Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 09:58:40 04/07/03
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On April 07, 2003 at 09:56:54, Uri Blass wrote: >Suppose that a programmer of a good program decides to sell his(her) engine only >as a winboard engine(it can run under Fritz in these conditions) > >I am interested in your estimate for the following questions > >How much money (s)he can get from it in the following cases: > >1)The program is at similiar level to Crafty >2)The program is at similiar level to Ruffian >3)The program is at similiar level to Fritz8 >4)The program is 100 elo better than Fritz8 > >I thought that the programmers of the top amateur(crafty level that are not >clones of other programs) are probably rich people thanks to the fact that they >are good programmers so they do not care if they can make more 100$ per month >from their program but it seems that I was wrong based on the following post >when the author of smarthink claims that he earns only 100$ per month: > >http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/messages/46347.htm > >Another possibility is that I am wrong in my guess that he can make money by >selling his program. > >More questions: > >suppose for the discussion that a programmer decides to earn 10$ per copy that >(s)he sells. >Suppose that the programmer expects to sell 120 copies per year. > >What should be the price of the program? > >Is the price significantly higher relative to the case that he expects to sell >1200 or 12000 copies per year? > >Uri Hi, the price make the programmer. And if we have an engine with 2000 ELO for 49 US Dollar is this OK for me. But the most amateur chess programmers have fun on this hobby and don't think about money. I don't believe that in 2-4 years any programmer can by hundrets of engines if 10 or more engines with the playing level from Ruffian are free for everyone available. The last group of programmers try in this time to for sell his programs. Why not but the future on the commercial market are not chess engines. In my opinion are GUIs with a lot of interesting engine options the future for the commercial market and maybe new ideas in chess programming. A person can download Arena with SOS or other engines and can play against a chess program under a strong GUI. Only power user will buy commercial software with good GUI options. Best Frank
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