Re: CYCC Vancouver bid.
What all of this speaks to is the slow transition of the CFC towards just youth chess. Even the Canadian Open is now inextricably linked to youth events; it can only be organized as part of a package of events that include CYCC and NAYCC. Which means more kids entering the Canadian Open, which means less and less GMs / IMs entering the Canadian Open, and eventually it just becomes another kids' tournament with a few diehard adults thrown in.
Eventually chess itself becomes a kids' game, just as bridge has become a game primarily for those 70+. The movement towards this may seem glacial, but just as the glaciers around the world are speeding up as global warming affects them, so too is this movement of chess towards kids and away from adults as organizers realize that parents' deep pockets means kids events offer them a greater reward than adult events. The CFC is very complicit in this movement, and I suppose this would be the case no matter who was leading the CFC. Critical mass has been reached and this movement is now unstoppable.
And in fact, the appearance of a movement towards 'pub chess' is a somewhat predictable reaction from the adults, who are no longer getting what they want from the CFC. Perhaps this is the future for adult chess: relaxed play at a pub with fond reminiscing from the oldsters of the days of yore. I can see them saying things like "We actually used to write down our moves, on printed scoresheets no less! And... (shouting over the blare of the karaoke in the background) ...THERE COULDN'T BE ANY NOISE!"
Originally posted by Vlad Drkulec
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What all of this speaks to is the slow transition of the CFC towards just youth chess. Even the Canadian Open is now inextricably linked to youth events; it can only be organized as part of a package of events that include CYCC and NAYCC. Which means more kids entering the Canadian Open, which means less and less GMs / IMs entering the Canadian Open, and eventually it just becomes another kids' tournament with a few diehard adults thrown in.
Eventually chess itself becomes a kids' game, just as bridge has become a game primarily for those 70+. The movement towards this may seem glacial, but just as the glaciers around the world are speeding up as global warming affects them, so too is this movement of chess towards kids and away from adults as organizers realize that parents' deep pockets means kids events offer them a greater reward than adult events. The CFC is very complicit in this movement, and I suppose this would be the case no matter who was leading the CFC. Critical mass has been reached and this movement is now unstoppable.
And in fact, the appearance of a movement towards 'pub chess' is a somewhat predictable reaction from the adults, who are no longer getting what they want from the CFC. Perhaps this is the future for adult chess: relaxed play at a pub with fond reminiscing from the oldsters of the days of yore. I can see them saying things like "We actually used to write down our moves, on printed scoresheets no less! And... (shouting over the blare of the karaoke in the background) ...THERE COULDN'T BE ANY NOISE!"
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