Author: Vikrant Malvankar
Date: 03:47:34 09/09/05
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On September 09, 2005 at 06:41:24, Alex Shalamanov wrote: >On September 09, 2005 at 05:55:16, Madhavan wrote: > >>I expect that there would be less customers if shredder were to be released >>sooner because of its WCCC results. >>For Fruit,I don't know I expect Fabien to give us a great surprise by releasing >>his program freely [with or without code] >>I don't want source code anyway :) > >I don't know. The correspondence chess community does not always take into >account the WCCC results because engine to engine games are not very important >for them. What is more important for CC players is good deep analysis, training >and commenting facilities that is why they choose mostly CB Shredder or Fritz. >Since CC players are likely the most customers for chess products apart from OTB >titled players, it's this chess group that makes ultimate profits for chess >software developers. From my own CC experience I can say that most of my >opponents have been using Fritz or Deep Fritz as a chess engine which is the >most CC-friendly product. Thus, Shredder 9 and Fritz 8 (now, supposedly, Fritz >9) are still going to be the best choices for CC players. >As to Fruit, I suppose Fabien will either have to cooperate with CB or try to >develop his own GUI which will take longer time, so we will not see new Fruit >WCCC commercial for long. He can sell Fruit as UCI just like Stfen Mayer Kahlen without GUI ofcourse. And I don't believe him to be completely uniterested >in commercial benefits to release his Fruit just for nothing. >I'm going to tell you more. I don't believe Couzzi's cooperation with Diepeeven >will benefit. As far as I know, Vincent has been trying to promote his Diep D3 >for quite a while, without much success, though. Developing a 2D GUI is not a >one day's matter, so he'll either work on that for 1-2 months more or release >Zappa 3D which will not make the customers happy, you know. And we won't see >Zappa 2.0 soon, not untile the end of year. Sounds very pessimistic, though, but >it seems a likely case. Therefore, Chessbase will still reign with their Fritz 9 >and later on with Hiarcs 10 or Shredder 10 making the bulk of the chess software >market profits. >Alex
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