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Subject: Re: Chessbase 9 (protection)

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 05:06:46 11/19/04

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On November 18, 2004 at 06:25:40, Albert Silver wrote:

>On November 18, 2004 at 04:13:47, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:
>
>>Hi.
>>
>>Anyone having Chessbase 9 that could tell if there is a need to have the cd/dvd
>>in the tray when using the program?
>>As most of you know I'm a CA user, but my son want CB. (I guess he have ambition
>>to beat me some day.)
>>A database tool like this is typical brought with you on a tournament in a
>>laptop, so a refill scheme is probably to much hassle too. I know, I have some
>>program that have this scheme and the need for refill is always when you are
>>away from home.
>>
>>I bought the new CM10k which need the CD into the try every time and this
>>downgrade the product almost to not be used at all. I looked through the new
>>lectures but thats all I have used it for.
>
>I had a similar problem some years back when I bought the game Baldur's Gate II.
>It was a 4-CD game and required one to swicth CDs everytime one went to an area
>of the game covered by a different CD. This, even with a complete 2.5 GB
>install. I had bought it mostly to play on my laptop as I was travelling quite a
>bit at that time, but it was major hassle. I complained to their support forum,
>and was directed by one of their techs (no joking) to a site with cracked no-CD
>executables. I realize any moderators reading this will do so with raised
>eyebrows, but really that is the best suggestion I can give. It did solve my
>problem then.
>
>                                            Albert
>

It have happend to me too, in the pre-cd times some games used a color-coding
scheme that was hard to read a dark winter day, even with the scheme in front of
you. Those days it was just a matter of finding the return from the check
routine and change a 'jump if equal' to 'jump if not equal', I guess there is
more sophisticated methods in use nowadays.

Looking at my harddrive I have many programs where you can set the strength to
club-level and below (Shredder Classic, Rebel/ProDeo, CM9 with refill, and even
in the new CA8 (Delfi)) so I don't think this problem will bother me too much.

Odd Gunnar



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