About Chesspark

Chesspark was created by chess lovers to bring chess to a wide audience of casual, club, and professional players. Twisted was used to write the core of the application, instant messaging. This has made online chess accessible to everyone, not just the elite players. However, elite players will find features at Chesspark that are available no where else and made just for them.

The Players

This interview was conducted via Skype with Jack Moffitt in Albuquerque, NM and Christopher Zorn in Charleston, SC, while I lounged in my basement office in the Niobrara River "valley" of Valentine, NE.

At the end of the interview are pasted some links of interest. Enjoy!

Interview

Though a bit rough, this interview was in good enough audio shape to post as a podcast. Thanks to the Internet Arvhive, we have a home for Twisted Show audio materials. You can view the available formats at the link below, though we encourage you to use the open format of Ogg:

Twisted Matrix Labs: Interview with Chesspark (February 25, 2008)

We are also trying out podcasting via the RSS feed for the Twisted Show on blogger.

Conference

Jack will be talking about using Open Source solutions like Twisted at the SXSW conference this March in Austin, TX.

Resources

Chesspark

• http://www.chesspark.com/
• http://blog.chesspark.com/
• http://mashable.com/2007/07/13/chesspark-funded/
• http://www.podtech.net/home/3750/lunchmeet-online-chess-with-chesspark
• http://kara.allthingsd.com/category/chesspark/

Jack Moffitt

• http://metajack.wordpress.com/
• http://www.linux.com/articles/2407
• http://www.betanews.com/article/999316586

Christopher Zorn

• http://thetofu.livejournal.com/
• http://www.butterfat.net/wiki/Projects/PunJab
• http://www.butterfat.net/wiki/Documentation/TwistedJabberComponentExample