Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 17:49:51 06/26/98
Hi all: With more than one thousand people having already visited the poll to cast his votes, a simple but fundamental preliminarty conclusion can be held: in the tribe of professional consummers or "serious" player there is not one great favourite program. Chessmaster, the one with the better votation, has been or is possesed by only 10% of the people at any time. The dispertion is amazing. I have not made out any statiscal calculation so far, but at simple sight the fact appears bluntly. What this means? What implies? This is something to think about a while. A first thought it comes to me is that professional developers of chess software face an increasingly difficult situation as much as they are not capable of reaching mass market AND at the same time the tiny populations of potential customers for his products does not concentrate his purchasing power in nobody, not yet at least and maybe never will do. A concentration could ensure the survival of some of them, althought with many losers; the actual situation guarantee the lose of all of them, in "masse". I hope to be mistaken. Next couple of years maybe will tell. Who knows. fernando
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