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- ^H HELP 1: No function
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- ^H HELP 2: Main screen
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- ^B ^C ^U Fritz - quick and easy
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- ^B ^C How to enter moves (Page xx)
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- ^B With a mouse...
- Click the piece you wish to move, hold down the mouse key,
- move the mouse cursor to destination square and let go.
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- Alternative: Click FROM square and then TO square.
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- ^B ...or from the keyboard
- Use cursor keys to move board cursor to the FROM square,
- hit ENTER. Move the board cursor to the destination square
- and hit ENTER again.
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- ^F ^I Any key = next help screen - ESC = back to main board
- ^B ^C ^U Important functions in games against Fritz
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- ^B Take back moves (Page xx)
- - Click "Take back" in the "Moves=F2" menu
- - Press Ctrl-Cursor Left
- - Click the arrow left symbol to the right of the main board
- You can take back a number of moves and replay them (using
- Ctrl-Cursor Right). Only when you enter a move Fritz will
- begin to calculate a reply.
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- ^B Play! (change sides) (Page xx)
- - Press Space = Fritz will begin to calculate the next move
- - Press Space again = Fritz will interrupt and play the best
- move found so far
- - Press Ctrl-F = "Flip board" if you want to play on for black
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- ^B New game (Page xx)
- - Press Ctrl-N or click "New game" in "Board=F3"
- ^F ^I Any key = next help screen - ESC = back to main board
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- ^B ^C ^U Where you can get online HELP by pressing Alt-H
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- - in the main board (as you have just done)
- - in all screens with games or openings lists
- (you get different information for different screens)
- - When you are entering a position
- - In the notation screen
- - When a variation window appears to the right of the board
- - In the "Colours" mask
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- ^F ^I Any key = next help screen - ESC = back to main board
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- ^B ^C ^U How to save the games you play or enter (Page xx)
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- Click "Save game" in the "Database=F5" menu (or press Ctrl-S)
- Enter the names of both players, the tournament (or source),
- the year and the result:
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- "1" = White won
- "0" = Black won
- "r" = draw
- "l" = line or variation (choose evaluation symbol)
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- The game you saved is added to the end of the database
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- Before you enter games from books or magazines switch off "Autoplay"
- (in "Moves=F2") to prevent Fritz from computing countermoves
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- ^F ^I Any key = next help screen - ESC = back to main board
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- ^B ^C ^U How to load games from the database (Page xx)
- ^B ^C The most important functions in the "Database=F5" menu
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- ^B 1) List games (Ctrl-L) (Page xx)
- Lists the games from the database (press Alt-H for HELP there)
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- ^B 2) Search games (Alt-M) (Page xx)
- Enter search string, e.g. 'fischer', 'capa', 'brussels'
- (without quotation marks - capitals are not required).
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- You can use wildcards (e.g. 'kor*no' for Korchnoi or Kortschnoi)
- 'kasp*-' finds white games, '-*kasp' black games of Kasparov.
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- ^B 3) Openings list (Ctrl-K, Ctrl-O) (Page xx)
- Lists the openings classification (press Alt-H for HELP).
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- Press Ctrl-C to classify the current game and get a list
- of other games with the same opening.
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- ^H HELP 3: Games list
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- ^B ^C ^U The games list (Page xx)
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- ^B Loading a game
- Move dark band with Cursor Up/Down, Space/Backspace or mouse click
- Hit Enter or double-click to load game for replay.
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- ^B Moving around the list
- With the mouse: drag the slider on the right
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- On the keyboard:
- Page Up/Down or Cursor Right/Left to scroll down/up
- Ctrl-Home/End for beginning/end of list
- Ctrl-G = Goto game no. x (enter number)
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- ^B F4 Look = Show moves
- The marked game is displayed in move notation. Press F4 again
- for more moves. Shift-F4 reverses the direction.
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- ^H HELP 4: Notation
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- ^B ^C ^U Notation on the screen (Page xx)
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- Move the mouse cursor to any move and click with the
- left mouse key. The position is displayed.
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- Press F2 for large diagrams.
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- You can also move the cursor with the cursor keys
- and press F1 or F2.
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- A double-click or Enter will transfer the position
- to the main board.
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- Esc or click with the right mouse = return to original position
- on the main board.
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- ^H HELP 5: Variations
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- ^B ^C Variations (Page xx)
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- When a variation window appears to the right of the main
- chessboard you can choose an alternate continuation with
- the mouse, Cursor Up/Down or Space/Backspace.
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- Press Ctrl-Cursor Right to play through the variation.
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- Press Ctrl-Cursor Down or 'R' to return to the main game
- (or M to return to the game and play the next move)
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- Press Esc or click with the right mouse key to get rid
- of the variation window without action.
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- ^H HELP 6: Main openings
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- ^B ^C ^U Main openings (Page xx)
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- ^B Choose an opening
- Use the cursor keys or a mouse click to move the dark band
- onto an opening of your choice. Press Enter or double-click
- to see the contents (subvariations or games).
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- You can move about the openings list with the cursor keys,
- Page Up/Down, Ctrl-Home/End, etc. (as in the games list).
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- ^B Special function: F4 Look
- Many openings, e.g. Sicilian, have many subvariations, and these
- may have more subvariations. Press F4 or click "Look" to get an
- overview of the opening.
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- The function "Overview openings" (Ctrl-O) in the main screen
- gives you an overview of all openings.
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- ^H HELP 7: Overview openings
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- ^B ^C ^U Overview of all openings
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- In this overview openings of the same level are displayed in
- the same colour. Games are not displayed.
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- On the right the number of games in each variation is given.
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- Move the dark band to a variation and hit Enter (or double-click).
- The contents are displayed.
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- ^B Moving around the list
- You can move about the list with the cursor keys,
- Page Up/Down, Ctrl-Home/End, etc. (as in the games list).
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- ^H HELP 8: Contents openings
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- ^B ^C ^U The "contents" of an opening (Page xx)
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- A main opening (e.g. Sicilian) may contain games and
- further subvariations.
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- The games you see belong to to the next-higher key (shown above
- the list screen) but do not fit any of the subkeys in the list.
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- Move the dark band onto a game and hit Enter to load it.
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- Or move it onto a subvariation and hit Enter to see the contents.
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- ^H HELP 9: Enter position
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- ^B ^C ^U Entering positions (Page xx)
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- ^B With the mouse:
- Click a piece on the right and deposit one or more of
- that piece on the board.
- Left mouse key = white pieces
- Right mouse key = black pieces
- Both mouse keys = delete piece
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- ^B From the keyboard:
- Move the board cursor with the cursor keys and deposit pieces
- using K, Q, R, B, N, P (or 1 - 6, or F1 - F6).
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- Use TAB to change colours.
- Space deletes pieces.
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- ^B Delete = deletes the entire board,
- ^B Esc cancels position entry without modifying the main board.
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- ^H HELP 10: No function
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- ^H HELP 11: Colours
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- ^B ^C ^U Changing the screen colours (Page xx)
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- Experiment with the colours.
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- For each graphic element you can choose one of 16 different
- colours. So there are 268,435,456 different combinations.
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- You may not be able to try them all, but the following
- is recommended (in EGA and VGA): Click the "+" button
- behind "White squares" and "Black squares" eight times each
- for an attractive grey-shaded board.
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- On monochrome screens you can only invert the screen, board
- and pieces - useful for laptops with inverted LCD displays.
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- If you want to return to the default values simply delete the
- file FRITZ.PAR, which contains all the colour settings.
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- ^H HELP 12: No function
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- ^H HELP 13: No function
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- ^H HELP 14: No function
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