Fritz 8 Deluxe gets a qualified, high-end Fans Only rating because while the game is quite fine for learning chess, its strength lies in its everyday use as a playing and analyzing tool. It is, possibly, the end of the line for a chess analysis and its fan base should include everyone looking to improve their games. However, Fritz 8 Deluxe does not go out of its way to draw in the beginning or casual dabbler. There are no cute characters or fancy animations to teach the game, no battle chess feature. There are some valuable training features, like opening and end-game training, a visual threat aid, a coach and a spy aid that gives you a view of what the computer opponent is thinking of moving next. But by and large beginner hand-holding is available in other products, including some titles by the same publisher.
In the software itself, navigation is through a basic Windows menu bar and it's not altogether clear what is where at first. On the other hand the Windows-based interface is flexible in the layout of the panes that shows the board, the scorecard and the various analysis tools. There are some standard layouts to choose from, or you can arrange the panes any way you desire and save the layout for later use. There is also a full screen mode where you can get the board and pieces alone.
But balky navigation is a mere quibble compared to the immense power of the program, the base engine of which is the first to beat human world champion Gary Kasparov. Once you get to know the tool you'll find your favorite features quickly enough. Do you want to analyze a position? Study your favorite opening? Review a famous game from the comprehensive game database? All and more are possible.
For playing you can choose a Friendly game, where you adjust the computer opponent's skill as a measure of material (100 points = 1 pawn.) Then the rating will adjust itself depending on if you win or lose. Or try Handicap and Fun mode where a dialog allows adjustment of sliders for the opponent's overall playing strength rating and for how it behaves in certain situations, such as protecting its king and managing pawn structure. Also in Handicap Mode is a selection of generalized opponent types with slider pre-sets. You can start out whipping the 'Drunk,' the 'Moron' or the 'Patzer' (bungler) and then work your way up to the 'Steam Roller' or 'Assasin' (sic). You can also customize any of them to your own specifications. And for just plain 'fun' (chess fan-style that is) there's shuffle chess, where the computer scrambles the pieces for a random starting position and the opening book is cast to the wind.
For multiplayer play the chess server at Playchess.com connects directly through the software. Guest log-ons are available and this virtual community is quite active with over 1500 users logged on during a recent visit.
Though visually the game is not exciting and navigation may hold you up a bit in the beginning, Fritz 8 Deluxe is everything a chess lover could want. You may never need to buy another chess program.
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Jun 09, 2014 Fritz has the option to load 3rd party chess engines. Some of theese engines come as.exe file and can be loaded into fritz using the create uci engine function. But there are other engines that come as.eng files and supposly they to be placed in a special folder in order for fritz to recognize them. But multi-processor systems only work if you have a “deep” version, because it is only then that the program can make use of multiple processor cores in parallel. Things are no different with the new Deep Fritz 13: on a dual-core computer the engine is already approx. 60% faster than the regular Fritz 13.
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Fritz (early versions called Knightstalker in the USA),
a series of chess programs published by ChessBase, until Fritz 13 the engine developed by primary author Frans Morsch and Mathias Feist, Deep Fritz 14 released in November 2013 by Gyula Horváth[2], Fritz 15 and 16 in November 2015 and 2017 by Vasik Rajlich[3],and Fritz 17 in November 2019 by Frank Schneider, with the inclusion of Fat Fritz featuring a new set of custom made neural network weights that work in the open-source project Leela Chess Zero[4].
Fritz 1-13 were based on Frans Morsch's program Quest, and was first marketed by ChessBase in 1991 as MS-DOS program with its own Graphical User Interface[5] . Since version 4, released in 1996, Fritz ran on Windows, and is until today one the world’s most popular and successful chess programs. At the WCCC 1995, Fritz became World Computer Chess Champion, winning a notable game versus Deep Blueprototype[6] and the playoff[7] against Star Socrates.
