Fritz 10 questions - computer vs. computer

[lukeprog]

I have two Fritz 10 questions.

To play a human game, I can simply choose "switch off engine". But how can I make the computer play itself after a certain point in a game, or from a certain position (besides clicking "Force Move Now" every 10 seconds)?

Also, how can I set up an engine match between two computers playing Chess960? I choose Chess960, pick two engines that supposedly can play the variation (Fritz 10 and Shredder 10), but when the game starts the board always reverts to regular chess! How do I fix this?

[Mike S.]

how can I make the computer play itself after a certain point in a game, or from a certain position (besides clicking "Force Move Now" every 10 seconds)?

Choose "Tools/Analysis/Shootout..." from the menu. The engine(s) you select there, will play starting from the current position, against themselves but not against each other.

I cannot answer the Chess960 question because I still use the no. 8 GUI version, which didn't support that yet. I do not know the Chess960 options of the new GUI versions.

But I did run a tournament once, with a set of "compatible" positions. See these positions below. If you create a new empty database and append these EPD to it, you can use it as an opening database for engine matches and tournaments.

To be able to append them to a database in Fritz, you would need to copy the EPD lines, save it as an ASCII text file with the extension .epd and then choose "Edit/Append EPD..." in the database screen.

(This tip is of course only a workaround should it be impossible in another way.)

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