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Fritz Chess 17 Steam Edition cover art

Fritz Chess 17 Steam Edition

ChessBase GmbH · 2020-07-29

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric, Text

Releases: Jul 29, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

At the turn of the century, Fritz fascinated the chess world with victories over Garry Kasparov and then-reigning World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. The "most popular chess program" offers you everything you will need as a dedicated chess enthusiast.

66%
positive of 83 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$59.99
steam price (US)

At the turn of the century, Fritz fascinated the chess world with victories over Garry Kasparov and then-reigning World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. In December 2017, a neural network was announced, dubbed Alpha Zero, which "learned" chess solely by playing millions of games against itself, yet was strong enough to beat Stockfish 8, a leading chess engine. This news was sobering and fascinating at the same time. Sobering in the sense that the decades old tradition of chess programming had been relegated to the shadows by a self-learning system. Fascinating because it was possible to hope that o(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 11,835 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.7k–3.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 83 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

2D3DChessStrategyTacticalBoard GameMultiplayerSingleplayer

Census log

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