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Subject: Re: P - No, F o - Yes, but...

Author: JNoomen

Date: 08:46:28 01/26/06

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On January 26, 2006 at 11:09:20, Richard Pijl wrote:

Hi Richard,

At my chess club everybody knows about Fruit and Rybka :-)

Jeroen



>On January 26, 2006 at 10:18:59, Thomas Mayer wrote:
>
>>Hi Franz,
>>
>>> Will Rybka and Fruit become a problem for ChessBase or are they only
>>> interesting for freaks?
>>
>>ChessBase has no problem at all with Rybka or Fruit, not now and probably not in
>>the near future.
>>Simply forget about the freak-sector which is represented here and in other
>>computer chess fora. You can not earn real money with that. Money is earned on
>>the mass market, the first company that understands this was the producer of
>>ChessMaster.
>
>I fully agree. Just ask around at a chessclub to name chess programs. A few sure
>hits will be Fritz, Chessmaster and Deep Blue. If someone mentions another
>(modern) program he is likely to own it, and Rybka, Fruit or Zappa won't be
>recognized (unless he's a freak, of course).
>Richard.



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