Author: William Penn
Date: 18:16:30 11/23/03
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On November 23, 2003 at 11:17:17, Brian Katz wrote: >On November 23, 2003 at 10:49:48, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>On November 23, 2003 at 10:30:31, Brian Katz wrote: >> >>>Why hasn't a more recent FRITZ 8 free upgrade been released when the newest >>>Fritz 8 CD has version 8.0.0.29? >>>The most recent free upgrade (8.0.0.23) has bugs and is not as strong as the >>>8.0.0.8 CD Version. >>>That brings to mind another important question! >>>Many players are not advanced users and may not think of preserving copies of >>>engines before upgrading. So, many have gone to the playchess server and have >>>been prompted to upgrade, have had there 8.0.0.8 engine converted to the >>>inferior 8.0.0.23 version and know no other way of getting it back, other than >>>uninstalling and reinstalling the program. On top of that, many may not even be >>>aware that there is a problem with the engine. They paid for the CD, get >>>prompted to an inferior upgrade, and then a new customer purchases Fritz 8 and >>>gets the latest 8.0.0.29 version. This doesn't seem at all fair. >>>In all fairness to the upgrade, there are some GUI features in the true 3D >>>settings that are added, such as under the "Geometry and Board" tab, the upgrade >>>adds the option to have the Knights look left or right or diagonal left or >>>right. I am sure there are others. >>>I just think that if a new CD version of the same program, in this case FRITZ 8, >>>is out, then CHESSBASE should have the decency to offer that as an upgrade as >>>well. >>>All comments encouraged and welcome. Eeven if you think I am being too fussy! >>>Thanks, >>>Brian Katz >> >> Is the latest version really Fritz 8.0.0.29? I thought >> it is Fritz 8.0.0.26 which you get when buying the Fritz >> WM Edition >> Kurt >Sorry! That was a typo. I meant 8.0.0.26 >Brian I believe if you reinstall from CD it goes back to 8.0.0.5, while 8.0.0.8 was an intermediate update version. So there's apparently no way to get 8.0.0.8 unless you happened to download that update and saved a copy. I didn't save a copy, and can no longer find the 8.0.0.8 engine version anywhere. Of course I agree with your comments in general, but note that the Fritz/Chessbase programmers are probably NOT listening to us. For example I sent them a list of bugs in their Oct 2003 GUI update, which were NOT fixed in the more recent Nov 2003 update. There are some Fritz GUI bugs going back several years which they simply ignore despite repeated bug reports to them. So I doubt that it does any good whatsoever to complain. Unfortunately they are not on our wavelength. I imagine the reason is probably arrogance, but I don't know. WP
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