Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 10:35:54 12/15/05
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Albert, Vaclav Rajlich has not sold his program to Chessbase for distribution. If he were to do so then he would write a contract that gives him continued ownership and distribution rights of his program. He could sell 100 times as many programs if Chessbase put his program on disk. Even if he got only 1/5th as much money per sale he would make twenty times as much money than were he to sell his own product. I think that it is inevitable that such a deal will occur sometime next year. TJ On December 15, 2005 at 13:25:43, Albert Silver wrote: >On December 15, 2005 at 13:22:33, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: > >>I must concede that Hiarcs is a great program but I am not sure that it is good >>as little Rybka. Perhaps they could be sold together for $60.00 USD and I would >>save about thirty bucks. >> >>It is odd that Chessbase is so adamant about not selling two programs together. >>If you can sell three times as many programs if you sell two killer engines >>together then why not do it? > >I'm guessing one reason is that it is illegal for Chessbase to sell Rybka. > > Albert > >> >>TJ >> >>PS I am sure that most of you have given up trying to beat these engines without >>anticomputer methods. Most of you enjoy watching games between strong engines. >>If >>two strong engines were included on one DVD then we would have instant >>gladiatorial contests. The crowds would go wild. Yeah!
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