Author: Eydun Lamhauge
Date: 09:41:50 02/03/05
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I ask only out of curiosity. I know at lot of people that have purchased a copy of Fritz, so I can image that selling chess software must be a good business for ChessBase. On February 03, 2005 at 11:41:13, Steve Maughan wrote: >Eydun, > >>Does any one have clue how big business manufacturing chess software is? > >If I made a guess I would say that ChessBase's turover is probably ~$1 to 1.5 >million. The big bucks are probably with ChessMaster - this probably has sales >of 100,000 units per year which probably bring in ~$1 million for UbiSoft. Then >there are probably six to ten other individuals that make a resonable living out >of computer chess. So I guess the market size is probably between $3 - $4 >million per year. > >Why do you ask? > >Steve
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