Разработчик: ChessBase
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FRITZ CHESS 14 is the most comprehensive chess program in the world. Whether you are new to the game or a Grandmaster, FRITZ 14 is suitable for all skill levels!
The top-ranked Fritz Chess engine adjusts its playing strength automatically, offers coaching at all levels, explanation of chess positions, color coded danger warnings, openings statistics, automatic game analysis and training modules for openings, tactics and endgames. Whether you’re a chess beginner, club player or professional Grandmaster, FRITZ CHESS 14 has it all!
Take your game into the cloud at and enter a virtual world of chess where players of all abilities can play and train using revolutionary new functions! -- not to mention a database of over 1.5 MILLION games! JOIN THE COMMUNITY!
Take advantage of “Let’s Check,” a database of over 200 Million extensively analyzed positions. This is a revolutionary new feature that allows players to join a giant, worldwide, community knowledge base for chess. Whenever you analyze a position in depth FRITZ 14 can send the main line and evaluation to a central server, to be shared by all participating users. Get deep analysis instantly for almost every position you analyze by the finest chess engines, running on the most powerful machines around. You will see the analysis of different chess engines and compare their results in the blink of an eye! This feature is available until December 31, 2015.
FRITZ CHESS 14 offers chess players all the world class tools they need to study, train, and play: a new and more powerful chess engine, a further enhanced ergonomic interface, detailed 3D boards and graphics, engine management, adjustable playing strength, coach functions, move explanation, game analysis and commentary, training modules for openings, tactics and endgames!
Key Features:
- New and improved Fritz 14 engine (64 and 32 bit)
- 6 months Premium membership to , the world’s largest online chess community. Play, train and watch online
- 1.5 Million games database
- Let’s Check! Database access to over 200 million extensively analyzed positions through December 2015
- 18 different 3D chessboards, animated 3D opponents, 9 2D chessboards, 5 sets of 2D pieces
- Complete video course by Andrew Martin: “The Two Knights – A Tricky Repertoire for White“
- Play in Friend Mode, get hints and spy
- Enjoy the Engine Match: Let the engines battle it out and just watch them crush each other!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, italian, german, spanish - spain, dutch
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, Windows® 7, Windows® 8
- Processor: Pentium processor (or equivalent AMD® processor) 2.0 GHz or faster
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX® compatible video card
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 1050 MB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX® compatible sound card
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Best ever...in all aspects.
box over box
Yes
it's a piece of crap. load it up, no engines show up. go online, ask you to log in to some site, that you don't have log in to. use guest account, can't load engines... worthless
I had this uninstalled for a while and decided to come back to again.
Serial number? What? For a game I've owned for years?
Googling, I see this:
"A valid serial number allows you to unlock an account only once. When the serial number has been used for an activation, its useful life is over and thus the serial number can no longer be used for further activations!"
Wasted my money. Buyer beware. One activation allowed, only. One star. I'd give it zero if I could for this kind of greed and horrible treatment of a customer who bought the product.
This software is terribly bad, the user interface is garbage, You need to do a tutorial for EVERY SINGLE thing this program claims it can do. it is NOT intuitive, and the only thing I used this for was for running the chess engine (A lot of those are fee online) and openings book (A terrible one). If you want to use this for anything else you must pay extra for courses on their web page, but wait, this thing constantly crashes when trying to read tutorias for chessbase, even the one that came with the software (The tutorial for beginiers). This was a scam,
You need to know that this is not really a game but a tool for chess training and analysis.
Looks like there are no sales anymore for this software and given its price you probably should buy this only if you are very serious about being a chess player, even in that case if you look at reviews of other editions of this series you will notice that the steam version sometimes lacks features that appear in the original versions.
Another issue is the lack of a proper manual for this edition, if you want to improve your chess game a better option would be just to look for other tools online
A great study tool and interface for engines, also for a good price. It has every feature an amateur player needs with the live databases, etc. Paying so much more for a later Fritz version is totally unnecessary and a waste imo.
