Chessbase native engines can use the Handicap feature: Chess Tiger, Crafty, the Fritz engine, Hiarcs, Houdini, Junior, Rybka, Shredder and Zappa. 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 the 16 bit architecture with a 32 bit one. 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. 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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