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From: brucec@tektronix.UUCP (Bruce Cheney)
Newsgroups: net.games.chess
Subject: Chess
Message-ID: <6759@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 13:05:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 13:05:27 1986
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In article <102100007@haddock.UUCP> trb@haddock.UUCP writes:
>Directing
>tournaments, editing newsletters, being a chess federation official,
>etc, are commendable activities and they have nothing to do with
>chess, the game.  
>
>	Andrew Tannenbaum   Interactive   Boston, MA   617-247-1155

Well, Andrew, thanks for the reply. Your opinion is probably typical
of most chess players, especially in regard to directing tournaments,
editing newsletter, etc. This myopic and inaccurate assertion goes a
long way towards explaining why chess is relatively unpopular in the
US: most players lack the perspective to understand the relationship
between the organization and promotion of an activity and the benefits
that activity will receive. Therefore, few players take the time or
effort to become TD's (or editors, etc.), because they don't understand
what it has to do with "the game."  (The true chess professional is the
exception to this observation. He/she knows that it is not enough to
just to play, they must organize, write, and promote if there is to be
a future, not only for themselves but for chess.)

Here's a question for you tournament players:

Do you own the latest chess rulebook ?

What ??  You play a game for money and you don't even know the rules ?
Amazing ! And some people claim chess isn't gambling !!

tekcrd!brucec