Sporting Goods : Fritz 11 for Windows (DVD)
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from: ChessBase
Binding: Misc.
Brand: ChessCentral
Label: ChessBase
Manufacturer: ChessBase
Publisher: ChessBase
Sales Rank: 16215
Studio: ChessBase
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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Product Description:
Fritz 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - Overkill
Get ready for a weird concept: I gave Fritz 11 5 stars and I meant it, however I do NOT recommend you buy it! Try to understand me here. If you were going to trim your lawn on your little 1/4 acre lot, you wouldn't go out and get a riding mower, or probably a better example, a farm combine would you? The same applies here, unless you are a titled player and or paid chess journalist you do not need this. It would be like getting "Jet Lee" to spare with a 10 year old Taekwondo white belt. Beyond ... Read More
Rating: - No improvements to speak of
They spend a lot of effort (supposedly) improving the Elo ratings of programs like this, but that's a waste of time and money; Fritz 8 (on one of today's fast computers) is probably better than 99% of the players out there, and the other 1% don't account for enough purchases to matter.
What I WOULD like to see is some very simple improvements in the interface. First and foremost, I would like to be able to enter a game without interference. (Does anybody know how to do that, without turning on ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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