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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