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I challenge you guys to take a look at the NHL and the other most successful sporting organizations.
They are private companies that dictate rule changes, regional divisions (for their sport) and so on. All their decisions are about profit and the promotion of their sport.
The end result is their sports are huge and profitable.
In the chess world our regionally represented not for profit org the CFC has a rule by committee feel to it and there are no benefits for those who work the hardest for it. You guys will be very lucky for example if someone as hard working and intelligent as Mr Von Keitz chooses to stay on as president after this summer. Why should he?
By contrast take a look at the Chess and Math Association. It has a successful series of events leading to its own championship. Many of these events are attended by hundreds of kids. They also have a successful school program bringing chess to many new kids all the time. I would also add, Strategy Games has successfully provided services to chess players and tournaments for many years.
Quite frankley you can see how a private org with a narrow focus has created a situation where some are working full time for chess providing the service thats demanded in a much more no nonsense way.
So my question to you all is why do we have this organization just doing this for kids? Lets hand them adult chess too.
Lets dismantle the CFC and make Larry Bevand the dictator of Canadian Chess. It will be his job to try and push the number of chess tournament players from the dismal 2000 it is now to 10k, 20k or 50k whatever he can achieve.
Once chess is bigger you can talk about pro leagues and chess on tv or sponsorship and the discussion might actually mean something.
He and his organizations will be entitled to whatever profits they can get along the way while doing this. And I hope they make a lot of it.
And just like the "pro sports" what we get from the company bringing it to us is always much more than what they get from us.
They are private companies that dictate rule changes, regional divisions (for their sport) and so on. All their decisions are about profit and the promotion of their sport.
The end result is their sports are huge and profitable.
In the chess world our regionally represented not for profit org the CFC has a rule by committee feel to it and there are no benefits for those who work the hardest for it. You guys will be very lucky for example if someone as hard working and intelligent as Mr Von Keitz chooses to stay on as president after this summer. Why should he?
By contrast take a look at the Chess and Math Association. It has a successful series of events leading to its own championship. Many of these events are attended by hundreds of kids. They also have a successful school program bringing chess to many new kids all the time. I would also add, Strategy Games has successfully provided services to chess players and tournaments for many years.
Quite frankley you can see how a private org with a narrow focus has created a situation where some are working full time for chess providing the service thats demanded in a much more no nonsense way.
So my question to you all is why do we have this organization just doing this for kids? Lets hand them adult chess too.
Lets dismantle the CFC and make Larry Bevand the dictator of Canadian Chess. It will be his job to try and push the number of chess tournament players from the dismal 2000 it is now to 10k, 20k or 50k whatever he can achieve.
Once chess is bigger you can talk about pro leagues and chess on tv or sponsorship and the discussion might actually mean something.
He and his organizations will be entitled to whatever profits they can get along the way while doing this. And I hope they make a lot of it.
And just like the "pro sports" what we get from the company bringing it to us is always much more than what they get from us.
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