Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 06:18:39 09/18/03
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On September 18, 2003 at 06:25:57, Mike Hood wrote:
>On September 17, 2003 at 15:59:22, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On September 17, 2003 at 15:31:24, Derek Winter wrote:
>>
>>>The installation instructions don't tell you how to install Hiarcs 9 using the
>>>Fritz GUI already on the computer.
>>> Also, the Chessbase site no longer seems to have an email for tech support.
>>> Does anyone know how to do this?
>>> Thanks, Derek
>>
>> If you have already installed the latest GUI, there is
>> no need for a full installation of Hiarcs9, just install
>> the engines. Or otherwise deinstall Fritz8-GUI (but secure
>> engines-folder and afterwards install Hiarcs9.
>> Kurt
>
>It's not as easy as you say, Kurt. Okay, I admit that I haven't bought Hiarcs 9
>(yet!) but I've had problems doing engine-only installations of other Chessbase
>products. For instance, when I bought Junior 8 I installed it using the "install
>engines only" option to use Junior 8 in Fritz 8 and bang! It killed my Fritz
>program. When I executed Fritz the first screen ("Play Fritz"/"playchess.com")
>popped up without any text, and all I could do was close the program.
>
>Maybe Chessbase has fixed the bug in Hiarcs 9? But if not, if you want to use
>new engines in an already installed GUI, I recommend the following steps:
>
>1) Do a FULL installation to a new location (such as c:\Program Files\Temporary
>Installation\)
>
>2) Copy the engine files (not forgetting the DLLs) to the engine folder of the
>existing installation
>
>3) Uninstall Hiarcs 9
H9 has the most advanced GUI yet, I think he should install it, IMHO.
TM
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