Author: Albert Silver
Date: 04:41:01 01/28/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 07:33:05, Tina Long wrote:
>On January 28, 2002 at 07:06:47, pavel 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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
>
>Chessbase made the same blunder with Fritz6.
>They provided an update (service pack?) over the internet, that allowed simple
>seperation of the Engine, that could then be used in any Chessbase GUI.
>
>It was dissapointing to pay (for me) $100AU and then see smart-aleky boastful
>people getting the Engine for free. It is more annoying when they have
>apparently done the same thing again. Arn't these the Company that used to
>require a "dongle" to run their products? Now they just give away their
>products to anybody with a bit of internet nouse.
>
>I agree entirely with Albert that it is particularly unfair to Frans, & I
>applaud Albert for actually doing something about it.
>
>Tina Long
The post was removed within the hour from the CSS forum, and I was advised by
Friedel that word had been forwarded to CB. Much worse, and harder to
understand, is that the CD check for the engine doesn't work either.
Albert
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