Re:WuChess: Online Chess For The Hip Hop Crowd. Why Not.
by asdflkj on Monday June 02, 2008 @07:56AM
(#206632)
It's brilliant. At $48/year, only real playas will want to sign up, so no one will be discouraged by playing against someone much better than them. And no one (without spare $48) can verify whether any given member is any good, which helps keep up appearances.
There is a lot of money in luxury services, but it takes this kind of rare insight to get it right.
Re:WuChess: Online Chess For The Hip Hop Crowd. Why Not.
by hsmyers on Monday June 02, 2008 @11:59AM
(#206835)
So what's a 'real' playas? Someone whose last name is Polgar? Someone who is better than you? Someone who plays tournament? And what are these 'appearances'? I'd probably agree with you if I knew what you meant--- then again maybe not...
Re:WuChess: Online Chess For The Hip Hop Crowd. Why Not.
by metajack on Monday June 02, 2008 @10:34PM
(#207526)
Two reasons it may be interesting to HN readers:
1) I am a founder and CEO of Chesspark, which created this, and although I'm fairly new around here, I'd like to think I am part of the community.
2) The tech we have is interesting. The client is pretty, very responsive, and completely in javascript. It's also open source, and all the protocols are XMPP. We open sourced a lot of our backend components as well (punjab, palaver) and we contribute quite a bit to many projects people here care about.
Sometimes you have to look behind the story, and not just what techcrunch thinks of it :)
There is a lot of money in luxury services, but it takes this kind of rare insight to get it right.
1) I am a founder and CEO of Chesspark, which created this, and although I'm fairly new around here, I'd like to think I am part of the community.
2) The tech we have is interesting. The client is pretty, very responsive, and completely in javascript. It's also open source, and all the protocols are XMPP. We open sourced a lot of our backend components as well (punjab, palaver) and we contribute quite a bit to many projects people here care about.
Sometimes you have to look behind the story, and not just what techcrunch thinks of it :)