Author: pavel
Date: 14:37:12 01/28/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 13:52:11, Albert Silver wrote: >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. LOL tell me about it. I was asked 6 times but differant peoples. pavs.
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