Author: Uri Blass
Date: 17:20:27 01/26/06
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On January 26, 2006 at 19:37:05, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 26, 2006 at 19:09:37, ramon b. de robles wrote: > >>I think it will be good for chessbuffs like us. It will be a sort of challenge >>for the Chessbase Team to develop a stronger program than Rybka. > >And Fruit, and Zappa, etc. Don't forget that these are also moving targets. So >if you make something better than Fruit 2.2.1, what about 2.3.7? And if you >make something better than Rybka 1.2 Release, how about Rybka 1.5? > >It seems that Anthony might not be so interested in chess programming any more. > >>Rybka is quite >>a scare (maybe ?). > >I doubt it. I am sure that Rybka has their attention. But if they were >worried, they would simply make the author an offer he could not refuse. >ChessMaster does not have the strongest chess engine, and yet ChessMaster has >always been tops in sales (and by a LANDSLIDE). And so, engine strength is not >something that the chess software companies have to be afraid of. The presence >of stronger engines is just a micro-niche in the sales of chess software. chessbase sell engines for serious chess players The target of rybka and fruit is selling to the same people chessmaster do not sell engines for the same type of customers so I think that talking about it in this discussion is not relevant. Uri
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