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Subject: Re: To: Chris Theron

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 00:07:44 12/14/99

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Another thing is that most of the top programs have been improving for
_decades_. Expecting a competitive chess program from your son in 1 year is too
much, IMHO.

-Tom

On December 13, 1999 at 23:40:30, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On December 13, 1999 at 21:48:43, Martin Grabriel wrote:
>
>>I believe Rebel Tiger will be very well received. I am just very curious on the
>>rewards to programmer. You see, my son is a free lance software programmer and I
>>want to encourage him to write a commercial chess program (he plays chess rather
>>well but have no time for it). If he spends a year on such a project and managed
>>to come out with something like Tiger (hypothetical), will he make enough to
>>sustain himself comfortably? If you don't mind me asking, how many copies must
>>Rebel Tiger be sold before it pays off for one year of your effort?
>
>
>I cannot give you all the information that you are asking for, but what I can
>tell you is that it is *very* hard to make money with a chess program.
>
>So I would not advice you to plan to get any money from it.
>
>
>    Christophe



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