Fritz Chess

Binding: Video Game
Brand: Viva Media
EAN: 0838639003884
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Format: DVD-Video
Label: Viva Media
Manufacturer: Viva Media
Publisher: Viva Media
Release Date: 2007-09-20
Studio: Viva Media

Editorial Review:

Product DescriptionSo...how about a nice game of chess? In the struggle of person versus machine, we'd like to think humans win out. Fritz has proven that, at playing Chess, software can dominate humankind - or give us a good struggle. Fritz 10 has an enhanced and improved chess engine developed especially for the 2006 Kramnik vs Fritz match; extended openings book; updated database; dynamic graphic tips for attack and defence; improved graphics and move entry on the 2D board; new high resolution 3D piece sets in classical wood; live display of the thinking process on the chessboard; more efficient position analysis.
Don't be afraid - Fritz has a different side to its personality. The program will help you along during the game, with numerous sophisticated coaching functions, adjusting its playing strength to exactly match that of any opponent. It graphically displays threats and plans, and provides full opening statistics. For beginners Fritz will explains moves and positions, or warn you of dangers and of errors you are committing. It has instructive training modules and amusing handicap levels. For club and tournament players Fritz has long become a trusted friend and indispensable advisor, helping them to study their games and find new opening ideas for their next tournaments. A database with more than a million games provides the basis for state-of-the-art analysis.
Playing Fritz 10, chess can be quite a struggle if you're trying to win. Fritz helps make you a better player. As you struggle with dominating software and machine, you'll discover that it may be more satisfying if we coexist as friendly partners. Winning Fritz at chess still remains a daunting challenge.

Features:

Extended and updated database
Dynamic hints: when entering a move, you see arrows highlighting direct and indirect attacks and defences of each square your mouse moves over
Improved pieces for the 2D board. Highest resolution for boards of any size. Improved move entry on the 2D board: highlighted start and target squares avoid mouse slips.
New set of very high resolution, classical wood 3D-pieces
Engine animation: while the chess engine is calculating, typical elements of the calculation (e.g. frequented squares) are visualized directly on the board

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Good Chess Engine Bad Old Interface
I have been a long time user of Chessbase's products (ever since Fritz 4 (early 90s)). I purchased Fritz 10 because Fritz 11 was twice as expensive and had many bad reviews. Fritz 10 looks almost identical to Fritz 8 (what I had before). The engine is definitely stronger (Fritz 10) in terms of comp vs comp strength however the interface is exactly the same. Like a lot of Chessbase's recent products it is buggy and crashes if you don't use it just right (especially when doing Engine Room matches in the Playchess server).

I'd recommend this for anyone wanting to upgrade from an older Fritz interface as it does allow you to use more of Playchess' new features such as smiley faces and the world globe options. (Definitely not a MUST but for $30 its nice).

As far as first time Chessbase users - this isn't the easiest chess software out there to use but it has one of the most powerful chess engines. If you are looking for a good analytical engine I would definitely recommend this software to you - otherwise ChessMaster has some good products.

The introduction videos are nice but not long enough... It was really interesting seeing Kasparov talk about chess in person (via the video) but it is just too expensive in my opinion. Buying Fritz 10 just for the videos? I wouldn't recommend it.

Rating:

- This is Fritz 10
You may be wondering what this product is. It seems to be a new release of Fritz 10 for the U.S. market (it's described as Fritz 10 at the Viva Media website), and as such it sells at a reduced price compared to the latest version, Fritz 11.

With these new versions of Fritz, there is really nothing added at all. It's basically the same game as the previous version with a slightly improved chess engine. If you are simply looking for a playing partner, unless your at the Master level or higher, you're not going to get anything out of a stronger engine. But a stronger engine is of interest to people interested in analyzing chess games, because it will give a more accurate analysis of a position.

All versions of Fritz are not very friendly to the novice player. Chessmaster, despite its interface bugs, provides a better opponent for beginning and intermediate players, and Chessmaster also has much better tutorials. Fritz is NOT the product to buy if you don't know the rules of the game!

This product is a very good deal (especially if it's on sale) if you don't already own a version of Fritz and you are serious about chess.

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