Pet Peeves With Fritz 20

 

    I have been a fan of ChessBase ever since I picked up Fritz 12 years ago at Staple office supply for $20 which was a fraction of what it was selling for everywhere else. Since then I have had a few other chess programs, but they all sat unused on my laptop and eventually got deleted. 

    Currently I have ChessBase 16, Fritz 12,17, 19 and 20 on my laptop, but almost all analysis and posting on this Blog is done with Fritz 17. The other day I decided to try Fritz 20 after I realized the new menu style has a collapsed menu bar at the top of the screen which means the board is quite a bit larger. 

    I knew that when posting games on Blogger a string of numbers appear in the game window. These numbers appear to have no purpose and can simply be deleted. It’s just a minor annoyance.

 

 

    Quite a bit more annoying is the inability to edit the game information in database games insert into the auto-analysis. You can cut off the moves at any point (say delete all moves after 10...O-O), but you cannot access the player’s names, etc. to edit anything. 

 

    My main pet peeve is that if a game is saved in CBH format and you try to open it with any previous version of Fritz you get the following error message. 

 

        

    I find it especially annoying that the current CBH format is incompatible with previous versions. This is nit picking, but because I do not use any of the training or “fun” features of Fritz 20, I will continue using Fritz 17, the bigger board offered by Fritz 20 notwithstanding. These pet peeves aside, ChessBase products are, in my opinion, simply the best.