Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 09:43:34 04/07/03
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At this point in computer chess, I think the only way to make any significant amount of money is _not_ to have the absolute strongest program in the world, but to have something to offer the casual person who is interested in chess. For instance, Chessmaster is not the strongest program in the world, but it sells far more than any other chess program because it has easy to use features that lower level players enjoy and use. I think that you would make more money if you wrote a program to teach young children how to play chess than you would if you wrote a program that is as strong as Ruffian. I also think you'd make more money working part time at MacDonalds than any other realistic scenario you mentioned. 100 points stronger than Fritz is probably not realistic. If you did accomplish that, you would probably make more money from playing Kasparov than you would selling your program. There are already dozens of programs that can beat 99.9999999999% of the world. The need is not for more strong programs. If you could write a master level go playing program, then you could make some serious money.
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