Author: Ismenio Sousa
Date: 10:18:01 11/07/04
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On November 07, 2004 at 11:04:19, Steve B wrote: >HI Ismenio > Hi Steve! >>I know this won't happen but just as an exercise, imagine if we were to have a >>chess channel – could you find enough stuff to fill in a TV channel with chess >>related programming? Would that ever be feasible? (after all, we do have the >>golf channel!) > >sadly, outside of eastern Europe,chess is not all that popular in the western >countries > >of course millions know how to play chess but there is no great interest in the >Royal game as a spectator sport > I hear you! >when the 1990 match between Kasparov and Karpov was held in NYC (right near my >office) i was able to walk in off the street ,5 minutes before the start and >purchase a ticket within the first 10 rows > >when Kasparov played 3D Fritz last year at the NYC Athletic club(again near my >office) i was able to again walk right in to watch one of the games > That's great! I went to NYC the year before to see him against Deep Jr! I saw the last 3 games! That was pretty exciting actually and even my wife got into it a little bit, even tough she's not into chess that much. >i think the only way your "Chess Channel" can meet with success is to devote >perhaps 90%-95% of the regularly scheduled programming to "Dedicated Chess >Computers" >you will need a well spoken,charismatic and brilliant TV personality to discuss >the old computers,going over the features,playing games..etc > >for this purpose i recommend our own Coordinator..Fernando Villegas > >:)) >Best >Steve Well then, how about an internet version of it? ;) We could have, let's say, a monthly 1-hour chess show available for download! You could feature one of the computers from your collection every month! :D Ismenio
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