Author: pavel
Date: 04:06:47 01/28/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 07:03:02, Sergei Smith wrote: >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. no conspiracy, you dont buy fritz7 you don't get to fritz7 server. With the update, you only get the engine free. It a bizarre situation. pavs
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