None climbed the ratings charts, and none captured the public imagination. ChessBase struggled along with Fritz 14, a "skin" of the formerly private engine Pandix, while Fritz 15 and 16 were both rebranded and marginally improved versions of Rybka 4.1. Engine author Frans Morsch retired after the release of Fritz 13, and the Fritz franchise took a back seat to a series of new, more advanced engines: first Rybka, then Houdini, Komodo, and (especially) Stockfish. For years careful readers could find reference to Fritz or “Fritzy” in the annotations to top-level games. While top players originally thought it a toy, Kasparov used Fritz 4 as part of his analytical process as early as the the 1995 match against Anand, where it proved invaluable in working out his 14. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fritz is the granddaddy of commercial chess engines, the first to defeat a world champion in an “official” blitz game (Kasparov, 1992) and in a head-to-head classical match (Kramnik, 2006).
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