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This is a poll with multiple options, to see if there are things in niche markets that competitive chessplayers tend to make purchases of at least once a year. As chesstalk polls are restricted to ten options maximum, I'm compelled to take some guesses about what might be popular purchases with competitive chessplayers.
I was inspired to do such a poll by three thoughts:
1) the fact that the last three US elections, at least, were won with the assistance of a strategy to learn of the buying tendencies of types of voters who tended to vote for a particular party, and then to contact people falling into these purchasing tendencies in the hope that they would be receptive to getting out to vote for that particular party (at least, that's the drift I recall of what one CNN commentator said last night)
2) the memory of an old Ottawa chess club message board post, by now more-or-less retired Ottawa chess organizer Neil Frarey, in a year in which he was running for CFC president, in which he commented that he hoped to survey CFC members extensively for their buying tendencies. I have supposed that he may have wished to go to potential sponsors of the CFC or competitive rated chess events with the resulting purchasing data about CFC members, and that perhaps he also may have wished to target advertising by the CFC to the most promising potential new members.
3) after I looked up the old 1979 Gallup survey about Canadians playing chess, I found there was no attempt back then to find out the niche purchasing tendencies of Canadians who played chess as frequently as, say, CFC members might (although some other things such as income levels were considered):
http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/gall.htm
I was inspired to do such a poll by three thoughts:
1) the fact that the last three US elections, at least, were won with the assistance of a strategy to learn of the buying tendencies of types of voters who tended to vote for a particular party, and then to contact people falling into these purchasing tendencies in the hope that they would be receptive to getting out to vote for that particular party (at least, that's the drift I recall of what one CNN commentator said last night)
2) the memory of an old Ottawa chess club message board post, by now more-or-less retired Ottawa chess organizer Neil Frarey, in a year in which he was running for CFC president, in which he commented that he hoped to survey CFC members extensively for their buying tendencies. I have supposed that he may have wished to go to potential sponsors of the CFC or competitive rated chess events with the resulting purchasing data about CFC members, and that perhaps he also may have wished to target advertising by the CFC to the most promising potential new members.
3) after I looked up the old 1979 Gallup survey about Canadians playing chess, I found there was no attempt back then to find out the niche purchasing tendencies of Canadians who played chess as frequently as, say, CFC members might (although some other things such as income levels were considered):
http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/gall.htm
:)
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