Bart's Chess Hits/Chess.iso/Chess/GAMES/FONCHESS/CONTEST.TXT

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          ANNOUNCING THE FIRST NATIONAL MODEM CHESS CONTEST!

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          YOU CAN WIN UP TO $500,000 IN THE FIRST NATIONAL
          MODEM CHESS CHALLENGE!

          LIGHTHOUSE PRODUCTIONS is sponsoring the First
          National Modem Chess Tournament.

          The way it works is this.  To enter the tournament,
          you must become a subscriber to this program.
          This is a nominal fee and will entitle you to free
          upgrades, books about the game, manuals, chess tips,
          a chess magazine, a score of free programs, a PLAYER'S
          REGISTRY so you always have someone to play against,
          AND FOR A LIMITED TIME, A $1,000 DISCOUNT COUPON FROM
          A LEADING COMPUTER CATALOG!

          BUT TO GET THIS $1,000 IN FUTURE DISCOUNTS YOU NEED
          TO SUBSCRIBE TODAY.  THIS OFFER WILL EXPIRE JUST 30
          DAYS AFTER YOU RECEIVE THIS PROGRAM.  SO ACT NOW!

          REGISTRATION IS ONLY $15.00 PER PLAYER. If you have an
          opponent who wants to be entered into the tournament,
          he must also register this program.

          Then, there is also a one-time Tournament Entry Fee of
          $5.00/ROUND.  The entry fees we collect goes into the prize
          fund and could total as high as $500,000 if only 50,000
          people enter the tourney.  We have done our homework
          and we find that there are about 10 million good chess
          players in this country, and we are spreading word of
          this tournament through every BBS and computer network
          we know of.  So, the odds of getting at least 50,000
          players are exceedingly good. (Don't try to figure out
          the exact math.  There is an administration fee that
          makes it too difficult, but these are good round figures
          to go on.)

          But if we totally fail and only get a few thousand
          players, the prize money will still be worth going after,
          say $200,000 for 20,000 ENTRANTS.  See how it works?
          This is still worth going after and the fewer
          people entered the better are your chances of winning.

          WE'LL PROBABLY ATTRACT SOMETHING BETWEE THE WORST CASE
          AND THE BEST CASE SCENARIO AND THE PRIZE MONEY WILL
          PROBABLY BE AROUND $400,000.00  (But this will be slit
          amongst the top three players, the Champion to get
          70% of the purse, 2nd place takes 20%, and 3rd place
          takes 10%)

          But this also means that if you're really good at Chess
          you should help us get entrants by simply passing this
          disk around and helping us to promote it.  Upload it
          to every local bulletin board.  If only one person in
          each city does this, we'll get many thousands of entrants.
          SO, the prize money could go as high as a cool ONE MILLION
          DOLLARS, if you help by distributing this program every
          way you can think of.

          [   We'll give you some more ideas later.         ]

          BUT FOR NOW.  Why not go to the ORDER FORM menu and
          print out the order form and sign up with the Chess
          Registration Part.  That done, you can begin to play
          your friends and sharpen your skills.

          Here's how the Contest works.  AFTER YOU REGISTER,
          we will send you an official Modem Chess Challenge
          Kit.  In it, you will find all the rules and the
          method of moving up in the Challenge to become a
          finalist.  You will also be registered in our
          database, so that every time you move up, the results
          are recorded and we can then match you up with your
          next opponent.

          You will play a total of 12 opponents to get to the
          final round in which the prize money will be distributed
          as follows.

          The 3rd place winner will
          get 10% of the pot.  The 2nd place winner will
          receive 20% of the pot.  And the Champion will
          receive the remaining 70% of the total cash prize.

          Remember, this could total as much as a cool
          half Million Bucks, or even a cool Million, if
          enough people enter.  In this case, 3rd place would win
          $100,000, 2nd place gets $200,000 and the winner
          keeps the balance of $700,000.

          If the prize only comes to $100,000.  It's still
          worth the time and fun put into it because the
          3rd place winner will get $10,000, 2nd place would
          receive $20,000 and the Champion would receive a
          very respectable $70,000.

          So, you'll want to register right away.  If you're
          good and think you can win the big one, help us
          distribute this program.  For every friend you give
          this program to, he or she may find ten more, so
          there is a possibility of a geometric progression
          in entrants and therefore prize money!

          If you think about it for a while, you could probably
          get this program into a hundred individual players.
          Every community has a couple dozen BBS'es and each
          one of these has an average of about 1,000 members.
          So, this should be your first job and it's easy.
          It will only take a few minutes each upload.

          Then, there are computer clubs all over town.  There
          are schools you might be attending with computer
          classes and Chess Clubs.  There is always your local
          mail man, who will gladly accept the disk and send it
          anywhere in the world for you for a nominal sum.

