Chess for bitcoins? Isn't Chess a little too exploitable as a game? I mean you could just have pretty strong Chess program running in the background and just copy moves from it.
Chess is definitely exploitable and you could just be playing against bots, that is why it has never been launched before. On first look the site looks good, but unless there is a way to avoid bots , it would be difficult to get players.
Oh come on. An avid chess player could beat even the most powerful bot. I'm pretty sure that chess is one of the hardest board games to "exploit" with automation. In the past there have been attempts to create multiplayer online board game lobbies with betting. Gambit.com would be an example. But it doesn't accept bitcoin any more.
I wish this website can become a great platform for chess because I love both chess and bitcoin.
Not everyone is an avid chess player, and if someone wants to play with a bot then they would rather do so without betting on it. I didn't say other board games couldn't be created, but chess happens to be something that can have a bot involved in the game and could become extremely hard to play with.