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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