Author: Brian Katz
Date: 08:03:22 11/24/03
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On November 24, 2003 at 09:22:24, Eran Karu wrote: >On November 24, 2003 at 05:24:17, Brian Katz wrote: > >>It appears that the latest Fritz 8 upgrade from the Playchess server has >>corrected version 8.0.0.23 in that the "NOT" capturing on e4 problem seems to >>have been corrected. In help menu>About Fritz the date will change to(Nov 13 >>2003). Just the other day in the following diagram before the recent upgrade, >>version 8.0.0.23 would not capture on e4, which is clearly the best move. Now >>after the recent upgrade fritz 8.0.0.23 takes on e4 immediately. >>[D]rnbqkb1r/pp1ppppp/2p2n2/8/2B1P3/P4N2/1PPP1PPP/RNBQK2R b >>Has anyone else found this to be true as well? >>Brian Katz > >I own Fritz8. Should I upgrade my Fritz8 now? Is it worth? > >Thanks, >Eran Karu That is not an easy question, as I don't know what CD version you have. There appears to be a few. i have Fritz 8.0.0.8 fom my CD. Although I was not happy with the engine version (8.0.0.23) it was converted to, there were some important changes to the GUI. Some changes were for your true 3D settings. Such as the option to have the knights look left or right or diagonally left or right. There are others I am sure. I know that Fritz8 used to take forever on my Windows XP Professional with 1 Gig of RAM to shut down at times, but that stopped after the upgrade. The latest upgrade seems to take away the option of using the keys n or m to lower or raise the true 3d board. Also, the menu View will no longer show "true 3D" as an option, it will just show "3D..." which is the same. I wasn,t happy with the new engine 8.0.0.23 as I felt 8.0.0.8 was stronger and I know that 8.0.0.23 did have a capturing on e4 problem whereas the program at least with black to move would avoid capturing on e4 even when it was clearly the best move. Fritz 8.0.0.8 and other engines (Crafty, Hiarcs8, Fritz7 etc.)would all play the capture immediately. For me the new upgrade corrected that immediately. I am now setting up new positions involving captures on e4. What I am finding is that it may be the correction to the GUI that affects this capture as my SAVED for starage copies of 8.0.0.23 now make the correct capture as well. THE UPGRADE COULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN TO THEM. The BEST advice I can give you is to SAVE ALL your engines by making COPIES and put them elsewhere for safekeeping. I create separate FOLDER for each version I wish to copy and label the Folder as such. Then you can just rename your engine folder with something like Aengines or Bengines or Cengines or MainEngines etc. and create a new folder named Engines. Then you copy and paste (not cut and paste)the version you wish to test. When done with your test you can just delete it from the new Engines folder since you still have a copy saved. Once you are done with your comparisons you can simply delete or rename your new engines folder and rename your original Engines folder back to Engines. At that point you can decide whether or not you wish to keep or add or remove a particular engine from the folder. However you go about doing this, you may find much simpler ways for yourself..........Always save a copy/copies of the engine you are going to upgrade.
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