Author: Eran
Date: 04:10:59 08/17/02
More and more free chess engine modules (freeware) have come up in the Internet. Some chess programmers will have a harder time selling their chess engine modules. No one will be willing to buy any cheapest chess engine module if there will be so many strongest free chess engine modules already in the Internet. How will it affect ChessBase? I am wondering. If all amateur chess engines will be free and some of them will be as strong as commercial ones, Will ChessBase make their commercial chess engine modules such as Fritz free in the future? Why buy Fritz if there will be several free chess engines as strong as Fritz? Will ChessBase's survival depend on selling chess interfaces alone? What do you think? What will happen to chess business in the future? Eran
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