To be honest, I never play the game. Most people don't actually buy it to play the game. The engine is rediculously tough and played at full strength, you will never beat it.
This was purchased to analyze games. I don't use the Fritz chess engine either, I have the latest (free) stockfish engine installed. It runs on game files on a dedicated computer 24/7. It is the interface that makes this worth the purchase.
If you are looking for a chess program to play against, then this is probably not what you are looking for. If you are looking for a program to analyze games, the Fritz interface is the gold standard.
The absolute first time I encountered Fritz was in 1993 - 4 when I got hold of a pirated copy of Fritz 3 on a 3.5" floppy disk. At that time I was accustomed to being "the best player in my house" a title I took a reasonably bit seriously. Human players I could beat them all in my area, and computers I would have serious matches against them and beat them as well, my Constellation Forte giving me a run for my money in 1990 when I beat it 4-2 but the score didn't reflect the actual chess. So in walked Fritz 3. I'll take this newbie on just like all the others I thought. I subsequently lost to my amazement 6-0. I have used this program in its various forms ever since. This iteration is no less better than the previous. A bit expensive for Steam, but once you have one version, you certainly will be wasting your money on the next. Fifa for chess. Great program if you don't have a version though. Does this belong on Steam? Hmmmmmm? Not sure on that one. This is a specialist chess program for enthusiasts. Beginners and intermediates don't even bother.
A must have for a chess enthusiast
A pretty solid game for chess enthusiasts. The layout is good. The data stored in the program are valuable for both beginners and chess veterans.
If you like both playing and studying/analyzing chess, this game will provide more than you would think. If you are only looking for casual encounters, then I recommend you to buy a simple chess game for a cheaper price.
I am a lover of playing chess. I was never in any chess tournaments or clubs. I learned how to play when I was 5. I have been playing casually since, off and on. Since my upgrade from wind 7, (I miss dearly, win 8 & 10 sucks), to 8, then to 10, I lost the standard programs that came with Win 7. Chess program was one of them. It was simple and easy to play. I bought Fritz 14 due to the lack of any decent chess programs that I was coming/searching across/for. I purchased Fritz 14 and I am not happy with it. It is the most unfriendly interface that I have ever experienced. I can not figure out how to set up games against te computer. I barely able to get a game going against a human (Sending my moves via email to my bro in prison) via emal. I recieve his move via email and I move his piece. This is fine. He is the only one I play. There is so much junk, not explained, junk to me anyways, and it's worse than maze of tangled fishing line. I guess if you love chess, and you are not Einstein, find a simpler chess program. Believe me, this program is not user friendly, I have many, many hours of frustration, and always ends with giving up. Try again a month or so later, still frustrating. The help feature is really bad. You can only enter predermined questions and so you have to settle for a listing that's "Close enough" to what you are asking it. The answer is short vague, and not helpful. Not in my case so far. I have yet to figure how to start a game against the AI. Tons and tons of databases that does not make sence. I just want to play chess, I don't give a crap of games already played, especially by some one else, even if it was Einstien's game or not. Save your money, save your frustrations for something worth being frustrated over, and just settle for a simple, inexpensive chess program. I will have to search again for such. Win 7 version not compatible with win10. After all, check out the number of reviews on Fritz 14 (positive ones), sure, mostly positive, but they are all the Einstiens in the world, and they are only about 40 of them in existance. I am not one of them of course. ;op
This is a great software to run engines in, as well as the three engines included. This is also the only chess software that is available through Steam that takes itself seriously. So you don't have many options anyways. I bought this on Steam sale when it was $19.99 and $9.99 for "64 bit dlc".
You probably would only use the latest Fritz 14 engine, so basically you get one good engine and two old ones. There is a ton of included games from history from all the famous players. They can be searched by all criteria like years, last names, etc. There are many analysis options. You can see suggested moves on the go or analyse the whole game. One nice feature is intentionally vaguely worded hints. They give enough descriptive advice but don't directly give you the best move. You have an option for exact moves though.
