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Subject: Re: Fritz 7 Upgrade can be sent to Fritz 6 and Receive the Fritz 7 engine.

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 09:17:06 01/28/02

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On January 28, 2002 at 12:09:52, Albert Silver wrote:

>On January 28, 2002 at 11:30:40, Roy Eassa 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
>>
>>
>>
>>Won't it occasionally ask for the Fritz 7 CD-ROM?
>
>Presumably by now CB has removed it and corrected the problem. In answer to your
>question, yes, but the CD check doesn't work. I loaded the engine from Deep
>Fritz (I had "upgraded" Junior 6), and it gives a default drive of K and
>pressing Check Now! activates the engine without a hitch, so no copy protection
>either. I tested the engine and it really does work without any problems (in
>answer to William Penn). I got an e-mail from CB hinting the patch installed the
>engine due to a bootleg copy of the Fritz 7 engine on my machine, which annoyed
>me to no end. I removed the engine, uninstalled the patch, and tried it all
>again on a different CB program and presto! the engine was installed again.
>
>                                 Albert


I would say that these sorts of mistakes are incredible for a professional
software company, but ... we're talking about ChessBase here.  (To be fair:
Their engine programmers seem very good.  Their GUI designers seem pretty good.
Everybody else, well, if you can't say something nice...)



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