Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 10:39:49 11/19/98
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1. $16 dollars seems a lot ambitious to me; I suspect very few people will pop for it, so the prize (unless otherwise sponsored), will be pretty low, causing a general lack of enthusiam by this level of player in the future. In fact, One of the biggest promotions of the Internet Chess Club for $49 a year is the fact that more high rated and GM player's particapate. So I thought we were already paying for this type of thing? 2. Not much, chess players are a pretty unenthusiatic bunch, especially when asked to spend more money on something they were accustomed to getting for free. Wouldn't it be strange if their were a lot of 'Rich Bastard chess fans', (like there are for professional Boxing), that would pay what ever, just because someone like Mike Tyson was playing/fighting! 3. I think this type of event is inapropriate for the ICC, before they consulted their subscriber's. If they had a pole before implementing it, and a majority of their already paying subscriber's had wanted this it would make more sense. I've been a member of ICC for about 3 years now, and I fear the membership price will go up, just like my rent, because of monetary decisions made with out the user's imput. Will they raise their yearly membership price to $75, because they have 8000 games played a day, instead of 4000? I know my apartement leasing corporation, raises the rent without the slightest guilt or hesetation every year, without consulting me. Meanwhile there is continual Banging & Drilling & Gouging & mess in the building. But I don't get any rebate for them waking me up every morning becuase of this crap. I have to move! :) Anyway, if they have to have this event at all, 50 cents would have been a better starting 'contribution' they could have asked for. After all, I'm on Internet Chess Club mostly for my own playing & rating improvement, not theirs. Chess has so far not proven to be much of a 'spectater sport'. Please take these comments with a 'grain of salt'. As stated above, they are 'pounding' me awake every morning, in my apartment building, and they recently raised the rent - Thank God, I'm getting out of here... mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! On November 19, 1998 at 08:27:57, Mike Saavedra wrote: >I read in rccc and confirmed it on ICC that Kasparov and Kramnik match (24 >games/blitz)can only be seen on ICC on Pay-per-view for 16 checkels (16 US$). >The money goes to the prize fund. I have a few questions for the group. > >1. Do you think these PPV events will encourage high profile GM to play more >games? > >2. How much do you think they will earn in total via ICC at 16$ a pop? > >3. If you think the price is too high, what do you think is a fairer price? (I >personally would not pay more than 5 bucks, but then again, i'm po' ;) )
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