Recognize Chess as a Sport in Canada

[Vlad Drkulec]

Nekulturny. You are right. You are a waste of time. Thanks for reminding me.

[Kerry Liles]

garbage removed

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Moderator/Owner - why do you permit this garbage to be posted? Time to ban Frarey. HE is not worth anyone's time.

[John Brown]

Chesstalk lost its quality status when Larry Bevand sold it. It's a Sh** show now. The owner does not care and his monitors only want the cash. I agree with Hugh Brodie limit the site to chess I suggest that the site deletes anything that is not chess related. Kerry your post is hitting deaf ears. Maybe it's time to forget about chesstalk and let it die from lack of posts.

[Bob Armstrong]

Olympics 2024 (Paris)

Sport

Breakdancing

https://www.cnn.com/videos/sports/20...=1674128804516

~ Bob A (T-S/P)

[Vlad Drkulec]

You have a good insight into what is really going on in our Public systems, Vlad. PP may be arguing in good faith, but he does not seem to realize that if all the money for chess is diverted into our health care system, it will get used up in meeting after meeting after meeting amongst administrators and administrators and administrators, talking about whether to hire nurses, how to hire nurses, where to hire nurses, when to hire nurses, which nurses to hire, etc. etc. etc., till time and money both run out... and even if they eventually hire new nurses, it will be to administer drugs pushed, by hook or by crook, by big-pharma... very likely not a single extra nurse will get hired in the ERs... (we could save a lot of money, and avoid a lot of drug related toxicity, by simply rationalizing the prescription of expensive medications)

Well much of my family is in the health care system or soon will be. One brother, an orthopaedic surgeon, was forced to leave Canada when as a newly minted surgeon he was not able to get operating room time because the powers that be limited his time to hours where he would miss his kids growing up and the hours were not enough for a surgeon to stay sharp. He went to Texas where he was making the same money as Canada at first. He got as many surgeries as he was willing to do and got to work on things like gunshot wounds and professional sports injuries.

Orthopaedic surgeons are in short supply in Windsor with many retiring or set to retire. Most of the young orthopaedic surgeons were chased away by a similar dynamic where one or two older surgeons got to decide the distribution of operating room time. I lost my eye specialist to Niagara Falls because of the same broken system. Now you have to wait a long time for surgeries and the doctors are going to retire soon meaning that it will be difficult to replace them.

Under PP/PB scenario any nurses hired would be offset by reductions in some other area like emergency doctors or surgeries which would exacerbate the problems of emergency room waits. The government and hospitals see necessary services as a cost centre that needs to be reduced.

[Peter McKillop]

.... The government and hospitals see necessary services as a cost centre that needs to be reduced.

Hi Vlad. This is a very interesting and true comment! There is always that point where the taxpayers' wishes on how to allocate their own monies are defeated by politicians and bureaucrats who think the taxpayers should have little to no say in the matter.

[Kerry Liles]

Chesstalk lost its quality status when Larry Bevand sold it. It's a Sh** show now. The owner does not care and his monitors only want the cash. I agree with Hugh Brodie limit the site to chess I suggest that the site deletes anything that is not chess related. Kerry your post is hitting deaf ears. Maybe it's time to forget about chesstalk and let it die from lack of posts.

I have attempted to email Henry Lam (the information at the top of this page is not clear but I think I figured out an email address) but so far have received no reply.
You may be right John. Normally the back and forth is not a problem, but this latest garbage from Frarey is way over the limit.

[Vlad Drkulec]

Hi Vlad. This is a very interesting and true comment! There is always that point where the taxpayers' wishes on how to allocate their own monies are defeated by politicians and bureaucrats who think the taxpayers should have little to no say in the matter.

There is plenty of money for woke consultants and procedures that are politically popular (with the government and not the people). One of my brothers has mused about retiring in Croatia because health care is affordable there with none of the issues with delayed treatment that we experience here.You have to pay a little but you get your tests right away.The mess we are in is because of a series of choices by governments and health care officials (not doctors or nurses for the most part).

[Vlad Drkulec]

I have attempted to email Henry Lam (the information at the top of this page is not clear but I think I figured out an email address) but so far have received no reply.
You may be right John. Normally the back and forth is not a problem, but this latest garbage from Frarey is way over the limit.

It is a free for all with no limits (at least until someone takes legal action which has come close to happening a number of times) which discourages most normal people from participating. It was problematic even when Larry Bevand was in charge but at least Larry removed the really bad stuff. It discourages CFC officials from participating here which means that they don't post here as much. That means that people who rely on chesstalk to find out about things lose out on opportunities.

[Pargat Perrer]

Originally posted by Pargat Perrer
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A MUCH better example of lateral thinking is to devise a new chess variant, one that has never been devised before, using only the standard chess pieces and standard chess board and where the pieces have the same moves as in standard chess, but the rules of winning and losing are different.

