Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

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

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 12:55:00 01/17/00

Go up one level in this thread


On January 17, 2000 at 15:30:46, Len Eisner wrote:

>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
Hi!

It should be out in a few days, it fixes some trouble with the TB-access.

Bertil



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.