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Fritz is a German chess program originally developed for Chessbase by Frans Morsch based on his Quest program, ported to DOS, and then Windows by Mathias Feist. With version 13, Morsch retired, and his engine was first replaced by Gyula Horvath's Pandix, and then with Fritz 15, Vasik Rajlich's Rybka.
ChessBase has faced criticism for allegedly using free software created by others without credit. The developers of Stockfish, an open-source chess engine, charged that Fat Fritz 2 is a modified copy of their software (that had originally been uncredited; since rectified) and that ChessBase claims "originality where there is none". [22]
The game uses a port of Shredder chess engine. [1] Pocket Fritz 2 was released in 2002. [2] In 2006, Pocket Fritz 1 and 2 lost the online ability to search positions on Chessbase servers. [3] Pocket Fritz 3 was released in 2008 and used Hiarcs 12 as the engine. [4] The successor Pocket Fritz 4 was released in 2009 and uses Hiarcs 13 as engine. [5]
Computer chess IC bearing the name of developer Frans Morsch (see Mephisto). Chess machines/programs are available in several different forms: stand-alone chess machines (usually a microprocessor running a software chess program, but sometimes as a specialized hardware machine), software programs running on standard PCs, web sites, and apps for mobile devices.
Chess software comes in different forms. A chess playing program provides a graphical chessboard on which one can play a chess game against a computer. Such programs are available for personal computers, video game consoles, smartphones/tablet computers or mainframes/supercomputers.
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Fritz: Yes Yes uci_elo [a] for analysis but no timed games Yes Chess960 No Chessmaster: The King Yes No Personalities with Elo ratings Yes No No longer supported Chess Titans: n/a No No Yes No No ChessV: Combat Chess: n/a Yes Yes Yes Fritz: Rybka, earlier Pandix or Fritz: Yes Yes Friend Mode, [c] Handicap and Fun, [d] uci_elo [a] Yes Chess960 ...
The meaning of the term "chess engine" has evolved over time. In 1986, Linda and Tony Scherzer entered their program Bebe into the 4th World Computer Chess Championship, running it on "Chess Engine," their brand name for the chess computer hardware [2] made, and marketed by their company Sys-10, Inc. [3] By 1990 the developers of Deep Blue, Feng-hsiung Hsu and Murray Campbell, were writing of ...