Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 14:25:00 06/27/98
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On June 26, 1998 at 21:53:51, Mark Young wrote: >On June 26, 1998 at 20:49:51, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>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 > >You may have jumped the gun here. I'm not sure if 1283 people voted, or just >1238 total votes have been cast. It says 1283 total votes, not voters. Since one >person can cast up to 41 votes, don't we need to first find out how many voters >we had voting, before we can draw any conclusions? Hi marK: Yes, you are right and I am wrong. Nevertheless, if at the end results keeps inside this tendency, then I keep my for now mistaken words. Fernando
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