Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 04:48:07 01/31/06
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On January 31, 2006 at 07:25:05, Chuck wrote:
>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
>
>Hi Kurt,
>
>Do you mean you "deleted" the file?
Yes, the files must be deleted for some
reasons beyond my control.
Kurt
>
>I have a problem, tested on two computers now where I installed Shredder 9 UCI.
>After that Hiarcs 9 and Shredder 8 will not run on either PC. I assume that the
>Shredder 9 UCI install overlaid some dll or something but haven't tried
>uninstalling Shredder 9 to try to fix it. Just a side comment...
I do not understand. The Shredder 9 UCI must not be "installed"
under Fritz-GUI but you are perhaps talking about Shredder 9-GUI
of ChessBase instead of Shredder 9 UCI Classic.
Kurt
>
>Best,
>
>Chuck
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