Author: pavel
Date: 22:21:39 06/18/00
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On June 19, 2000 at 00:45:26, Roger D Davis wrote: >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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