Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:19:55 10/12/05
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On October 12, 2005 at 08:04:55, David H. McClain wrote: >> >> >>I still think that Fabien's decision to release Fruit WCCC'05 to the CEGT >>testers was a bold gamble that paid off bigtime. >>People could see from the outstanding results that Fruit 2.2 was the number one >>engine at that point in time (and possibly still is although it's a close call >>between it and Fritz 9 now). >>That's publicity that money can't buy. >>These are indeed great times for computer chess hobbyists! :-) >> >>Graham. > >Graham, > >I hope Fabian makes a million dollars with his Fruit and I agree going >professional was somewhat of a calculated risk that apparently is paying off >very well. I think that nobody is going to make 1,000,000$ from a chess engine today. It is more logical to put a smaller target of something like 35,000$ My advice to Fabien is simply not to sell future versions of fruit(except planned update of this version) unless more than 1000 people preorder it and to decide that if there are not at least 1000 buyers who preorder it then fruit remains private. I think that this is the only efficient way to fight against people who crack chess software. Unfortunately I understood based on posts that probably no copy protection is efficient against crackers and maybe some of them will buy Fruit if they understand that if they do not buy it then nobody will be able to get it. Word of mouth perhaps is not as fast as hard copy advertising >promotion but I think the message about Fruit Professional is making the rounds >fast enough! > >I'd hate to think of how many programmer's computers are reverse engineering >Fruit now to see what makes it tick. No need for reverse engineering for that purpose If programmers want to learn from fruit then fruit2.1 is clearly enough. Uri
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