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: Fritz 11 for Windows (DVD)
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Binding: Misc.
Brand: ChessCentral
Label: ChessBase
Manufacturer: ChessBase
Publisher: ChessBase
Sales Rank: 11292
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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Fritz is THE standard professional chess engine.
Come on people... what's with all the negativity here? If you do not have a chess program Fritz is the best engine to get. Now, if you have an older version of Fritz then I understand it is hard to justify spending $60 just to upgrade. A vast majority of players will never feel the difference in playing strength and the UCI is not that much improved from past version. But every strong player has and uses Fritz as their standard chess analysis tool. Advising people who want to improve their game to not get this program because you don't want to buy the upgrade is totally unjustified.

If you are trying to improve your play Fritz is a great training resource! Play (slow) games against other people at PlayChess.com or at your local chess club... then enter your games into Fritz and use the "analyze game" option to get master level advice. You should also setup won positions from combination books and endgames and then play the game out against this master program. After you play out a won position, use the "analyze game" option and see where you could have played better.

Fritz 11 also has a very nice combination trainer, and the one year subscription to PlayChess is useful for people who do not live near a good chess club. PlayChess.com is about $30 a year.

I highly recommend Fritz 11 to any chess player who wants to improve their game.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - GREAT DEAL... but not the best engine
ABOUT the ENGINE.
There are some algorithms, from Deep fritz 10.
Fritz 11 are better for much from his predecessor, i made a engine match Fritz 10 vrs Fritz 11, five minutes bliz game. Won Fritz 11 (W=3, D=0, L=1)

The bad news, fritz 11 are not the best engine on market. F11 loses agaist another engine (W= 0, D=4, L=2). For Amazon policies i can't revealed the engine.

(The bliz game is only to give an idea)

ABOUT THE OPENING BOOK, Fritz 11's book are twice of bigger, from his predecessor.

BONUS FROM CHESS BASE
F11 is a Great deal, it has two new training option, that you will enjoy. Combination training, fritz help you to calculation the position and Tactical training, Fritz gives puzzles, for five minutes.

In this DVD, ChessBase, given you, two hours in several clips videos with Kasparov, Daniel King, Shirov, Andrew Matin and other. Maybe this is a mean to merchandize other products. Even that, is a great gift.

I do not recomend this software for kids or player who loves positional chess


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A good software
This is a good software, especially calculation variation analysis is very nice. If someone what to work on opening repetoir this one is extremely useful.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Excellent engine, UI could use some help
This is a great product for analyzing your games (I'm sure for playing head to head against the computer also, although I don't use it for that). The post game and positional analysis which can be done from PGN or FEN files is very well done.

My only gripes are the interface, figuring out how to load FEN and PGN files is not very intuitive. Trying to manually enter moves will end in tears as there seems to be no way to tell the computer that you want to control both sides. Also, the "Explain All Moves" option is wonderful, but tends to hand on certain positions, and there does not seem to be a way to configure around this. Perhaps there is a patch that addresses this, which brings me to my final negative point on this product, which is that finding patches/updates is a very painful process.

Please realize these gripes only keep it from being 5 stars, its still a great product that I use daily. The analysis is priceless if you are trying to improve your game.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Still Improving
If you can't find the improvements, you haven't looked. In fact, if you've played Fritz 11, you would have stumbled onto them!

They are improvements that help play, study and analysis. Mostly a lot of practical fine tuning that makes already good features better. But a few new major features like calculation training, which improves your ability to see ahead without moving the pieces. You can jump into calculation training from any game. Your calculations show up in notation, but not on the board. The engine can then analyse your calculations. You can then go back to the game and play them (or not), or see what happened in a database game. Whatever you happen to be working with.

There are some new rapid-fire tactics training features. Not the usual "find mate" puzzles. (Yawn.)

If you've been impressed by the competitor's handicap levels, only to find that the handicaps are mostly blunder ratios, you'll like Fritz's handicap levels. Clearly Fritz is weakening the engine and not merely averaging out with blunder ratios. But be advised that Fritz's handicaps still start around 1400.

The interface is somewhat improved. As usual you've got the simple 2D board or the fancy graphics -- if you like that sort of thing.

It boils down to how much time you spend on chess. If you spend a lot of time, the changes will be worth the upgrade. If you only play now and then, it's too much to spend on an upgrade.

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