FRITZ
11 now available
A year ago Fritz became the first commercial chess program in history to defeat
a reigning World Champion in a formal
match. Hundreds of thousands of chess fans followed the event on the Internet.
In its games against Vladimir Kramnik Fritz displayed an astonishing degree
of strategic understanding, underscoring its reputation as one of the strongest
and best-loved chess programs in the world.
The new Fritz 11 – now availabe in the ChessBase
Shop – has been vastly improved, compared to the version that beat
the world champion. Its playing strength has improved by 80 Elo points. But
it is also the entire package of new features that will impress chess fans.
The program helps you with practical play, training and analysis, and does so
in an entertaining way that fosters learning and understanding.
The main Fritz database contains over one million games, ranging from the years
1625 to 2007 – from the early beginnings of chess history to the latest
top-level tournaments. The revised and extended openings book is more diverse
and better tuned to the strengths and preferences of Fritz. A complete new feature,
the “magic eye”, visualizes the thought processes of the engine
on the 3D chessboard. You can directly follow the ideas that are going through
the “mind” of the program.
The "Magic Eye" of Fritz 11
Fritz 11 has new training functions that will help you to dramatically improve
your chess skills, especially in an area that is central to playing strength:
the calculation of variations. In any position you can enter a line that you
feel is critical in the current position on the board, without moving the pieces,
just as you would do in a real game. Fritz remains in the original position
but watches your moves in the notation window. It then tells you whether you
have committed any tactical or strategic errors, or overlooked important alternatives.
It also gives you an evaluation of the quality of your analysis.
Naturally there are also a number of new features for Playchess.com. For instance
Fritz 11 introduces a novel sporting discipline on the chess server: solving
contests. You are presented with tactical chess positions and must try to find
the critical moves faster than other visitors on the server. From the point
of view of entertainment value and competitive spirit, solving contests are
as intense as bullet or blitz chess. It is the most enjoyable way to chess improvement
that we have yet devised.
New "Tactics Training" on the server – click
for a video demo of this function
Fritz 11 gives you twelve months of free access to Playchess.com,
the largest and fastest growing chess server in the world. Every day many thousands
of players from all over the world log in, to play casual games, take part in
tournaments or official championships, attend grandmaster training, watch live
coverage of top events, with GM commentary, and much, much more.
Unique chess training with Garry Kasparov and Fritz 11
Have you ever been trained, one-on-one, by a grandmaster? Fritz 11 offers you
thirteen hours of video training with chess greats like Garry Kasparov, Vladimir
Kramnik, Alexei Shirov, Rustam Kasimdzhanov and leading chess teachers. You
can lean back and enjoy their lessons in video and sound, stopping to analyse
with Fritz if something seems unclear. There is no better way to improve your
understanding of the game.
A super-realistic Fritz 11 3D board
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System requirements: Pentium III 1.4 GHz or higher,
256 MB RAM, Windows XP or Windows Vista, GeForce5 or compatible graphics
card with 128 MB RAM or higher, 100% DirectX compatible sound card, Windows
Media Player 9, DVD ROM drive. FRITZ 11 costs 49.99 €uros
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