Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: The Public Will Not Buy Rybka X via Internet Download!

Author: Vasik Rajlich

Date: 03:13:27 01/09/06

Go up one level in this thread


On January 08, 2006 at 16:52:31, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>I think that Vasik needs to get serious about putting his excellent program on a
>CD or DVD with EGTBs and opening books. The non-fanatics in the chess world will
>not go through hoops to pay for and download a UCI engine.
>
>TJ
>
>PS If you can sell 10000 copies of a program on disk but only 200 to 300 on
>internet download then get busy and put the program on disk.

Rybka 1.2 with no GUI is certainly not ready for off-the-shelf sales. It's a
classic internet download product.

Later versions it's more interesting.

Vas

>
>PS2 Fancy copyguard and expiration schemes are not the way to go. We will not
>buy programs that terminate after a set
>period.............................................................................................................................................................................



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.