Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 07:38:50 08/28/01
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On August 28, 2001 at 07:08:47, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 28, 2001 at 06:23:26, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>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 > >Something in the assumption seems to be wrong because >I know that christophe or Amir do not live from computer chess. > >If you are right and programmers can get 25% of the money >and if chessbase can really get 10M$ in the next year >only from Fritz then >it means that Junior or tiger cannot get >even 10% of the sales of Fritz in the next year. Everything is perfectly right, Other engines than fritz sell less than 1% or so from what fritz sells would be my guess? junior or tiger, man my whole team has never heart of those chessprograms. All commercial chessbase makes is completely about and around fritz. That much that nowadays even other progs are sold as fritz, take pocket-fritz! >I believe that almost all of the chess players are not interested in >buying new programs because they are beated by the free programs or by the >the programs that they have and the number of customers >for buying chess programs is smaller than the number that you believe. >Uri This is your opinion, i must find the first person in netherlands who is able to install for example crafty under winboard. That's horror, horror and another time horror.
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