Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:30:03 04/05/04
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On April 03, 2004 at 04:00:00, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 03, 2004 at 00:26:52, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On April 02, 2004 at 19:56:13, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>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. >> >>Having done software support, I have to agree with Vincent. >>People will have a terrible, terrible time with anything requiring more than a >>couple clicks to "Yes". > >I believe that there are people with problems to do simple things but >I do not believe that almost everybody has that problem. And yet I am very sure of it. Probably, one of us is mistaken. >>Forget about editing an ini file. It sounds so simple, but one person in 1000 >>will be comfortable doing that. > >I think that more than 1 out of 1000. Possibly, I just picked that number out of the air. But I have even found professional computer programmers that never venture out from their IDE >If people are not comfortable with changing ini file in order to use the program >then it means that the they do not really need the program. I have literally hundreds of professional programs that do not ask me to edit any ini file. Does that mean that I did not need them? >It is a pity that people are busy in selling people programs that they do not >need. I think that your statement that they do not need them is not correct and therefore your conclusion does not follow.
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