Re: Few personal notes about Canadian Closed
I don't accept that challenge, primarily because I'm not interested. Let someone who is interested come up with the ideas. As mentioned in another post in this forest, I am a chess consumer. There is no shame in that.
I'm not presently a member of the CFC. I let my membership lapse last December after being a member since the fall of 1976. When I was a member, however, there was never any contract between the CFC and me, implied or otherwise, requiring that I do work for the benefit of the CFC or its members. I was and continue to be a chess consumer. I'm simply not purchasing the CFC's products and services at the moment. By the way, are you aware that the CFC, according to its Handbook, doesn't recognize its own members? What kind of arrangement is that? The CFC is not a mystical organization. It's a real organization run by real people who for the past decade or so have had real problems in trying to manage the CFC successfully. In any event, Garvin, if you wish to volunteer your time and effort for the benefit of the CFC and its members, then by all means do so. I would never criticize someone for donating their time to a legitimate organization that they believe in.
Yep. You've got a point there, subject to the understanding that you're referring to CFC-related happenings. Of course there are lots of things that happen in Canadian chess, including lots of good things, that the CFC has no influence over whatsoever (e.g. the FQE), or that the CFC exerts a negative pressure on (e.g. CMA). Anyway, the fact that your statement is at least partially correct doesn't mean that I'm obliged to be one of those doers. Doers should be doers!! I encourage it, dammit! The rest of us who want to be consumers should be left in peace.
"Free riders", eh? You can probably guess my response to that comment. And no, I certainly won't be surprised if the next zonal is slapped together at the last minute. After all, we're talking about an organization that officially does not recognize its own members and which has fought the CMA tooth-and-nail for, what, twenty years or more?
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