#Fritz chess the turk series
Chess game.įritz and Chesster is a series of introductory chess programs based on the Fritz engine. American book publisher Simon & Schuster featured the Fritz engine in their Extreme Chess program, as have German game publisher TopWare Interactive in their Battle vs. British Excalibur Publishing has published Fritz 9 through 14. The German company Purple Hills sold Fritz 6 through 12 as Profi Schach 1 through 7. In 1998, the German company Data Becker released the program 3D Schach Genie, containing the Shredder engine and Fritz interface. British game publisher Eidos Interactive (now part of Square Enix Europe) published Fritz 6 and 7. has been licensed to sell many versions of the Fritz engine and GUI combination. The American company Viva Media, now a division of Encore, Inc. įritz 17 was released on November 12, 2019. This version again uses the Rybka engine. ceding pawn and move).įritz 16 was released on Novemwith a new Easy game mode which provides for assisted calculation marking good moves with a green circle, and bad moves with a red. Handicap and Fun mode was dropped, but there is now a function for pawn and piece handicaps (e.g. A long time participant in world computer championships since 1984, Pandix was substantially rewritten in 2009, and has been a strong contender since then.įritz 15 was released on Novemwith new features, including switching to Vasik Rajlich's famous Rybka engine. The 2013 release of Deep Fritz 14 switched engines from the original author Frans Morsch's to Pandix, written by Gyula Horváth. Fritz has not kept up with modern advances, attaining only 14th on the 2013 CCRL rating list and not participating in any world championships since 2004. Deep Fritz 11 is also sixth on the same list, with a rating of 3097. On the December 2010 edition of the CCRL rating list, Deep Fritz 12 placed sixth with an Elo rating of 3088, 29 points higher than Deep Junior 11.1a 圆4, and 174 points lower than No. Deep Fritz 11 is eighth on the same list, with a rating of 3073. In September 2010 SSDF rating list, Deep Fritz 12 placed sixth with a rating of 3110, 135 points higher than Deep Junior 10.1, and 103 points lower than No. In this match, Kramnik blundered away game 2, allowing a mate in one. On June 23, 2005, in the ABC Times Square studios, the AI Accoona Toolbar, driven by a Fritz 9 prototype, drew against the then FIDE World Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov.įrom November 25 to DecemDeep Fritz played a six-game match against Kramnik in Bonn. In 2004, Fritz 8 added a Handicap and Fun mode, allowing players to choose the Elo rating and style that the engine will use. Fritz 9 added a 3D virtual opponent, the Turk. In November 2003, X3D Fritz, a version of Deep Fritz with a 3D interface, drew a four-game match against Garry Kasparov.įritz 8 which appeared around this time provided a 3D Spanish room setting for games to take place. Fritz 7 which was released that year included the ability to play on the Playchess server. In 2002, Deep Fritz drew the Brains in Bahrain match against Vladimir Kramnik 4–4. Fritz 5.32 was released soon after replacing a 16 bit architecture with 32 bits. In 1998, Fritz 5 was released including a Friend mode which would cause the engine to adjust its strength of play over the course of a game based on the level the opponent appeared to be playing. This was the first time that a program running on a consumer level microcomputer defeated the mainframes that had previously dominated this event. In 1995, Fritz 3 won the World Computer Chess Championship in Hong Kong, beating an early version of Deep Blue. The German player Fritz Baumbach was the world correspondence chess champion from 1983 to 1989, so this may have influenced the naming. and Fritz throughout the rest of the world. Morsch adapted his Quest program, and Chessbase released it for sale that year as Knightstalker in the U.S. In 1991, the German company ChessBase approached the Dutch chess programmer Frans Morsch about writing a chess engine to add to the database program which they sold.
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