Author: Mark Young
Date: 10:20:30 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 got ripped again, I buy Fritz 7 and everyone else gets it free... And yes they fixed the bug in the update patch so it now checks for the CD, but remember this is ChessBase, so it is very easy to get around. I still can load the Fritz 7 engine without the CD by starting a Comp vs Comp tournament, and make Fritz 7 the first computer in the tournament. When you stop the Tournament Fritz 7 is now loaded and ready to be played. If you want to use Fritz 7 as an analysis engine it will try and check for the CD, but again if you load Fritz 7 as a kibitz engine it will work just fine. I don't understand Chessbase Logic. So I can confirm that you did not have a "Bootleg copy" as ChessBase claimed.
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