Owners of a Fritz 13 license and serial number respectively, have now the opportunity to participate in a beta test of a new, amazing Fritz feature:

The Engine Cloud

http://www.engine-cloud.com/

The download page (free download but requires a Fritz 13 license number to work) has the current file date, so you can see if a new beta is available. I was testing versions of May 14th and 17th. As for now, I saw that cloud engines can be used for analysis (incl. Let's Check analyses), to kibitz broadcasted games with, and even in the machine room at Playchess.com. They appear in your GUI just like local engines.

The installation does not overwrite your Fritz 13 but creates an additional installation of that beta interface version.

Meanwhile, the beta test has ended and the cloud feature was released as full version, being part of Deep Fritz 13. As far as I can tell, it works fine except for minor "cosmetic" details regarding the expected nps and Let's Check speed index, in the cloud screen. I do not doubt that an update/bugfix will appear sooner or later.

Also, rating list results indicate a small but measurable strength improvement of the (Deep) Fritz 13 engine compared to the singlecore version, in addition to the mp feature, IOW in singlethread comparisons. At IPON, that's +17 Elo.