Fritz (chess)

Fritz
Genre(s)Chess
Developer(s)
  • Frans Morsch engine 1-13
  • Matthias Wüllenweber GUI
  • Mathias Feist GUI
  • Gyula Horváth engine 14
  • Vasik Rajlich engine 15-16
  • Frank Schneider engine 17-18
Publisher(s)ChessBase
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Wii, Nintendo DS
First releaseFritz
November 1991
Latest releaseFritz 18 Neuronal
March 30, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-03-30)

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.

The latest version of the consumer product is Fritz 18 Neuronal.[1] This version supports 64-bit hardware and multiprocessing by default.

  1. ^ ChessBase (30 March 2022). "Free Fritz update: AI engine "Fritz 18 Neuronal"". Retrieved 30 March 2022.