Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 16:20:11 04/02/04
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On April 02, 2004 at 19:15:35, Sune Fischer wrote: >>>I think Chessbase and Fritz is the most widely known combination of software, at >>>least here in Denmark among club players. >> >>How many copies did fritz sell? >> >>Chessmaster like 6 million or so. >> >>Forget it. Chessmaster is number 1. > >Hard to say without knowing how much fritz sells. > >Among the more serious chess players I'm quite sure chessbase is the big seller, >the database tools are very important to many. > >Just go to the net and see how many game collections you can download in >chessbase format. It's crawling with them! > >>Then somewhere in a dark gray room at playchess you'll find a few chessbase >>fans. > >Only because chessbase hasn't made it possible for them to connect to ICS. They >want to be confined to their own server instead of spreading them out all over, >let's just agree to be thankful for that :) > >>>You won't believe how many times I've explain they should start out with the >>>strong winboard engines which they can download _for free_. >>>-S. >> >>No one gets that to work except a few dudes. >> >>Like 99.999% of the population will not get winboard engines to work even if you >>make a video how to do it. > >Yes, I always recommed they use Arena, it's much easier to install engines for >the novice user. Even if you make a video how to do it, they won't manage it. After a few months they will unhappily email you that your product never worked. Assuming you earn nothing on Arena, that is a very difficult helpdesk you must provide for every product 'sold'. Imagine that for each product sold you must answer 10 questions. No one can do that at a profit at the prices such software has. Arena is of course not having a chance to get used by many people. Perhaps 0.00001% of the total chess product users. I never used it in fact. I downloaded it once. it crashed and i forgot about it. >-S.
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