Author: Mike S.
Date: 22:10:30 01/23/02
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On January 24, 2002 at 00:13:50, James T. Walker wrote: >(...) >I'm not exactly sure what you are saying here Mike but it's not like Fritz 6. >When I installed Fritz 6 it did nothing to the Fritz 5.32 interface. When I >installed Junior 6/7 they did nothing to the other GUI's. I had two icons on >the screen. One for Fritz 6 and one for Fritz 5.32. Then if I want to run >Fritz 5.32 I just click on that icon and I don't have to change engines and >books and settings of hash tables or anything else. It was already set up the >way I wanted it. I'm beginning to understand... 5.32 / 6 / 7 are kind of "major versions" (no matter if it's i.e. Junior 6 or Fritz 6, etc.) - obviously that's why such installations do not interfere each other. Maybe Fritz 6 and Junior 6 also didn't interfere, which I don't know because I skipped them. Btw. I still use the Hiarcs 7.32 GUI, i.e. for Fritz (NoMMX), parallel to Fritz 7 now without problems. But you're probably right: By having only one Chessprogram7 installation, you loose the comfort of keeping two sets of settings so to speak, available at the same time. I didn't realise that, because I'm changing engines and settings all the time anyway. OTOH it isn't to much effort, F3 and some mouse clicks. >Now with S6 & F7 whatever I do to one GUI changes the other >also. Problably they interfere via the registry entries, IOW I suspect if you install Chessprogram7 twice, both installations use the same registry settings. >So you are right that it is useless to have two Icons on the screen now. >If Chessbase thinks this is a good idea they are wrong. It was better the way >it was. Anyway since they are forceing me to do it their way then they should >have just installed the engine/book when I installed the second program and not >the whole thing. Maybe the should call the directory not "Fritz 7", and/or "Shredder 6", but "CB-GUI7" or something engine-neutral like that, and if a program with the same GUI version is installed, it should just perform an update of that. We must keep in mind though, that the "average" customer won't understand the splitting in GUI and engine; this is obvious to computer chess freaks only. I think this may be a reason why ChessBase seems to hesitate a bit before putting that splitting into action completely. Regards, Mike Scheidl
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