Author: Vincent Vega
Date: 18:37:46 02/11/00
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On February 11, 2000 at 21:03:44, Dann Corbit wrote: >Perhaps market research has shown them that (for instance) winning a WMCCC or >topping the SSDF generates more sales than a pretty face. Perhaps, but I've seen a report that indicates that UI is rated as one of the top reasons for buying a program. Of course it wasn't done with chess programs but I can't imagine chess program buyers are that much different from other people. >If you believe that it is a terrific opportunity, then why not capitalize on it. > >You sure couldn't do any worse than some of the attempts that I have seen. Writing just the interface would be a very boring job for me. And I doubt I'll ever make another chess program (I wrote one for C64 for fun years ago). >What functionality do you see that is missing? What are the specific >improvements you would make? See my other reply for examples but there are many other things I could add to that if I looked a bit longer into that.
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