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Subject: Re: Fritz 7 Upgrade can be sent to Fritz 6 and Receive the Fritz 7 engine.

Author: Sergei Smith

Date: 04:03:02 01/28/02

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On January 28, 2002 at 05:36:30, Albert Silver wrote:

>On January 27, 2002 at 23:38:32, pavel wrote:
>
>>On January 27, 2002 at 23:28:51, Brian Katz wrote:
>>
>>>As an experiment, I renamed and removed my chessbase folder from Program Files
>>>and placed it elsewhere.
>>> I then installed the Fritz 6 Program.
>>> I then ran the Fritz 7 upgrade. There was no change to the interface, but the
>>>7,0,0,6 Fritz 7 engine appeared in the Engines folder. Modified date: Jan 11,
>>>2002
>>>Are there any others, who have found this to be true as well?
>>>I have heard that this has happened within the Shredder Interface.
>>>Brian
>>
>>
>>I have only junior 6 installed in my system, since i can learn all my programs
>>in one GUI. And I used the fritz7 upgrade, without having fritz7 or Shredder6
>>installed at this moment, and I got the new engine, the same way you got it.
>>
>>First I found it too good to be true, so i reported it to chessbase, writing 3
>>seperate mails, confirming my finding is 3 differant conditions.
>>They don't seem to care about it. Why should I ?
>>
>>;)
>>
>>So a free (the strongest) engine goes to everyone.
>>Chessbase in deep shit.
>>
>>pavs
>
>It won't last. I posted a warning at the CSS. It is extremely serious, and
>Morsch doesn't deserve to see that happen to his fine work.
>
>                                       Albert

There _is_ a commercial maneuver behind it and a very clever one too.
They want more people to have access to their chess server and to run their
Fritz 7 engine. Thus they will establish a monopoly.
Nothing in life is free even if it seems to be free.



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