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Subject: Re: some questions about chess programs and money

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 05:41:10 04/08/03

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On April 08, 2003 at 07:38:34, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>This program was (and still is) the only fully rendered 3D checkers program, so
>it obviously drew a lot of attention. I released it as shareware, so that the
>users can try it for 30 days, then they have to pay $20 to register it. $20
>seemed to be too much, and the ratio of sells to downloads was rather low. After
>a month or two, I changed the price to $9.99, the sales more than tripled.
>Although in the hindsight I think that $9.99 was probably too low, sending a
>message "hey this program is so poor, that is why it is priced 9.99". Maybe
>something like $15 would have been better.
>
>Today 'Braveheart 3D Checkers II' is available as advertising supported
>freeware.

Thanks for this info. Whether this could be translated to chess engines is
another question, but at least it's a data point from someone. :)

Sargon

PS. I'll buy your program if you port it to Linux ;)



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