What's with ChessBase and WB engines? I've been using ARENA for quite a while(5 years to be specific) and I have a collection of Winboard engines that I love. I recently parted with $140 to buy Fritz 14. But to my dismay it doesn't support Winboard engines. This is a big disappointment considering the cost of the product. How can I get my favorite WB engines to play in the FRITZ GUI? Why doesn't ChessBase include native WB support with their products?
ChessBase products only support two protocols:

1) Their own proprietary (used by the .eng engines)

2) The UCI (used by by many commercial / open source engines)

You must see a "Create UCI Engine" option in either Fritz or ChessBase (I used it all the time to make tournaments between engines).

I also use Arena for engine tournaments and supports both UCI / Winboard. You should be able to use UCI engines in both Arena / ChessBase.

Some notes:


There are adapters for Winboard to UCI like Good UCI to WinBoard adapter (but I don't have seen the opposite).
I have learned that whenever I have to buy a commercial engine (like Houdini or Komodo) I prefer to not buy it thru ChessBase (because they only provide the .eng and only works in their own interface).