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Re: Agenda for CFC voting member meeting Fall 2016 November 20 to 27
Ah-so grasshopper.....When the CFC can snatch payment of income taxes from the government's hand..... it will be time for them to receive ... (donations).
That's the short version. The long version.....
Organized chess is not a profitable enterprise. This is for 2 main reasons: first, because standard chess is a pure skill game. Pure skill games result in a pyramid structure in which the base must totally support the elite. And the second reason is that standard chess is a non-starter to those who are outside the pyramid. Therefore there are no paying spectators to chess events to spread the support for the enterprise as a whole. Organized chess is not hockey. There are no paying fans in the stands.
In order for organized chess enterprises (the CFC among them) to literally stay alive, they must resort to the most devious of tricks. Trying to be registered as a charity was one of those tricks for the CFC. It worked for a time. Supposedly the CFC was giving something to the community at large. Perhaps it was lessons in how to become anti-social and waste intellect on constant immersion in the full-time study of chess openings, middlegames and endgames. With the stipulation that all this study be in standard chess rules only -- anything else is utter blasphemy.
But the government of Canada, in its wisdom, recently denied this status to the CFC. So the CFC is now embarked on another devious set of tricks. Non-profit status. It's almost like an admission of failure: "We can't make a profit, so please don't tax us."
And the government of Canada is saying in response, "Ah ha.... you tried to pull the rug over us once, but now we're going to slap you with all these convoluted restrictions in order to be a non-profit. Good luck, losers!"
The CFC, desperate and submissive, does whatever the regulations specify.... as best it can.
But remember, no one is making money as organized chess simply cannot make money. Well, a few people like Vlad Drkulec make a few bucks teaching chess to kids, whose parents all think their little offspring is something special. Meanwhile the same Vlad Drkulec is as CFC President guiding the CFC more and more into kids chess events..... kind of reinforcing the idea of teaching chess to kids.... but at the same time turning chess more and more into a kids game.... while at the elite level of organized chess, run by corrupt self-serving thugs by the way, we see 90% draws and arguments about tiebreaks and deciding world championships with Armageddon games.... with no one even considering changes needed to the game of chess itself.... because that would be blasphemy..... but i digress.
So... a task such as modifying the CFC handbook to be regulation-compliant requires volunteers. Wait, you want to be PAID for doing that? What do you think the CFC is, a charity?!
And so we come full circle. No, the CFC is not a charity, and the government in its wisdom took that status away.... and so on and so on.
By the way.... I am an optimist. For a more accurate account, you should try and get a pessimist to describe the situation.
Originally posted by Michael Lo
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Ah-so grasshopper.....When the CFC can snatch payment of income taxes from the government's hand..... it will be time for them to receive ... (donations).
That's the short version. The long version.....
Organized chess is not a profitable enterprise. This is for 2 main reasons: first, because standard chess is a pure skill game. Pure skill games result in a pyramid structure in which the base must totally support the elite. And the second reason is that standard chess is a non-starter to those who are outside the pyramid. Therefore there are no paying spectators to chess events to spread the support for the enterprise as a whole. Organized chess is not hockey. There are no paying fans in the stands.
In order for organized chess enterprises (the CFC among them) to literally stay alive, they must resort to the most devious of tricks. Trying to be registered as a charity was one of those tricks for the CFC. It worked for a time. Supposedly the CFC was giving something to the community at large. Perhaps it was lessons in how to become anti-social and waste intellect on constant immersion in the full-time study of chess openings, middlegames and endgames. With the stipulation that all this study be in standard chess rules only -- anything else is utter blasphemy.
But the government of Canada, in its wisdom, recently denied this status to the CFC. So the CFC is now embarked on another devious set of tricks. Non-profit status. It's almost like an admission of failure: "We can't make a profit, so please don't tax us."
And the government of Canada is saying in response, "Ah ha.... you tried to pull the rug over us once, but now we're going to slap you with all these convoluted restrictions in order to be a non-profit. Good luck, losers!"
The CFC, desperate and submissive, does whatever the regulations specify.... as best it can.
But remember, no one is making money as organized chess simply cannot make money. Well, a few people like Vlad Drkulec make a few bucks teaching chess to kids, whose parents all think their little offspring is something special. Meanwhile the same Vlad Drkulec is as CFC President guiding the CFC more and more into kids chess events..... kind of reinforcing the idea of teaching chess to kids.... but at the same time turning chess more and more into a kids game.... while at the elite level of organized chess, run by corrupt self-serving thugs by the way, we see 90% draws and arguments about tiebreaks and deciding world championships with Armageddon games.... with no one even considering changes needed to the game of chess itself.... because that would be blasphemy..... but i digress.
So... a task such as modifying the CFC handbook to be regulation-compliant requires volunteers. Wait, you want to be PAID for doing that? What do you think the CFC is, a charity?!
And so we come full circle. No, the CFC is not a charity, and the government in its wisdom took that status away.... and so on and so on.
By the way.... I am an optimist. For a more accurate account, you should try and get a pessimist to describe the situation.
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