response from Chess TV

From: Chess TV

To: Frank Walls

Cc: ---deleted--

Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 11:58 PM

Subject: Re: Blitz Chess!! the TV Pilot to be filmed in Cincinnati!

Hi Frank!

Thank you for your response in this! I appreciate the link to the Kosteniuk site! I actually have listened to her podcast.

I also would like to say that I am a chess player in the USCF and not an outsider to the game, I don't want to cause any confusion in this.

I would like to thank you as well for your suggestions regarding the shooting of this pilot. While I understand that the "trash talk" is not a respectable aspect of chess, it is however a big part of blitz chess that is played on the streets. In every tournament that I've been to that has a blitz chess tournament there is plenty to go around. What we are striving to give the audience is "good tv". This isn't going to be a show for "chess players" only.

I think that creating this conflict and creating the "I know I will win, nobody here is better" type of thoughts that "good tv" will be made.

Again, thank you for your comments, they are well appreciated, and will be taken into consideration in the production. This production will bring Chess to an "In Your Face" status and not an introduction to the strategy in the game, although a quick run-down of how the pieces move will be hilighted in the production.

Sincerely,
Joe Hempel
Focal Point Productions
Blitz Chess!!: Who Said Chess was Boring!