Author: Jay Urbanski
Date: 20:48:30 12/12/05
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On December 12, 2005 at 21:56:51, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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 $1,000,000 in the bank is not "rich" - at best it is comfortable. Assuming 10% return per year (an optimistic assumption), that's only $100,000 a year without touching the capital. Comfortable, mabye... but hardly "rich".
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