Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:08:32 08/17/02
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On August 17, 2002 at 08:06:50, Peter Berger wrote: >On August 17, 2002 at 07:26:31, Uri Blass wrote: > >>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. > >This is obviously true currently. I think the gap was probably closest with >Crafty 17.11-14 when it was first released. It has become bigger again recently. > >On the other hand the number of engines surpassing or reaching Crafty level has >increased very much. A few of them are quite new and seem to improve fast. This >could mean that the gap might decrease somewhat in the near future. > >Peter It can also mean that some of the new engines are going to become commercial. Uri
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