          But the best way we know is BBS's in your community.
          Since this is a program already zipped up and completed,
          your local SYSOP will be happy to receive this to
          distribute to his members.  He gets paid for the time
          that his members spend on his board, usually, so he
          is happy to take on this program.  You can either
          send it to him on disk, or upload over the phone
          lines, whichever method you find easiest.  Many
          BBS operators don't publish their mailing address
          for privacy reasons, so you will probably be best
          off uploading to them.  They always publish this
          phone number because they want the members to find
          them.

          Also remember that publicity is a good way to get
          people to become entrants.  A story in your local
          newspaper will attract many people who didn't even
          know there was such a program on their local BBS.
          Tell them about it and you'll get hundreds of people
          to join the contest.  You can also call radio talk
          shows and tell them about it.  Send a few Press
          Releases to the Radio Stations, TV stations & news-
          papers in your area, if you're really into PR and
          want to learn how the Media works in this country.
          It will be educational and who knows what it might
          lead to, perhaps a whole new career!

          That's the whole story of the First National
          Modem Chess Challenge.  We hope you'll enter.  It
          could win you a NEW HOME & a VACATION HOME IN HAWAII!

          SO, REGISTER TODAY by going to the chapter of the
          read program in this set of files and printing up
          the order form, then send it in.  Or alternately,
          print the file called 'Order.frm' if you can't run
          the reader program.  AND if you don't find an 'Order.frm'
          file with this set of programs, just write us with your
          name & address and enclose the Registration Fee and the
          Entry Fee for a total of $5.00

          LIGHTHOUSE PRODUCTIONS
          P.O. BOX 7885
          SANTA CRUZ, CA  95061

          ONE FINAL NOTE:

          We tried to keep the Long Distance Charges down to
          less than a couple dollars per game BECAUSE the
          program will hang up the phone after you've transmitted
          each move to the opponent.  The whole call should
          only take a few seconds, in most cases, this amounts
          to about .20 per move.  And since you don't know
          where in the United States your opponents may be
          from, you should plan to use the cheapest Long
          Distance Service you can find.  It just so happens
          we have such a plan just designed for this kind of
          contest.  Your current Long Distance Service might
          be charging you by rounding off the time to the
          nearest WHOLE MINUTE.  Since our game takes about
          ten seconds to transmit data, you'll want a service
          like ours that breaks off at 6 SECOND INTERVALS.
          This alone could save you as much as .15 cent per
          move.  This adds up to a considerable amount of
          money and that's why we devised a simple solution.

          In later chapters you can sign up for our Long
          Distance Savings Plan by simply printing up the
          residential or business form, filling it in, and
          then sending it to the address on the form.  This
          will save you, on average more money on your Long
          Distance Bill than this game will cost you.  Because
          you're GUARANTEED TO SAVE A MIN. OF 10% OFF OF ANY
          LONG DISTANCE PLAN YOU'RE NO USING.  So, on an avg.
          bill this could come to $5 or more.  If you own a
          small busines, it could save you hundreds per month,
          so you'll want to sign up right away.

          This is the same service that MCI customers get,
          because it is MCI, but purchased at wholesale
          pricing, which you cannot get any other way.  SO,
          this is GUARANTEED to save you AT LEAST 10% OFF
          of any other Long Distance Plan you may now be
          using.  And if you're still dealing with Ma Bell,
          A.T.& T., it will save you even more.  About 25%.

          So, if you sign up with our Long Distance Service
          the money you save will more than pay for the ENTRY
          AND REGISTRATION FEE, and phone charges.  We designed
          it this way to encourage more people to enter.  So,
          now I hope you'll agree that there's nothing to keep
          your from registering and beginning the Tournament
          by challenging a friend, across town or on the other
          side of the world!

          And you'll also be supporting us and keeping all
          future fees very nominal, because our Organization
          gets 5% of the savings.  So, you are still saving
          a guaranteed 10% and supporting our contest each
          month with a nominal donation which comes out of
          your savings.  This way, we can continue to bring
          you fine quality programs like this and some of
          the others you'll find in our catalog.

          We hope you enjoy using our program and if you help
          to make this a huge success we'll be publishing &
          sponsoring many more tournaments on just about
          every subject.  So, thank you for your time in
          reading all this propaganda and we hope to see
          you in the winners circle.

          SO, REGISTER TODAY, and we'll immediately send
          you the Entry Pack of Discount Coupons and forms
          for entering each round.

          All you have to do is go to the Order Form chapter
          and have your printer ready.

          Good Luck.

          Lighthouse Productions
          P.O. Box 7885
          Santa Cruz, CA  95061