https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56512
--- Comment #4 from David dav75uk@yahoo.co.uk --- This was because on running the installed application couldn't find mfc140.dll which vcrun2017 solved, although as mentioned there were issues with mfplat.dll (version in system32 didn't work [wouldn't load] had to use native windows version).
This was more a comment on the workaround for the install as described on the Chessbase 15 appdb page when tried with Chessbase 17. The reason for raising this bug was the installer doesn't accept a valid key so you wouldn't even get to the point of running the application.