Installing Fritz 13 and 'Let's Check' Fritz 13 is our latest flagship chess program, which offers chess players everything they need to study and train: professional board graphics, engine management, adjustable playing strength, coach functions, move explanation, automatic game analysis and commentary, training modules for openings, tactics and endgames, professional printing of games and diagrams, and much more. It comes with a database of 1.5 million games and ten hours of private video instructions by strong grandmasters. Jenway 6100 Spectrophotometer Manual here. And the icing on the cake: six months of free premium membership to the world’s largest chess server:. The biggest new feature of Fritz 13, the elephant in the living room, is 'Let's Check', a revolutionary function that will change the chess world. With it Fritz 13 users can join a world-wide community that are putting together a giant knowledge base for chess. Before you can start using Let's Check, however, you have to register the program. To do this start Fritz 13 in the playing mode (i.e.

Do not log onto the server yet). When the chessboard is on the screen go to the 'application menu' on the top left (labelled 'File' in Fritz 13) and select 'Activation – Activate'. You will now get an input box that asks you for an activation key, i.e. A serial number for your program. It also wants you to type in some characters, a 'captcha', to prove that you are human (and not a machine trying to hack the serial number). So where do you get the activation key? If you have bought the program on a DVD You will find it inside, just below the disk itself.

We have blurred the numbers in the last two images – naturally the serial number is clear as crystal in the original Fritz 13 box. There is another way you can get the activation key: if you purchase Fritz 13 as a download you will get it by email and can have the program up and running is a very short time (especially if you have an account with the ChessBase Shop). Please take good care of your serial number and do not let others get hold of it. If the Playchess server detects multiple users from different locations trying to use the same serial number it will render this key invalid.

May 29, 2015. I've had serial number issues in the past whe moving to new computer and after upgrading to a new version of windows without deactivating the serial number on the old computer. When that happens, I've contacted ChessBase support through the support form on their site.

So now you are set to go. You can take your first steps with Let's Check by simply entering some moves and starting the engine in analysis mode. Or you can open a game from the database – or, best of all, copy a recent one from the broadcast room of the Playchess server. We will do that for the first game of the Corsica Masters Final, a game that ended a few minutes ago. With the game in the notation window we can click on 'Infinite Analysis' to switch on the engine.