Wüllenweber and Rainer Woisin HR Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 40336 Value added tax identification number DE 118644875 Local tax office tax number 49/711/00031ChessBase, All rights reserved