Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 12:22:52 04/02/04
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On April 02, 2004 at 15:09:58, John Merlino wrote: >On April 02, 2004 at 14:55:48, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On April 02, 2004 at 12:20:01, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On April 02, 2004 at 11:46:32, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >>> >>>>Vincent, I did not gave you permission to use *my* code in your convertor, or I >>>>am missing something? >>> >>>Are you planning to sue me? >>> >>>Who says i have a special convertor by the way? >>> >>>Why wouldn't it be an option in an engine of mine? >>> >>>Note i always found your claims ridicioulous. Really sick microsoft way of doing >>>things. >>> >>>Your first releases of your egtb code there was no copyright claim anywhere of >>>you. It was released for the public. >>> >>>Then later "for commercial usage" one needed permission. >>> >>>By the way my commercial diep version will not have a byte of >>>your code of course. >> >>I do not think that a lot of people will buy commercial chess programs in the >>future because they will be able to get free programs of similiar level. >> >>In the past programmers made their program to make money. >>I think that today most of the new programmers do not improve their program to >>make money but to make people happy and I will not be surprised to see new free >>smarthink or new free gothmog that is significantly better than Ruffian in less >>than 2 years. >> >>Uri > >You're assuming that, for most people, the most important part of a chess >program is the strength of the chess engine. The reality is that, for many MANY >people, this is not as important as the overall feature set, tutorial content, >UI quality and (in Chessmaster's case) reputation of the program. The vast >majority of "typical computer chess software users" couldn't care less if the >engine was Super-GM strength or GM strength...or even IM strength! > >Even if there were a hundred free Winboard engines stronger than The King, >people would still buy Chessmaster because of the incredible value of the entire >software package. > >Additionally, people typically don't find out about the existence of free >engines without first delving into computer chess via a commercial package. I >don't know how many people download Crafty each year, but I would suspect that >each one of them has bought a commercial program first. > >jm Additionally the only 2 programs that play very human a look like when weakened to 600 level are The King and DIEP.
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