While the core of the game is pretty good. But it is really puzzling how a known chess software maker can make a good engine and not take the effort to include more options in its main selling point which is the 2D and 3D representation of the chess board. You get very few options for the 2d chess board. There are nice wooden texture and tones included, but there are just five total! It doesn't even have the green and white traditional vinyl board colors that many players are used to. Doesn't have solid color options. You get too few chess graphics as well, and only 3 out of 5 are any good. The other two are abstract designs no one would use.
The 3d chess board graphics look nice but they look like they've been made very lazily. For example you get a number of options for traditional 3d pieces and boards but they can only be combined with solid color background. You can adjust something as insignificant as lighitng and reflection, but don't get many texture options for the background. The themed 3d graphics with backgrounds are pretty good, but they're mainly for novice players. In my opinion the experienced players would not bother running these nice looking 3d graphics since they are used to plain 2d diagram.
So basically I'd give it a 7 out of 10. You get lots of advanced options but not enough color and graphics variation. I'd even be willing to purchase additional ones as DLC if they were available. But there aren't any. Seems like such a missed opportunity to simply add more colors and graphics options. The only explanation I can think of is lazyness.
Fritz Chess 14 is a version 14 front-end to ChessBase and is meant for serious players. You can get up to 64bit multi-core Engine capabilities via DLC, but VERY few will actually need this.
The interface is Identical to Houdini Pro 8, but the engine is off course Fritz 14 instead of the Houdini 8 Engine.
I use and enjoy both.
Recommended for serious players!
Great potentional but to many bugs and not a great overall experience!
In its current form, this software seems unfinished and unpolished.
- Everytime I start the software, It launches a setup for Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x64 Redistributable Maintenance. It's already installed so I just cancel the setup and the game starts just fine.
[*]I bought the game just to play against a strong player with handicap. But I am not able to do so as I want. When I play agains the engine with "queen+move"-handicap, it plays fine, but when I castle, the engine expects white to play two moves in a row. After that, It's impossible to move pieces and I need to restart the game. Castling is only a issue in handicap-mode as it seems.
The analysis works fine and you are able to include other engines easily.
When the bugs are removed, I will update this review as well.
I like Fritz chess 14. How do you play against the computer? I have been looking all over the program and I can't find any way to play against the computer. I am using windows 8. Please let me know if anybody has any answers.
Updating from Fritz 8 is perhaps unnecessary: the older version by and large does the same thing. That said, I have not regretted purchasing Fritz 14 as I will try to establish below.
The newer Chessbase-themed GUI is very nice, but the chief benefit is that it is easier to manoeuvre the database. That in essence is the purpose of the Fritz chess suite: chess-playing software is ubiquitous and cheaper (and can play a stronger game: see the open-source multi-core Stockfish) but offering native Chessbase Reader (free) support along with plain-English analysis is of greater value for the serious chess student.
In limited games, I've found the Fritz 14 engine to be stronger than the Fritz 8 engine (processing power held constant) but that wouldn't be important really unless I was GM-standard.
Overall the cleaner interface wins the day. Dispensing the CD-media to enable the Steam experience is also very convenient, and I look forward to taking my Fritz experience anywhere my light laptop can go.
Fritz 14 is an excellent, if confusing, piece of chess software. The mileage you get out of Fritz equals the amount of work you put into learning how to utilize its interface. If you want a simple chess program that is both aestheticly pleasing and fun to play against there are better options than Fritz. However, if you are looking for a robust program to analyze your chess games in minute detail, Fritz is perfect.
The built in chess engines are moderately powerful and sufficient for most players. Deep Fritz 14 is available as DLC if you want an engine that can fully utilize more powerful hardware. There are also more powerful (and free) engines readily available online that plug into the Fritz GUI with little trouble. I have personally been using Stockfish 5 and it has been working perfectly.
