Re: Free Download Fritz 11 Full Version
Angie Troia
Fritz is a German chess program originally developed for Chessbase by Frans Morsch based on his Quest program, ported to DOS, and then Windows by Mathias Feist. With version 13, Morsch retired, and his engine was first replaced by Gyula Horvath's Pandix, and then with Fritz 15, Vasik Rajlich's Rybka.
In 1991, the German company ChessBase approached the Dutch chess programmer Frans Morsch about writing a chess engine to add to the database program which they sold. Morsch adapted his Quest program, and ChessBase released it for sale that year as Knightstalker in the U.S. and Fritz throughout the rest of the world. In 1995, Fritz 3 won the World Computer Chess Championship in Hong Kong, beating an early version of Deep Blue. This was the first time that a program running on a consumer-level microcomputer defeated the mainframes that had previously dominated this event.
In 1998, Fritz 5 was released including a Friend mode which would cause the engine to adjust its strength of play over the course of a game based on the level the opponent appeared to be playing. Fritz 5.32 was released soon after replacing the 16-bit architecture with a 32-bit one.
In 2004, Fritz 8 added a Handicap and Fun mode, allowing players to choose the Elo rating and style that the engine will use.[3] Chessbase native engines can use the Handicap feature: Chess Tiger, Crafty, the Fritz engine, Hiarcs, Houdini, Junior, Rybka, Shredder and Zappa. Some UCI engines can also make use of Handicap, e.g. Fruit and Stockfish.
The 2013 release of Deep Fritz 14 switched engines from the original author Frans Morsch's to Pandix, written by Gyula Horvth. A long-time participant in world computer championships since 1984, Pandix was substantially rewritten in 2009, and has been a strong contender since then.
Fritz 15 was released on November 25, 2015, with new features, including switching to Vasik Rajlich's famous Rybka engine.[8] Handicap and Fun mode was dropped, but there is now a function for pawn and piece handicaps (e.g. ceding pawn and move).
Fritz 16 was released on November 12, 2017, with a new Easy game mode which provides for assisted calculation marking good moves with a green circle and bad moves with a red one.[9] This version again uses the Rybka engine.[10]
In July 2021, the developers of the open source Stockfish chess engine filed a lawsuit against Chessbase alleging that Fat Fritz 2.0 is a derivative of Stockfish and is in violation of a "central obligation" of Stockfish's GNU General Public License.[12] In November 2022, a settlement was reached in which it was agreed that the license obligations of the GPL-3.0 for the products Fat Fritz 2 and Houdini 6 have not been complied with. In the future, Chessbase will comply with the license terms and to adequately inform the public about the use of the Stockfish software in its products.[13]
The American company Viva Media, now a division of Encore, Inc. has been licensed to sell many versions of the Fritz engine and GUI combination. British game publisher Eidos Interactive (now part of Square Enix Europe) published Fritz 6 and 7. In 1998, the German company Data Becker released the program 3D Schach Genie, containing the Shredder engine and Fritz interface. The German company Purple Hills sold Fritz 6 through 12 as Profi Schach 1 through 7. British Excalibur Publishing has published Fritz 9 through 14. American book publisher Simon & Schuster featured the Fritz engine in their Extreme Chess program, as have German game publisher TopWare Interactive in their Battle vs. Chess game.
Fritz and Chesster is a series of introductory chess programs based on the Fritz engine. Each program provides basic tutorials and games based on one aspect of chess, allowing children to learn the basic rules easily without overwhelming them with too many options at once.
I use Keepass 2.43. Since I have this version I have issues to synchronize or open a kdbx file on a specific network share on the FRITZ BOX.
If I start the synchronization it needs a long time and then an error message appears.
I have access to the share and I have also mounted the network share to a drive letter.
This works and I can change files on the network share via Windows Explorer.
I can also use the file selection dialog from Keepass to select the file on the share.
So the file should be visible to Keepass.
I have also tried to find the reason with procmon.exe from sysinternals.
In procmon.exe there are many Read File events from keepass.exe where it tries to access the network share with the result: DISCONNECTED.
With SMB1 I had not problems doing this, but since updating FritzOS and using SMB3, I'm getting the (German) Windows error message "Ein an das System angeschlossenes Gert funktioniert nicht". This also happens when I try to sync manually.
