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Subject: Re: Chessbase 7.0

Author: Jay Rinde

Date: 09:19:27 10/23/99

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On October 23, 1999 at 11:45:59, Jay Rinde wrote:

>On October 23, 1999 at 09:57:13, Brad Farner wrote:
>
>>I just got chessbase 7.0.  I went to analyze a game, I was going to use Fritz 5,
>>which the program says it comes with.  The problem I have run into is that Fritz
>>5 isnt showing up as one of my choices of engines within Chessbase.  I Currently
>>own Hiarcs 7.32, so the engines that are showing up in CB when i want to analyze
>>are Hiarcs, Crafty, Comet, Exchess, Tablebase and CDrom 1-4.  Im running Windows
>>98 and so 16 bit shouldnt have anything to do with it.  When I look in Explorer
>>under   C:\Program Files\ChessBase\CB70\Engines  I can see the Fritz 5 engine
>>but no .dll file with it.  I tried moving the engine to the actual place where
>>CB looks for the engines C:\Program Files\ChessBase\Engines but it still doesnt
>>show up inside CB, I think it is due to the missing .dll file.  If anyone has
>>run into this or knows where that .dll file is, I would really appreciate if you
>>could tell me.
>
>Fritz5 is not a free engine unless you got it with Fritz5.32. You can get
>information on any Chessbase problems at the chessbaseusa site. Quickly!
>> Thank you in advance
>>            Brad

OK, I must be wrong. The Chessbase7 help file says that the Fritz5 16 bit
program is part of the package. I seem to remember that I had to copy the dll
from my Fritz5 program and copy it to the Chessbase engine file. I could have
sworn I did that. Too much computer chess. My mind is going!!!!!! Jay



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