If you want to improve your chess game there are few tools I have encountered more valuable than Fritz.
Something you need to know about Fritz is that it hardly belongs in the games category. Think of it less as a fancy chess game and more of an analysis tool for chess enthusiasts.
Every single bad review you'll see for this program is due, not to some defect or bug, but because this is a bloody complex application and it's rather hard to intuit what it is you want to do. Reading through the manual, especially if something doesn't seem to make sense, is highly, *highly* recommended. If you just want to play chess, and nothing else, you'd be better served by the pack-in games that come with your operating system. The Fritz engine that comes with this software has a low end rating in the 1400s and is absolutely /not/ for beginners!
So what can you use this for? The killer feature for me is the ability to load up PGN-formatted games (I usually annotate them on my phone) and have the engine go through your game and note where and how you messed up. What you could have done better, and so on, using plain english.
This is starting to sound like a sales pitch, but in short, I recommend this whole-heartedly if you have more than a passing interest in chess.
I first met Fritz many years ago when it was the talking chess program and was mentioned together with Kasparov in New in Chess - Yes he was actually playing back then.
User interface is a bit nicer but really no major improvements. Included multimedia is aimed at beginners. Some more games commented by a stong player would be nice (remember the Karpov comments with (I think) chessmaster 3000?). The engine is still terribly strong for a measely human like me.
It's still just Fritz - a strong program with nice database options - both for reference and for storing your own games.
Is it a good buy? Well if you just want a chess program and a database then you should probably look at free options on the internet. But if you want to play at Playchess.com and use their material then it looks like a good deal because of the 6 months included membership. Should you consider upgrading with the DLC for 'Deep Fritz'? - well are you a superstrong chess player? I'm not so I wont. In fact I'm very happy with the chance to get Fritz+playchess for a good price and I dont miss 'Deep multicore etc.' options.
For reference I'm a "hobby" player with an Elo rating around 1900.
Pros: Strong engine. Awesome online community. Can watch grandmasters games and all tournaments. 6 month playchess/chessbase subscription. Easy chess engine import and implementation. No brainer for anyone who loves to play chess.
Cons: Tutorials are hidden and lacking in content . . . (find them in your "C:\Users\[NAME]\Documents\ChessBase\Media files\" folder. Crazy number of options with no documentation. Not really for beginners who wish to learn without playing online (but then again, the best way to learn how to play chess is to . . . play chess, not read books or tutorials).
Overall, the cons are minimal and can be ignored. If someone wants to learn how to play chess, YouTube has a TON of free content. Fritz allows for amazing analysis of games, very large chess database (which is easily expandable via numerous file type support) and online kibbitzing with some of the best players on the planet.
I highly recommend this for anyone who is serious about chess.
Amazingly detailed Chess software. AI is pretty brutal. Even once you figure out how to turn it down it can still be rough. Casual Chess players might get more out of the free program WinBoard, but for serious Chess players, this is where it's at. If you are considering joining an orginization like the US Chess Federation, or any kind of club player status, owning this software can be a major tool for analyzing past games you have played.
Again, if you just want to play a bit of computer Chess, this may be a bit too beefy for you.
Although I have little experience chess engines this software seems to be really buggy. Clicking some of the buttons like the force fritz to move button do nothing in some of the training modes. Really disappointed that I paid what i did for this. I thought that I would be getting a quality product that could help me with my chess game but I did not. Hopefully they fix some of these issues and add a tutorial. If they did im sure I wouldn't be as disatisfied.
The user interface or engine is somewhat buggy but has potential. Fritz 11 SE seems to be the only engine included. The advertised Fritz 14 engine appear to be missing.
I know Chessbase since 20+ years and expect them to fix the problem.
For now, view this as Early Access.
Update: Looks like the Fritz 14 engine is now available though it did not install automatically.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | ChessBase |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 18.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 71% положительных (52) |