Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 11:13:57 12/30/00
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On December 30, 2000 at 13:35:46, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On December 30, 2000 at 12:46:53, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Blas: >>Maybe there is another reason besides that of money you guess -or joke about- as >>one reason. Once you have made public your program, you becomes a prisoner of it >>in order to keep it all the time in good shape. He should be compeled to upgrade >>it in a regular shedule so his program would not become easy prey of nobody. >>Then it would not be anymore a thing of pleasure but of pain. Bruce probably >>-in fact, surely- has another more important occupation than to program chess, >>so he does not want that such a thing happens. Thinks in this: he delivers the >>program and for a moment all people praise him, but a month later the programs >>becomes somewhat obsolete or lose a game to this or that program and critics and >>ugly comments begins. He wants that? Specially, who wants that IF the program >>was top and won a tourn or almost? Then you are not a guy that is just climbing >>step by step as Ulrich with Comet does, but the champ or almost cham defending >>your tittle or almost tittle. Heavy task to do. >>Happy new year >>fernando > >There is plenty of truth in the above. But the main reason is a little simpler. > >I had planned to put a good interface on it and sell the whole thing. But >writing interface code is not particular fun and I wasn't able to summon enough >energy to do it. I have been approached about publishing the engine, but I'm >concerned about getting a tiny amount of money for doing this, or having my >engine be used as a "throw-in" designed to boost sales of the "real" product. > >bruce I think you ought to get the program out there. Otherwise, if you're making no money from it, other things in life are going to absorb your time, time that otherwise could have been spent upgrading your program. The Juniors and Shredders and Tigers of the world will simply pass you by. Maybe you could talk to Chris Whittington and have Ferret included in the next release of CSTal. You and Chris have been on good terms in the past. Chris badly needs something to make his program more attractive. He needs another engine. You need an attractive interface, a distribution route, and audience larger than what exists here in this forum, in order to make some money. The downside, of course, is that Ferret would stomp CSTal, and Chris' ego might be too bruised to include a stronger engine in his product. Roger
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