Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:49:43 07/25/04
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On July 25, 2004 at 07:43:57, Uri Blass wrote: >On July 25, 2004 at 07:21:20, Ingo Bauer wrote: > >>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. >>>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. >> >>What you are writing is not completly true. >> >>Chessbase sold (and is probably selling) these engines since 2000. At that point >>ALL the engines on that CD where not freely available (maybe precessors but not >>the CD Version). As an example SOS in an older Version where free but the >>version on that CD is not free untill today. >>But if the CD Version is better than the actual one is highly doubtfull! >> >>I am pretty sure that the authors back then got some money from chessbase. It >>didnt make them rich for sure. The project was never continued by Chessbase. > >This is exactly the point. >The project was never continued by chessbase and I find illogical to continue to >sell engines when all of them are free or there are better versions that are >free. > >customers who look at the chessbase page to see engines that they can buy may >become angry when they see that chessbase want to sell them free engines and may >decide not to buy from chessbase so I am even not sure if it is a good deal for >chessbase. > >When they sold the young talents and part of the engines became free then I can >understand their decision to continue to sell the young talents because part of >the engines are still not free but when all the engines became free with no >exception as far as I can see then I see no point in selling the engines unless >they sell with them something else like a different interface but in that case >they should say that the engines are free and customers who buy them only get >new interface in case that they did not buy other engines from chessbase. > >I remember that I also asked how Sos got the best amateur in WCCC when it was >sold by chessbase but if I remember correctly at that time it was sold as part >of the young talents and not seperately. > >Uri Maybe I am wrong and I checked again and I do not remember a release of Ikarus so maybe Ikarus is the only exception. Uri
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