Author: John Merlino
Date: 14:47:36 04/03/04
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On April 03, 2004 at 11:11:56, martin fierz wrote: >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 That's not $5000 for EACH weak engine (and, perhaps instead of "weak", we should use the phrase "new commercial"), but $5000 for ALL of them that have "gone commercial". Not much incentive. jm
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