Fritz 18 Steam Edition

Just bought this to improve my chess. Tried for over 10 hours to get certain functions to work. Only to discover that this is a steam edition.... Which means that there are some features missing that are quite essential in my opinion. After discovering this i wanted a refund because clearly this wasn't what i had in mind. Buying a limited version paying the exact same price as the complete version on chessbase. But after spending more than 10 hours trying to figure this game out. I wasn't eligible for a refund. Absolute waste of money and time. Get your chess software from a certified place rather than this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (first time, problems to be honest). This game is a scam. DONT BUY ITTTT

Do not buy this game. It is the stripped down version. You will not be able to access Gamebase.com for training or etc. a lot of tabs and info is faded. Not the full game... I didn't know that until after 2 hours which is the limit of refund... So disappointed in Steam... :(

Very good if you only buy for GUI. It is generally good. Bur price can be salty. Wouldn't be worth to pay more than 10 dollars.

I played few times and now it will close by itself after every launch.

Sadly this doesn't work on steam deck, the game doesn't scale, control commands are off the screen and the sound glitches. I've tried different proton layers, launch commands, full screen, windowed, gamescope etc all to no avail. Works on a PC but if you want to play chess on the go get a different program. Would I recommend, PC version is boiled down but ok, on deck it's a none starter. It's a shame because it still works with my DGT board, which would have made it really cool on deck, shame the implementation is so bad. As a long time Fritz fan, I'll probably swerve their next release too until they get a better customer focus.

Fantastic game.. Great human like response times! Thanks