- 2Selected Games
- 4Descriptions
- 8Fritz User Interface
- 12Release Dates
- 14Publications
- 15Forum Posts
- 16External Links
- 16.1Chess Engine
The given name Fritz originated as a German nickname for Friedrich, or Frederick (der 'Alte Fritz' was a nickname for King Frederick II of Prussia, and of Frederick III, German Emperor[8]), as well as for similar names including Fridolin. Fritz was also a name given to German troops by the British and others in the first and second world wars, equivalent to Tommy, as the British troops were called by German and other troops [9] . Creative ChessBase partner Olaf Oldigs [10] had suggested the name Fritz for the chess program [11] .
Deep Blue Prototype
WCCC 1995, round 5, Deep Blue Prototype - Fritz[12]
- Game on Lichess.org
Star Socrates
WCCC 1995 Playoff, Star Socrates - Fritz, Chris Joerg, Don Dailey, Frans Morsch, and Mathias Feist @ 26.. Nd5 [13][14]
- Game on Lichess.org
Frans Morsch, as well as other Dutch computer chess programmers like Bart Weststrate and Dap Hartmann[15] , did early experiments with recursivenull move pruning in the late 80s, likely after it was discussed at the panel workshop during the WCCC 1986 after Don Beal's talk covering null move [16][17] . Frans Morsch told Chrilly Donninger about recursive null move, who popularized it by his Null Move and Deep Search paper in the ICCA Journal 1993 [18] .
from the ICGA tournament page [19] :
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Deep Fritz is the engine designed for multiprocessing and parallel search, it first appeared as Deep Fritz 6 in 2000. Since version 14 by Gyula Horváth, Deep is obligatory.
A Fritz version called SSS [20] or even SSS* [21] that played the Dutch Chess Championship 2000 in Rotterdam, becoming third with 7/11 behind Loek van Wely, and Jeroen Piket, shared with Sergei Tiviakov and Paul van der Sterren[22], was not related to the SSS* search algorithm, but to the three primary sponsors of the event [23][24].
Pocket Fritz is a chess program for PocketPCPersonal digital assistants (PDAs). Pocket Fritz 4 is based on HIARCS by Mark Uniacke, Pocket Fritz 2 used a port of Shredder by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen[25] .
Fritz 1
The original Fritz MS-DOSGraphical User Interface from 1991 [26]
Fritz 5
Fritz 5 WindowsGraphical User Interface[27]
Deep Fritz 14
Deep Fritz GUI is suited to run other ChessBase or UCI engines with either using its own proprietary protocol, as well as the UCI protocol.
Deep Fritz 14 GUI [28]
- CTG - ChessBaseopening book format
Frans Morsch
- Fritz 1.0 : 1991
- Fritz Deluxe : 1992
- Fritz 2.0 : 1992 or 1993
- Fritz 2.51 : 1994
- Fritz 3.0 : 1994 or 1995
- Fritz 4.0 : 1995 or 1996
- Fritz 5.0 : 1997 or 1998
- Fritz 5.32 : 1998 or 1999
- Fritz 6 : 2000
- Deep Fritz : 2000
- Fritz 7 : July 2001
- Fritz Bahrain : November 2002
- Deep Fritz 7.0 : 2003
- Fritz 8 : September 2003
- X3D Fritz : November 2003
- Fritz 8 Bilbao : December 2004
- Deep Fritz 8.0 : 2005
- Fritz 9 : December 2005
- Fritz 10 : October 2006
- Deep Fritz 10 : December 2006
- Fritz 11 : November 2007
- Deep Fritz 11 : November 2008
- Fritz 12 : October 2009
- Deep Fritz 12 : July 2010
- Fritz 13 : October 2011
- Deep Fritz 13 : June 2012
Gyula Horváth
- Deep Fritz 14 : November 2013
Vasik Rajlich
- Fritz 15 : November 2015
- Fritz 16 : November 2017
Frank Schneider
- Fritz 17 : November 2019
1995 ..
