I just wondered if the Fritz 9 advertised on amazon for £17 is the real PC
version. The box illustration looks quite different from the box shown on
the chess.co.uk site, i.e. blue colour instead of largely red tints. Same
'blue version' on some other sites. Half price, anyone confirm it's the real
thing?
Cheers, Mike

Many thanks for that speedy info. Sounds like it might be a good buy; I'll
check out what the videos are. Cheers, Mike

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"MPW" wrote in
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I just wondered if the Fritz 9 advertised on amazon for £17 is the real
PC version. The box illustration looks quite different from the box
shown on the chess.co.uk site, i.e. blue colour instead of largely red
tints. Same 'blue version' on some other sites. Half price, anyone
confirm it's the real thing?
Cheers, Mike


There are two versions: the ChessBase and Viva Media version. IIRC only
the
tutorial videos are (almost all) missing from the latter, and ChessBase is
supposed not to give tech support on that version. The engine and
interface
is the same.

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Ah, the 'reduced' version seems to be missing the 1 million games! That's
not good.

"MPW" wrote in message
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Many thanks for that speedy info. Sounds like it might be a good buy; I'll
check out what the videos are. Cheers, Mike

"CeeBee" wrote in message
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"MPW" wrote in
rec.games.chess.computer:

I just wondered if the Fritz 9 advertised on amazon for £17 is the real
PC version. The box illustration looks quite different from the box
shown on the chess.co.uk site, i.e. blue colour instead of largely red
tints. Same 'blue version' on some other sites. Half price, anyone
confirm it's the real thing?
Cheers, Mike


There are two versions: the ChessBase and Viva Media version. IIRC only
the
tutorial videos are (almost all) missing from the latter, and ChessBase
is
supposed not to give tech support on that version. The engine and
interface
is the same.

--
CeeBee

*** The Cookie Has Spoken ***

Mike,

It is definitely the real fritz 9 engine. The diference is that it only contains about 1 hour of training material, as opposed to about 4 hours of training material on the chessbase.com DD version. If you mainly wamt it for it'd playing/analysis rather than for all the other stuff then it is agood buy.

Mark

Many thanks for the replies; I ended up getting the 'real thing' after all.
I was only being a little tight minded because I've already got Fritz 5,6,7.
Looks a good improvement, though I feel a little miffed the 3 hour tutorial
is just a bunch of extracts from other products, i.e. advertising. The 1
hour beginners' tutorial looks excellent for the kids though...
Cheers, Mike

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MPW Wrote:
I just wondered if the Fritz 9 advertised on amazon for £17 is the real
PC
version. The box illustration looks quite different from the box shown
on
the chess.co.uk site, i.e. blue colour instead of largely red tints.
Same
'blue version' on some other sites. Half price, anyone confirm it's the
real
thing?
Cheers, Mike



Mike,

It is definitely the real fritz 9 engine. The diference is that it only
contains about 1 hour of training material, as opposed to about 4 hours
of training material on the chessbase.com DD version. If you mainly
wamt it for it'd playing/analysis rather than for all the other stuff
then it is agood buy.

Mark


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Mark Mason