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Subject: Re: How do you make f6 play itself?

Author: Georg Langrath

Date: 15:55:00 04/06/01

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On April 06, 2001 at 18:23:23, Chessfun wrote:

>On April 06, 2001 at 18:13:22, Georg Langrath wrote:
>
>>On April 06, 2001 at 13:48:47, Drazen Marovic wrote:
>>
>>>How do you make f6 play itself?
>>
>>There is no obvious way that I have found. One way is to open Tool-Analysis-Deep
>>Position Analysis. Then you have to set branches to 1 and moves to 99. This is a
>>way to get it playing against itself from a given position. But if you want it
>>to play from beginning , there’s no way to get it playing the book, as I know.
>>
>>Georg
>
>
>Copy the Fritz 6 engine file to say C:\ open it in a hex editor.
>Replace instances of Fritz 6.eng with say Fritz6a.eng save the
>file copy or move it to the engines folder and now you will have
>a Fritz 6 eng and a Fritz6a.eng in your case the files would be identical.
>
>I have Fritz6a, Fritz6b and Fritz6e files which all work and will
>play each other.
>
>Sarah.

You're a genius, or I am a fool :)
I had the same thought and tried to rename the engine. But that didn't work. And
now I understand why.
A hex editor. Nothing I use every day. But never too late to learn.

Georg



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