Author: Albert Silver
Date: 16:22:33 01/28/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 19:07:35, Brian Katz wrote:
>On January 28, 2002 at 18:15:01, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On January 28, 2002 at 17:49:10, Brian Katz wrote:
>>
>>>Fritz 7 Program does some wierd things.
>>>I renamed my Chessbase folder and engine folders. I also removed the Chessbase
>>>folder from Program Files and moved it to My Documents while I was reinstalling
>>>the Fritz 6. All these folders were going to be put right back right after the
>>>Fritz 6 installation.
>>>Just for the hell of it I clicked onto the Fritz 7 Icon and after a moment of
>>>searching it actually fired up the Fritz 7 Program and engine.
>>
>>Yes, this is normal.
>>
>>>
>>>With the Fritz 6 program,if the Chessbase folder was renamed and removed and
>>>placed into another Folder, it would no find it without being given the path.
>>>Any explanations??
>>>Brian
>>
>>No idea. It should find the Fritz 6 program and run it just as it did for Fritz
>>7.
>>
>That puzzles me.
> I know that if you rename your engine folder, Fritz will not find the engines
>and no engines will show up in your Fritz engine window.
>Shouldn't the same priciples apply to the Chessbase folder?
>Brian
No, because the executable is already in a subfolder of Chessbase (Junior6,
Fritz6, etc.). The Fritz GUIs are instructed to only look for engines in the
Engines directory. At least this was true for older GUIs. I don't know if this
is still true for the UCI engines.
Albert
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