************************************************** ANNOUNCING THE FIRST NATIONAL MODEM CHESS CONTEST! ************************************************** YOU CAN WIN UP TO $700,000 IN THE FIRST NATIONAL MODEM CHESS TOURNAMENT! 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 ADD-ONS AND PERIPHERALS 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 $700,000 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 BBBS and computer network we know of. So, the odds of getting at least 50,000 players is 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. You can play for fun as often as you like. When you have someone who you feel is worthy of your talents, tell him or her that this will be an official entry into the Contest. The opponent can either be a contest entrant or not. It doesn't matter. He doesn't even need to be a registered player. When you've completed this game, and you won, you send us your name and address and the name and address of the person you played against so that we can verify that you did in fact win at least one game against this person. This serves to place you as a QUALIFIER IN ROUND ONE. Next, we will send you the name and phone number of your next opponent. When you have won this game, you notify us and IF YOU ARE THE WINNER, you have successfully climbed out of ROUND ONE and are ready for ROUND TWO play. We then send you the name and phone number of your next opponent for ROUND TWO, and if you Win, you graduate up to ROUND THREE PLAY. We then send you your next opponent's name and phone number. And so on and so on, up to the 12th Round, or Championship Round. We have to start with the number of entrants in the first round obviously, but based on our experience it will probably come down to the following scenario. Round 8 will consist of the top 100 winners in all 7 lower rounds. Round 9 will consist of these 50 winners. Round 10 will consist of the 25 winners of level 9 play. And round ten will consist of these winning 12 players. And Round 11 will consist of the top 6 winners playing in 3 pairs. And the Finals will consist of play amongst the top winning 3 players until we have picked a Champion in this the final Championship round. We will have no prize money given out until you reach the Championship Round. The top 3 players in this round will split the Prize money along the following formula. 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 Million Bucks. 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 one 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! Well, that's the whole story of the First National Modem Chess Tournament. 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