Author: Don Prohaska
Date: 15:17:49 07/27/00
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On July 27, 2000 at 17:58:49, Pete R. wrote: >On July 27, 2000 at 17:46:23, Pete Galati 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. >> >>Besides which, it keeps people from easily installing their stuff on a friend's >>machine. And lets be realistic, most people can't burn a CD (at least I can't). >>And the matter of buying more engines and maybe needing to check the CD more >>often? No, it's the interface that's asking you to check, not the engine. >> >>Pete > Yeah, that drove me up the wall, too. Find the damn CD. Now where did I put it. Ready to dump the whole thing. But, after a while it stopped doing it. I haven't been asked for a CD for many months now. Don't know why it started, sometimes always, sometimes randomly, now never. Beats me. Oh, yes, I use Fritz6 and all the latest engines. Glad I'm past all the CD crap! Don >I was asked to check the Fritz 6 CD yesterday. This annoyed me, as always, so I >launched the Fritz 5.32 program, and tried to load the Fritz 6 engine - and I >was asked to confirm. So I had to go get the CD. Today I launched the Fritz 6 >program, and when I wanted to switch to using the Hiarcs engine I was asked for >the original Hiarcs CD. So I think it is the engine. So if I buy Junior and >Nimzo I guess I would get to have even more fun swapping CDs. This is the extra >appreciation you get for buying multiple products. > >I'm also willing to bet that the overwhelming majority of the small group of >computer chess people either has, has access to, or knows some other computer >owner who could burn a CD for them. I don't have a CD burner at home yet, but I >have three here at the office, and I know a great many people who have them. >Etc. It is no longer an effective means of copy protection, and Chessbase is >the only company I know of that does this. But it is effective at being >annoying.
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