Fritz 11 Chess Playing Software for PC
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Sports reviews of Fritz 11 Chess Playing Software for PC
Customer Review: GREAT DEAL,...beter engine.. but not much
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
ABOUT the ENGINE.
There are some algorithms, from Deep fritz 10.
Fritz 11 are better for much from his predecessor, i made a engine match Fritz 10 vrs Fritz 11, five minutes bliz game. Won Fritz 11 (W=3, D=0, L=1)
The bad news, fritz 11 are not the best engine on market. F11 loses agaist another engine (W= 0, D=4, L=2). For Amazon policies i can't revealed the engine.
(The bliz game is only to give an idea)
ABOUT THE OPENING BOOK, Fritz 11's book are twice of bigger, from his predecessor.
BONUS FROM CHESS BASE
F11 is a Great deal, it has two new training option, that you will enjoy. Combination training, fritz help you to calculation the position and Tactical training, Fritz gives puzzles, for five minutes.
In this DVD, ChessBase, given you, two hours in several clips videos with Kasparov, Daniel King, Shirov, Andrew Matin and other. Maybe this is a mean to merchandize other products. Even that, is a great gift.
I do not recomend this software for kids or player who loves positional chess
Customer Review: Great Training Tool
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
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-stream, it would be a poor marketing ploy. The way it's set up is useful, as well as an excellent way to test drive other Chessbase DVDs.
Being able to set up a Tournament, using several different engines as well as allowing a human to participate, is an nice feature that I have yet to experiment with.
The only thing I really don't like about the program is the electronic eye that hovers above the 3D board, along with the thumbnail viewpoint of this E-eye, I find it to be annoying and have yet to find an option to make it disappear.
Customer Review: Excellent engine, UI could use some help
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
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 for both sides also takes some work to figure out. Also, the "Explain All Moves" option is wonderful, but tends to hang on certain positions, and there does not seem to be a way to configure around this. Perhaps there is a patch that addresses this, which brings me to my final negative point on this product, which is that finding patches/updates is a very painful process.
Please realize these gripes only keep it from being 5 stars, its still a great product that I use daily. The analysis is priceless if you are trying to improve your game.
Customer Review: A good software
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
This is a good software, especially calculation variation analysis is very nice. If someone what to work on opening repetoir this one is extremely useful.
Customer Review: No improvements to speak of
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
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 Infinite Analysis?) I almost never want Fritz to choose a move, so twenty times a day I have to tell it to STOP MAKING MOVES, DAMN IT!!!! And take back the one you already made, too!