- Fabian Mäser (1995). Fritz vs.Deep Blue: Opening Book vs, Opening Book. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 22 » WCCC 1995
- Robert Hyatt (1995). Still more Fritz vs. Deep Blue: Opening Book vs, Opening Book. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 22
- Larry Kaufman (1995). Does Fritz deserve to be World Champion?Selective Search 60, pp 3, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
2000 ..
- Karsten Müller (2002). The Clash of the Titans: Kramnik – Fritz Bahrain. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4 » Kramnik versus Deep Fritz 2002
- Matthias Wüllenweber (2002). The Match from Fritz' View Point. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4
- David Levy (2003). Kasparov vs X3D Fritz. ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4 » Kasparov versus X3D Fritz 2003
2005 ..
- Mark Levene, Judit Bar-Ilan (2005). Comparing Move Choices of Chess Search Engines. ICGA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2, pdf » Junior
- Christian Liebert (2005). Fritz 9: Der König ist zurück. Computerschach und Spiele Online, pdf (German)
- Christian Liebert (2006). Fritz die Zehnte. Computerschach und Spiele Online, pdf (German)
- Matthias Wüllenweber, Frederic Friedel, Mathias Feist (2006). Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz 10: Computer wins match by 4-2. ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 4 » Kramnik versus Deep Fritz 2006
- Eric Hallsworth (2007). Vladimir Kramnik (World Champion) v Deep Fritz 10. Selective Search 128, pp. 14-24, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
1991 ..
- Commercial Chess Programs by Mike Valvo, rgc, July 19, 1991 » ChessMachine, MChess, Zarkov
- KnightStalker Demo by Benjamin Lin, rgc, December 29, 1992
- ChessBase for Windows and/or Fritz 3 Review by Johannes Fürnkranz, rgc, September 06, 1994 » ChessBase (Database)
- Fritz 3 ELO on different computers by Moritz Berger, rgc, September 19, 1994
1995 ..
- Fritz 3 Makes IM Norm by Michel Behna, rgc, January 31, 1995
- Deep Thought /WCCC Round 5 vs Fritz by Robert Hyatt, rec.games.chess, May 31, 1995 » WCCC 1995
- Fritz 4 and the SSDF by Moritz Berger, rgcc, June 27, 1996 » SSDF
- LCT II results of Reb9, F5, and H6 on K6/233 by Albert Silver, CCC, January 03, 1998 » LCT II, Rebel, HIARCS
- Fritz 5 by Didzis Cirulis, CCC, February 06, 1998
- Multi-Fritz with Boss versus IM R. Vasquez by Ingo Althöfer, CCC, March 09, 1999 [29]
- Tactical monsters: Fritz5.32 and Goliath 2.05 by Jouni Uski, CCC, August 03, 1999
2000 ..
- How make Fritz execute brute force search? by Leonid, CCC, July 26, 2000
- Junior chess program. Just version of Fritz 5? by Leonid, CCC, July 29, 2000 » Junior
- Fritz7 o-o-o bug by Hans van der Zijden, CCC, December 24, 2001
- Re: Fritz protocol by Odd Gunnar Malin, Winboard Forum, April 14, 2002 » Wb2UCI
- Re: Something new about Fritz? English by Sven Reichard, CCC, June 23, 2002
- Re: Something new about Fritz? English, part 2 by Sven Reichard, CCC, June 24, 2002 » Eduard Nemeth
- How to create Fritz native engine? by Igor Korshunov, Winboard Forum, March 13, 2003
- Request for link to Eduard Nemeth messages about Fritz 8.0.0.23 by Javier Ros Padilla, CCC, March 17, 2003 » Eduard Nemeth
- Re: Shredder 8 secret: search depth? by Vasik Rajlich, CCC, March 23, 2004 » Depth, Shredder, Junior
2010 ..
