Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:37:23 01/26/06
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On January 26, 2006 at 20:20:27, Uri Blass wrote: >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 I am not a serious chess player (e.g. I have never played in a formal tournament), and I bought several ChessBase products. I guess that almost all of their sales are the same sort. ChessBase is popular in Europe and has a store presence there. No such presence for bare UCI engines of any sort. >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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