Author: Albert Silver
Date: 04:27:50 01/28/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 07:19:54, Sergei Smith wrote:
>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.
>>
>
>So you can not connect to the chessserver if you only have the free update ?
That is correct.
A.S.
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