Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 16:56:13 04/02/04
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On April 02, 2004 at 19:43:11, Uri Blass wrote: >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. If you make it 1 out of 1 million daily users of Arena i'm sure it's a correct estimate. Of course vaste majority of users who use 'a chess product' will not daily use it at all. >Uri
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