Author: Albert Silver
Date: 10:52:11 01/28/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 13:20:30, Mark Young wrote:
>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.
>
>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.
No skin off my nose. I just replied that the person was mistaken and gave them
the exact file properties of my version of the update (I read in CSS that there
were at least 3 issued), and told them that there was no need to take my word
for it and to test it themselves. Of course I had no idea I even had a Drive K
on my machine until Fritz 7 proposed it and then accepted it. Go figure.
Albert
P.S. As I received a few e-mail requests asking to send the patch, I'll repeat
it right here: sorry, the only group authorized to distribute the patch AFAIK is
Chessbase themselves. Ask them.
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