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.


 

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.
   

 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 with ChessBase to conduct openings training and hone your repertoire.

   The Fritz Powerbook 2008 contains 18 millions opening positions, derived from 1 million highclass 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 20087 were derived are also included on the DVD. This means that in any position of the openings tree you can load and replay the games in which the position occurred. The Fritz Powerbook 2008 represents the state of the art of current openings theory. Discover exciting and tricky new lines and practice them against Fritz. In addition the DVD has a small but very exclusive book with the strongest GM games from the past 100 years (900,000 positions).

System requirements: Pentium PC, 32 MB RAM, Windows Vista, WindowsXP, DVD drive and Fritz10/Fritz11, ChessBase8/ChessBase9.

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