Author: Albert Silver
Date: 15:17:02 07/27/00
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On July 27, 2000 at 18:04:05, Dann Corbit wrote:
>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.
They do indeed add tremendous internal engines, but not the Chessbase ones. MCS
is short for Millenium Chess System, so if you own them you can use your
Shredder, Zarkov, Wchess 2000, or Nimzo 2000 engines directly within Chess
Assistant. You also have more parameter options with Crafty engines in CA as
opposed to CB (though I never actually use it in CB so I could be mistaken).
Albert Silver
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