Author: Mike Hood
Date: 13:09:49 01/17/03
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On January 17, 2003 at 15:49:14, Mike Hood wrote: >On January 17, 2003 at 11:17:10, Joseph Merolle wrote: > >>I have Fritz7 and in the engine suite I have F7, Chess tiger 14 , Sherder6.0 and >>6.02 , H8 , Gambit tiger 2 , F5.32. I would like to know if all will work under >>Fritz8. Also I would like to know if my Power books 2001 will work under Fritz8. > >The answer is quite simply: Yes. I have all the engines that you name above and >they run without problems in the Fritz 8 GUI. The Fritz 8 engine also runs in >the Fritz 7 GUI. > >>Finally I would like to know if Deep fritz 7 is the same engine as F8? >>Looking to buy it today any info would be nice? Regards > >It's a new engine. I don't have Deep Fritz 7, but I assume that Fritz 8 is >stronger than Fritz 7, so it's only worth buying it if you have a >multi-processor PC. If you're not sure about it, wait for the next SSDF list, >since all the "Deep" programs are only tested using PCs with a single processor. On a related note, in the history of Fritz's development. Fritz 1 to 3, the Dos versions, all had a very similar looking GUI with subtle refinements. Fritz 4 was the first Windows version with a 16-bit engine, and optically it looked like Chessbase had tried to transfer the DOS GUI to Windows as closely as possible. Fritz 4 didn't "feel like" a Windows application, if you know what I mean. The Fritz 5 GUI was a totally new GUI, but it still wasn't 100% Windows-ish. Fritz 5.32 was (as far as I could see) only an engine upgrade. The Fritz 6 GUI was another totally new GUI, the first real Windows GUI. Fritz 7 and Fritz 8 both use the same basic GUI with subtle refinements, such as the addition of UCI support in Fritz 7 and additional training possibilities in Fritz 8. After you've bought Fritz 8 (and updated it with any relevant patches) there's no need for you to keep the GUIs of the previous versions. Fritz 6 and 7 both had bugs which were never fixed in their respective versions, but which ran fine in the following version. Just copy the engines to a temporary folder -- a very important step! -- then uninstall the other programs and copy the engines into Fritz 8's engine folder.
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