Author: Christos Gitsis
Date: 12:21:55 08/24/05
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On August 24, 2005 at 12:38:28, James Constance wrote: >http://www.chesscafe.com/mig/mig.htm > >"Some people asked me why they should spend forty or fifty bucks for a chess >program when they can download the top world championship programs free..." "...The marvelous Linux operating system, at least various versions of it, is free and offers many free and open source programs that cover most of what you do with your Windows machine. But as the saying goes, “Linux is free only if your time is worth nothing.” Windows is far easier to use and has countless features we have come to depend on, no matter how much we may resent making Bill Gates’ mountain of gold a tiny bit higher. So it goes with chess software..." There is some truth in that. I played in an open tournament last week and spent some time talking to some fellow chessplayers about free software, but most of them initially would not believe that it could be as good as commercial programs. In the end they were convinced, but I understood that most people have not yet heard that there are strong engines outside ChessBase and I realized that we, computer chess fans, are a small minority. In particular, I got the impression that most, if not all, titled players (IMs, GMs) will never give up their ChessBase software, with which they are familiar. Unless Fritz drops to being _much_ weaker that other engines, ChessBase need not worry very much.
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