Author: Brian Katz
Date: 21:49:43 04/23/02
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On April 24, 2002 at 00:30:24, Terry McCracken wrote: >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 I myself tried to use the Fritz 7 upgrade in the Fritz 6 folder (I already had Fritz 7 loaded on my computer at that time) just to see what would happen and lo and behold, the Fritz 7 engine appeared in the engine folder. I had renamed my engine folder with the Fritz 7 engine in it and created an empty Engine folder prior to trying this experiment. Brian
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