Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:41:35 04/02/04
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On April 02, 2004 at 15:36:01, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 02, 2004 at 12:36:58, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On April 02, 2004 at 12:09:29, Eduard Nemeth wrote: >> >>>On April 02, 2004 at 11:46:56, Christian Koch wrote: >>> >>>>see http://rahman85.tripod.com/rahman.html >>> >>>All engines goes commercial ! >>> >>>I hold me then only the best 5 (MAX)! >>>Is this the way? >>> >>>Eduard >> >>All the engines can go commercial, but most people will only buy the top 5 rated >>by the SSDF and other Rating agencies. >> >>Jorge > >If only 0.1% of the people buy weak chess engines then weak engines are going to >have millions of buyers. According to some fairly old marketing numbers from Chessmaster, approximately 250,000 "units" of chess software are sold around the world each year. This number may have gone up or down dramatically -- I really have no clue. So, if 0.1% of the people buy weak engines.... >The reality is different. > >Very small minority is going to buy the top 5 programs. >Almost nobody is going to buy the rest. Exactly. jm
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