Author: Ed Trice
Date: 15:34:49 01/08/04
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Hello Bob, > >He, in fact, should be thanked warmly for prompting and contributing to certain >issues of great interest to chess programmers. The issue of whether or not [and >how] to make money from chess programming is of interest to many here. Legal >issues are a part of this, unfortunately. Debate on such issues clearly belongs >here, IMHO. > >Bob D. I do not think the $1 per license thing is a "fee generator". Where Gothic Chess will make money is: 1) We are being financed by an Angel Network and a Venture Capitalist firm 2) We will be trying to do to our variation of chess what the sport of golf has done for its players: create a class of well-paid elite professionals. How? Much larger prize funds for tournaments, scholastic nationals where the winners will be awarded a one-year college tuition reimbursement, and the equivalanet of regional franchises. The model of the non-profit USCF gets you only so far (chess politics, high turnover rate for executives) but when you are a for-profit company having to report to shareholders, you are constrained less in terms of marketing the game and encourage to take more risks. Would people enter a $100 tournament for a shot at $50,000? I think so. Would you send your son/daughter to an event where for $100 you could have their tuition money sitting in an escrow account managed by someone like Delloitte & Touche? Again, I think so. This is what we are gunning for, and it is our hope that we attract the member base to make it happen. Nay-sayers need not reply :)
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