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Subject: Re: My latest experiences with ChessBase GUI's

Author: Gabor Szots

Date: 14:09:13 01/30/06

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On January 30, 2006 at 16:10:16, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On January 30, 2006 at 15:40:56, Gabor Szots wrote:
>
>>Once again I would like to thank everyone here who tried to help me out of my
>>misery that was caused by UCI engines who suddenly refused to play under the
>>HIARCS 10 GUI.
>>
>>Before HIARCS 10 I had Fritz 7 Special Edition 2003 installed on my PC. When my
>>problem with HIARCS 10 began I uninstalled it in case the two software
>>interfered with each other. It did not help.
>>Then I uninstalled HIARCS and reinstalled it, but not to the directory in which
>>it used to be but - inadvertently - to another one. As you know by now, this did
>>not help either.
>>
>>However, I could not accept that I have to take out CB engines from my
>>tournament (for those of you who are interested, it has an URL:
>>http://szots.freeweb.hu). Now I thought it may be possible to play the CB engine
>>- UCI engine games if I reinstall Fritz 7. And so I did.
>>
>>It came as a little surprise that however well I had weeded out Fritz 7 from my
>>PC (at least so I thought), the installer seemed to remember the place and
>>installed the software there without asking me for a directory. It did not ask
>>for the serial number either!
>>
>>The end of the story: under this Fritz 7 GUI my eng-eng matches go smoothly
>>again!
>>
>>It seems the HIARCS 10 GUI has a UCI-engine related bug, which the Fritz 7 GUI
>>does not have.
>>
>>Thank you if you read this far. :-)
>>
>>Gábor
>
>
>      Hi Gabor
>      At first I had the same problem but could help in
>      two ways:
>      1.) It worked fine when loading the UCI engine before
>      the native engine
>      2) But a better solution was to cancel completely the
>      contents in the folder C:\Eigene Dateien\ChessBase\CompBase
>      where the GUI writes the files "EngMatch.cbh" and so on
>      of the current engine matches.
>      Best regards
>      Kurt

Thanks Kurt, this works (method 2)!

Gábor



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