- Fritz 12 by Alexander Schmidt, CCC, May 31, 2011
- Fritz and Naum shown as Rybka/Strelka clones by Kai Laskos, CCC, October 17, 2011
- Deep Fritz 11 eval by BB+, OpenChess Forum, October 23, 2011
- Are Fritz and Naum Rybka/Strelka clones? by SR, Rybka Forum, November 09, 2011
- New Fritz author? by John Hartmann, CCC, November 19, 2013
- Re: New Fritz author? by Albert Silver, CCC, November 20, 2013
- Re: First Impressions (Deep Fritz 14)? by Albert Silver, CCC, November 22, 2013
- Deep Fritz 14 BUG by Rimbaud Sam, Rybka Forum, November 29, 2013
- Allegations that Deep Fritz 14.. by Dr.Wael Deeb, CCC, Engine Origins, December 03, 2013
- Fritz 11 by Rebel, OpenChess Forum, December 10, 2013
- ChessBase / Fritz interface running on Ubuntu? by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, December 17, 2013 » Linux
2015 ..
- Fritz 15 (Vas Rajlich?) by Graham Banks, CCC, July 24, 2015 » Vasik Rajlich
- Fritz 15.0 by Tim Shackel, CCC, November 20, 2015
- 'Sampled search' ? by albitex, Rybka Forum, February 23, 2016
- Fritz 16 by David Shanholtzer, CCC, November 12, 2017
- Anybody has an opinion about Fritz 16? by Fernando Villegas, CCC, November 15, 2017
- Fritz 13 SE? by Steve Maughan, CCC, September 16, 2018
- Fritz 17 by sainzlei, CCC, October 25, 2019
Chess Engine
- The chess games of Fritz from chessgames.com
Purchase
- Fritz 17 - The giant PC chess program, now with Fat Fritz - ChessBase Shop
- Fritz 15 - English Version, ChessBase Shop
- Deep Fritz 14 - ChessBase Shop
ChessBase News
- Fritz Defends to Draw Game 8 and the Match! Final Score: 4-4 The Brains in Bahrain Man-Machine match is over, from ChessBase News, October 19, 2002
- Kasparov vs X3D Fritz match finishes 2-2 after game four draw from ChessBase News, November 19, 2003
- Deep Fritz 8 review by Steve Lopez, ChessBase News, December 27, 2003
- Mate search in Fritz by Steve Lopez, ChessBase News, August 07, 2004
- Fritz 9 3D boards – part 1 by Steve Lopez, ChessBase News, January 10, 2006
- Fritz 9 3D boards – part 2 by Steve Lopez, ChessBase News, January 17, 2006
- Fritz 9 3D boards – part 3 by Steve Lopez, ChessBase News, January 25, 2006
- Man vs machine shocker: Kramnik allows mate in one, Bonn, November 27, 2006
- Kramnik vs Deep Fritz: Computer wins match by 4:2, ChessBase News, December 05, 2006
- Deep Fritz 12 – an interview with the author, ChessBase News, February 17, 2010
- Fritz 13 is now available – let's check who needs it!, ChessBase News, October 13, 2011
- Deep Fritz 13 with blow-your-mind functions, ChessBase News, June 08, 2012
- Deep Fritz 14: Faster, better, cheaper, ChessBase News, November 20, 2013
- Deep Fritz 14 – Elo 3150 on your computer by Sean Marsh, ChessBase News, January 28, 2014
- From Chess Challenger to Deep Fritz 14 by Ken Blake, ChessBase News, February 27, 2014 » Chess Challenger
- Analyzing your games with Fritz (Part one) by Albert Silver, ChessBase News, June 02, 2014
- Analyzing your games with Fritz (Part two) by Albert Silver, ChessBase News, June 04, 2014
- Analyzing your games with Fritz (Part three) by Albert Silver, ChessBase News, June 07, 2014
- Deep Fritz 14 now with ChessBase for Android by Albert Silver, ChessBase News, February 23, 2015 » Android
