hammerklavier wrote: ↑Thu May 22, 2025 5:39 pm
The only way for me to buy Fritz again is if the engine is a new version of Franz Morsch. Fritz Morsch NNUE !
It's since Fritz 15 that they only change icons. Fritz 20 also gives only 2 months of Premium account so it doesn't worth to pay 69€ for an engine that is still 300 ELO weaker than Stockfish 17.1 and 200 ELO weaker than Obsidian and PlentyChess. The GUI is also full of new bugs (eg: preferences and even the windows sizes not saved) while they have never fixed the old ones (eg: engine games resuming after internet disconnection)
I'd expect Fritz 20 to come close to breaking into the top 12 engines (CCRL), so your statement seems to be a gross exaggeration.
Time will tell.
+1
And the haters forget - it's not about mere rating points, it's an interface you can do so much with.
Werewolf wrote: ↑Thu May 22, 2025 2:31 pm
Incredible advancements in F20:
The menu icons have been completely redrawn
There's now a cat with tits that makes suggestive verbal comments to you as you play "you are on top and it's getting hard...for me to stop"
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Chess engines and dedicated chess computers fan since 1981 macOS Sequoia 16GB-512GB, Windows 11 & Ubuntu ARM64. ProteusSF Dev Forum
Fritz 20 also gives only 2 months of Premium account so it doesn't worth to pay 69€ for an engine that is still 300 ELO weaker than Stockfish 17.1 and 200 ELO weaker than Obsidian and PlentyChess. The GUI is also full of new bugs (eg: preferences and even the windows sizes not saved) while they have never fixed the old ones (eg: engine games resuming after internet disconnection)
