Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 21:45:26 06/18/00
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Sigh. The problem lies with the world championship, I'm afraid. The prize to the victor only comes to a half million or a million dollars or so. It is difficult to build a good web site with so little money. Roger On June 18, 2000 at 22:28:55, Pete R. wrote: >I went to their site to check out the live Frankfurt games, but couldn't seem to >get anything actually moving other than the clocks. So I decided to check out >the playing zone there. Lame! Not only is it web-based as opposed to having a >real playing client, but banner ads pop up *during* games. What idiot thought >this up? OK, so obviously they are thinking they want to keep the site free by >having advertising, but I would much rather pay if necessary to have CK be like >ICC in terms of robust play, anti-cheating features, online events, etc. With >Kasparov's name and online participation they could have easily made a better >ICC than ICC, the premiere chess site on the net, yet they don't even have a >playing client. Way to be in business! Not.
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