Is there an infinite number of possible variants using that criteria? That's lateral thinking.

Chess Boxing, 3D chess (seen on Star Trek and Big Bang Theory), Fischer Random, Bughouse and 3 check chess are the only variants that I am aware of that have shown any traction. The cool kids mostly play regular chess at various time controls t....

My point was about teaching lateral thinking, not teaching what will be popular. Lateral thinking requires one to free the mind from limiting concepts such as popularity.

It is a popular notion in kids' heads to grow up to be a superstar athlete .... not so cool to be an engineer or scientist. So should everyone abandon science and engineering in favor of athletics? Well, according to the market, yes, which is a significant factor in the crumbling of Western society.

[Pargat Perrer]

Originally posted by Vlad Drkulec
.... The government and hospitals see necessary services as a cost centre that needs to be reduced.

Hi Vlad. This is a very interesting and true comment! There is always that point where the taxpayers' wishes on how to allocate their own monies are defeated by politicians and bureaucrats who think the taxpayers should have little to no say in the matter.

This is quite amusing. Mr. Drkulec seems to be bemoaning the fact of reduced monies for necessary (medical) services, which is EXACTLY why I am against taxpayer funding for chess.

Then Mr. McKillop, who has a knee-jerk reaction against anything I post (which I believe to be based on a particularly loathsome personal trait he has) and who has told me in this thread to shut the hell up, responds with a bemoaning of taxpayers having less and less say as to where their tax monies are spent.

Mr. McKillop, that is EXACTLY why I am here arguing AGAINST taxpayer monies spent on chess. What % of Ontario taxpayers do you suppose are in favor of taxpayer monies spent on chess? It wouldn't even reach double digits.

Come on, you two, listen to yourselves! You say one thing, then say the exact opposite! And you criticize me for standing up for something that you yourselves are in support of!

Truly unbelievable.

[Neil Frarey]

Originally posted by Vlad Drkulec
.... The government and hospitals see necessary services as a cost centre that needs to be reduced.




This is quite amusing. Mr. Drkulec seems to be bemoaning the fact of reduced monies for necessary (medical) services, which is EXACTLY why I am against taxpayer funding for chess.

Then Mr. McKillop, who has a knee-jerk reaction against anything I post (which I believe to be based on a particularly loathsome personal trait he has) and who has told me in this thread to shut the hell up, responds with a bemoaning of taxpayers having less and less say as to where their tax monies are spent.

Mr. McKillop, that is EXACTLY why I am here arguing AGAINST taxpayer monies spent on chess. What % of Ontario taxpayers do you suppose are in favor of taxpayer monies spent on chess? It wouldn't even reach double digits.

Come on, you two, listen to yourselves! You say one thing, then say the exact opposite! And you criticize me for standing up for something that you yourselves are in support of!

Truly unbelievable.

To late, Pargat!

It's already official ... LOOL!

Why? F'n Drkulec's bullshit says so ... that's why!

The Chess Federation of Canada (CFC) is the national governing body for the game & sport of chess in Canada.

LOOL ... from his very own CFC website ... ha ha ha!

What a fucking misleading shithead CFC president Drkulec truly is!

... sport of chess in Canada ...

LOOL ... done deal!!!

Feel so sorry for the CFC Exec. ... I do ... under that amount authoritarian bullshit it must be difficult to have an independent voice.

Not unless they too are in lockstep with f'n Drkulec!

Ha!

... sport of chess in Canada ...

Best part? CFC members pay for his bullshit hustle ... they do!

... sport of chess in Canada ...

Web master be like ... OK f'n Vlady ... OK!

LOL!

Such a fucking hustle ... sorry the once noble Chess Federation of Canada is now being forced to endure Vladimir Drkulec.




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[Bob Gillanders]

I have attempted to email Henry Lam (the information at the top of this page is not clear but I think I figured out an email address) but so far have received no reply.
You may be right John. Normally the back and forth is not a problem, but this latest garbage from Frarey is way over the limit.

Thanks Kerry. Maybe Henry can hire you as a moderator. It would certainly be better if we could post without the fear of insult and personal attacks.

[Kerry Liles]

Thanks Kerry. Maybe Henry can hire you as a moderator. It would certainly be better if we could post without the fear of insult and personal attacks.

I don't know if there is any moderation taking place (some other post implied there might be...) but in any case that would be a thankless job and a hard job.
I am not sure I could qualify to provide neutral moderation in any case... I'd rather ChessTalk implement a proper ignore option so that I could avoid ever
seeing posts or quoted info from certain people... but that won't happen either.

[Kerry Liles]

Today I received an email asking me to sign the petition that has been raised to recognize Chess as a Sport in Canada...
This email was from Olga Mushtaler (mentioned early in this thread).

For those interested, here is the link to the petition:

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/P...etition=e-4283

I am just the messenger; dial down the flames of reply (or even better: sign it or don't).