Author: Chuck
Date: 05:11:55 01/31/06
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On January 31, 2006 at 07:48:07, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >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 > I am talking about the Shredder 9 UCI version. The problem has occurred in both instances after installing it in the Fritz/CB interface as a UCI engine. I haven't bought Fritz 9 or anything later to see if that fixes it, but Chessbase nor the Shredder want to fix it [of course]. Best, Chuck
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