Fritz confirms the leadership!

Arguably one of the most famous chess software, Fritz has come a long way.
In 1995, Fritz 3 won the World Computer Chess Championship in Hong Kong, beating an early version of Deep Blue. This was the first time a program running on a consumer-level microcomputer defeated the mainframes that had previously dominated this event.
The die was cast! Since then, technology has progressed quickly; today, chess software can run on phones, and no human being can beat them.
During all these years, Fritz has become one of the most used software platforms for studying and playing chess.
But, and it's important, Fritz 19 is a super-strong engine.
In 2023, Fritz won the World Chess Software Championship for the second year in a row.
The World Chess Software Championship has different rules from the World Chess Computer Championship.
In the latter, the developers can choose any hardware to run their engine. It's not unusual to see the engines run on monster machines with 96 cores and some Terabytes of RAM.
In the World Chess Software Championship, all the participants ran their software on a laptop equipped with an AMD Ryzen 3700X processor, a very competent CPU sporting eight cores and 16 threads.
This year, four engines participated in the WCSC:

• Fritz
• Arasan
• Jonny
• Stoofvlees

The tournament was a quadruple round-robin.
Fritz was the only engine to win two games (against Stoofvlees), as all the other games ended in a draw.



And here are the two games Fritz won, allowing it to retain the coveted title.