Fritz 20 & Fritzpowerbook 2026

Fritz 20

FRITZ 20 is more than just a chess engine – it is a training revolution for ambitious players and professionals. Whether you are taking your first steps into the world of serious chess training, or already playing at tournament level, FRITZ 20 will help you train more efficiently, intelligently and individually than ever before. 

New: playing style simulation at the highest level
FRITZ 20 analyses your next opponent – and plays like them! Use the style analysis in ChessBase 18 to configure whether Fritz should play aggressively, riskily, positionally or or exchange-oriented. This allows you to train specifically for your next game – realistically and practically.

Compete against legends
Compete against the strategies of the greatest players in history: Morphy,  Lasker, Capablanca, Tal, Fischer, Karpov – with ELO ratings tailored to you, but in their authentic style. The unique style engine simulates their playing style as convincingly as only FRITZ can. New: the additional playing styles ‘Hypermodern’ and ‘Romantic’.

Play better - even under time pressure
Perfect your reflexes with the new Bullet Training mode: configure the time limit exactly, and learn to keep your nerves under pressure – ideal for blitz and bullet players on online platforms.

AI that understands chess – and speaks
Experience a new dimension of interaction with AI chat and voice output: polished commentary, amusing analyses and subtle hints – spoken in natural language if desired. Fritz commentary at its best. Even stronger.

Even more beautiful. Even more direct.

Highlights in Fritz 20:

• Fritz with 3,580 ELO – world-class level
• Capablanca, Tal, Kasparov Master as virtual opponents
• Opponent simulation via ChessBase 18 Style Report
• Manual opponent configuration
• New playing styles: ‘Romantic’ and ‘Hypermodern’
• Bullet training, AI chat, new 3D graphics, game controller support, new achievements
• 2 month Premium membership

Fritz Powerbook 2026

The Fritz Powerbook 2026 contains 25 millions opening positions, derived from 1.7 million high class tournament games. Together with each position all relevant information is stored: all moves that were played in the position, by players of what average rating, with what success and performance results. 

The games from which the Fritz Powerbook 2026 were derived are also included. The Fritz Powerbook 2026 represents the state of the art of current openings theory. The FritzPowerbook was derived also from the best 100,000 games from the Correspondence 2026 Database to enhance even more the theoretical value of moves given by the book. With the 2026 edition you get 3 Books: Fritz Powerbook, Strongbook and the CorrBook. Discover exciting and tricky new lines and practice them against Fritz. In addition the Powerbook has a small but very exclusive book with the strongest GM games (ELO >= 2550) from the past 100 years (2.7 Mio positions) and StrongBook Games Database.

Powerbook 2026

StrongBook 2026

CorrBook 2026