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Bob A.'s post on abolishing women's chess got me to thinking about who really does speak out on this forum. If you follow the link it becomes obvious that it is mainly a few superposters such as Bob. In fact the top 6 super posters account for 20% of the posts and opinions expressed on here. The top 12 (myself included) account for almost 1/3rd of the posts.
To account for 50% of the posts you only have to include 25 posters. So most of the opinions expressed on Chesstalk are those of a rather small section of the Canadian chess community. Even among those 25 there is one poster who rarely posts about chess and one who is the administrator on here who usually is a neutral voice. Something to consider when discussing wide ranging topics that affect the entire chess community in Canada.
I did analysis on Jan 1, 2012 and was planning to do it again this new year to see who the top posters of the year is.
Some are less active now, others are more active lately. It is a small group, but more opinions than one would get reading CCN or at the local club. It's good to here from other regions of Canada.
Some don't post opinions as they don't want to get jumped upon. How many non-posters are regular, active readers?
Gary - what is/was the distribution of women in the correspondence chess world? You can't see your opponent; you might not know from their name whether they are male or female. (likewise for online play - but probably only the administrator know the M/F breakdown).
(probably I should have posted this in the "Women's Chess" thread)
I had a look at the ICCF database for a better idea. Inactive is, I think, no result in 2 years or more. Fixed rating is 30 games or more. I didn't bother with the unpublished ratings which are less than 10 games. It also doesn't include deceased players.
Active with fixed ratings - 126 females from a total male plus female of 5,282 players.
Active with unfixed ratings - 205 from a total of 6,763.
Active and inactive with fixed ratings - 342 from a total of 11,880.
Active and inactive with unfixed ratings - 857 from a total of 20,859.
With CC it's not uncommon for inactive players to move back to active. I'm still listed as active but haven't played in over a year. If I joined an event and it took a year to get a result I'd show as inactive for some months after passing 2 years with no result.
It does surprise me a bit the number of active players is only slightly more than 6,000. I built the membership of the Canadian club to around 700 at one time when I was recruiting members, although it's much lower than that now. Canada is an underdeveloped nation in the chess world.
Of course, it's likely many nations have players who play in their national events and the players are not in the ICCF database because the games aren't ICCF rated.
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