Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 07:22:56 03/05/02
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On March 05, 2002 at 09:41:00, Gordon Rattray wrote: >On March 05, 2002 at 00:18:34, Terry McCracken wrote: > >>On March 05, 2002 at 00:11:49, pavel wrote: >> >>>On March 05, 2002 at 00:04:48, Terry McCracken wrote: >>> >>>>On March 04, 2002 at 21:24:22, pavel wrote: >>>> >>>>>On March 04, 2002 at 21:11:20, Peter Ackermann wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Hi! >>>>>> >>>>>>Just in case more people are irritated because the Shredder-6-engine doesnt work >>>>>>anymore (deepth 2 is all...): >>>>>> >>>>>>YOUR COMPUTER IS OK ! >>>>>> >>>>>>There seems to be a fault with an expiration date because if you set back the >>>>>>time in your PC Shredder6 is running again. Please also report this problem to >>>>>>ChessBase so that we can hope for a patch soon! >>>>>> >>>>>>Peter >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Yes I have encountered that, last night when shredder6 was playing against >>>>>chesstiger, it lost 6 games in a row so I went back to chec the games manually >>>>>only to find all the moves were done in depth 2. dunno why. >>>>> >>>>>currently running under classic interface and it seems to work fine. >>>>> >>>>>pavs >>>> >>>>I've encountered the same problem! It's up to Chessbase to fix this! >>>> >>>>I've just complained to Chessbase, and I'd better hear from them ASAP! >>>> >>>>I just bought this programme (Shredder 6) and installed it 2 days ago. >>>> >>>>There is no excuse for this malfuction! >>>> >>>>Terry >>>> >>>>P.S. To save me time where is the Classic Interface located in Shredder 6? >>>> >>>> I don't see it and I'm fed up with this nonsense from Chessbase! >>> >>> >>>Yes, I agree chessbase should do something about it, whatever the problem is. >>> >>>Here is this folder in the cd >>>D:\SHREDDER6\Setup Classic\setup.exe >>> >>> >>>I am currently using the classic interface, its much fun to make it play with >>>the othe UCI engines (free, anmon, sos and such) >>> >>>cheers. >>>pavs ;) >> >>Thank You Pavel! >> >>And for Chessbase if you're reading this, there are many many unhappy customers >>right now! >> >>Terry > > >You can add my name to that "unhappy" list. I wasted quite a bit of time >reinstalling, etc. in an attempt to fix the problem, but obviously I was >unsuccessful. I didn't imagine the source of the problem would turn out to be >what it is. I've e-mailed Chessbase - I think the least they can do is to get a >patch released as soon as possible. > >Like many of the other Chessbase problems, this isn't exactly a minor problem. >The fact is that Shredder 6 has effectively become useless, although admittedly >my pet dog still likes to play against it. While many of us are understandably >annoyed, it must be even worse for those users who don't read sites like this >one. At least we can stop wasting time trying to get it working ourselves. > >On a lighter note... I played a 5 round Swiss at the weekend and afterwards >stepped through my games with Shredder 6 analysing. Earlier, while I played >round 5, I got tired, stopped thinking and played too fast; I lost badly. > >Anyway, when later analysing my first four games with Shredder 6, it displayed >its usual analysis... continuously hammering away at each and every position I >stopped at. However, for game 5 it started "playing" too fast - it just >immediately thought of a move and then gave up thinking... and I had been >ridiculing myself for such sloppy play! There's still hope for mankind. ;-) > >Gordon It's understandable that such a "Bug" would annoy to the extreme anyone who purchased Shredder 6! However they sent me an e-mail today with a patch, also you can download the patch now at Chessbase. I'm sure you'll hear back from them shortly. In the meantime here's the Shredder 6 Update link. http://www.chessbase.com/download/index.asp?cat=Shredder+6 Regards, Terry
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