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Subject: Re: Short doesn't know about Fruit ?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 08:26:37 10/12/05

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On October 12, 2005 at 08:19:55, Uri Blass wrote:

>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$

If you could get a deal to become an engine for ChessMaster it might be
possible.  Even if you make $1 per copy, a sales of one million copies is
likely.  Of course, that is gross profit and the real earnings will be much
less.



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