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Subject: Re: Fritz 8 Upgrade- not for fritz 7

Author: Brian Katz

Date: 14:28:04 01/25/03

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On January 25, 2003 at 16:44:12, margolies,marc wrote:

>no, the upgrade operates on a gui called "chessplayer8", if you don't have this
>gui, upgrade wont do any thing. principally the upgrade fixes 3d problems
>related to using direct x (microsoft) vrml technology, which does not pre-exist
>in earlier cb player gui 7 and there is no player gui for internet in f6 so i
>dont know why you'd want to try.
 In the past, installing the Fritz 7 upgrade into the Fritz 6 GUI not only
upgraded the GUI but also upgraded the Fritz 6 engine to the Fritz 7 engine.

Chessbase corrected this not long after. This also happened with some other
upgrades as well. It may have been with JUNIOR a year or two ago.

So, many got upgraded engines for free.


I only found this out after I had already purchased the Fritz 7 program. I tried
installing the F7 upgrade into the F6 program just to see what would happen,
since I am one who likes to experiment,  and lo and behold, the Fritz 6 engine
changed to the Fritz 7 engine.

Brian



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