Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:11:49 04/07/03
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On April 07, 2003 at 12:43:34, Russell Reagan wrote: >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 suspect that they make more money because people hear about them more than Fritz and only for this reason. > >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. You may be right but it is not an answer to my question. I did not ask how to make more money. If a programmer improves his program for fun it does not contradict the fact that he may want to make money out of it. > >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. You do not understand. The need for stronger programs is not to beat humans but to beat other programs. There are people who do for fun tournament of programs so if chess is not going to be solved they will continue to buy chess programs. Another need is for correspondence chess. There are tournament of correspondence chess when everything is allowed and players may want to buy the strongest program for these tournament. I believe that thousands of players use chess program for correspondence games. Part of them copy the programs and get them by illegal means but more than an hundred of them simply buy them. Uri
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