Fritz

Fritz is a German chess program developed by Frans Morsch and Mathias Feist and published by Chessbase. There is also a version called Deep Fritz that is designed for multi-processing. The latest versions of the consumer product are Deep Fritz 10 and Fritz 11, the latter released in November 2007 and the former in November 2006. Morsch and his friend Ed Schröder produced a chess program in the early 1980s. In the early '90s, the German company ChessBase asked Morsch to write the Fritz chess programs (called Knightstalker in the USA). In 1995, Fritz 3 won the World Computer Chess Championship in Hong Kong, surprisingly beating a prototype version of Deep Blue. In 2002, Deep Fritz drew the Brains in Bahrain match against the classical World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik 4–4. In November 2003, X3D Fritz, a version of Deep Fritz with a 3D interface, drew a four-game match against Garry Kasparov. On June 23,2005, in the ABC Times Square studios, the AI Accoona Toolbar, driven...