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Fritz is very easy to use but very difficult to beat. Since 1993 the program has been the enfant terrible of the chess scene. In
Munich it won the strongest blitz tournament of all times, together with world champion Garry Kasparov; in 1995 it won the world computer chess championship in Hong Kong, ahead of Deep Blue; in July 1999 it won the super-strong
Frankfurt Masters and thus qualified to play against the world champion next year. Fritz is used by all top players in the world and is the most popular chess program amongst tournament players.
- Fritz6 – even stronger and with increased positional knowledge.
- Completely rewritten interface which can be freely configured by the user.
- Fully scalable boards, in different kinds of wood or marble with a choice of piece design.
- Special pre-set layouts, e.g. full screen or "Minifritz"
- New, intuitive menu structure.
- Perfect openings training with the "active" openings book
- Analysis and help available during the game from a second "kiebitz" engine.
- New improved and enhanced Fritz opening book.
- Topical database with 320.000 games, up to Summer '99.
- Extended database functions, like endgame index.
- New and exciting printing functions, for instance colour printouts of positions on wood and marble boards.
- More than ten different chess engines included, i.e. you can select different opponents for games or analysis.
- The engine has access to the endgame databases during the search.
- New engine tournament modes: knockout and Swiss system.
- Automatic publication of games and tournaments on Internet sites.
- New automatic correspondence chess analysis – "play out position".
- New chatter created by a professional actor and humorist.
- Combination finder created by Dr. Chrilly Donninger for the automatic game analysis.
- Including the official FIDE rules of chess.
- Countless additional improvements in the well-known Fritz functions.
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