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Subject: Re: Fritz 6 Demo - restrictions?

Author: Mike S.

Date: 12:44:36 09/25/00

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On September 25, 2000 at 15:16:50, Charles Milton Ling wrote:

>A friend of mine would like to download the Fritz 6 Demo, but before doing so
>(11 MB, he says - takes a lot of time) asked me what it can't do compared with
>the full version.

The hash tables are limited to 32 MB in F6 light. The Demo GUI stops playing a
game after approx. 20...23 moves. Some "advanced" functions are disabled in the
menu (I don't know which at the moment), but most other standard features are
working.

One important downside of the demo is IMO, that it obviously won't contain any
of the improvements yet, which have been issued by patches later. For example,
my custom layout doesn't work correctly in the demo version (I don't have the
full version).

But it's a nice free engine to use with any other CB GUI, because it has the
table base support which Fritz 5.32 did not yet have. It's worth the download
time I think. In fact, it's probably one of the two best commercial chess
program demos ever existed, Rebel Decade 3.0 being the 2nd one.

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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