>At 11:40 AM -0600 1/30/01, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote: >... >>The harder part is verifying that recipient has control of their >>account w/o divulging their passwd to the 3rd party. But I do have an >>idea on how to do that. > >7 grams (at least...) if someone figures out how to keep e-gold in escrow >dependant on the outcome of a chessgame (with 2 remote players). I'm It is a very difficult problem, depending, on how done, Jim! the problem is that the computer must be able to adjudicate who has won the game, ie within the rules of chess That is a VERY, VERY difficult programming problem. Unlike, say, online poker which is quite easy. (IE easy for the 'puter to adjudicate who has won the hand.) A slightly easier system, Jim, would be that if both players agree (as you normally would) on who has won the game, then fine it pays off the winner. In the rare case of some asshole you were playing saying "ha ha I wont press the button admitting to gold-chess-R-us.com that I've lost, ha ha!" it would have to go to human adjudication. Dont forget whats obvious to a human (eg who has won, if the game is over, etc) is complex or impossible to a 'puter. >seriously interested (if it can be done profitably) in making my living in >the future playing chess. I think an entity like the casino (blatant plug, >see Jim's casino link http://www.thegoldcasino.com/win.cgi?2465679 ) >could do this easily, and I would not mind if the entity took a bit off the >top for costs, etc., so the players didn't have to trust eachother remotely. > >Sidd, you ROCK for making the SCI so easy. So does Hogeye, I think I >need to click you both another gram or so, just for being DOers! :) My >sincere thanks, without folks like you my job would turn from "cool" to >impossible! > >If nobody else is thinking of doing one, I'm thinking of a paid, filtered >e-gold list. In addition to reflecting my obvious biases, it would be free >from thinks like users sending the same exciting message three times, >the wonderful HTML formatted messages, and all the other bovine >excrement we've seen here lately. I may as well profit from it, whether >or not it drives intelligent users off. Sigh. oh come on a little ranting has never hurt a list! :) this is "the" e-gold list there could never be another :) > >I would charge a gram a year, please send me private email if you're >interested (or if you think you'd maybe want to do this instead of me). >JMR > >To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill. - Sun Tzu >-- >Regards, James M. Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OmniPay VP Spec. Ops. >Try a FREE account: http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=9 >see http://www.omnipay.net to buy/sell grams. If you think whatever I >said's cool, http://www.two-cents-worth.com/?101574&[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >--- >You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