- Using Deep Fritz 14 on a smartphone by A. Ganesan, ChessBase News, April 13, 2015 » Android
- Come and get it – Fritz 15 released!, ChessBase News, November 25, 2015
- Fritz 15 engine - questions and answers by Albert Silver, ChessBase News, January 04, 2016
- Using your home chess engine anytime, anywhere by Albert Silver, ChessBase News, May 09, 2017
- Fritz 16 – your companion and trainer, ChessBase News, November 12, 2017
- Fritz 16 — a fun and instructive opponent by Albert Silver, ChessBase News, December 11, 2017
- Introducing Fritz 17 with Fat Fritz and other goodies, ChessBase News, November 12, 2019
Chess US
- Fat Fritz and Fritz 17: A Review (Part I) by John Hartmann, US Chess, November 17, 2019
- Fat Fritz and Fritz 17: A Review (Part II) by John Hartmann, US Chess, November 19, 2019
Rating Lists
- Fritz family in CCRL 40/40
Misc
- ↑Former coal mineUnser Fritz 2/3 in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, now artist-studio, exhibition and event space, and part of The Industrial Heritage Trail of the Ruhr area - Image of protegohaube (flame arrester) as gnomon of a sundial and machine halls behind by Gerd Isenberg, bike tour, September 16, 2016. Unser Fritz/Crange is further district of Herne (Wanne), famous for its funfair Cranger Kirmes, and SV Unser Fritz the local chess club - eponym of the coal mine was Frederick III, German Emperor, see also Künstlerzeche Unser Fritz 2/3 - Chronik (German) and 2011 Image by Frank Vincentz
- ↑New Fritz author? by John Hartmann, CCC, November 19, 2013
- ↑Fritz 15 - English Version, ChessBase Shop
- ↑Introducing Fritz 17 with Fat Fritz and other goodies, ChessBase News, November 12, 2019
- ↑Christmas dinner on a train – meet the ChessBase team from ChessBase News, December 23, 2003
- ↑Fabian Mäser (1995). Fritz vs. Deep Blue: Opening Book vs, Opening Book. Computer Chess Reports Vol. 5 No. 2 pp. 22, WCCC 1995
- ↑Shatin 1995, Chess, Round 6, Game 1
- ↑Der alte Fritz (1928) Wikipedia.de (German)
- ↑Fritz from Wikipedia
- ↑Olaf Oldigs - Google+
- ↑The ChessBase Christmas Party – part 1, ChessBase News, December 28, 2010
- ↑Shatin 1995, Chess, Round 5, Game 4
- ↑Image by Jaap van den Herik, ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 81
- ↑Shatin 1995 - Chess - Round 6 - Game 1 (ICGA Tournaments)
- ↑Chrilly Donninger (1994). Die Kunst des Nichtstuns. CSS 2/94, pdf (German)
- ↑Re: SOMA by Ed Schroder, CCC, August 26, 2009
- ↑Re: Search or Evaluation? by Mark Uniacke, Hiarcs Forum, October 14, 2007
- ↑Chrilly Donninger. (1993). Null Move and Deep Search: Selective-Search Heuristics for Obtuse Chess Programs.ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 137-143
- ↑Fritz' ICGA Tournaments
- ↑Comp Fritz SSS chess games - 365Chess.com
- ↑Jaap van den Herik (2000). De toekomst van het schaaken. Schaakmagazine, 5/2000, pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis
- ↑NED-ch 2000 - 365Chess.com Tournaments
- ↑Fritz SSS uses *SSS? by Bas Hamstra, CCC, May 15, 2000
- ↑Re: Fritz SSS uses *SSS? by Robert Hyatt, CCC, May 15, 2000
- ↑Chess Programs for Pocket PC and Palm devices by Dr. Axel Schumacher
- ↑Septober - Computerschach by Herbert Marquardt
- ↑Septober - Computerschach by Herbert Marquardt
- ↑Deep Fritz 14 from ChessBase
- ↑Rodrigo Vásquez Schroder - Wikipedia