Friz 13 with Let's Check

Fritz 13 with "Let's Check"
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With Fritz 13 communal analysis, an outstanding social element in chess, is honored again. The "Let's Check" function connects all chess friends who want to participate, and virtually forms a common "analysis cloud".

Let's say someone wants to know the verdict on a current line in the Poisoned Pawn Variation. He can – as before – let the program calculate a certain position. Now, and that is new, he can give the chess community access to this calculation.

But maybe someone else had a faster computer and already filed a better analysis - well, you can use this better analysis. Or a complicated game of a World Championship is in process: if asked, Let's Check provides a game analysis with all the lines, which other chess friends have already calculated during the game with their engines. And this analysis can be obtained during or after the game.

And this is possible... ? Yes with Fritz 13!

Engine-analysis have changed chess. By now they are so common that one takes many aspects of them for granted. However, maybe one's own analysis - maybe with a slow engine on a rather old computer - is not particularly significant. Maybe someone else - having a faster computer - has already analysed the position you are interested in, saved it, and made it accessible to all.

With Fritz 13 and Let's Check you can access a large analysis tree – currently 40 million positions – and the analysis of others, and if they are good enough you can also save your own analyses there.

Deeper analysis overwrite weaker ones, which permanently improves the analysis of positions and lines. If you discover a lot of new positions and "capture" them through deep analyses of your engine, you receive bonus points and get a place in the Let's Check ranking.

Any engine running under the Fritz interface can take part. If you want to you can also use "Let's Check" anonymously, in which case, however, no bonus points for the ranking list are provided.

And there are many more possibilities: with Fritz 13 and Let's Check you can retrieve already analysed games in series, you can "donate" your engine to analyst important or current positions to obtain in return the chance to send positions you are interested in to the Let's Check Server to let other chess friends analyst them.

You can also use Let's Check when following other games on the server, and you can open the gigantic "Live Book" with the always completely up-to-date opening theory, for your chess analysis or even to play in the engine room on the Playchess server.

What will we discover with Fritz 13?

Let's imagine the realm of chess as a world of its own. How much of this world have we discovered already? Actually, no one can answer this question precisely. Probably less than we believe. We know some elementary endgames quite precisely, and some of them we can only evaluate correctly with the help of the computer. But analyzing with engines also altered the evaluation of certain openings significantly. Maybe we already know some continents - certain openings and variations - in the realm of chess. But maybe these are just islands? Are there still unexplored areas, white spots on the great map of chess openings? Presumably.

Hitherto everyone calculated for himself. Now we can all research together. What will we discover? Things are going to be exciting...with Fritz 13 Chess Playing Software
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