Fritz 11 for Windows (DVD)

Editorial Review:

Product DescriptionFritz 11 for PC, the program that for many years now has fascinated the chess world. Whether it was the 2006 match where it defeated World Champion Vladimir Kramnik or drew former World Champion Garry Kasparov in 2003, the pitting of wits of the strongest players on the planet against the world's finest chess playing program has generated unprecedented media attention and fired the imagination of people from all walks of life. 'Man vs Machine' has become one of the great themes of our time.

Don't be afraid! Fritz has a different side to its personality. The program can help you during the game, with sophisticated coaching functions, adjusting its playing strength to exactly match that of any opponent. It displays threats and plans, and provides full opening statistics. For beginners Fritz will explains moves and positions, or warn you of dangers and of errors you are committing. It has instructive training modules and amusing handicap levels. For club and tournament players Fritz has long become a trusted friend and indispensable advisor, helping them to study their games and find new opening ideas for their next tournaments. A database with more than a million games provides the basis for state-of-the-art analysis. Even Garry Kasparov uses Fritz on a regular basis.

With its Media System Fritz brings the world's greatest players into your living room, in high resolution video and sound and a synchronized chessboard. Listen to over 13 hours of videos of Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Viktor Korchnoi, and Alexei Shirov while they explain important openings and ideas that lead to success. A host of other famous chess teachers provide instruction in more mundane subjects, like opening traps, middlegame strategy, or endgame skills. For those of you who have never played chess before there are elementary courses to teach you the basics in a matter of hours. Includes Free Subscription to PlayChess.com - A $39.95 Value

Features:

Presale of Fritz 11 - Estimated Ship Date of November 23rd
The Strongest Chess Player Program Ever - 80 ELO points stronger than Fritz 10
World Champions Kramnik and Kasparov use Fritz - Shouldn't you?
Over 13 hours of instructional video from Kasparov, Kramnik, Shirov and others.
Includes a free one-year membership to PlayChess Internet Service - a $39.95 Value

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Great Training Tool
What I love about Fritz 11 is the Calculation Training function... this, in and of itself, makes Fritz 11 worth the purchase! The remainder of the program features have been to the greatest extent duplicated elsewhere. I've never seen anything on the market that resembles the Calculation Training function at all.
The video clips, though obviously promoting the full DVDs, are nice since they do give an entire game or entire training session. If they were to cut the game (or training session) off mid-stream, it would be a poor marketing ploy. The way it's set up is useful, as well as an excellent way to test drive other Chessbase DVDs.
Being able to set up a Tournament, using several different engines as well as allowing a human to participate, is an nice feature that I have yet to experiment with.
The only thing I really don't like about the program is the electronic eye that hovers above the 3D board, along with the thumbnail viewpoint of this E-eye, I find it to be annoying and have yet to find an option to make it disappear.

Rating:

- Not worth the money
While other chess apps like Shredder have better established engines and are true cross-platform apps, Fritz has always brought the glitz. Only problem with version 11 is that it's a chronological upgrade and not one built on new features. The other problem with Fritz is that it's limited to Windows only, and if you're running it on Vista, it's slower than normal. This devalues the software right from the start, since I use both operating systems. At best, this should be a x.2 update, not a full version upgrade. Save your money and wait for version 12.

Rating:

- same old same old
Not much different that Fritz 10. I get it for playing chess over the internet at chessgames.com for a year. The only thing of interest to me is the tactical "fight." But I wish they recorded the results to show improvement instead of a single record each time one used it.

Rating:

- Funny! There is a good part but there is also outright [...]
First of all, if you look at my buying record, you will see that I have bought a lot of Chessbase products (and for the most part happy), but this latest effort is a serious insult to the customer's intelligence. Basically they advertise 14 hours of video that for the most part turns out to be selling clips for other products, thus of little value for the customer. I am very offended.

Good part: new training function for calculation training*** two thumbs up, this is great and what gives it the two stars! I am confident that this will improve my rating!

Updated opening book and game database: nice but that is also available in many software.

Puzzles: you can get free good puzzles, just try www.chessok.com

3D eye: still evaluating

Overall: Fritz 11 offers one very good addition, but at the same time there is false advertising (or very misleading advertising). I cannot figure out how to evaluate such a situation, it is almost as if your best friend helps you and also lies and cheats you at the same time.

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