I don't know where you could download chess databases in ChessBase format, but there are several websites with an online database that you can use. If you are looking for instructive games, then maybe better look into some book. Databases are more used when looking for games with same position or same opening when you are running out of ideas after the opening. At least this is how people I know use these sort of databases when playing postal chess.
Regarding the Fritz 9 problem, I don't know if there is a setting that you could change, because I always drag and drop pieces when I play against Fritz. There is a feature in Fritz 10 that, if I'm not wrong, is not available on Fritz 9; I'm talking about opening training. I still have to try it, but I'm not studying concrete opening lines right now, so I won't use that feature in the near future.I hope this helps.
Hello, I just downloaded Fritz from this website, and might buy a new version eventually, but my question is this: anyone have links to good databases? I'm looking mainly for games and openings, and perhaps some endgames and such. I'm looking for basically anything instructive. So if someone has a link or be willing to send by email or something, it would be nice. Thanks.
(By the way, sometimes, if I just click on a piece the piece will go eat the nearest thing, and it's annoying because often it's not what I wanted to do and it ruins the game... anyone know if it's possible to disable this or something?)
One more thing, I've just looked on ebay and Fritz 9 is quite cheap, however there's the 10 that is out, but it's quite expansive, is the investment worth it? Or is the difference between both quite trivial?