
While it’s certainly beneficial for you, the end user, to understand this, it’s not strictly a requirement. When activating the software, you have to make sure you’re typing the right code for the right program – and what makes this a little dicey is the fact that the GUI ( Graphic User Interface – what you see on your screen, essentially the “wrapper” for the chessplaying “brain” of the program) is exactly the same between Fritz12, Rybka4, Shredder12, and Junior12 one interface, four engines.

Easy, right? Nothing to it.īut when you own more than one ChessBase chessplaying program things get a wee bit trickier.

Successfully entering an activation code for a ChessBase-produced playing program is generally a pretty easy process: you enter the code from the manual’s cover, do the little 4-letter “word puzzle”, click “OK”, and the info gets fired across the Interrant to the ChessBase server.
