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Subject: Re: New Fritz 7 Upgrade

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 21:11:41 04/23/02

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On April 23, 2002 at 23:48:30, Brian Katz wrote:

>On April 23, 2002 at 23:03:48, Terry McCracken wrote:
>
>>On April 23, 2002 at 22:32:14, Brian Katz wrote:
>>
>>>Chessbase is offering another Fritz 7 upgrade. This upgrade shows a date of
>>>April 2002 on their Web Page.
>>> It recently displayed the date of Jan 2002 on their Web site.
>>>Of course after downloading the MANY upgrades different dates were showing on
>>>the interface from one upgrade to another and also different dates were showing
>>>when clicking onto properties in the Fritz 7 engine file.
>>>On the interface the most recent dates I had were April 12 and then April 14.
>>>Let's see what this one shows on the interface.
>>>Hopefully, this will correct some bugs.
>>>I have not installed this upgrade as yet. Perhaps it will be the same as the
>>>last one.
>>>If you go onto the Download link and then the Fritz 7 link, you will get the
>>>upgrade download I am referring to.
>>>If you go into Support first, you will still see the old blurb about the
>>>benifits of the uprade from months ago.
>>>They upgrade the Service packs but they fail to change the dates and information
>>>accompannying their download on their web page.
>>>
>>>Brian
>>
>>Ha...you beat me to it, I just downloaded the upgrade and will apply it
>>tomorrow.
>>
>>Just in case I backed up my F7 ver. 7.0.0.6 so I don't lose that engine!
>>
>>http://www.chessbase.com/download/index.asp?cat=Fritz+7
>>
>>
>>Terry
>Question. Why don't you see all these new service packs with the other engines
>out there? Tiger, Junior, Hiarcs?
>Of course there are always some upgrades needed with the above mentioned
>programs including shedder etc. but not to the extent that the Fritz 7 situation
>has evolved into.
>It looks like the Fritz 7 service packs will keep coming along with new
>Interface dates and new modification dates in the engine properties. Then one
>day when we expect to see an interface date of Nov ? 2002  or an engine
>modification date of Nov ? 2002 they will suprise us all and it will say Fritz 8
>and the engine will show Fritz 8,0,0,1
>Brian

LOL! Yes, they really have a thing with Fritz and I've wondered why myself.
Although, I don't think they will hand over Fritz 8 to a Fritz 7 user via an
update. Well not on purpose;)

Terry



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