Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 10:16:25 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 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. 6*10^9*(1-0.999999999999) = 0.006
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