
Fritz 21Fritz 21 is more than just a chess engine – it’s a training revolution! Whether you’re taking your first steps into the world of club chess, or already playing at a tournament level: with Fritz, you can train more efficiently, intelligently and with a more personalised approach than ever before.
* COMPETE AGAINST LEGENDS
* FRITZ is fun! BETTER CALCULATIONS – EVEN UNDER TIME PRESSURE!
* STYLE SIMULATION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL
* EVEN STRONGER. EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL. EVEN MORE DIRECT.
Be well prepared with the new Opening Encyclopaedia 2026! Whether you want to build up a reliable and powerful opening repertoire or find new opening ideas for your existing repertoire, the Opening Encyclopaedia covers the entire opening theory on one product and is the ideal start for your opening training. Many new articles enrich the current theory with new or revisited ideas. The Encyclopaedia can help you learn openings quickly and give you a head start on your next opponent. Each article contains explanations and annotated games illustrating typical plans to deepen your understanding.
With the ChessBase Opening Encyclopaedia 2026, you’ll be perfectly prepared! It offers in-depth information on all established openings, making it particularly valuable for building a comprehensive and powerful repertoire. The Opening Encyclopaedia 2026 provides a complete overview of all opening areas in a single reference work, making it the ideal starting point for opening training.
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Fritz 21 is much more than just a powerful chess engine. The programme offers versatile, customisable training for players of all abilities. Whether you're just starting out at a club or are an ambitious tournament player, you can use Fritz 21 to improve your game in a targeted, efficient and systematic way.
COMPETE AGAINST LEGENDS
Take on the greatest masters: Lasker, Tal, Fischer, Karpov – with authentic style, and an ELO rating tailored to you. The unique style engine simulates their human playing styles even more realistically - only Fritz can do that. Your opponents – legendary masters or animalistic foes – now appear as animated characters in video form and comment on your moves!
Fritz is fun! BETTER CALCULATIONS – EVEN UNDER TIME PRESSURE!
Perfect your variation calculations: Fritz offers furtherimproved calculation training with the Bullet Training mode - learn to keep your cool, even under pressure!
STYLE SIMULATION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL
Train realistically and practically: use the style analysis from ChessBase’26 to configure whether Fritz should play aggressively, positionally, exchange-oriented, or take risks. Style Simulation at the Highest Level Train in a realistic and practical way: choose whether Fritz should play aggressively, take risks, focus on positional play, or be willing to make exchanges.
✓Aggressive, positional, exchange-happy — you choose the style
✓Risk-taking or solid — the playing style adapts to you
✓Practical training against realistic playing styles
EVEN STRONGER. EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL. EVEN MORE DIRECT.
Includes 3 months ChessBase Premium Account – access to the ChessBase mobile world anytime, anywhere: Live database with 12 million games, tactic training with over 50,000 puzzles, remote engines on 4 CPU machines, the Opening Training app, video library with hundreds of training videos, and online games on playchess.com Some features are only fully accessible with a Premium account.

Whether you want to build a solid opening repertoire or are looking for new ideas to add to your repertoire, a vast collection of opening ideas and high-quality analyses awaits you. With the Opening Encyclopaedia, you can learn openings quickly and always stay a few steps ahead of your opponent. Each opening article contains selected model games in which the authors explain typical plans and demonstrate how these openings are played in practice. High-quality analyses will raise your opening knowledge to master and grandmaster level. The articles cover the entire spectrum of openings and regularly highlight current and new ideas!
"Whether you want to surprise your opponents with unexpected moves right from the beginning of the game, learn a complex theoretical variation, or understand the newest developments of the modern chess theory – the Opening Encyclopedia provides you with everything you need for that."
GM Dorian Rogozenko (Author und project manager)
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Instead of 239.80 € in the sale just 189.90 €
