Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:17:34 08/20/05
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On August 20, 2005 at 16:06:56, Drexel,Michael wrote: >On August 20, 2005 at 15:57:58, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On August 20, 2005 at 15:45:47, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >> >>>>i do hope they sell this program for money. >>>> >>>>IMO it is worth the money they would take. >>>> >>>>for all others version 1.0 is free. >>>>but i would like to see them making some profit out of it. >>>> >>>>why not ? >>> >>>I don't mind spending money on chess engines, not at all infact as i have spent >>>too much in proportion to what is rational :) >>> >>>However i think that it might be a mistake to try and profit from a program like >>>Zappa, as the time and energy it takes in setting up sales, costumer service, >>>webpage, extra gimmicks etc etc. in proportion to what you stand to earn >>>potentially is not worth it guess as the return, if any, would be really small >>>plus that time and energy could be spent making the engine even better. >>> >>>So unless Chessbase is waving a big check, i suspect it would be too much work >>>for too little money. (i would buy it myself, but what would "the average joe" >>>pick, chessmaster or ...Zappa). >>> >>>Jonas >> >>The average Joe is not important and I guess that there are going to be >>something like 10,000 buyers who are going to buy zappa for 50$ only as uci >>engine with no interface in the next year in case that it is sold. >> >>If 10$ of it is money that the programmer is going to earn then he can earn >>100,000$ for one year. >> >>Uri > >Most of your 10.000 buyers download Toga II and have something which performs >most probably much better on their single processor machine. >Just look at Kurts unbelievable results. > >Michael I am not sure about it because zappa is significantly improved so you do not know if TogaII performs better than it on one processor. I tend to believe the opposite but I am not sure about it. Uri
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