Author: William Penn
Date: 20:20:58 01/30/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 17:55:00, Brian Katz wrote: >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 The fixes could be specific to the Fritz 7 engine, but have no effect with other engines. Programmers have complete versatility in such regards. I don't know if they've done so with Fritz 7, and we may never know. WP
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