Hamburg, 13. October 2011
Dear Chess Friend,
everyday, on the boards all over the world and here at ChessBase, things happen that every
chess enthusiast is interested in. And I would like to tell you what's going on, for example...
Long live analysis: Fritz 13 arrived!
Last year our developers were acting somewhat mysteriously when asked about the next Fritz
version. Something to do with analysis. Connecting all chess friends with each other and allowing
them to analyse together via the Playchess server. A gigantic tree of variations and analyses
would arise, easily accessible for all Fritz 13 users – a kind of enormous knowledge database for
chess variations.
Well, now Fritz 13 has arrived and the results in fact surpass all expectations. Fritz 13 offers a
completely new way to analyse in chess.
Buy DVD in shop...
Let's Check!
With Fritz 13 communal analysis, an outstanding social element in chess, is honoured again. The
"Let's Check" function connects all chess friends who want to participate, and virtually forms a
common "analysis cloud".
Let's say someone wants to know the verdict on a current line in the Poisoned Pawn Variation. He
can – as before – let the program calculate a certain position. Now, and that is new, he can give
the chess community access to this calculation.
But maybe someone else had a faster computer and already filed a better analysis - well, you can
use this better analysis. Or a complicated game of a World Championship is in process: if asked,
Let's Check provides a game analysis with all the lines, which other chess friends have already
calculated during the game with their engines. And this analysis can be obtained during or after
the game.
And this is possible... ? Yes!
Engine-analyses have changed chess. By now they are so common that one takes many aspects
of them for granted. However, maybe one's own analysis - maybe with a slow engine on a rather
old computer - is not particularly significant. Maybe someone else - having a faster computer has already analysed the position you are interested in, saved it, and made it accessible to all.
With Fritz 13 and Let's Check you can access a large analysis tree – currently 40 million positions
– and the analyses of others, and if they are good enough you can also save your own analyses
there.
Deeper analyses overwrite weaker ones, which permanently improves the analysis of positions
and lines. If you discover a lot of new positions and "capture" them through deep analyses of your
engine, you receive bonus points and get a place in the Let's Check ranking.
Any engine running under the Fritz interface can take part. If you want to you can also use "Let's
Check" anonymously, in which case, however, no bonus points for the ranking list are provided.
And there are many more possibilities: with Fritz 13 and Let's Check you can retrieve already
analysed games in series, you can "donate" your engine to analyse important or current positions
to obtain in return the chance to send positions you are interested in to the Let's Check Server to
let other chess friends analyse them.
You can also use Let's Check when following other games on the server, and you can open the
gigantic "Live Book" with the always completely up-to-date opening theory, for your chess
analysis or even to play in the engine room on the Playchess server.
Further novelties:
New comfortable database management, improved user interface in Windows Office 2010
standard, and a new Fritz 13 Engine. Of course, Fritz offers everything else a chess player might
wish to have: professional board graphics, engine management, playing strength adjustment,
coach function, explanation of moves, automatic game analysis, training modules for opening,
tactics and endgame, printing functions, database with 1.5 million games, private training with
grandmasters (five hours of video training).
And the icing on the cake: six months premium membership on the world's largest chess server
Playchess.com!
Price: 49.90€, shipping immediately, per download or on DVD.
Buy Fritz 13...
Everything all right? ... No?
Nick Murphy explains the new Fritz 13 function "Let's Check", an enormous knowledge database
for chess analyses. Watch and wonder!
What will we discover?
Let's imagine the realm of chess as a world of its own. How much of this world have we
discovered already? Actually, no one can answer this question precisely. Probably less than we
believe. We know some elementary endgames quite precisely, and some of them we can only
evaluate correctly with the help of the computer. But analysing with engines also altered the
evaluation of certain openings significantly. Maybe we already know some continents - certain
openings and variations - in the realm of chess. But maybe these are just islands? Are there still
unexplored areas, white spots on the great map of chess openings? Presumably.
Hitherto everyone calculated for himself. Now we can all research together. What will we
discover? Things are going to be exciting...with Fritz 13
.
See you next time
André Schulz
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