At the turn of the century, Fritz fascinated the chess world with victories over Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik. The “most popular chess program” offers you everything you will need as a chess enthusiast. Innovative training methods for amateurs and professionals alike, plus access to the full suite of ChessBase web apps, including the Playchess playing server.

Now with “Fat Fritz” * : An extremely strong neural net engine inspired by Alpha Zero, which produces human-like strategic analyses of world class quality. Improved Fritz 17 engine with traditional brute force search and evaluations technologyOpening training with success control, Hundreds of ready-made repertoires “Blitz & Train”: Fritz generates tactical puzzles Perfect analysis of endgames with up to seven pieces, access to “Let’s Check”Improved 3D chess **Includes six months ChessBase Premium Account Membership: Now with 11 ChessBase web apps for mobile training, analysis,live chess and much more

*Fat Fritz is based on LCZero. LCZero is an open source project licensed through the GPL v3 with all due rights. Source code of LCZero and the modifications for Fat Fritz can be found at Github.

** Requires a powerful graphics card with NVIDIA chip

MULTI-LANGUAGE VERSION: English, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch, German.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum (not optimised for Raytracing and FatFritz): Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, Windows 7 or 8.1, DirectX11, graphics card with 256 MB RAM, DVD-ROM-drive, Windows Media Player 9 and Internet access.
Recommended: PC Intel i5 or AMD Ryzen 3 (Quadcore), 8 GB RAM, Windows 10 with 64-Bit (current version), NVIDIA RTX graphic card with 6 GB RAM and current driver (FatFritz on older NVIDIA cards or older graphic cards: drastic loss of performance, and runs on CPU only for demonstration

Product Features

• Fritz 17 Chess Playing Fame Software Program Bundled with Chess Success II Training Software – 2 Items
• For Windows PCs
• Now with “Fat Fritz,” an extremely strong neural net engine inspired by Alpha Zero, which produces human-like strategic analyses.**
• Improved Fritz 17 engine with traditional search and evaluations technology
• Chess Success II Training: Here you’ll find something for every chess player, whether just learning the moves or a highly rated tournament player. ChessCentral has produced everything needed to get you started and trained in the world of chess