Author: Uri Blass
Date: 16:43:11 04/02/04
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On April 02, 2004 at 19:20:11, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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. 0.00001% means 1 out of 10,000,000. I doubt if there are 10,000,000 chess product users in the world when I am sure that there are more than 1000 people who use arena. Uri
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