Encouraging OTB play

AADavid1963

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21 Jun 07

AADavid1963

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21 Jun 07

How about a way to play with people within x number of miles of your zip code, hopefully leading to more OTB play?

merman

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21 Jun 07

Originally posted by AADavid1963
How about a way to play with people within x number of miles of your zip code, hopefully leading to more OTB play?

what would "X" number of miles be?

Daemon Sin

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21 Jun 07

Originally posted by AADavid1963
How about a way to play with people within x number of miles of your zip code, hopefully leading to more OTB play?

Why on earth would an online chess site want to encourage it's members to go play OTB instead?

merman

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21 Jun 07

Originally posted by Daemon Sin
Why on earth would an online chess site want to encourage it's members to go play OTB instead?

excatly!

rbmorris

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21 Jun 07

Originally posted by AADavid1963
How about a way to play with people within x number of miles of your zip code, hopefully leading to more OTB play?

Solve for "X".

Phlabibit

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21 Jun 07

Originally posted by rbmorris
Solve for "X".

If X>12,450.775 go the other direction.

P-

AADavid1963

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25 Jun 07

Good grief! X would be a variable from a drop-down menu, like in bazillions of websites. Don't you people surf the net?

beatlemania

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26 Jun 07

Originally posted by AADavid1963
Good grief! X would be a variable from a drop-down menu, like in bazillions of websites. Don't you people surf the net?

red hot pawn, but other than that...no 😀

lordsquire

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26 Jun 07

Originally posted by merman
what would "X" number of miles be?

"X" is the variable. What did they teach you in math?

coquette

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26 Jun 07

lepomis

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26 Jun 07

Originally posted by AADavid1963
How about a way to play with people within x number of miles of your zip code, hopefully leading to more OTB play?

That could be interesting. Some people would opt out of that just for anonymity sake, but for the others its would be a good way to increase their chess experience. Also, as seen from the RHP meet ups, it would also increase site participation. It may also be a site building tool, as it could draw in some innocent bystanders who have not been to the site.