Author: George Tsavdaris
Date: 04:16:17 07/25/04
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On July 25, 2004 at 06:26:14, Uri Blass wrote: >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. Of course. Not much i think, but not nothing also. >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. If they do that then they would lose some not well-informed customers. But actually if someone want to support free-chess engines to become better, then this is a nice way. > >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? This is obvious. Of course the author has to give his permission to sell his engine. > >Uri
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