Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 03:23:26 08/28/01
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On August 28, 2001 at 04:36:23, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 28, 2001 at 04:15:54, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On August 27, 2001 at 17:07:10, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>but this is exactly the problem, $100M is not real to share with >>a bunch of persons. >> >>Note that a programmer earns like $100k a year, kure is both programmer >>AND working for chessbase. european salaries are lower than in the US, >>so he gets probably way less than $100k a year. A programmer in europe >>is about $40k a year (pretty little nah?), and that can double if they >>are real good. > >The programmers that people talked about are not from USA and >I do not know about one programmer from USA who earns much from chess >programming because the best chess programs from USA that I know >(Crafty and Ferret) are not commercial programs. > >it is better to earn 1.6M$ now then earning 40K$ a year because >1.6M$ now can be translated to more than 40k$ per year. > >40k$ a year is not pretty little and most people in Israel >earn less than that. >I guess that even if Frans morsh earns 100K$ per year today he is going to be >happy to earn 40K$ per year for I do not know what Frans Morsch earns, i don't even know what royalty % he gets, but suppose chessbase sells for $10M worth of fritz (especially with kramnik in mind) then how much does a programmer get from that? Well i have heart different fees, but let's say he gets 25% of that. That's $10M / 4 = 2.5M$ the coming year. Best regards, Vincent >the rest of his life for computer chess because he cannot feel sure >that he is going to earn the same next years because he cannot be sure >that his program is going to continue to be number 1 in the ssdf list >because there is a competition. > >I do not believe that most of the other programmers of the top programs >earn much from computer chess otherwise >they could live from it without another job. > >I read that the programmers of Junior and tiger >have another job and they do not live only from computer chess. > >Uri
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