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Subject: Re: When will Chessbase knock off this CD-checking garbage??

Author: Pete R.

Date: 15:03:30 07/27/00

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On July 27, 2000 at 17:56:09, blass uri wrote:

>On July 27, 2000 at 17:28:11, Pete R. wrote:
>
>>After I installed the Fritz 6a patch, for which I had to register (another thing
>>I think is garbage) I was asked to put in the Fritz 6 CD.  Now I am analyzing a
>>position and I decide to switch to the Hiarcs 7.32 engine - and I'm asked to put
>>in the original Hiarcs CD, which I have to go find!  This is just a stupid
>>irritant, there is no protection anyway since I could burn 50 copies of these
>>CDs.  If I buy more engines I can look forward to even more CD swapping.  Forget
>>it.
>
>Hiarcs7.32 does not ask me for the hiarcs7.32 CD.
>I do not have fritz6a and use hiarcs7.32's interface.
>
>Uri

I have Fritz 5.32, Hiarcs 7.32, and now Fritz 6a installed on the same machine,
perhaps this is the reason.  I am asked to confirm all three regularly,
invariably at the most inconvenient times. ;)



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