Author: Brian Katz
Date: 21:22:54 04/23/02
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On April 24, 2002 at 00:11:41, Terry McCracken wrote: >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 Perhaps they will accidently turn over the Fritz 8 engine for free, just like they did with the Fritz 7 engine during upgrades. It is getting to the point where none of us know what is going on anymore or what engine is what. There have been some NOTICEABLE changes with the last service pack. Time management was definitely affected. Fritz itself might not allow itself to run OUT of time but if you are manually transferring moves for internet computer play like on ICC (with a computer account) it may cause you to lose the game on time. with a 2/12 setting it let itself get to less than 18 seconds remaining within the first 20 moves, and that is with an opening book turned on. Not good. If I swithed to Fritz 6 in the same position, Fritz 6 played a move almost instantly. This service pack appears to be the same as the one available for the last few days. Brian
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