Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:41:51 09/15/00
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On September 15, 2000 at 17:16:29, Ritter Rost wrote: >On September 14, 2000 at 12:51:50, James T. Walker wrote: > >>At the risk of being on the wrong side of programmers, I have to agree with >>Enrique. I think programmers, especially commercial programmers put a lot of >>emphasis on the World Championship because of the extra sales it might bring. > >Extra sales, I'd say 500-700 copies, it brings in the market of computer chess >fans. I doubt that it helps much on real-world shelves. More likely it is a bad >handicap. In the real world you have the granny who buys a present for her >grandchild. What's she going to take? The merciless Worldchampion who will shred >her little boy to pieces? Or will she buy ChessMaster instead? She is going to >buy ChessMaster. And ChessMaster sells 100.000 copies per version. Chessmaster is irrelevant here because it is not an option for the programmers. I guess that getting more 500-700 copies for year is the important thing for the programmers. If they earn 10$ for every copy they can earn more 5000-7000$ per year that is very good for them if you consider the fact that most of the programmers are amatuers and have a full time job not in chess programming. Uri
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