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Subject: Re: Fritz 7 update overwrites Hiarcs 8

Author: Don Prohaska

Date: 21:27:49 05/26/02

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The various engines go into the engine folder.  That is where all the engines
are.  chessprogram7.exe is just the gui which is the same in all the later
ChessBase programs.  When the patch is installed it updates all the program's
gui's. If an engine is to be patched, it goes to the engine folder.



On May 27, 2002 at 00:20:35, Derek Winter wrote:
Everyone is talking as if the three programs are identical,i.e., the engines are
>the same.
>
>All the discussion is about the GUI.
>What about the engines?
>
>I was under the impression that Hiarcs 8 is a different engine from Fritz7, not
>the same engine with a different name.
>
>Which brings us back to the original question: what program is in my \Hiarcs8
>folder with the file name "chessprogram7.exe" 7124 KB of 4/14/02.
>
>In the greater scheme of the things, the GUIs are less important. But which
>files are which engines: and are we losing H8 when we update Fritz 7?



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