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Subject: Re: Telmo, you are NOT mistaken

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 04:51:30 03/18/02

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On March 17, 2002 at 22:57:11, Telmo Escobar wrote:

>>> Go to http://www.chessbase.com/download/index.asp?cat=Shredder+6
>>>
>>>and download setupshredderpaderborn.exe, then run it. You will get Shredder 6.02
>>>in your engines folder. It will work, even whether you didn't own former
>>>Shredder versions.
>>
>>
>>I tried it.  It puts the engine there but when I try to tell Fritz to use that
>>engine it asks for the CD-ROM, just like it's supposed to and goes back to Fritz
>>7 when I fail to supply the CD, just like it should.  So I guess you are
>>mistaken.  Thanks anyway.
>
> No, I'm not mistaken. You are not permitted to use all of Shredder's
>capabilities. But you CAN do these:
>
>      i) play engine matches between Shredder and other engine,
>
>      ii) use Shredder to play another engines in playchess.com
>
>      iii) you CAN even play chess against Shredder. Do the following:
>
>           a) start an engine match where Shredder is WHITE against whatever
>              CB engine, then
>
>           b) abort that game, and then
>
>           c) start playing yourself against Shredder. Yes: Fritz, and all Fritz
>              chess programs, share this behavior: whenever an engine plays a
>              game as White, next time the program assumes that is the active
>           engine.
>
> There is an important thing you can't do without the original CD: "infinite
>analysis". For some reason, this doesn't work: the program will tell you to go
>for the CD.


Ah, thank you for explaining.  Infinite Analysis is just about the only feature
I use most of the time, so that's all I tried.  (And sorry for saying that you
were mistaken!)



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