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Subject: Re: What are they smoking at Club Kasparov??

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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