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Subject: Re: No Zappa

Author: Steve Glanzfeld

Date: 00:48:38 09/16/05

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You have other opportunities.

There are established chess software distributors, which already have a
well-known brand, and the equipment for online distribution: ChessBase,
Lokasoft, Shredderchess (SMK), Chess Assistant, and probably some others.

For example (1.) ChessBase distributes Shredder which is, or at least was until
to now, stronger than their main engine Fritz. (2.) Shredderchess.com already
distributes another program in addition to St. Meyer-Kahlen's own products:
Freezer. I cannot tell how SMK thinks about it, but basically I don't see why
two good chess programmers shouldn't cooperate, no matter if Zappa may - or may
not - be stronger than Shredder at some types of time/comp conditions.

I would assume that the distribution of a World Champion engine should be
attractive for the other companies mentioned, as well. Since they all have
established businesses and experience, I would expect that all this can be
handled without requiring very much time from you, when you have a bugfree UCI
engine available ready to be sold. Let them do the rest.

Steve



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