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Subject: Re: Fritz Endgame Turbo 2

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 10:07:36 12/11/03

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On December 11, 2003 at 12:41:49, Wayne Lowrance wrote:

>On December 11, 2003 at 07:32:11, Mike Hood wrote:
>
>I dont understand how u use 5 DVDs. you can only have one disk in your cd drive
>at a time. does it keep asking for disks or what. thanks

The idea is simple, Wayne... you buy the EGTBs on DVD, but you have to copy them
all to your hard drive to use them.

I sincerely hope that Fritz Endgame Turbo 3 will be sold on a single disk, using
a not yet invented technology, and contain the whole 6-piece tablebase
collection.

>>Fritz Endgame Turbo 2 has just been advertised on Chessbase's website. For 50
>>Euros you get 5 DVDs containing all the 5-piece tablebases and the five "most
>>important" 6-piece tablebases. It's a convenience offer, of course. You could
>>get everything free, but those of us with dial-up modems will snap up the offer.
>>
>>The 6-piece tablebases on the DVDs are
>>
>>    KNPP-KR
>>    KBPP-KR
>>    KRPP-KR
>>    KRB-KNN
>>    KQQ-KQQ
>>
>>I'm not sure about the last two, but the first three are useful. Instead of the
>>last two I would have preferred something like KRPP-KQ. Oh well, as I said, a
>>convenience buy. Either take it or leave it.



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