USCF Sales is proud to announce that we are shipping the newest version of the world's most popular chess program -
FRITZ 12 for Microsoft Windows.
It was developed by ChessBase GMBH, the award-winning software publish that was described as "the world's leading chess software company" by the Washington Post.
Whether you are a beginner, club player or professional,
Fritz 12 has everything that you could want in a chess playing program: automatically adjusting playing strength, handicap and coaching functions, explanation of positions, colored danger warnings, openings statistics, automatic game analysis, trainings modules for openings, tactics, endgames, and a database of one million games.
The Fritz chess technology, developed by Frans Morsch and Mathias Feist, continues to fascinate the chess world. It defeated reigning World Champion GM Vladimir Kramnik in its epic battle of man vs. machine and is regularly used by many of the world's leading grandmasters. Even World Champion GM Garry Kasparov admitted that "I regularly analyze with Fritz". But do not be intimidated by the power of Fritz. The chess experts of ChessBase designed Fritz to be the ultimate training tool for players of all skill levels.
Have you ever trained with a human grandmaster? What about a World Champion? Here is your chance! Fritz comes with twelve hours of video lessons for every level of play. Enjoy the instructive analysis of master-strength games, discussions about the latest in opening theory, tactics, deadly combinations and much more. Hosted by such world class grandmasters as Alexei Shirov, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Vladimir Kramnik, Vishwanathan Anand, even chess legend Garry Kasparov, these lessons alone are more than worth the price of Fritz 12.
Still learning the game of chess? No problem. Fritz will teach you the rules of the games and within an hour you will be confidently playing your first game of chess. And once you have honed your chess skills, Fritz will allow you to hone your chess against real-life opponents.
Fritz 12 includes a full year's subscription to Playchess.com, the world's biggest chess server. Every day you have thousands of players logged into this virtual chess club. You will always find an opponent that matches your playing strength. Or you can simply watch top tournaments and the games of world-class grandmasters played live on the server. This is PREMIUM membership, allowing you to listen to the audio commentary during major events, you can receive live training, play in simultaneous exhibitions against top GMs, watch the TV ChessBase shows and play in league tournaments.
System requirements:
Minimum : Pentium III 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, Windows Vista, XP (Service Pack 3), DirectX9 graphics card with 256 MB RAM, DVD-ROM drive, Windows-Media Player 9, internet access (playchess.com, updates and activation)
Recommended: PC Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 3 GB RAM, Windows Vista or Windows 7, DirectX10 graphics card (or compatible) with 512 MB RAM or more, 100% DirectX10 compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 11, DVD ROM drive and internet access (playchess.com, updates and activation).
FRITZ 12: THIS IS NEW
FRITZ is now even faster. The completely redesigned ergonomic interface, compliant with Microsoft's "Fluent UI" standard, gives you instant access to all the most important functions of the program. For instance board selection or challenges and formula on Playchess. The rearrangement of windows has been improved and is more intuitive; new clock and arrows in the board display; improved, faster 3D graphics with a new playing room and opponents. Never before has it been so easy and fast to play with Fritz.
The program:
* Rated games with a more precise, real-world rating system.
* Dial display for how sharp a position is ('hotness') plus a special 'Mate-O-Meter'.
* Improved 'spy' function shows clear refutations and only direct threats.
* Analysis + openings classification revised and improved.
* Calculation training improved.
* Improved engine management: >4 GB memory for 64-Bit UCI engines, CPU display and simple settings for multi engines.
* Evaluation profile optionally as non-linear display (as at the Chess Classic in Mainz).
Playchess.com
* Twelve months premium membership on Playchess.com
* Games grouped together under headings (tournaments or time controls), making it easier to find the ones you want.
* Fast search in the players list
* Friends and titled players are displayed with desktop alerts.
* Multi-watch with many new functions, e.g. time difference display.
* Separate formulas for humans and computers.
* A series of games against the same opponent is displayed as a match in the chat window.
* The games list display includes number of moves (for games and broadcasts).
* Evaluation profile available in the machine room while playing and watching.
Engine, database and multimedia
* New Fritz engine: even stronger!
* New openings book by Alex Kure
* Twelve hours chess tutorial videos with international trainers and world class players
* Updated database of 1.5 million games from 1625 to 2009
EXCLUSIVELY TO USCF SALES
Includes the Chess Power Pack
A $39.95 Value!
Turbocharge Fritz 12 with the Chess Power Pack! It features one of the largest commercially available databases of master-strength games, professionally maintained by our team of Grandmasters and updated regularly. Unlike other databases available, it focuses on the quality of the games and not quantity! There are no 0-move games and no games featuring lowly rated players. Only the best games made it into The Chess Power Pack!
In addition, the Chess Power Pack includes over 7 Gigabytes of Nalimov Table Bases that will allow Rybka to play and analyze all endgames (5 pieces of less) perfectly!
