ChessTiger by Christoph Théron is the shooting star amongst chess
programs. The rate at which its playing strength has increased in recent
years is sensational. In 1999 and 2000 it chalked up a number of remarkable
tournament victories. Then it became the serial winner of the Dutch computer
chess championships, taking its last title there in December 2002. In
2001 Chess Tiger won the “Republica Argentina” grandmaster tournament
in Buenos Aires, ahead of a number of top GMs, with an incredible 2788
rating performance. In the SSDF computer rating lists Chess Tiger is always
in one of the top places. So it is hardly surprising that computer chess
fans hold this program in the very highest esteem. Most of them consider
Chess Tiger one of the top chess programs in the world. Chess Tiger 15.0
runs under the original Fritz interface. There are plenty of functions
for beginners, club players and grandmasters: blitz and tournament chess,
handicap levels, analysis. There is a competent chess coach for beginners,
with complete move descriptions, warnings and real-time help during the
game. In a special sparring level the program delib-erately sets up tactical
chances for you to exploit. It has many high-quality print functions,
a beautiful 2D board and a state-of-the-art photo-realistic 3D board in
elegant “glass” design. The program comes with a giant tournament-tested
openings book and a database of 500,000 top games. It also includes free
one-year access to the chess server Playchess. System Requirements:
16MB RAM, Windows 98, 2000, XP or NT, CD-ROM, HiColor, Sound Card, Mouse.
 This program, written by Amir
Ban and Shay Bushinsky, has remained at the top of all international computer
rating lists for many years now. At the BrainGames qualifier (April 2001)
Deep Junior had the popular chess program Fritz on the ropes by going
into a 5-0 lead in the 24-game match. Fritz had to work very hard to equalise
in the very last game, and then win the play-off. Experts all over the
world were deeply impressed by the ruthless attacking style that Junior
displayed in this match. IM Hannu Wegner wrote: "The latest version of
Junior has clearly made tremendous progress in tactics and especially
in the execution of brilliant kingside attacks."
Junior won the Microcomputer World Championship
in 1997 as well as the mammoth Cadaqués 2000 tournament
of the world's leading programs. In matches against human players
it has also produced exceptional results.
What you get:
* Original Fritz6 user interface with many unique functions for
beginners, club players and grandmasters
* gigantic new openings book
* database with 320,000 games
System Requirements: Pentium, 32MBs RAM, Windows 95/98/ME/2000 or NT4,
CD-ROM Drive, HiColor
 Pocket Fritz 2 is a chess partner
with mobility built in. Take it with you wherever you go and leave boredom
behind. Pocket Fritz 2 is much stronger than its predecessor and has an
estimated blitz performance rating of 2450 Elo points. The younger brother
of the world’s strongest chess program has made great strides in
the area of design, functionality and user friendliness. New pieces and
board colours, formatted, colour-coded notation, all contribute to optimum
clarity, even in deeply annotated games. The moves of the computer as
well as hints and threats are displayed with coloured arrows.
 Pocket Fritz 2 has many diverse
playing levels that make it an entertaining opponent, while the database
functions and new commentary options fulfil the needs of even strong professional
players. The program gives you mobile access to the ChessBase Online database
with well over two million games. There you can search for the games of
specific players, tournaments or openings. You also have online access
to a giant state-of-the-art openings book with over seven million positions
and full statistics for each of them. Other new functions: extended, user-friendly
move entry and annotation; automatic game replay with adjustable speeds;
special energy-saving mode for longer battery life. Have fun, play chess.
Anywhere and everywhere with Pocket Fritz!
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Pocket Fritz runs on Pocket PCs
with Windows CE 3.0 or Pocket PC 2002, with the processors MIPS, SHG,
ARM or Xscale. It does not work on Palm PCs. Installation requires a PC
(notebook or desktop computer). Language of user interface and helpfile:
English, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch. There is no upgrade from Pocket
Fritz 1 available.
 This new version of 'Nimzo' is about 50 ELO points
above the previous version, with an extended openings book and up-to-the-minute
theory. It is the first chess program from the Chessbase stable to hold
the endgame tablebases in RAM memory. It is one of the world's top programs
and has won a number of computer chess tournaments. As well as facilities
to allow the simple adjustment of a number of program parameters to change
its playing style dramatically, it also has a programming language which
allows the user to change the positional 'knowledge' of the software,
with compiler and example code provided. Optimised openings book, advanced
hash tables. The CD contains the Nimzo engine, as well as the 32-bit engines
Crafty, Exchess and Comet. And of course you can use it as your Chessbase
analysis engine.
 The Fritz
Powerbook is an openings book and database that will run with Fritz or
any Fritz compatible engine (Shredder, Junior, Tiger, Nimzo, etc.). You
can also use it in ChessBase 7, 8 or 9 to conduct openings training and
hone your repertoire.
It contains 20 million openings positions, which were derived from 1
Million high-class tournament games. Together with each position all relevant
information is stored: all moves that were played in the position, by
players of what average rating, with what success and performance results.
The games from which the Fritz Powerbook was derived are also included
on the CD. This means that in any position of the opening tree, you can
load and replay the games in which the position occurred.
Fritz Powerbook represents the state of the art of current opening theory.
It can be used to discover exciting new lines (e.g. never before played
transpositions) and practice them against Fritz.
Fritz 8, Fritz 7, Fritz 6 and all other ChessBase engines under the Fritz
interface can use the PowerBook 2005 as opening book, making the opening
play of the programs more topical, versatile and entertaining.
Required disk space for PowerBook: about 550 MB; for the database:
95 MB. Computer System Requirements: Pentium PC, 32MBs RAM, Win95 or higher,
Fritz 6 or higher. There is no upgrade from earlier Powerbooks.
 An engines sampler with no
less than 7 engines. 'Young Talents' offers innovative engines created
by a new generation of programmers: Goliath Light - Gromit 3.1 - Ikarus
VO.18 - Patzer 3.11 - Phallanx XXII - SOS - AnMon 5.07. All engines work
via a Fritz interface. Due to their individual programming styles, each
of these engines has a fresh approach to the game. Try them out against
each other; and find the chess engine which most suits your style.
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