Fritz (chess)

This article is about the chess program originally developed by Chessbase. For the video game, see Fritz Chess.
Fritz
GenreChess
Developers
  • Frans Morsch engine 1-13
  • Matthias Wüllenweber GUI
  • Mathias Feist GUI
  • Gyula Horváth engine 14
  • Vasik Rajlich engine 15-16
  • Frank Schneider engine 17-19
PublisherChessBase
PlatformsMicrosoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Wii, Nintendo DS
First releaseFritz
November 1991
Latest releaseFritz 20
May 2025 (2025-05)

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. Fritz 17 switched to the Ginkgo engine, written by Frank Schneider.

The latest version of the consumer product is Fritz 19. This version supports 64-bit hardware and multiprocessing by default.

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