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For me, without a national organization that holds serious chess together, I would have little interest in the game.
I mostly play only tournament chess and I have had the good fortune to be part of the chess community from coast to coast. I have made good friends and had some excellent competitions in all of the regions but without a national organization, what sense does it all make?
Surely, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
So to me the CFC, provides a link between the regions and a central broker for information, ratings, co-ordination, regulations and international representation.
I do read the bulletin and I frequently visit the website and the discussion board. I participate in whatever national events I am able to qualify for and I contribute what I can toward our national team at the Olympiad.
Me:
XX - competitive chess. (not rated chess)
YY - newsletter. I'm a USCF member only (100%) for this reason.
ZZ - gives a moral right to praise & blame the CFC here and there.
WW - mandatory for a Governor.
John, thanks for the link and the stroll down memory lane. ;)
If you would like to rewrite that section, please go ahead. I did it back in 2008 to bring it up to date. I think it is still relevant, but if you believe it to be "overwritten", please be my guest.
My objective was to put a positive spin on the CFC, to show it in the best possible light. Why would I do that? Hmm..I suppose to attract new members.
I am surprised how some people have interpreted my comments as an attack on you. Not so. My previous post acknowledges your assessment of my "prose" as an "overwritten PR" piece. I even gave it a green smiley face, like this :D
This :D means all is good, this means I am "not amused".
There was an interesting thread on much the same subject in 2008
It comes up from time to time. I'm a life member of CCCA so am not against joining. Not having any intention of playing OTB it doesn't seem worthwhile simply being a statistic on the annual membership count of the CFC.
Paul was in town and after all the discussions we've had about the foundation he didn't even look me up for a few OTB games. Too bad.
If John thinks it's overwritten then, in my opinion, it's worth a discussion, not a dismissal. I say this because I think John has credibility and has earned the right to some up-front respect.
For example (I'm going from memory here), John has organized the Windsor qualifying tournament for the CYCC for several years and regularly draws 1,000+ children to this event.
Actually 1400 this year because he chose to limit it to two days. The Windsor events are followed by a playoff day where the medal winners from the two days play off against each other. The tournament is actually a feeder to the OYCC in the sense that winners of the playoffs are given invitations to attend the OYCC.
Promising kids are identified and invited to attend the advanced class which is usually in session during the school year. In that class we average about eight to a dozen kids evenly split between boys and girls. The first part of the class is a lecture where I go over a game or two or in some cases where we find the kids are having problems in a particular area we will do a lecture with tactical exercises or a particular ending, anything that helps the kids overcome any problems that they are experiencing.
A few beginners have snuck into that class and then we let a few more in so that the less advanced kids had someone to play against in the games that they play each night. The games are played and then an adult goes through the games with the kids afterwards.
John also organizes the parallel Chatham event and gets on the order of 200+ kids there as well. Exact numbers can probably be gleaned from the Windsor and Chatham Chess Challenge links on the www.windsorchess.ca website.
On a per capita basis, how are other cities faring with their CYCC qualifiers relative to Windsor (Windsor with a population of 250,000 +/-)?
Technically I would call them prequalifiers because the big tournaments are not CFC rated and they lead to a CYCC only indirectly. Typically being a queen up does not assure the participants of a win since what often happens at that point that the queen chases the opponent's king around in circles until the person who is a queen up allows the 50 move rule or stalemates the king.
In another post in this thread, Vlad has pointed out that 5 of Windsor's top 6 players are involved in aspects of coaching/teaching chess.
It is five of the top six active players. I am sure that if we asked the sixth player he would also do the same but he is a pretty busy guy. Ray Stone is mostly inactive with respect to chess but still does the occasional session with kids at a grade school where his friend's wife, a teacher, is the head of the chess club.
It has always been like that. Milan Vukadinov was the prototype for altruistic chess behaviour towards up and coming players. Other strong players like Ray Stone picked up the habit and passed it on to others. Les Mohacsy the long time president of the YMCA chess club used to give us rides to Detroit Metro Chess League loading up a team and a half in his station wagon along with sets for everyone.
It sounds like Windsor has a good thing going because of people like John, Vlad and others. No doubt the CFC is working closely with the people in Windsor to find out how they can promote similar success stories in other communities - or is the CFC doing anything at all in this regard?
Bottom line, people like John have earned some respect.
He definitely has earned some respect and he does have it in Windsor circles most certainly.
As for Windsor, I predict some more interesting developments in the next year or two. I am very much enamoured of the book "Developing Chess Talent" and hope to be incorporating some of the ideas from that book in our local chess programs.
Last edited by Vlad Drkulec; Wednesday, 20th July, 2011, 02:17 AM.
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