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Subject: Re: Stronger

Author: Rafael Vasquez

Date: 10:23:09 01/28/05

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On January 28, 2005 at 12:52:35, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On January 28, 2005 at 11:48:02, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>>
>>
>>When you analyse a game and move forward and backward in the lines, Shredder
>>will remember and combine the already seen lines much better than before. This
>>is basically all. The result is that it is now very easy to analyse with
>>Shredder, most of the time you just have to move forward the suggested line
>>until Shredder can see clearer in the position. Then go backwards again until
>>Shredder is suggesting a different move somewhere. Now follow this line and
>>proceed with the above until you have reached the root again.
>>
>
>Where does Shredder saves the information in order to use them.....? Is on the
>Shredder.plr file........?
>
>
>>
>>>Ah one final question:
>>>Did you change the copy protection for Shredder 9/classic/UCI? The former
>>>versions made a lot of trouble in my DVD drive in my Toshiba notebook, the
>>>original CD was hardly recognized for the copy protection check.
>>
>>
>>The protection of the Chessbase version is the same, but probably a newer
>>version. The protection of the UCI version is your personal license code you
>>will receive as this version comes without CD.
>
> I would like a copy protection much different that this. I would like to be
>based one a special number that would be derived from the owner's computer(a
>special registry number or whatever) and that Shredder would be able to be used,
>ONLY in the owner's PC. After a customer buy Shredder 9, it will have to give
>you this code from his computer and give him a code to unlock Shredder to use it
>only in his PC! Or to make a live-internet registration or something more
>clever.
> I'm tired seeing all these cracks at various sites that make Chess engines (and
>general software) available to thousants, without paying a single buck while we
>have to pay 50$ for a single engine..........Your efforts of creating this
>amazing program are useless without a strong copy protection....I wonder why you
>don't make something more efficient for stopping all these piracy.....?
>
> And finally i saw Sandro said that the books would be the same(OK almost) for
>Chessbase and Classic GUI. For the first time i'm confused. What should i buy?
>Shredder 9(single-CPU).eng or Shredder 9(single-CPU).UCI......? Would be any
>difference in the price?
>
>Thank you............

Yes, But then users with multiple PC's that do Auto232 matchs will not be able
to do them anymore.... unless they get multiple numbers (one for each Pc)
Thorsten Czub for example does multiple auto232 and will require at least 4
registration codes!(possibly more) can you imagine this?

Rafael



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