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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