Author: Sergei Smith
Date: 04:19:54 01/28/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 07:09:14, Albert Silver wrote: >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. >>> >> >>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. > >You're wrong. The GUI never works, only the engine, so it is only the engine >that is for free. It gets much worse though. I opened my copy of Deep Fritz and >tried to load it. It immediately asked for my Fritz 7 CD and told me the default >drive was K. I just hit Check Now, and it said Thanks! and loaded the engine >just fine. > > Albert So you can not connect to the chessserver if you only have the free update ?
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