Coming soon to a chess shop near you: Fritz 10

Fritz10 – What is new?

• New engine developed for the Kramnik match and an extended and updated openings book.
• 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.

  
  The resolution and smoothness of the 2D pieces have been improved (bottom)

• 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.

  
  A new 3D board "warm wood" (more 3D images below)

• Engine animation: while the chess engine is calculating, typical elements of the calculation (e.g. frequented squares) are visualized directly on the board.
• More efficient position analysis (correspondence players!) using the alpha/beta principle. The immediate elimination of bad continuations saves analysis time.

New server functions

• New ranking list for fairness evaluations, applause and number of games
• Total ranking of all players: where am I on the ranking list?
• Filtering out of bad internet connections during challenges and seeks (formula).
• New video-conferencing or audio-chat functions between two players with an easy-to-use interface. Compatible with modern hardware firewalls.
• New ranks for players: dark piece symbols after players have used the server on 500 days.
• Bullet rating in the Engine Room.
• Easy click-connecting of people in chat.
• Faster transmission of player lists during log-in.
• Direct link to Google Earth from the globe.
• Real-time weather: the DirectX globe will evaluate satellite pictures and show you the prevailing cloud formation. Particularly impressive during hurricane season.

Interface

• New control elements for better window handling.
• Various buttons optically improved.

Improved high-resolution virtual reality 3D board

Incredible detail, brilliant screen captures in any size

New multimedia content with world-class players: Garry Kasparov, Alexei Shirov, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, new training lessons in German: Karsten Müller: endgames, and Gisbert Jacoby: opening tactics.

One year access to the biggest chess server in the world: 200,000 games per day and 200,000 registered users from more than 150 countries.

Price: 49.99 € incl. VAT. 43,09 € without VAT (for customers outside the European Union), US $53.87 (without VAT)

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