8/25/2026 – 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!!
new: ChessBase Magazine 225
Chess Festival Prague 2025 with analyses by Aravindh, Giri, Gurel, Navara and others. ‘Special’: 27 highly entertaining miniatures. Opening videos by Werle, King and Ris. 10 opening articles with new repertoire ideas and much more. ChessBase Magazine offers first-class training material for club players and professionals! World-class players analyse their brilliant games and explain the ideas behind the moves. Opening specialists present the latest trends in opening theory and exciting ideas for your repertoire. Master trainers in tactics, strategy and endgames show you the tricks and techniques you need to be a successful tournament player! Available as a direct download (incl. booklet as pdf file) or booklet with download key by post. Included in delivery: ChessBase Magazine #225 as “ChessBase Book” for iPad, tablet, Mac etc.!
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.
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.
€159.80
€99.90
The Powerhouse
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.
* 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.
The Fritz Powerbook 2026 contains 25 millions opening positions, derived from 1.7 million high class tournament games. Together with each position all relevant information is stored: all moves that were played in the position, by players of what average rating, with what success and performance results.
The games from which the Fritz Powerbook 2026 were derived are also included. The Fritz Powerbook 2026 represents the state of the art of current openings theory. The FritzPowerbook was derived also from the best 100,000 games from the Correspondence 2026 Database to enhance even more the theoretical value of moves given by the book. With the 2026 edition you get 3 Books: Fritz Powerbook, Strongbook and the CorrBook. Discover exciting and tricky new lines and practice them against Fritz. In addition the Powerbook has a small but very exclusive book with the strongest GM games (ELO >= 2550) from the past 100 years (2.7 Mio positions) and StrongBook Games Database.
Buy now: Instead of159.80 €in the sale just 99.90 €
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.
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.
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.
Multiple computer chess world champion
Rating: 3,620 ELO
Matches against legends: Lasker, Tal, Fischer, Karpov, with video animations
Calculation training with a new evaluation system ChessBase Premium Account (3 months) – 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
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.
Even more power forFritz. Even more Chess knowledge for you. The Fritz Powerbook 2026 contains 25 millions opening positions, derived from 1.7 million high class tournament games. Together with each position all relevant information is stored: all moves that were played in the position, by players of what average rating, with what success and performance results.
Key specifications for Fritz PowerBook 2026:
More than 25 million opening positions
Based on 1.7 million games from the Mega Database 2026
Plus the 100,000 strongest correspondence chess games from the Correspondence Chess Database 2026
Moves played in every position, including win rate and average Elo
Three opening resources: Fritz PowerBook, StrongBook, and CorrBook
StrongBook with 2.7 million positions from the strongest grandmaster games of the past 100 years
Additional StrongBook database with 125,000 games
Direct option to practice opening variations against Fritz
This makes the PowerBook a versatile tool for opening preparation. Variations can be compared using actual games, promising moves can be identified, and players can then practice them directly against Fritz. The database thus not only provides extensive opening knowledge but also combines theory, statistics, and practical training.
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.
Buy now: Instead of159.80 €in the sale just 99.90 €
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!
7/16/2026 – Dear chess friends, from July 13–19, you can get the Champion’s Bundle: ChessBase’26 & FRITZ 21 – Summer Special: Instead of €269.80, get both for just €209.90! This is our summer special, and it runs for seven days. Two flagships, one price, built to work together.
The Elephant Gambit (1.e4.e5 2.Nf3 d5!?) has never really been given the attention it deserves. It is a very useful surprise weapon. Let us list the advantages of playing this particular opening: 1) Shock value 2) It is very aggressive. Black can take over the initiative early. 3) Many tricky lines 4) Unorthodox. Black is basically taking the game to the opponent as early as move two. Not many openings do that! It's a perfect opening for young players and club players to adopt. Let Andrew Martin select a repertoire for you on this 60 mins, which, if used with discretion, will rack up the points. I am sure that you will enjoy this unusual tour of the Elephant Gambit.
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.
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.
While tactics decide the game in concrete moments, strategy guides the entire battle. Understanding how to improve your pieces, create weaknesses, execute maneuvers, and steer the game toward favorable structures is what defines strong players.
The Italian Four Knights is the ideal choice. It combines the solid foundation of classical openings like the Ruy Lopez or the Italian Game with an active, initiative-driven style of play.
IM Andrew Martin shows why this 19th-century opening weapon still is a fantastic choice for club players. The Evans produces exciting chess and teaches the art of attack.
The major part of the material on which the Petroff Defence Powerbook 2026 is based comes from the engine room of playchess.com: 357 000 games. This imposing number is supplemented by another 17 000 from Mega and from correspondence chess.
€9.90
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