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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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HIARCS 12 Shredder 12 Chess Playing Software (DVD) Deep HIARCS 12
HIARCS 12
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Shredder 12 Chess Playing Software (DVD)
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Deep HIARCS 12
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In version 12 HIARCS has improved in all phases of the game and even in quieter positions HIARCS 12 is able to be more selective about the variations it explores to achieve a better understanding than previous versions which leads to much stronger play. The new edition of Shredder is stronger than all previous versions. In version 12 HIARCS has improved in all phases of the game and even in quieter positions HIARCS 12 is able to be more selective about the variations it explores to achieve a better understanding than previous versions which leads to much stronger play.
Deep Shredder 12 Chess Play Software (DVD) Spanish Exchange Variation - Martin The Sicilian Kan Variation - Lilov
Deep Shredder 12 Chess Play Software (DVD)
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Spanish Exchange Variation - Martin
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The Sicilian Kan Variation - Lilov
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Many Time World Champion. Put the power of Shredder to work for you in analyzing your chess games and as a training partner with its scalable playing strength options! Deep Shredder 12 is the multi-core/multi-processor version of Shredder, designed specially for computers possessing the extra processing power of multiple cores. Andrew Martin makes a convincing case for Whites chances. In 2010, 4.Bxc6 is as dangerous as ever. Will guarantee you a strong and active position even late in the middle game.
Fritz 13 Chess Software
Fritz 13 Chess Software
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Whether you are a beginner, club player or professional - Fritz has everything that chess players want.
   
 
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