Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 16:32:24 06/07/02
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On June 07, 2002 at 15:40:15, Uri Blass wrote: >The relevant question is if more chess players are interested in buying a better >engine relative to go players. Certainly. Even myself who is not really interested in go might purchase a master level go program. I suspect that since go is much more popular in the oriental countries and other places in the world that many people would jump at the chance to buy a master level go playing program. I think a person able to create such a thing would make quite a bit of money, since nothing close to it currently exists. As far as your comments about a chess program topping the SSDF list by 100 elo points, I don't think that would cause it to overtake Chessmaster as the #1 program, or even be competitive with it. Chessmaster, while maybe not as strong as Fritz, Tiger, Junior, Shredder, Rebel, etc. is still stronger than 99.99999999% of the world's human chess playing population. Why would the average person want something MORE powerful than that? I think what might be a better approach would be to market a new chess software package as a learning tool, which is partially what Chessmaster does. I would be more inclined to buy a software package that would help me improve my chess rather than a program that is going to mate me in 20 moves instead of 30. I think improving analysis techniques would be one area that would sell me. If a program game analysis in human language, I would check that out. Similar to what Chessmaster does, but last time I used Chessmaster it basically said, "After [insert long variation here] white is slightly better." which doesn't help much understand anything. That was back at CM6000 though, so things might have changed since then. That's what I would like to see though. Maybe I'll work on that :) Russell
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