Author: Albert Silver
Date: 10:41:42 12/15/05
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On December 15, 2005 at 13:35:54, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>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.
I disagree, and think you have little notion as to how many programs not called
Fritz sell.
>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.
I hope you are wrong. I would really hate to see Rybka become a Fritz-only
engine. That would suck.
Albert
>
>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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