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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