The Grandmaster Diet

[Vlad Drkulec]

Dieting is a multi-billion dollar industry.

Actually it explains what I have observed when I play in chess tournaments. I tend to lose weight....

[Vlad Drkulec]

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess

We were looking for...

[Vlad Drkulec]

That would certainly be an acceptable idea if FIDE was the source of the funding. I would also expect that if we were ever to get government funding...

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We would have to convince the media to cover our events. Usually they need an interesting story to pique their interest in an event....

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I am sure that I have seen those moves previously probably in the grade 1 section of the Windsor Chess Challenge where experienced chess players should...

[Vlad Drkulec]

So that would be 1073 players in all BC tournaments? It looks like the average CFC member player plays in about 3 tournaments per year. Activity has...

[Vlad Drkulec]

He should get used to it. The 10,000 was based on hundreds of organizers taking certain actions to make chess more popular. We weren't even doing those...

[Vlad Drkulec]

Monopolies are a good thing for the monopolist though I would hardly call it a monopoly when Chessbase, Ichess, ForwardChess and Mesghen Amanov are still...

[Vlad Drkulec]

Define Canadian coaches.

For the type of coaches I was thinking of there are only a very few in Canada. If the deliverable is IM and GM...

[Vlad Drkulec]

GoMembership is that online registration and payment system. The question is whether we will ever get it implemented.

https://www.youtu...

[Vlad Drkulec]

FIDE has always had problems but to say that they are utterly corrupt is way over the top. Certainly the new administration has been making strides towards...

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Its also what FIDE would be looking for, at least in part....

[Vlad Drkulec]

Money all by itself is not necessarily a solution to all problems faced by chess in Canada. If chess were suddenly funded by the government to the same...

[Vlad Drkulec]

I posted a similar thread on the CFC board which is also receiving responses and ideas from the posters....

[Vlad Drkulec]

I hope you were able to take advantage of the clock and electronic board deal from DGT which the CMA administered for the CFC. I am not sure when the...

[Vlad Drkulec]

I doubt that FM titles would be a factor. I suspect that WIM and WGM titles would also count. I don't think that salaries and office space would help...

[Vlad Drkulec]

We already do some of that for some of the Pan Am events or at least the support is enough for a plane ticket and the organizers usually pay for hotel...

[Vlad Drkulec]

The question came up in the AGM about the idea that FIDE was going to give 60000 Euros to the CFC. It is not a totally outlandish idea as the discussion...

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And that is fine. Posting here is fine. The trolls seem to mostly be gone. If they stay gone then we (CFC executive) can probably even post here to...

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I don't think it is an organized effort sanctioned by the CFC. It is simply a discussion by one of the candidates mostly read by people who do not have...