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Subject: chessbase is selling free engines

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:26:14 07/25/04


I was surprised to see that all the cheap engines that chessbase is selling are
free engines.

I was also surprised that they sell old version of Sos from march 2000 but maybe
they believe that customers that buy engines instead of downloading them
deserve to get a worse version

See http://www.chessbase.com/shop/index.asp?cat=Engines+direct&user=&coin=

I wonder if the authors also earn money from it.
If few people want to support programmers by buying free programs because they
feel uncomfortable with downloading them when the author gets nothing from it
then there is no problem with it but I expect honest company to tell the
customers that the things that they buy are free to download and if they buy
them then it is only if they want to give some support to the programmers.

Some more questions:
1)Can We say that Sos and crazyBishop are professional engines because they are
sold by chessbase and does it mean that the authors needed to pay 500$
registration fee to participate in WCCC?

2)Does chessbase need permission of the author in order to sell free engines or
maybe they can decide tommorow to sell Crafty?

Uri



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