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Subject: Re: Is this the end of exchangable ChessBase engines?

Author: Len Eisner

Date: 12:30:46 01/17/00

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On January 17, 2000 at 14:57:49, Bertil Eklund wrote:

>On January 17, 2000 at 11:47:13, Len Eisner wrote:
>
>>On January 17, 2000 at 10:05:39, John R. Menke, Sr. wrote:
>>
>>>Is this the end of exchangable ChessBase engines?
>>>
>>>I understand that Fritz 6 requires the Fritz 6 CD, and the Fritz 6 engine cannot
>>>be used without it. Right?  For example if I want to install the Fritz 6 engine
>>>to work with my already existing Hiarcs 7.32 installation, it wouldn't work.
>>>Right?  Or if it works, it would keep asking me to insert the Fritz 6 CD, right?
>>>
>>>--JRM
>>
>>The good news is you can use other Chessbase engines with Fritz 6 interface.  I
>>use Junior 6 and Hiarcs 7.32 without any problem.  Fritz 6 asked me for the
>>Hiarcs and Junior CDs the first time I tried to load the engines, and that was
>>it.  It never asked for those CDs again.
>>
>>The bad news is Fritz 6 seems to have a bug that makes it ask for the Fritz 6 CD
>>from time to time for no particular reason.  It’s not supposed to have this kind
>>of copy protection.  Hopefully, the soon-to-be-released patch will fix this.
>>
>>Len
>
>Hi!
>
>At least with the new patch Junior6 never asks for the CD.
>
>Bertil

Is the patch out already?  I did not receive an email from Chessbase, and I
don’t see it on their download site.

Len



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