Author: Peter Herttrich
Date: 01:43:11 06/29/98
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On June 28, 1998 at 14:29:28, Robert Pawlak wrote: >On June 28, 1998 at 12:53:23, Keith Ian Price wrote: > >>On June 27, 1998 at 17:25:00, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>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 >> >>Fernando-- >> >>I think that all this poll indicates is that people on CCC own multiple copies >>of various chess programs. If we were to ask people to vote for any digit from > >Actually, I think what the poll indicates is that CM is at a price point where >most people who own multiple programs can afford it. > >Also, when you just get started in computer chess (at least in the US), you go >down do your local computer store (if you are honest), and what do you see? >ABout 20 copies of CM and nothing else. I know that CM was the first commercial >program I bought... Exactly! And thats the reason for 4-Million sold copies of CM, like the the CD-Case says. And I think, we (here in CCC) are NOT the typical chess-program users. Peter
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