Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:26:31 08/17/02
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On August 17, 2002 at 07:10:59, Eran wrote: > >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 You can also ask why to release free chess programs if you can sell them? The simple facts are that the free chess programs are weaker than the commercial programs and the the amateurs do not reduce the gap. The amateurs get better but the same is for the commercial programs. Uri
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