SERIOUS ISSUES, MISSING FEATURES, and IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED
1) No serial Key to extend Chessbase subscription (don't even bother yourself to find it), and many more aspects to improve immediately with an upgrade, here we are:
2. The voices in Italian are terrible! It was ten thousand times better before, at least let us choose. They speak so slowly in the easy game. In the "Normal" game, there's no spoken voice anymore, why? It was so much fun!
3. Extremely complicated menus, too many redundant tabs. There's no need to split into Easy Game, Analyze, Classic Menu!! Come on! one window would have been enough, we are no more in 2002.
4. Database creation is IMPOSSIBLE, you can’t even save a position quickly, everything is so convoluted!
5. But why on earth don’t you integrate the Chessbase multimedia streaming service for subscription lessons directly into the app’s tabs without having to go through the browser?????? I don’t get it.
6. How is it even possible that you didn’t include a repertoire of Tactics puzzles? You’re really making me angry. There are free services like Lichess that have tens of millions of them!
7. You removed the automatic coach intervention with the dedicated window when mistakes are made. Now you have to hover over it and explicitly click to start it.
8. There’s NO FUNCTION to review the “training” moves from MY past games, the ones obtained from Fritz analysis? Why not? I’d like to study them but it’s not possible.
9. There’s NO FUNCTION that allows me to take part in a simulated tournament with engines of different strengths.
10 Why on earth does the engine accept draws in positions where it’s clearly winning??
11. Why the hell haven’t you, in 2025, still integrated an automatic system to export my Blitz/Rapid games from my Chess.com or Lichess accounts to analyze them, understand my trends, estimate my Elo, genereate an insightful report with my strenghts and weaknesses, and generate puzzles from those same games at the points where I made mistakes?
12. How the heck is it possible that after 25 editions we only have 15 endgame patterns for training?? You should include as many as possible of every type of balanced and unbalanced situation, I mean, at this point just hire me.
13. Explain to me the point of NOT INCLUDING a training mode at least with 200 unbalanced middlegame positions, what would it have cost you?
14. Explain to me in simple terms why the AI you promise is only there to make the bot say a couple of stupid lines, but not to actually talk to it or have a real exchange. And above all, if you integrate AI (with its infinite possibilities), give it the full instruction set to steer it toward positional discussions, opening insights, strategic plans, and specific endgame tips, history (Mine one says only that it is a pity playing with the black, that's it). Basically, there’s no damn AI (which is why I paid for Fritz20).
15. The bot voices are totally fake and all sound the same, change the pitch — Paul Morphy has the same one as the sewer rat.
16. Integrate a game client to use Chess.com or Lichess.net from within the Fritz program, since the ChessBase game servers are dead and useless (and it even opens those in the browser…).
17. Add a guided setup for creating my opening tree, and most importantly link it to statistics on how much I stick to it on Fritz and on my Chess.com/Lichess account.
18. Add a flashcard system to review openings that tracks how many mistakes I make and allows me to reinforce my knowledge.
19. Add a feature to paste a 2D screenshot of a position from another site and use it directly on the analysis board. What the hell am I supposed to do with FEN code? Enough already.
20.The candidate moves system is bugged. During easy game, the system thinks I’ve taken back the previous move anytime I try to indicate my candidated ones, and it doesn’t add them to the list. It’s unclear how it’s supposed to work.
21. The easy game system isn’t calibrated to be human-like like the Chess.com bots. It starts off like an incompetent, giving you an obvious advantage, and then suddenly shifts into turbo mode — and you can feel it.
22. In easy game, I’ve had situations where the engine evaluation went up a lot in my favor, but I lost over 350 Elo points per move in the Elo evaluation. It seems extremely sensitive. A final drop-down report would be necessary, showing with hyperlinks all the blunders, mistakes, inaccuracies, good moves, excellent moves, best moves, great moves, and brilliant moves, so they can be quickly reviewed, saved in personal records, and revisited later as periodic puzzles. The current plain text format, styled like Python code, is useless, barely readable, and extremely outdated for this era.
23. There should be a record that tracks how I’m playing: whether I’m improving, against whom, against which styles, how my performance changes over months, at different times of day, on which move I tend to blunder, what kinds of mistakes I usually make, my resilience, my resourcefulness — with clear references to my previous games. As it is now, nothing makes sense.
24. At the end of a game it’s absolutely unclear when it’s actually over. Let me explain: only the faint word “mate” appears in transparency, and that’s it — there’s no feedback, no follow-up showing me if I deviated from my usual theory, nothing satisfying that transitions from the game to an update window. At the very least it should display 1-0, the engine level, or something along those lines.
25. The easy game matches don’t make it clear what level I’m actually playing against. Even the “candidate master” plays poorly at first, then suddenly dominates the advanced middlegame like a bot, but in the end you can’t tell if you should celebrate, if it just gave you a consolation win, or if it tricked you. It feels more like it’s mocking you than an adaptive model. And who exactly is it adapting to? It doesn’t even seem to learn to know me.
26. In the classic menu, “friendly game” isn’t clear — it says it’s adaptive, so basically it’s just a replacement for easy game but without audio.
27. The “opening training” isn’t training at all. It’s just a thin list with an ECO index of openings that shows you two moves, like Caro-Kann “1.e4, c6,” and that’s it. It doesn’t give you anything else — it starts some kind of game that isn’t clear, maybe an “Easy Game” or a “Friendly,” but at what level? And how is that supposed to be teaching me the opening? It doesn’t correct me, it doesn’t say anything, it’s just a clumsy list of extremely early starting positions. There aren’t even any variations — what am I supposed to do with that?
28. “Calculation training” is an option that could be interesting, but it expects you to provide the position yourself — so it’s not training, it’s self-analysis. There’s no calculation training database at all.
29. The “attack training” and “defense training” are just methods where you only have to click the pieces that can be captured. It is training, but like everything else it’s very bare-bones: no improvement report, no incremental difficulty, no timed challenges (you always get 1 minute), nothing dynamic. There’s no “Battle Rush” mode or a “You’re out after the first mistake” option — you’re forced to slog through it in the single way the developer decided, period.
30. “Click on standard repertoire to open a repertoire” doesn’t do anything even when you click it, and it’s not clear what a “standard repertoire” is supposed to be — maybe the “book without optimal moves,” which is then redefined in a side box as “normal book.” Very confusing. When you hover over the arrow it just repeats “standard repertoire.” There’s nothing clear about any of this — I don’t know if I’m the stupid one or what.
31.The “New Game” box next to “Friendly Game” — what is it supposed to be? I click it and it sets Fritz to 3550 Elo? Even if I chose 960, what exactly would I be playing against?
To be continued
