It doesnt really relate to ratings at all.
It just means that Fritz is playing and will offer you the equivalent of a pawn odds sometime during the game.
You can't judge what that equates to as a rating, as Fritz in friend mode is a different engine than the full works, and also its rating will depend on your PC and specs etc.
It doesnt really relate to ratings at all.
It just means that Fritz is playing and will offer you the equivalent of a pawn odds sometime during the game.
You can't judge what that equates to as a rating, as Fritz in friend mode is a different engine than the full works, and also its rating will depend on your PC and specs etc.
it's not technically a different engine, but rather the same engine operating under different parameters.
But you are correct in that the handicap value doesn't correlate with a rating. It's supposed to be viewed like a golf handicap -- how many strokes a better player has to "spot" you to make it a competitive match -- except thath here it's applied to chess. The problem with that idea is that it hasn't a prayer of catching on in a hobby/game/sport where the typical greeting offered by two strangers isn't "Pleased to meet you" but is instead "What's your rating?" 
For example, what rating does it correspond to when the computer plays with -100 handicap? Any experience or guess?