Author: Brian Katz
Date: 14:55:00 01/28/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 10:02:34, William Penn 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 > >There is no guarantee that the Fritz 7 engine will work properly separate from >the Fritz 7 GUI. Programmers sometimes fix bugs in an engine with special code >"fixes" in the GUI. Or maybe it works "mostly OK" but the strength could be >lowered. That could happen either by accident or by design!? So I'd suggest >doing some tests before making too many assumptions... :o) >WP If that is the case, then using more than one engine in an interface would lead to poorer play on the part of the foriegn engine(s). Therefore, any engine tournaments would render FALSE results, as the visiting engines would not be up to par, rendering engine tournaments on one interface totally useless!!! I hope this is not the case. Brian
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