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I use Chessbase, now in v18, but Fritz does just as well.

ruclips.net/video/3_DwV5ecwHg/видео.html It is a basic though thorough starter tutorial. I will have vids on using the new CB18 functions shortly. I'm recovering from a nasty flu, so had to put all that on temporary hold.

@@chess_and_techI’d absolutely love this! Just got chessbase 18 and trying to figure this out as it’s my first chessbase. A tutorial series would be greatly appreciated!❤

No, you don't, since I ran it on bases I created myself. Try converting to .2cbh. I don't know if this is a factor, but it's worth a try.

Nice try, but it isn't stalemate. Hint: White's g-pawn can move.

​@@chess_and_techAh, missed that

samething happend with me , I wrote email to support team but didn't get any reply. wasted my 4.5K INR..... Chessbase team kindly help to setup CB18. Thanks

That chapter was written by Mikhail Zinar.

I didn't, but this is also partly Dvoretsky's fault: neither the exercises or lessons ask this of the student. The focus has been converting distant opposition to close opposition and understanding how to use the distant opposition to outflank the opponent. Throw in the matter of knowing what squares you must not allow the enemy king to reach at any cost. The rest is just calculation. A lot of calculation.

@@ilanpi That's right!

No endgame book covers that endgame sufficiently, as far as I can tell. Not even Averbakh's book specifically devoted to Queen v. Rook. The best resource I have found for learning that endgame is a free chessable course by someone named Rookshelf.

@@goodspellr1057 The book Secrets of Pawnless Endings by John Nunn has a sizeable chapter on this. Derek Grimmell's RUclips channel is devoted to this endgames with 34 videos.

@@ilanpi 34 videos? Good god. lol. It reminds me of Nunn's book called "Secrets of Rook Endings" which turned out to be hundreds of pages of dense lines devoted to R+P vs R. Here is my take on this topic: learn some key ideas and positions, and understand the core strategy. You have to ask yourself at what point is more time on this not better spent on other topics and aspects. In my particular case, I can assure you I try to make every second I spend count since I am all too aware of how many gaps in my knowledge base and skill set I need to fill or improve.

@@chess_and_tech I think that's a good approach. After all, you are highly unlikely to ever encounter Q vs.R in an actual game, and you might be lucky enough to face an opponent who knows that they are "lost" with rook and just resigns.

I won't say I've never had a crash, but frequent? Not here. The problem is that there are lots of ways to cause it with ChessBase without it being the fault of the program. A prime example is how the engine is set up. Too much RAM, or all the CPU cores, and it can destabilize the system as the engine hogs all the resources. I am not saying this is the culprit, I'm just illustrating what I meant.

@@chess_and_tech Thanks!! I am from the older ChessBase 11 and 12 generation and was thinking of upgrading but hearing the horror stories of my friend crashing CB17 even for the simplest task as searching a game (engine not even turned on yet). But I think it's safe to attribute it to external factors like his machine, programs that were running at the time, lack of RAM etc and not the fault of Chessbase itself. Looking forward to try CB 18.

I have cb17 and haven't had a crash yet. I never use all my CPU's. Because then it gets glitchy.

I replied to you elsewhere, but have you tried making sure the base is converted to .2cbh? I am not saying this is the issue, but I know that some things don't work with the older .cbh

I did that conversion and it has not fixed it

@@GarySenior-z6z Tell me please, did you find the solution? I have the same problem

Look, fixes and small details are not uncommon. I myself reported two small bugs, and CB17 has had a total of 28 updates, the 28th coming after CB18 was released, though that included added functionality like the Replay Trainer. I will refrain from the Engine Cloud as I don't use it much, but I will add that they do offer a free Cloud Engine (nothing super powerful) for CB18 buyers. I saw it listed in my engines as RemoteEngine, but haven't tried it yet. It is on my To-Do list.

@@EquilibriaNL Well, I have news for you, the online player search works fine for me. I had even recorded it, but edited it out to not drag the overall video out too much. As to the app, yes and no. It is a web app and can be accessed from desktop and mobile alike. The mobile appearance and experience is quite different (including colors), and the settings even has a button that automatically installs it as a clickable app from your mobile apps. Note, this not even the first app I use like this. BGA (Board Game Arena) is the same. I reserved these details for a future video dedicated to it. Cheers.

@ thank you for your answer. I would be very interested to see a working online player search. So far i haven’t seen one. Some parts as in 10 or so teams can be looked up and then get the message either that too many results cannot be displayed or that the server is not available. I have seen forums online that others experience the same. I have CB18 installed on 2 machines and for some reason 1 machine can do an update and the other machine does not see the new update. The cloud engine is working wonderfully. So i believe that your review could be better. I am glad though that i can experience your thoughts.

@@EquilibriaNL I did not use the Search Lichess Teams and Clubs button within the Players tab, which is what you are describing. I used the Search Online Player on the Home screen. I searched my nickname in both Chess.com (AmericanCarioca) and Lichess, and it produced all my games without hesitation. I left a more detailed exploration, as I mentioned, for a future video dedicated to it.

@@chess_and_techi would love to see it. I noticed the old dossier is not working anymore.

@@chess_and_techwhen you identify a player and click prep against white does it bring up the moves list like in CB16? Mine doesn’t, I just get a board so I can’t prepare properly

Just drag and drop an icon of a base to My Databases. Though in this particular case it appeared automatically when I installed it.

@@chess_and_tech well, sometimes. It's a bug and reported long time ago. Fritztrainer don't show up

@@henryschroer I can only comment on CB17 and 18 now. I would need to re-install an older version to really test, but as a rule I cannot imagine it being an issue. Even if it does not appear automatically, you can create an icon linked to the main base (.CBH) in My Databases or if elsewhere, drag and drop it after. I know for a fact my Fritztrainers have been accessed from My Databases for many years.

That's true of any item or service being reviewed. I have been flirting with the idea of an e-ink Android device for chess, and while I have a small list of excellent and attractive candidates thanks to the reviews, the $300-$500 pricetags mean choices and timing to get one.

SCIDvsPC (or MAC or Linux) is free and there are free databases for it with most of the games, just none of the comments or annotations.

@@christmackey I have SCID and ChessX on my PC; both have their good and bad qualities. Most of the functions available in ChessBase I will never use, it is overkill for a casual noob such as myself.

There is no need to keep multiple versions of ChessBase installed on your computer. You can safely delete any older ones you have.

nice glitch of CB installation routine. It's not upgrading, but parallel installation. Uninstall previous version plus you need manually remove icons and such from Start Menu

@henryschroer That depends on what you call a glitch. Believe it or not some people are attached to older versions for whatever reason. And I'm not speaking about Chessbase. I recently was given an offer I couldn't refuse to get the full v2 suite of Affinity software for $30. I only owned one of the programs of the suite, Affinity Designer v1, which I used for my videos and thumbnails among other things. However, when I finished installing this new version I discovered that the older version was still there as well. So I don't think it's a bug, I think it's simply letting the user do as they choose.

@@chess_and_tech it depends on the software architecture and the upgrade process. A simple "Do you want to keep the previous version" could do the job. Thanks for your reply and reading!

I did the bulk of its testing for one of the engine ratings lists.

@chess_and_tech i assume you are not allowed to share?

@@AYUSHPORWAL-s9m You assume correctly.