Fritz 18 - New version of legendary and very good chess program from the ChessBase developer. According to the developer: " Fritz has fascinated the chess world for 30 (!) years: victories over world champions Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik, innovative training methods for amateurs and professionals, 20 years of Internet chess on the Fritz server, 10 integrated WebApps for mobile training: Fritz offers you everything you will need as a dedicated chess enthusiast. Evolving Genius – The new path to playing brilliancies Fritz shows you what you are capable of being: an attacking player who can conjure up magnificent brilliancies over the board! The new AI-based training method leads you to brilliant sacrificial combinations via clever variant selection and discreet hints. " Few new features include: Evolving Genius Fritz 18 offers you the chance to discover a new you in terms of chess playing. “Evolving Genius” is a completely innovative training method, with which when playing against Fritz you learn more than just to attack. You will be astonished at what you find in yourself! You will never have won such nice games against Fritz! Intelligent tips: Fritz provides subtle hints in difficult positions Visual evaluation: pawn structure, king safety, piece activity and sharpness of the position New engine analysis Interesting threats, appealing ideas and the game continuation Animated engine variations: Intuitive visual display of the best continuation Stronger Fritz 18 engine by Frank Schneider, optimised for short time controls. New board The present Windows variations have available with Direct2D a powerful interface for rapid on-screen representations. New technique allows other subtleties e.g. highlighting the pieces by having them glow or decent animation of captures. Website: Fritz 18 Download: developer's webpage

Back to the roots of 19 years ago and over 350 elo stronger than the latest ProDeo 3.1 Ed Schröder introduces Rebel 14.1 " 1. New and bigger neural network made from 1.2 billion position analyzed with Benjamin 1.1, estimated elo gain ~60. 2. Search changes, estimated elo gain ~40-50 ( over Rebel 14, 3. NNUE tuner parameter in Engine Settings. Changing the default of 100% to 125 will make Rebel even more aggressive, 150 up to the point of reckless, values lower than 100 will change the playing style to be more moderate. We tested the value 75 and it gave an extra 10 elo but it was preferred to leave the value at 100 exactly what the learner had created to keep the original Benjamin 1.1 playing style. Credits Fabien Letouzey for Fruit 2.1 Pawel Koziol for Growing Fruit Chris Whittington for introducing me into NNUE, providing me with the necessary tools and writing the NNUE code. Rebel 14.1 is released under the GPLv3 licence. " Website: Rebel 14.1 Download: developer's webpage