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Fritz 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.
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Opening Encyclopaedia 2026
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.
YOUR PERSONAL CHESS COACH - 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. FRITZ 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.
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.
EXPAND YOUR CHESS HORIZONS Data, plans, practice – the new Opening Report In ChessBase there are always attempts to show the typical plans of an opening variation. In the age of engines, chess is much more concrete than previously thought. But amateurs in particular love openings with clear plans, see the London System. In ChessBase ’26, three functions deal with the display of plans. The new opening report examines which piece moves or pawn advances are significant for each important variation. In the reference search you can now see on the board where the pieces usually go. If you start the new Monte Carlo analysis, the board also shows the most common figure paths.
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Fritz is fun! BETTER CALCULATIONS – EVEN UNDER TIME PRESSURE!
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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.
YOUR EASY ACCESS TO OPENING THEORY: 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. YOUR EASY ACCESS TO OPENING THEORY
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.
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!
1,586 special theoretical databases – analyses with annotated games & ideas by Grandmasters
Over 40,000 illustrative games
8,200 opening surveys, 300 new or updated
100 opening videos. Total duration: over 35 hours
Grandmaster Lectures : Dorian Rogozenco: The latest trends (3,5 hours)
"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."
2.5 million games The new Corr Database 2026 is the large ChessBase collection of correspondence games from the period from 1804 to 2025. With more than 80,000 tournaments and over 2.5 million correspondence games, the Corr 2026 is a must for all Correspondence chess fans.
The premiere chess database with over 11.7 million games The ChessBase Mega Database 2026 is the premiere chess database with over 11.7 million games from 1475 to 2025 in high quality.
7/23/2026 – Dear chess friends! We’ve got another double offer for you today: this week (until July 26th, 2026), you can get over 25% off all Fritztrainer courses by
Elisabeth Paehtz and all Fritztrainer courses by Fabien Libiszewski!
– Dear chess friends! This week's Summer Special offers you a real powerhouse: The Fritz 21 and the Fritz Powerbook 2026 are available this week (until August 30, 2026) for €99.90 – save around €60!!
This entry into the 60 minutes series concentrates on the Modern variation of the Italian game where White opens the centre early : 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nf6 4 d4 exd4 5 e5!. This line can be reached by various move orders, most frequently from the Scotch 3 d4 exd4 4 Bc4. It's a sharp variation and Grandmasters such as Evgeny Sveshnikov have used it frequently,with very good results. It's a perfect line for club players to adopt which is relatively easy to learn and which contains many traps. All the main responses are covered here, including 5...d5, 5...Ng4 and 5...Ne4 and the conclusion is that is is difficult for Black to equalize in a straightforward way. Problems are being posed, which over the board might prove tough to solve.
YOUR PERSONAL CHESS COACH - 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.
Michael Kotyk presents a complete repertoire after 1.e4 e5, built around creative ideas, surprising move orders, and practical weapons designed to catch your opponents off guard.
YOUR PERSONAL CHESS COACH - 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.
Michael Kotyk presents a complete repertoire after 1.e4 e5, built around creative ideas, surprising move orders, and practical weapons designed to catch your opponents off guard.
Michael Kotyk presents a complete repertoire after 1.e4 e5, built around creative ideas, surprising move orders, and practical weapons designed to catch your opponents off guard.
“Attack with Qh5!!” – Tactical training with Oliver Reeh, “6…g5 – nothing ventured, nothing …” – Le Quang Liem comments on one of his victories in Biel, “Grischuk’s stroke of genius” – Petra Papp reveals a surprise in the Sicilian Kan Variation, and much
YOUR PERSONAL CHESS COACH - 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.
€119.90
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