Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 18:56:51 12/12/05
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There are not cases of chess programmers becoming rich. The one that best organized his efforts, with a company of his own, great products, good machinery of selling and distribution and a lot of years persevering in his work and creating a pool of customers was Ed Schroeder and I believe he did not become rich. Rich; I mean a man with one million dollars or more in the bank account. Chris Wittington perhaps approached that definition, but he did not get his money selling chess programs, but selling a full company. By now, with so many available options, I doub very much Fabien or Anthony or Vasas will be capable of selling more than couple of hundreds of programs. 3 hundred at most. The general chess market is tiny and 99% of it does not know a shit about them. They know about Chessmaster and Chessbase products, but not of engines for the so called " professional market". So, no, they does not becomes rich people. None. Not even they could earn a living with it these days. At most they add some extra buck to his budgets on beer and a shunk of glory. My best fernando
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