Author: Albert Silver
Date: 04:28:35 01/07/02
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On January 06, 2002 at 13:31:59, Christopher A. Morgan wrote:
>I agree completely with Sune. My customer service emails to CB Germany
>on their customer service page on their site have remained unanswered
>for over two weeks. Their F7 GUI caused a crash in tiger.dll during an engine
>tournament, and despite uninstalling and re-installing Tiger three times
>the problem remains. I cannot use F7 GUI as Tiger was the default engine
>in the F7 GUI, and on program start I continue to get same message then program
>crashes. Three emails to CB Germany and their silence is defeaning.
>
>Chris
Go to the Fritz directory and edit the proper .ini file. There should be a line
that says what the last engine loaded was. You can either change the name of the
engine or simply erase it and it will place the Fritz engine as the default
probably. I don't have Fritz 7, but I'm fairly certain that will at least let
you enter it again.
Albert
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>On January 06, 2002 at 09:54:20, Sune Larsson wrote:
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>>On January 06, 2002 at 08:39:32, Uri Blass wrote:
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>>>On January 06, 2002 at 08:26:12, Sune Larsson wrote:
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>>>>On January 06, 2002 at 07:55:12, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On January 05, 2002 at 23:47:31, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>At the moment Shredder 6_ Dual is leading 5.0-2.0 with no losses so far, this
>>>>>>is game 7 which i found to be especially good!
>>>>>>Check out the difference in evals in the beginning of the game.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>[Event "Dual_Shredder6-1"]
>>>>>>[Site "Dual MP 1600+"]
>>>>>>[Date "2002.01.06"]
>>>>>>[Round "7.1"]
>>>>>>[White "Shredder 6"]
>>>>>>[Black "Fritz 7"]
>>>>>>[Result "1-0"]
>>>>>>[ECO "D16"]
>>>>>>[PlyCount "94"]
>>>>>>[EventDate "2002.01.05"]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>1. d4 {0} 1... d5 {0} 2. Nf3 {0} 2... Nf6 {0} 3. c4 {0} 3... c6 {0} 4. Nc3 {0}
>>>>>>4... dxc4 {0} 5. a4 {0} 5... Nbd7 {0} 6. e4 {0.61/14 93} 6... Qa5 {0.25/13 82}
>>>>>>7. Bd2 {0.83/13 45} 7... e5 {(e6) 0.03/13 53} 8. Bxc4 {0.57/13 105} 8... exd4 {
>>>>>>(Bb4) 0.00/13 102} 9. Bxf7+ {1.71/12 70} 9... Kxf7 {0.00/13 55} 10. Ng5+ {
>>>>>>1.69/12 148} 10... Kg6 {(Qxg5) 0.00/14 268} 11. Nd5 {2.02/12 147} 11... Qc5 {
>>>>>>(Qxd2+) 0.00/12 73} 12. Nf4+ {(h4) 2.29/11 53} 12... Kxg5 {-0.10/12 96} 13. h4+
>>>>>>{2.33/11 116} 13... Kh6 {-0.22/9 1} 14. g4 {2.33/11 112} 14... g5 {1.15/12 49}
>>>>>>15. hxg5+ {2.09/10 14} 15... Kxg5 {1.31/12 58} 16. Qf3 {2.77/11 60} 16... Rg8 {
>>>>>>0.90/11 71} 17. b4 {(Ne6+) 2.82/10 213} 17... Qe5 {(Nxg4) 0.00/12 68} 18. O-O-O
>>>>>>{(Rh5+) 4.21/10 40}
>>>>>
>>>>>I suspect a big catling bug by Fritz7
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think you are correct since many people have reported that
>>>> Fritz 7/7a has a severe castling bug. Buggy products, a bad winboard
>>>> adapter and now even buggy engines from ChessBase. Looks like they
>>>> just throw the stuff out on the market on fixed times - no matter
>>>> if the product is ready or not... And just you try to get support or
>>>> an answer from your complaints...The respect from Chessbase shown to
>>>> their customers is close to zero.
>>> If you are thinking of buying their
>>>> products be aware of what you are facing.
>>
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>>>
>>>I disagree here.
>>>Chessbase is a good company
>>
>>
>> Does your disagreement spring from own experience or is it just a
>> blindfolded one, Uri? Some questions for you:
>>
>> 1) Do you have and regularly use CB 8 for databasing ?
>>
>> 2) Do you have and regularly use the Fritz 7 GUI ?
>>
>> 3) Have you tested and tried WinBoard engines under any
>> Fritz interface? If so, did you notice that Fritz sends a
>> "new" command to the engine on every move? Therebye clearing
>> the hash memory. Have you noticed that the Fritz WB adapter
>> kills the WB engines ponder function, after a short while?
>>
>> 4) Do you follow and read the German chess foras and the heavy
>> critics from a multitude dissatisfied customers?
>>
>> 5) Do you follow and read other English spoken chess foras, like
>> RGCC?
>>
>> 6) Have you ever tried to reach the ChessBase support with some
>> complaints? If yes, did you get a response? If yes the second time -
>> then you must be born under a lucky star, cause you just won the
>> monthly CB lottery.
>>
>>
>> Sune
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>> and there is a simple way to know when their product
>>>is ready if you are interested only in buying an engine with no significant
>>>bugs.
>>>
>>>Their product is ready when the ssdf test it.
>>>Chessbase did not give the ssdf to test Fritz7a.
>>>
>>>Uri
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