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The best chess software gives you many great tools for both learning and playing chess.

This page focuses on playing chess, while learning features will be secondary.

Great chess software let's you customize playing levels from very easy to champion levels. You can customize the playing styles and length of games from tournament style to very fast blitz games.

The software may also include Internet server access, allow you to go online with your chess program and compete with more than a thousand other chess players interested in various styles of chess. This feature alone can transform your chess playing experience.

These benefits and many more are available in the ChessBase commercial line of chess software products which include Fritz, Junior, Shredder, and Zap!Chess.

Fritz 11 is ChessBase's flagship chess program and the one you should consider as your first. The difference between the others mentioned really focus on who wrote the "chess engine", the part of the program that largely influences the computer's playing style. Chess software gamers often own more than one of the ChessBase core chess programs to play against each other, to play online, or to experience the different playing style and parameters.

For your first product, consider Fritz 11. It's packed with interesting and exciting options to help you practice and learn.

Each product on this page meets our quality standards and will give you a wonderful chess playing experience.

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Fritz 11 Chess Software for PC Our Price: $59.99 Sale Price: $54.99 (Out of Stock)	Fritz 10 Play Chess Software (on DVD) Price: $54.00 Sale Price: $42.30 In Stock!	Shredder 11 Chess Playing Software (DVD) Price: $59.00 In Stock!

Fritz is the PC chess software program that for many years now has fascinated the chess world. Bring the most outstanding chess playing experience to your PC with learning, challenging, exciting chess gaming.	See great new features in Fritz 10! As always, there's no upgrade version, but the new features are wonderful. Enhanced and improved chess engine developed especially for the 2006 Kramnik vs Fritz match, enhanced opening books, and database, plus many new visual features and aids. The online chess play features are much enhanced as well!	No other chess program has gained as many world championship titles in recent years as Shredder. Shredder 11 is even stronger than all previous versions, showing a drastic increase of performance by approximately 80 Elo points.


Junior 10 (CD) Price: $54.00 (Out of Stock)	Deep Fritz 10 (DVD) Price: $124.20 In Stock!	Deep Junior 10 - Multiprocessor Version (CD) Price: $108.00 In Stock!

The new 2006 reigning computer chess world champion! Junior is different from all other programs in its search strategies and evaluation function. This gives the program a very distinctive style of play.	Deep Fritz 10 - Multiprocessor version - The championship chess program that will match any adversary, allow you to play chess online, coach, and much more!	The 2006 World Computer Chess Champion! Deep Junior is different from all other programs in its search strategies and evaluation function. This gives the program a very distinctive style of play.


Deep Shredder 10 Chess Play Software (DVD) Price: $107.10 In Stock!	Deep Shredder 11 Chess Play Software (DVD) Price: $109.95 (Out of Stock)

In the last couple of years there is by far no other chess program that gained as many world championship titles like Shredder. Deep Shredder 10 is the new version for multiprocessor systems (including Dual Core systems). Deep Shredder 10 is stronger than all previous versions and shows a drastic increase of the performance by approximately 80 Elo points.	Only Shredder can do it! For the past eight years this program has won world championship titles with monotonous regularity. Now Shredder 11 is out. Programmer Stefan Meyer-Kahlen has been hard at work, so that this record run is in no danger of being broken. The strength of the new program has been increased by no less than 100 Elo points.