Fritz 15 doesn't play play a brutally strong game at that setting so I'm not sure what to tell you. It probably plays stronger than 900 but it's still pretty weak.
If you reset your rating, you can tell the program you're a beginner and Fritz will lower its stated rating to 700.
In friendly mode Fritz 15 does make blunders and mistakes, just not as often as most beginning players. It's not particularly aggressive as far as I can tell, and it will punish you if you blunder.
The chess computer here at chess.com is considerably weaker than Fritz 15. If you want to play computer, you might start here first. Until you stop making too many mistakes on your own. OTOH, if you have played the computer here, and switched to Fritz 15, then it would feel a lot more powerful. The ratings on chess.com's computer are way overstated. It blunders so often I find it hard to lose or even draw a game on the lower settings. Not bragging, it's just that bad.
Ok, thanks, this is helpful. I just thought that making one single blunder among 30 moves at ELO 900 would not be a big deal, but now I know it will be "fatal" in Fritz. I thought it was some misbehaviour of the sofware. After all, the help file is quite bad, it does not explain these things. I still think they should not call it "friendly" (ah ah).
By the way, I resetted my rating to 700 (beginner) like Crappov suggested, and the program still beats me 90% of time. It's depressing, it seems Fritz distinguishes only between "idiots" and "masters", with nobody in between.
Ok, thanks, this is helpful. I just thought that making one single blunder among 30 moves at ELO 900 would not be a big deal, but now I know it will be "fatal" in Fritz. I thought it was some misbehaviour of the sofware. After all, the help file is quite bad, it does not explain these things. I still think they should make it more "friendly" though (ah ah).
By the way, I resetted my rating to 700 like Crappov suggested, and the program still beat me. I feel depressed, after 3 years of playing chess (as a hobby), it seems there are only "idiots" (like me) and "masters".
I'm curious, are you using the Fritz 15 engine or possibly Komodo? I ask because the Fritz engine plays weaker in Friend mode than Komodo. At least, that's my perception. I could be wrong.
I recently bought a copy of Fritz15. Its "friendly mode" is not friendly at all, but plainly hostile. I am not an experienced club player, but I am not a beginner either. Yet, when I play the friendly mode of Fritz 15, I am systematically defeated 90% of the time, which is very frustrating. Fritz seems to play at brutal strength even at 900 ELO, and I can't find a way to lower the ELO further. Is it me, or I am missing something in the software setting?