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Subject: Re: About Chessbase ® official Gui's

Author: Brian Kostick

Date: 12:00:37 12/20/04

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On December 20, 2004 at 14:51:25, Brian Kostick wrote:

>On December 20, 2004 at 06:49:55, Bernardo Wesler wrote:
>
>>It is vox populi the following statement :
>>Patch for the GUI that comes with Junior9 download from
>>www.playchess.com/updates/support/gui8.iup
>>store the GUI8.iup file to the folder C:\Program Files\ChessBase\ChessProgram8.
>>Afterwards run the program IUpgrade.exe from that folder in order to install the
>>upgrade.
>>I wonder wich is the source of this message.
>
>This is the message that is sometimes received from ChessBase support via email.
>It was again repeated here a few days ago by someone.
>
>>I cannot find any notice about this
>>supposed update anywhere in Chessbase website....
>>Let's suppose that's true; in this case is that the latest official GUI update
>>for all the chessbase engines?????
>
>I don't think we can call it truly official release update we do know that it
>comes from ChessBase. I suggest treating it as beta update.
>
>>If it were only for Junior9, we could have in
>>a near future so many different guis as engines....... Is this serious?
>
>If you are installed to ChessProgram8 folder you should only have one common GUI
>installed. Yes, many people make a GUI folder backup before applying an update,
>a personal choice. That's as far as I know and of course discounting their older
>installation folders in use a couple of years ago. Perhaps Junior9 is now
>installed to ChessProgram9 folder? I don't know.
>
>The 'official' updates are generally had by logging (not as guest) onto
>playchess.com via the interface and then selecting the menu item 'Query
>Upgrade...' BK

PS. I was under the impression the link was:
http://www.playchess.com/updates/gui8.iup
not .../support/... but I am unable to confirm if either link is working right
now and am just going off my notes. BK



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