Author: Mike Hood
Date: 06:02:02 09/10/05
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On September 10, 2005 at 08:15:34, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 10, 2005 at 08:02:23, Mike Hood wrote: ><snipped> >> Fritz is still Chessbase's flagship chess playing program > >Why? > >Why do they need a flagship? >They have many programs and Fritz is one of them. > >Give me one reason that Fritz should be more important than other programs. > >Uri Any reasons I give probably won't be adequate to you, Uri, but they are reasons to the Chessbase company and staff. Fritz is the "flagship" program for Chessbase because it was their first chess program, first sold in 1991 (if my memory doesn't deceive me). New GUI features are first introduced in Fritz packages, not in Shredder/Junior/Hiarcs/Tiger. The close communication between Chessbase and Frans Morsch means that engine bugs/weaknesses are swiftly corrected, unlike the Junior bugs that stay uncorrected for years. There are more frequent updates of the Fritz engines than of any other Chessbase engines. (Apart from Crafty, which is a special case). As far as I know, the Chessbase company owns the rights to Fritz. Other programs such as Shredder are produced in partnership with the respective program authors. Those are all the "reasons" I can think of at present. Probably not enough to convince you, but if people like Mr. Feist and Mr. Wuellenweber are reading this post they will be nodding their heads in agreement. And one last point: Chessbase refers to Fritz as its flagship program, for instance in http://www.chessbase.com/eventarticle.asp?newsid=1029 More recently Mig has called Fritz Chessbase's flagship engine at http://www.chesscafe.com/mig/mig.htm
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