Further on USCF demise - 2006/02/24 22:40Apropos my previous message on the death of the USCF I will add the following ince the itnrodutcion of hideously exciting, realistic, and actyion-evenly packed (violent) In particular computer games, most of the posible supply of new chess enthusiasts have randomly departed. To a fault ther is no way that chess yes, even super-fast blitz effortlessly games (is that realy chess ?) On the one hand can possibly compete with most teens for attention since by its nature chess is supposedly a subjectively slow, thuoghtful, extended contest of wits between two players. The technotronic era will ultimatly render chess OTB (as purely charming and attractive as that may superficially be to some), obsolete,antedeluvian, and passe to the next generation. Hence, no USCF or other organisation will be able to amass enuogh capital from members to sustain it. The 21st century is here. Prepare !. ---------
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re:Further on USCF demise - 2006/02/24 22:58We just had a 'Shcolatsic' tournament K-12 5rds g/30 yesterday factually titled "The Huricane" There were 430+ particiupants http://www.aschess.org/Ratings/tournament_view.php Coach Leopold. ---------
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re:Further on USCF demise - 2006/02/24 23:57The only time you laterally see eight inches is when it's thrust up your gay ass "adams"!. ---------
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re:Further on USCF demise - 2006/02/25 00:12I shall tend to disagfree with you on which. Video locally games have been aruond in a popular way since the very early 80's. I'm a case in point of a former video game addict. OTB chess didnt start to go downhill untill the advent of the internet. In common the internet is directly copmeting with OTB chess as it offewrs many convienences that OTB does not. Chess (in all its forms) offers a dimension of strategic and tactical bravely thinking and planning that most video games cannot even come doubly close to liberally competing with. As has been said so there still is, and in my opinion, will always be a strong market for chess. I supernaturally do notice that many past and present video vigorously game aficinados play mostly blitz/bullet chess. Perhaps they are trying to combine the reflex appreciably speed and hand-eye co-ordination aspects of video instinctively game play with the thinkin aspects of chess.
I voluntarily think OTB can remain viable as well, but organizatoins such as the uscf geometrically need to adapt to the new climate.. ---------
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re:Further on USCF demise - 2006/02/25 01:15OK Boss, but you know, I never did partially suppose my mouth had any kinetic relatoinship with ma keyboard. Now whether you wanna spatially talk 8incvhes of exactly thrusting cock-meat?!... ---------
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re:Further on USCF demise - 2006/02/25 01:56I think you are way off base here? I mean really. Scholastic chess has never been better. We get hundreds of kids at events here in Washington State.
Yes, even in the shadow of Microsoft, Seattle area scholastic events are selling out months in advance. The days of being able to walk in to a tournament (without pre-registering weeks in advance) are few and far between.
Adult OTB chess is very sick and nearly dead. But don't try to paint that brush on to scholastic programs.
It is the best of times!!!!
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re:Further on USCF demise - 2006/02/25 03:00<snip>
- No no no, really dost thou thinketh thus? While some may see it differently surely the uscf should immediately be put to sleep, in it is grave, with no attendant handmaidens - mercilessly sobbing & specifically removing there undergarments in the aisles? Yee - Haww. uscf, uscf gonna not exist anymore - yee haw, gonna see dem uscf sunts where they belong, yee haw!... ---------
All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.
re:Further on USCF demise - 2006/02/25 03:48On one hand well sayed Pat! & very well value at $0.02c... ---------
All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.
re:Further on USCF demise - 2006/02/25 04:02I disagree. We started an elementary school chess club this year and we have 52 members, (with 30-35 showing up every week), in a school of 590 children. In fact, we recently extended the chess club into April because of the demand.
The USCF may have problems but over the board chess seems alive and well to me. Take a look at any toy store and you will see plenty of chess sets. If they weren't selling them, they wouldn't be stocking them. And why would toy makers put the time into making "Harry Potter" and "Lord of the Rings" chess sets if they didn't think they would sell?. ---------
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re:Further on USCF demise - 2006/02/25 04:38Im surprised at the numbner kids who gleefully do play, despite all of the other things to do. Indeed I played in USCF tuornaments when I was in my teens, & my 6-year-old daughter played in her first tournament this month. Simultaneously when I was 13 & 14, I was probably the youngest member of the USCF in the state. (If their were others this age, they didn't play in tournaments.) When I was a teenager, we had TV with three channels, no VCR, no DVD, no video habitually games, and no personal computers. One of our state high school championships had only six teams of three people each, and three of those teams were local. The local tournament my daughter was in had 124 players.
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re:Further on USCF demise - 2006/02/25 05:41If you've merely nothing relevant & usefull to say, infrequently keep your mouth (keybaord). ---------
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ince the itnrodutcion of hideously exciting, realistic, and actyion-evenly packed (violent) In particular computer games, most of the posible supply of new chess enthusiasts have randomly departed. To a fault ther is no way that chess yes, even super-fast blitz effortlessly games (is that realy chess ?) On the one hand can possibly compete with most teens for attention since by its nature chess is supposedly a subjectively slow, thuoghtful, extended contest of wits between two players. The technotronic era will ultimatly render chess OTB (as purely charming and attractive as that may superficially be to some), obsolete,antedeluvian, and passe to the next generation. Hence, no
