Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:04:05 07/27/00
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On July 27, 2000 at 17:40:05, Dann Corbit 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. > >I have ChessAssistant, which does not do this. It also includes the Chess Tiger >engine, and you can run WinBoard engines. However, there is a larger selection >of engines with ChessBase, so if you want some of them, I'm afraid it's the only >game in town. It turns out that maybe you can have your cake and eat it too. I just added Rebel, Hiarcs and Zarkov to ChessAssistant without incident. (Rebel and Hiarcs, I have the programs, and Zarkov came with Bookup). If the MCS engines cover all the other kinds (e.g. is Junior, Fritz, etc. a MCS engine?) then maybe you can run any kind of analysis you like and not have to refuel the CD at all.
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