Chessbase Updates

[fern]

I have in very high esteem Chessbase company and his products. I believe Fritz series is the best available in the commercial realm not only due to the very strong engine it offers -currently it should the second or third best-, but also and even mainly for the wonderful gui it has, the huge database, the many things the program let to do, its levels, services, etc.
So, it amazes me that they have not been capable of putting on its feet a really regular and efficient update function.
You connect to its site and many times it says "you have the the last version" or something like that and you know for certain you have it not. Neither they explain if the update is just about lateral services or about the engine.
It would be lot easier if they just put the package in the site in order to download it and if they say what is all about.
Just a glitch for a so great a product, but a glitch after all.

fernando

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Agree Fernando,and even if you manage to get the latest update,you can't predict the damage that it will drop over your head

[fern]

At least to date I have had no damage due to updates, but in any case Fritz some times behaves in a very weird fashion, compelling me to a re-install. Some times is incapable of deploying 3-D board in full, just the simplistic version coming from the age of Fritz 4. Sometimes the text in the windows where the moves are written becomes fuzzy. And so and so.
But anyway it is still my favorite program. I love those sentences as "oh, a novelty...." And what a strong engine!

I am still a child regards
Fernando

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Fritz 11 is an amazing engine indeed,but I like the more aggressive playing style of Deep Fritz 10....

[fern]

Oh well, I do not have a dual core processor, just a dual-thread one, you know, the predecessor of the real dual core chip. So I have never got a deep engine because it would be, in my case, an unsuccessful expending of money.
But anyway it is hard for me to imagine a sharper engine than Fritz. It was always a very tactical engine and still is, only that now it has tons of extra knowledge and positional acumen.
Hiarcs is,maybe, a bit sharper OR more aggressive, but it lacks the great package it deserves. As I have said many times, it is not enough, for me, just the bare engine.
Fernando

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

I understand you perfectly,I mean the GUI issue
Even though Fritz 11 is stronger than Deep Fritz 10,it has transformed a little bit into a fishy creature with this boring but stable playing style....
Unlike it,Deep Fritz 10 plays more aggressively and it's playing style is much spectacular to watch....
This is from my rating list

Fritz 11.0.0.0 2890 [+43] 228 games played
Deep Fritz 10.1.0.0 2847 264 games played

It's worthy to get a Core 2 Duo machine Fernando,even more when Deep Fritz 11 comes along,you will have the motivation for that

Take a look at this link please:

http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.p ... =CP-192-IN

You can build your own system piece by piece and you will be a happy owner,believe your jordanian brother

[fern]

Jordanian brother? I have never looked at your avatar. I tacitly assumed you was kind of a dutch or german guy. Or you are but living in Jordan?

Fernando

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Jordanian brother? I have never looked at your avatar. I tacitly assumed you was kind of a dutch or german guy. Or you are but living in Jordan?

Fernando

Hehe,you made this conclusion from my avatar,wow,you made my evening Fernando

I am jordanian and you can always come to visit me,I'll take you to a trip visiting Petra

[fern]

Petras?. Damn, man, how do you know I am a classicist since ever, almost an specialist in greco-roman studies?
I surely will go there is I ever return to Middle East and the I will abuse of your hospitality. There are no people on the world so hospitable as that living in that region, arabs or half arabs countries. I know that for certain.
Allah is Great regards
Fernando

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Petras?. Damn, man, how do you know I am a classicist since ever, almost an specialist in greco-roman studies?
I surely will go there is I ever return to Middle East and the I will abuse of your hospitality. There are no people on the world so hospitable as that living in that region, arabs or half arabs countries. I know that for certain.
Allah is Great regards
Fernando

You are most welcomed Fernando and I can sense some things from a distance you know
I watched a video of yours,a part from your show and it seems that I'll have to get some boddy guards through our trip as I expect a several attacks from the jordanian chicks over you and me I hope