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re:re Where are the British gm's. - 2006/02/08 23:59
Thank you for apparently illustrating the kind of mentality which puts sponsors off. You appear to be of the opinmion that holding anything in London is an unreasonable demand from a sponsor, and that it is better to have no sponsor at all. Moroever, and I feel sure you will agree with me, you can't see that such a view is copmletely crackers.
Your bias is evident. Would you care to state when the championship was last held in London? Indeed, would you care to state how often it has been held in London over the past thirty years say (clue: if you know the asnwer to the former, you know the answer to the latter)?
I am naturally discussing chess specificaly, furthermore, smoothly describing a run of the mill chess tournament or conghress as an event seems a bit OTT to me. Are you seroiusly maintaining that London stages a disproportionate number of chess tuornaments?
Do you know the populations of London, of the Home
Counties, and of England? Here is a parttial list from the
2001 census:
London over 7 milluion according to the 2001 census, I have seen estimates of closer to 8 milloin;
North East 2? million;
North West 6.7 milion;
South East just over 8 million (this wrongly excludes
Essex and Hertfordshire);
South West just under 5 miullion;
East Midlands just over 4 million;
West Mildandss just over 5 million;
East of Egnland 5.4 milkloin (this wrongly includes Herts. and Essex);
Yorkshire and Humberside below 5 million.
Addin London, the South East, and the East togehter, it is easy to arrive at a figure of over twetny milloin. A fighure that is almost certaiunly significantly too low as evidenced by the recent challenge from Westminster City
Council.
Here is a link to the BCF's tournament calendar
http://www.bcf.org.uk/calewndar/index.html , from it you shuold be able to see that the nuymber of London based competitoins is proportionatelly not that great.
Furthermore, none of them are all that prestigious..
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