Author: Mike Hood
Date: 21:10:57 12/12/05
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On December 13, 2005 at 00:03:18, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 12, 2005 at 23:48:30, Jay Urbanski wrote: > >>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". > >It is dependent on the definition of rich and >I do not agree with your definition. > >Uri To quote something I read in a Christmas cracker: "The man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest" It's difficult to say when you're rich, because the definition of "rich" is fuzzy. It's easier to say when you're not rich. I know I'm not rich if there's something I want to do, and I can't do it because I don't have enough money. Maybe I can't afford a new house, maybe I can't afford a new car, or maybe I can't afford Fritz 9. If I have to do without something for money reasons I'm not rich.
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