Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 19:20:21 12/21/02
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On December 21, 2002 at 21:10:27, Bob Durrett wrote: >On December 21, 2002 at 16:26:14, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On December 21, 2002 at 16:19:44, stuart taylor wrote: >> >>>On December 21, 2002 at 15:06:50, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>>On December 21, 2002 at 14:38:36, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >>>> >>>>>On December 21, 2002 at 14:13:42, Russell Reagan wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On December 21, 2002 at 12:49:34, Uri Blass wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>I believe that I have ideas that can help your program to get to commercial >>>>>>>level or better than it in the next year. >>>>>> >>>>>>I have a hard time believing this. If you were serious about this, you could >>>>>>spend the time to implement known ideas, and then you'd have a program >>>>>>approximately on Crafty's playing level. Then you could spend a year adding your >>>>>>revolutionary ideas, and you could sell it and then you would get 100% of the >>>>>>profits instead of having to split it. >>>>>> >>>>>>If you have so many great ideas, why is Movei not commercial strength (or even >>>>>>close)? >>>>> >>>>>Took the words right out of my mouth >>>>>Thanks >>>>>Wayne >>>> >>>>I plan to continue to improve the strength of movei and maybe when it gets >>>>closer to be commercial strength there is going to be bigger chance that people >>>>are going to be interested in buying my ideas. >>>> >>>>I am going to release a new version in the near future. >>>>It is still not close to be commercial level but clearly better than the public >>>>version. >>>> >>>>Movei of today still knows nothing about king safety and almost nothing about >>>>pawn structure(only double pawns) but I plan to improve it. >>>> >>>>Uri >>>So what's your problem that you can do something better with someone ELSES >>>program? >>>Is there some banned substance in Israel or something? >>>S.Taylor >> >>I believe that my talent is ideas and not programming. >>I do not think about changing the source code of another program but about >>telling ideas that can help to improve programs. >> >>Uri > >You know, I feel the same way! : ) > >ALL JOKING ASIDE: > >The problem is one of marketing. How do I convince anybody to invest in my >ideas? How does anybody do that? > >That's not limited to chess engine ideas. The marketing and selling problems >are very real. > >Maybe a person with many good ideas but short on certain skills, whatever they >may be, should form a company and surround himself with good people who supply >the missing skills. > >The problem is one of investment. If you hire an employee, you must offer a >competitive employment package. Where will the money come from? > >An alternative would be for two or more people to form a partnership. Each >partner would contribute skills and talents not provided by others. > >If Uri is loaded with good ideas, [and why not?] then he might find a >crackerjack programmer to become his partner. Together they assume all the >risks. If success comes, they are both happy. If not, they cry together. > >Investment is another problem. If it takes two years to get return on >investment, who will put the food on the table in the meantime? > >I truly believe that several regular contributors to this bulletin board could >form a viable p artnership. It's just a matter of having sound business sense >and a whole lot of work. > >Bob D. But first you have to prove that your ideas relate to improved performance. Thus far your program does not demonstrate this Thank ou Wayne
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