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Am I going mad perhaps? Maybe missing the blatantly obvious or havnt read some important instruction or fact somewhere?? I dont know anymore and am starting to question my basic undertanding of the game of chess, or perhaps my mind is starting to fail at the tender age of 42

I decided to try Fritz12 Training exercises after watching the Chessbase Workshop video by Steve Lopez covering the use of the 'Attack Training' feature in Fritz12

http://www.cblivestreams.de/cbw2009_1108

I start using it as shown in Steves Video tutorial and all is well for the first couple of rounds, then I fail a round and the trainer highlights an obvious square that I swear I had highlighted??; I continue and this happens again?? Maybe I am losing my mind..

The next try then throws this at me



The trainer fails me on the pawn on c3? I thought the idea was that this pawn has to be under some sort of threat? I dont see a threat to this white pawn?? Am I missing something here? As far as I can see there is no threat to the white pawn on c3.

So, I think that possibly I'm missing the point of the exercise and am not fully understanding the rules.. so I open the help file and find the section on 'Attack Training' to see what it has to say.

I'm then confronted with this help explanation which then throws me completely



The text, as I hope you can see, is suggesting that in the example a white bishop on g5 is being attacked by a pawn on h6 and should be marked thusly???

Can someone confirm please one of the 3 following possibilities :-

1) I'm losing my mind
2) I really dont understand chess and should probably give up
3) Fritz12 has bugs and errors

I must be the one missing something, because I can't make it misbehave that way. I've used the feature a bunch and even did a video on it (as you've pointed out) and it didn't misbehave either for me or in the video.

So I'm stumped.

You're right about the Help file, though. They have a bad habit of updating pics in the Help file from version to version without changing the text. There are several other similar disconnects between text and illustration in the Help file.

I found that if you click a wrong answer, sometimes you have to click TWICE to unclick your wrong answer.

If I am working on one of the training exercise and I “know” all my answers are correct, I simple re-click on the current answers and many times it will take you to the next problem.

FLW