Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 01:11:35 08/28/01
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On August 27, 2001 at 16:38:49, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 27, 2001 at 15:59:42, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On August 27, 2001 at 13:07:31, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>>On August 27, 2001 at 12:03:53, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>> >>>>On August 26, 2001 at 14:18:27, Roy Eassa wrote: >>>> >>>>Ok let's be clear here. I've been on several tournaments now and >>>>what i have learned about technical things from Stefan Meyer Kahlen >>>>in all those years is summarized in the next few new lines, which is >>>>about what the other 2 persons would learn too: >>> >>> >>>The theory here is that $5,000,000 might just loosen those tight lips -- no say, >>>no pay. >> >>All of the programmers share probably that they tried loads of different >>algorithms. Nowadays i already see in advance that something is usually >>not going to work, but if i would sum up what i have tried over the >>years that's already a lot, not to mention guys like Stefan, Frans >>etc. >> >>In short they could write books full of crap for that $5MLN without >>saying a thing. >> >>Also i think $5MLN divided by 3 persons is 1.6M, if you need to >>live the rest of your life from 1.6M then that's pretty little money >>to open your mouth! > >1.6M is a little money? >I doubt it. > >I think it is a good money that top programmers are going >to be happy to earn from their programs. > >I doubt if there is one chess programmer who expect to earn 1.6M$ >in the future from computer chess and remember that you need to divide money >that you get in the future because 10,000$ in 2010 is worse than >10,000$ of today. > >Uri if you reveal all your secrets it's hard to sell something which is going to win in 2010, so you must take into account too that you don't have any income fromcomputerchess in 2010 in this way! And yes, chessbase makes 10 fold more from computerchess anyway, so what are you talking about? Best regards, Vincent/
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