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Pocket Fritz

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Pocket Fritz is a chess playing program for Pocket PC personal digital assistants (PDAs).

Pocket Fritz 1 was released in 2001. The game uses a port of Shredder chess engine.[1] Pocket Fritz 2 was released in 2002.[2] In 2006, Pocket Fritz 1 and 2 lost the online ability to search positions on Chessbase servers.[3] Pocket Fritz 3 was released in 2008 and used Hiarcs 12 as the engine.[4] The successor Pocket Fritz 4 was released in 2009 and uses Hiarcs 13 as engine.[5]

Copa Mercosur tournament

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The Pocket Fritz 4 won the Copa Mercosur tournament, a category 6 tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with nine wins and one draw on August 4–14, 2009. The Pocket Fritz 4 achieved a performance rating of 2898. The Pocket Fritz 4 was running on the mobile phone HTC Touch HD.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Pocket Fritz". Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  2. ^ "Pocket Fritz 2". Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  3. ^ [1][dead link]
  4. ^ "Pocket Fritz 3 uses Hiarcs!! and gets a GM Norm :)". Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  5. ^ "Humans v. Computers In Chess". Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  6. ^ "The Week in Chess 771". Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2010-04-03.