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    Stephen Moss paints a rather bleak picture of English chess in 'The Guardian' today ):

    http://www.theguardian.com/sport/201...ned-its-future

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    Stephen Moss

    November 20, 2015

    Very interesting reading. The turmoil in English chess reminds me of that in Bulgarian Chess, which I recently posted in the European Team Championship thread.

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      Yes, a good read - thanks, Jack. Enjoyed these comments, among others, in the article:

      1. Several of those I talk to invoke*Sayre’s law, which states that “in any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake”.*

      2. John Saunders, former editor of both Chess and British Chess Magazine, reckons the explanation lies in the nature of chess players: obsessive, attentive to detail, implacable, relentless. What makes for a strong chess player also produces a terrible diplomat, politician, administrator and sometimes, of course, quite an odd human being.
      "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
      "Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
      "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey

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