Author: Michael Vox
Date: 16:35:35 05/06/02
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On May 05, 2002 at 15:38:44, Fernando Villegas wrote: >All those guys I mention above these lines were, in one moment, authors of good >programs. And all those guys are by now retired from chess programming. >Certainly there are probable other names I do not recall. What happened to them? Hirsch and ChrisW are obvious, Hirsch stopped programming chess and joined NASA for the money. ChrisW started programming other games like Shogi and then sold his business, for the money. Lang stopped upgrading Genius, but then made a comeback when the Palms came out, for the money. Do we see the key three words here: "For The Money* There is only a small marketshare available now. ChessMaster has the mass market, ChessBase has the majority of serious chess players. Then there is all the amateur games, which most of us cannot beat anyway. Computer chess is a maturing market now, there just isn't much room to make money at it !!
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