Sanny wrote:
On May 15, 12:33 am, wrote:
On May 10, 5:16 pm, Morten Skarstad `whoami`@localhost wrote:

I don't think you're getting the point about CM, or any other commercial
chessproduct for that matter. First, CM is not made by one "creator",
but by a team of multiple programmers, where one is dedicated to the
engine alone, various designers, testers, not to mention no less than
five GMs giving tutorials and advice.

The early versions were the work of a relatively small team in the 80's.
I still have a copy of Franz Morsch's Fritz I from that era too.

And even if I could sell the work of one man for five million dollars I
would be off and do it myself, not tell you how to do it

Although I reckon there is a real gap in the market for a program for
the CB interface that plays human like chess at levels broadly
comparable with the average to advanced club player.

Not 10 GM level moves followed by 1 patzer level move to get the
win/lose/draw stats right, but something that is just subtly off the
right theme with the odd minor blunder. Shredder seems the closest to my
ideal, but even there I notice that at nominal 2200 ELO it still makes
obvious mistakes and at 2350 it becomes almost unbeatable (for me). The
transition from one to the other is very abrupt not like with humans.

Indeed. It takes money to make money.

If I remember correctly, the typical cost of the development and
marketing of one version of Chessmaster was around $750,000. That was
for CM8 and CM9, so the numbers might be bigger (or smaller) now --
but not by much.

So Cost of designing GetClub Chess is also arround $750,000. How earn
the money I have spent in designing it is a big question.

You are pulling our collective leg Sanny.
If it cost more than $7,500 to develop then you were overcharged.

You could sell your engine from your website if it was rebuilt in a form
where it looked like a generic UCI engine to ChessBase. It would also
make testing its notional ELO rating much much easier.

Regards,
Martin Brown
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