Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 21:30:24 04/23/02
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On April 24, 2002 at 00:22:54, Brian Katz wrote: >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 Maybe I should hold off on applying it? Then again I don't use this software on chess servers. Yes I remeber someone mentioning the upgrade to the Fritz 7 engine with Fritz 6. Although I think he had to mess with it? He posted here and it got back to Chessbase and that was fixed I believe. Terry
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