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The best software I have ever bought I received Fritz three weeks ago and I must say that this program is awesome. What I really like is the Rated Game mode, where you can adjust the strength of the machine all the way down to 1600. The program downplays its strength beautifully and the blunders it makes (1600 rated people make lots of blunders, usually every game) almost always remind me of human blunders I've seen or done before. There are NO silly moves like hanging a queen for no purpose, etc. (unless you have it in a mating net, at which point hanging a queen may not be worse than any other idea anyway) and beating Fritz takes effort and care - it will punish you for a stupid move, and by no means do you have an automatically won game if you get a pawn ahead. The display is neat and clean, no overdoing on graphics, but still a very good looking board (both 2D and 3D). The databases are extremely well thought out and organized so that you never have to waste time manually saving games etc. The analyzis functions are cooler than hell; especially BlunderCheck. And if you have ever wanted to study openings, well, here you go. A monstrous 500,000+ games database, plus a sophisticated openings book and a program that actually claims to learn from experience (I haven't figured that out in action though) give the aspiring Grandmaster all the tools he needs. I have already improved a lot tactically from only three weeks of using this program. If you're serious about improving your game, go for it. I can not imagine how one could be disappointed.