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Subject: Re: EIDOS, Fritz, and Piracy

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 04:34:46 12/15/99

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>Unless this demo has not been made by Chessbase, I don't see why it should be
>considered piracy. Still, it is surprising that they give for free a product
>that seems to be essentially equal to the commercial Fritz. Maybe it will stop
>working after a given period of time?

The program is limited in the number of moves.

I think the issue was about the possibility to use the F6 engine in F5&frineds
interface.

And yes I do agree with you this is not piracy, rather idiocy, either from Eidos
staff, Chessbase staff (for giving away engines as candies) or from us that
don't see beyond the orizon of version 6. [Well we know that Microsoft has built
an empire while its OS was stolen in huge copies. That same MS that today is
planning to lock the OEM Windows CD to the BIOS ID of your motheborad.]

regards
Franz



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