Author: Dan Kiski
Date: 07:29:03 01/07/99
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On January 07, 1999 at 10:05:24, Randy Schmidt wrote: >On January 05, 1999 at 10:56:43, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>On January 05, 1999 at 09:48:52, Matthew Herman wrote: >> >>>On January 05, 1999 at 09:47:18, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >>> >>>>On January 05, 1999 at 08:40:03, Matthew Herman wrote: >>>> >>>>>From reading some of the recent posts I have come to the conclusion there are >>>>>*3* fritz 5s!! (not including 5.32). >>>> >>>>I know of 5: Fritz 5 (on CD), 5.01, 5.02, 5.03 and 5.16, all patches, >>>>downloadable at one moment or another from CB's page and that sometimes came on >>>>CB's magazine. All these versions are usually referred to as Fritz 5. >>>> >>>>Enrique >>>> >>>>>These are Fritz5.00, Fritz5.03 and fritz5.16 .. what are these? I own Fritz5, >>>>>Fritz5.32 and would like to know what are these other engines (is fritz516 the >>>>>engine that came with chessbase7?). >>>>> >>>>>Matt Herman >>> >>>So what are 5.01, 5.02?? >> >>Bug fixes and sometimes slightly different engines. >> >>>I have the CB Magazine patches .. any idea where to get >>>them? >> >>No idea. Usually these patches were replaced by new ones, and I am sloppy enough >>to keep only the last ones. >> >>Enrique > > >I believe that there are 2 Fritzes.... >a) the 16 bit version now called 5.16 >b) the 32 bit version now called 5.32 > >There is no FritzCD, Fritz 5.01, etc....there are only 2...16 bit >and 32 bit. Each time the CBase people fix or enhance a product >(chess playing software), the new product is named the same. >All CBase did was rename the original Fritz, Fritz 5.16. > I believe this is what I originally posted that the original Fritz 5 became 5.16 when the 32 bit 5.32 came out, and therefore there were only two, yet by what I read most disagreed. >So when you buy and subsequently download the "patch" or what have >you, you have the most up to date version of one of the above. >This is not to say the previous version of Fritz might be >better (a slight tweak loses 10 Elo points), but then it would be >better to call F5 something like F5.9/98, F5.12/98, etc.
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