Edit: I've just made an interesting observation, all done within Windows Explorer. I've moved the non-working database backup file from the FritzBox's storgage to some subfolder. Now, when I just MOVE (cut & paste) that file back to its original place, synching doesn't work. But when I COPY (copy & paste) that file to its original place, synching works.
Do you happen to know which file permission system is in effect when accessing FritzBox's storage from Windows via SMB(3)? Windows is using NTFS as the file system, the FritzBox's internal storage some ext (ext2 I think). So where and how do I look for the permission that is causing this problem? I don't have any advanced knowledge about file permissions.
@RiseT:
Your question regarding file permissions on fritz box:
In the fritz.box you can add and edit users via System->FRITZ!Box-Users.
If you edit the user you can see the permissions chapter with the item: "access to NAS content" (it is my translation of the item. I can only see the German: "Zugang zu NAS Inhalten").
Here you can specify the access permissions on NAS folders (read and write permissions).
The issue is only present for files that were stored on the FritzNAS prior to updating to the beta (and thus prior to migrating to SMB3). Anything stored there afterwards has no problems. I think this is some bug in FritzBox's migrations process from SMB1 to SMB3, and thus I have filed an issue at AVM today.
Personally, I don't have much stuff on the FritzBox's internal storage, so the workaround is rather simple: Copy all files from FritzNAS to my PC, delete the files on the FritzBox, and copy them back to the FritzBox. This seems to fix the file permissions.
How to REPRODUCE the issue:
Restart Windows, so you will access database file for the first time from this Windows instance (according to my experience restarting fritz.box does not have any effect on the issue).
Then try to open your database using KeePass in any way (using context menu or starting KeePass directly) - it will result in failing to open, resulting in an error message (see above) while network traffic hangs until the error message occurs (after approximateley 30 seconds).
My WORKAROUND:
Create a copy of the database at the share from Windows Explorer, so you have "database.kdbx" as well as "database - copy.kdbx" at the share. Now, you may successfully open your database using KeePass, or also your database - copy or you may also delete the copy you created. 8-))
Additional HINTS:
Accessing the share for writing by creating a new text file for example turns out NOT to be sufficient! Magic?!
Be aware when accessing shares from Windows the credentials of the current user logged in will be used!
It does NOT matter if you use a connected netword drive or if you are using the UNC path of your share directly from Windows Explorer! It remains the same issue!
Update: Network traffic rather hangs 60 than 30 seconds while "opening database ...".
No cure after applying the latest 02-2020 Windows 10/.NET updates, but mentioned workaround still functional. Any ideas / further investigation appreciated!
I have a Lovelace card on which I display the uptime, firmware versions and other information of my routers and switches. Recently, there is a sensor to query the uptime of the FRITZ!Box, but I cannot find a way to determine the FRITZ!OS version. However, on the device overview page of the AVM FRITZ!Box Tools integration, the version is displayed so that it can apparently be queried.
I would be very pleased to have a sensor or an attribute with the FRITZ!OS version.
Yes I knew the division to obtain (Kbit / s: 1024),
the problem is that surely I am not able to build the sensor to convert Kbit to Mbit.
I tried but it does not give me the result, probably I do not put the correct attributes.
Thank guys I will look at them all... does Houdini have a trial version? does Fritz? I am not sure I want a program to make smart alac comments every time I make a bad move... I will never get through a game that way.. lol
In the past I used Fritz. However each time I saw that droken hobo tell me that I had made a bad move I had to change to shredder. I wanted to pick up the hobo, snatch the cigar from his mouth, and throw him into the shower. He also needed dental care; his breath ponged.
I was looking for advice from a wonderful community of experienced chess players, not a personal attack. iPad apps don't come with a "manual". And, my mother just pressed 3 of my T-shirts and they look great!
Hello all. I realize this might get asked a lot, but I couldn't find any definitive answer. I'm looking into a chess program to help me imrpove my game. Not necessarily to play against, because I prefer playing against people, but just to analyze my games, alert me of bad moves, etc. Now I heard that Chessmaster is better at teaching beginners, but I don't know what is considered to be "beginner". I suppose I am rated at around 1200-1300 so would Fritz be good for me? Or am I better off with Chessmaster?
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