Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 16:28:25 02/06/04
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On February 06, 2004 at 19:11:38, Russell Reagan wrote: >On February 06, 2004 at 17:24:35, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>I believe that the first top commercial program that support FRC and win a match >>against Peter Svidler will be a big seler. What do you think? > >Think about this. How many people that DO NOT currently buy chess programs are >going to see "Fritz 9 beats Peter Svidler at Fischer random chess" and then buy >the program because of that? I think the number will be very, very small. People >will buy it, but not a lot more than the number of people who already buy chess >programs. > >In other words, how many people do you think are out there that are holding out >for a program that supports FRC before they will buy a chess program? There >might be some, but I could probably count them on both of my hands. > >Most people would read that and first think, "What is Fischer random chess?" >Second, they're probably going to think, "Who is Peter Svidler?" You have to >realize that unlike you, the vast majority of people don't follow chess, don't >buy chess programs, don't know what Fischer random chess is, and don't even know >the rules of regular chess in the first place. It wouldn't suprise me if less >than 50% could even name one chess piece. Even if they could, that's a far cry >from buying a chess program because it supports Fischer random chess and beat >Peter Svidler. You made a good point, but I was not refering to regular people specially those that do NOT even know how to play standard chess. PS: If you ask how many people who read this forum know what is FRC you might get a 65% or even 75%, but the rest or 25% who is not familiar with the castling rules, could learn it in less than 1 minute. Jorge.
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