Author: Sandro Necchi
Date: 01:38:41 08/21/05
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On August 21, 2005 at 03:12:46, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 21, 2005 at 02:43:07, Sandro Necchi wrote: > >>On August 20, 2005 at 18:53:25, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On August 20, 2005 at 17:06:56, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >>> >>>>>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 >>>> >>>>10.000 buyers?? i think that is waaay to high, i think it might sell 100-200 >>>>tops on a yearly basis. Also 50$ is way to high too for just the engine, 29.95$ >>>>max for that. >>>> >>>>Where did you get 10.000 from? you do realize that only the readers of this >>>>forum, the winboard forum and a couple of others are potential buyers of an >>>>engine like Zappa and out of these only a few hardcore testers and fanatics like >>>>myself would actually buy just an engine. >>>> >>>>Well maybe i am wrong, but that figure Uri seems incredible at best. >>>> >>>>Jonas >>> >>>I do not think that only the readers of this forum and similiar forums are >>>potential buyers. >>> >>>I have a friend who does not read these forums but I tell him if there is some >>>new interesting engine to buy and he may use them in his correspondence games. >>> >>>Uri >> >>Uri, >> >>the market got quite smaller and smaller, so one can expect to sell some 2,000 >>to 3,000 units if distribution is set well and price is correct. >> >>Unfortunately most people wants free chess programs or believe what they have is >>more then enough. >> >>I always told/wrote in computers chess magazines that this is a wrong approch >>because a computer chess program should be considered as a sparring partner and >>the strongest it is the best you can benefict, but most people do not want to >>learn as they prefer to win regardless how strong they are. >> >>Sandro > >Thanks for the information. >I guess that your information is based on experience in the last years so you >know better than me. > >Note that I guess that the number of buyers will be even smaller relative to >last years unless the commercial programmers can release programs that is at >better than the best free programs on one processor and I guess that at least >Junior and Shredder have a problem because Fabien told us that Fruit of WCCC >still has search bugs and it is going to be improved so if you want to release >new program in a few months then even the being slightly better than the level >of fruit WCCC is not enough to be better than fruit of that time. Well, even if I asked Stefan several times to improve the engine for the WCCC, he believed Shredder was strong enough and decited to invest his time in a different way. I am sure he will work hard on the engine to make it better...so Shredder 10 will be stronger for sure... > >Uri Sandro
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