Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 07:21:10 02/28/00
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On February 28, 2000 at 09:22:34, Christopher R. Dorr wrote: >It might be good for the programmer, but for a company with a marketing position >like CM7000, it really doesn't make any sense. > >CM7K sells on bells and whistles; i.e. the pretty boards, kid-friendly piece >sets, tutorials, and other gimmicks. Mindscape makes it's money with the 99.999% >of the general public who think a Sicilian Dragon is a mythical creature from an >Italian island. These people know *nothing* about winboard, nor do they care. >Mindscape doesn't really care too much about the serious computer chess >enthusiasts; we make up a tiny fraction of the market, and we probably buy their >product regardless of what they put in it. > >So why should they go to the trouble of making a winboard engine? They are a >company, and make decisions based on economic logic. If it generates more >revenue than it costs to make, then we do it (i.e. has a positiove return on >investment). If it costs more to make than it will generate (negative ROI) then >they won't. And making a winboard engine from CM7K probably falls in the latter >category. It wouldn't make sense for them to go to the trouble. I'm glad too >that many companies are making their engines for winboard; I'd just be extremely >surprised if Mindscape followed suit. > >Chris Hi Chris, yes I understand ! In the last Chessmaster version is The King 2.5x or 2.6x included, not the last version 3.0 ! For the department store buyer good enough ! I think, that a company can more programs for sell when a WinBoard engine is included. Now for the Chessmaster friends the Chessmaster GUI (not a GUI for me) and for the WinBoarder a "WinBoard Engine". Furthermore all people can play under a lot of very good GUIs with WinBoard support and more people buy the chessmaster program, this is fact ! A good strategy for all firms ! We have the perfect "Engine Concept" ! I think a WinBoard engine is not a engine for a computer freak or enthusiasts, it is a engine for all people which have Chess-Base GUIs, WinBoard, Chess Assistant, Chess Academy, Chess Partner, Chessvision, Bookup and more and more GUIs in the next time ! This is a new market in my eyes. In 2 years a lot of people have dual boards and now 50-100 engines works fine under the favorite GUI, my dream ! I think 90% of the user have Chess-Base GUIs, WinBoard, Chess Assistant, Chess Academy, Chess Partner ... Regards Frank
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