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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