Author: martin fierz
Date: 08:11:56 04/03/04
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On April 02, 2004 at 15:41:35, John Merlino wrote: >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 interesting figures. but if they are correct and 0.1% of all people would buy a "weak" engine like ktulu 5.0, then you are talking of 250 copies sold a year. let's assume they cost 20$, so that's 5000$. not much by european or american standards, but i guess for other countries (india, russia) that might be enough of an incentive to commercialize your engine if it is now a top free engine... cheers martin
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