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Subject: Re: Fritz 1,2 and 2.5 usable in 32Bit GUI?

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 16:39:41 04/30/02

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On April 30, 2002 at 19:25:26, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On April 30, 2002 at 18:48:23, Torstein Hall wrote:
>
>>Can I use the old 16 bit Fritz engines in the latest guis from CB?
>>
>>Torstein
>
>I don't think so. I'd copied the Fritz1.20.eng into the engine folder of Fritz6.
>However, the Fritz6-GUI didn't recognize the engine.
>
>Though, IIRC, there is in principle some method called "chunking" (or whatever
>?). I think that for the old Hiarcs and Junior 16Bit engines, ChessBase had
>released special versions running under the 32 Bit GUI provided you use a WIN-9x
>OS. This failed under the NT systems.
>
>Unfortunately, such special version for Fritz-1.20 doesn't seem to exist.
>
>Uli

I tried myself since I posted this question and unfortunatly you are right. Its
a pitty, as it would have been fun to have them inside the new GUI. Perhaps
someone could talk ChessBase or the programmers to recompile them for 32 bit?
(If that is possible at all?)

Torstein



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