Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:42:58 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. > >The reality is different. > >Very small minority is going to buy the top 5 programs. >Almost nobody is going to buy the rest. Not very many people will buy chess engines at all. Of those who do buy them, 99% will be decided by shelf space. Here I am, walking along in the store, and I see the ChessMaster box. There is no other chess box in sight. I guess I might buy ChessMaster and I am not going to buy the product that is not there. I bet that one person in a thousand who buys a chess program even knows what the SSDF is. The people who read and post here are interested in SSDF results. They are alos interested in WMCCC results and CCCT results. I am guessing that there are less than 5000 active readers. There have been 5 million copies of ChessMaster sold. I am very sure that if you put all other programs together and even include all free downloads of every chess program ever made, it is not close to that. SSDF results and CCCT results and WMCCC results and Bob Pawlak reviews are important to discriminating buyers. Way less than 1% of all chess buyers are discriminating.
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