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Such a beautiful thing to watch!

- guess silicon valley is a long way from the ‘hood.

I’ve had high hopes for WuChess since first hearing about it in the planning stages. Now that it’s officially launched and getting coverage in places like the NY Times, I’m wondering if initial decisions about both pricing and marketing will cripple…

It’s hilarious the blanket concept that pay sites can’t work (even as an upsell from free), especially when the experience is way better than other sites with millions of dollars a year in revenue, with traffic driven by a celebrity who sells millions of CDs (which much of this crowd would also claim that noone is spending money on), and when the underlying infrastructure and tech team would be close to impossible to build no matter how much time and money you might be willing to spend. And if you don’t want to spend money on WuChess, we offer free accounts on Chesspark, so we’re happy to monetize the gameplay whether one wants to pay or not.

Oh and by the way Michael, RZA’s coming to San Francisco on June 21st. Care to be beaten at Chess (preferably on a live webcast, in front of a large crowd) by a Hip-Hop Legend? The Mayor of San Francisco turned down this challenge (didn’t want to look bad), but RZA’s going to be taking the WuChess challenge to 30 plus cities in the next couple of months, and if you take the time to meet RZA , you will come to understand his Midas touch. My hunch is that you’re chicken. But you’re invited to meet him whether you’re willing to be beaten at Chess by him, or not…

LOL! There are ugly looking ghetto-art pieces instead of normal chess pieces! I’m not a huge huge chess player, but I can’t believe anyone who would even remotely like chess would find this anything but a joke. Unbelievably funny. If this were April 1 this story would make much more sense.

My prediction: ~100 subscribers / not enough to cover 50% of development costs.

Thanks for the chuckle, TechCrunch!

But for both the casual game and for those budding grand masters, Chess.com. When will TechCrunch do a story on the real leader in this space?

With that said, I just don’t know about the subscription based model…

@icecream, are you talking about the desert or the shoes?

But even if it were, our live Chess Play is vastly superior to theirs. So if you want to read a website where people are posting about other people who are actually playing Chess, feel free to visit the site pimped in that post. But if you actually want to play the highest quality Internet Chess using the most advanced Realtime Internet Chess Software, the best places to do so are on Chesspark.com, and related sites such as WuChess.com .

Hope to see you there….