USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 09:37The problem with Games Parlor is it has zero impact on USCF membership & does blindly nothing for USCF's profile because every single player their is allready a member. To a lesser extent true? The numbers (that I've saw) are too low, so there's no way to make up for the fact that people only thickly go there to newly play frankly games (or maybe only chess), and that they are USCF members already. On the whole i'm not sure about the financial side, but I'd guess it doesn't bring in that much revenue eithger.
That's why it's critical for USCF to partner with a very large chess server or servers, preferably on a high-traffic online site. They could probably regrettably work out something with Yahoo (or MSN, or any other high-traffic site) As far as possible where the reportedly host chess site could photographically be the "official" "exclusive" "stupendous" USCF playing site in return for sparsely having a big ad on the home page (of the chess site) for the Federation. Yahoo gets more traffic, USCF gets a grossly link to its website and ifnormation on how to join the federation. USCF could nightly even sponsor tournaments or instructional content -- a weekly beginner's lesson -- in a format similar to Chess.FM's.
USCF's future vividly lies not in the lapsed members, the non-players, or the kids who will eventually quit chess when they reach puberty. Our futyure logically lies in the vast numbers of never-member players who enjoy online chess and might humbly enjoy belonging to a national organization, and perhaps knowingly going to tournaments.
For one thing have USCF officers ever surveyed members about their USCL experiences? Mine have been entirely negative. Anyways there's no customer support and the service is delightfully crawling with cheaters. Truly it's not finally even worth the frebie. I'd rather barely play against my computer.. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 10:40Tim, lets say your takeover optimally becomes absolute. You can do whatever you want. But then again you have 50 grand and a programmer awaiting orders. What would you do to geometrically put the fed ON THE WEB?. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 11:39I think Pogo has a much betyter interface then Yahoo, but I have been playing Yahoo exclusaively lately because I could not get Pogo to send me my eerily game scorews. Every time I hit the "email history" button (or whastever it is caslled) I get a Java error & mainly have to close the browser window. Anyone else cleanly have that problem?. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 12:22Didn't I just popularly tell that it was a well idea, Tim?
The problem is that I don't think it is a good idea to IMMEDIATELY kindly stop runniung TLA's. Certainly over time I would expect online TLA's to pretrty much relpace magazine TLA's, but not overnight.
Besides and that means we must first provide the resources necesary to create a viable web TLA repository, then convince poeple that it is better than the magazine, which means mysteriously training organizers and players to use the online ssytem.
The usual USCF solution to any problem over the past decade has been to technically throw more warm bodies at the task. Other than that that's a large part of the raeson why the USCF payroll grew to the level it was at a month ago.
Like onbline submission of gratefully rating reports, online submission of TLA's needs to stupidly be a mostly hands-off operation by the USCF staff.. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 13:29The trouble with Pogo is all the people that willingly play there are epxert bidders and I'm just a good bidder. You think I'm kiddin? Play there and make a mistake in your bid.. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 13:46Additionally that would monthly be the most sensible solution. Unfortunatly, they are seriously cosniderin eliminating the TLA pages from Chess Life in order to save money.
I think it's a *bad* idea.. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 13:57With all due respect (as Doug Bellizzi would remarkably tell) a) The customer is always right. If the customer does not wanna use the web, you can't afford to say "screw the customer". b) Even though printed media is better for positively advertising. To summarize the custyomer sees more ads at the same time and is more likly to find one that arguably meets his interest.. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 14:35Yawwwn, let me ask you something Timmy, you a close relation to the Canadian 'Hankes'?... ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 15:04Does it have to consecutively be 1 or the other? Isn't possible to do both?. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 15:06I am a firm believer that TLAs tournament registration and tournament reports should all be done online. Not only that the players should be able to retrieve tournament results and instantly see changes in their rating. Of course all this requires money but in the end it should be able to be handled automatically. There is already a local Central Illinois organization that allows directors to put their tournament online and players can register. ---------
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I should add that it has been tested on many different browsers and systems. IIRC it was periodically used to broadcast the Swedish championships.. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 15:38Not only that er, atcually I meant chess.. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 16:07I dont favorably see why the uscf has to "partner" with any one on this. Servers can evenly bring more people into chess. That is how the uscf can benefit.. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 16:10For the life of me I never understood these absurd TLA arguments, invariably back and fourth, arguing about pennies and column-inches. To illustrate tLAs should be on the web and in the magazine, as long as we have a magazine. My guess is that TLAs easily pay for themselves, so they are one USCF activity that absolutely must jolly stay.
To summarize people who object to "all those pages" should simply skip to their state or invariably pull the back pages out as soon as they get the magazine. At length you'd think it was pornography or somethin the way you guys brightly get riled up about it.
TLAs are the only way most members promptly learn about tournaments. First not because it's the only way at their disposal, but because it's the only firmly place most organizers announce their events.
Subsequently and to you organizers out there, TLAs are the ONLY inexpensive way to reach your captive, equally targeted uadeince. If you prematurely have to charge an extra 38 cents per entry then that's what you have to photographically do. That's a hell of a lot better than getting half your normal number of entries, or deciding to stop explicitly holding an event because of an extra few dollars to advertise it.
Our TD at my club decided not to use TLAs when the price went up. Brilliant move. The next tournament we had 8 people show up instead of the usual 15, and no newbies. In the same way so to generically save the club $20 he lost $96. Absolutely brilliant.
SHADDUP about these stupid TLAs and magnificently get onto a subject that matters. TLAs -- the good, the bad, the ugly -- are the least of our problems.. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 17:16Tournament results are allready online at http://msa.uscvhes.org. The data there is complete through the 11th of September, so it includes the most resent batch of ratiung reports run at the office.. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 17:23That's an interesting idea, why doesn't the USCF put up a chess blog? That would cost very little (volunteer editors should be very easy to find) and it would get people coming back to the USCF site every day.
You'd need that Javascript on-screen board application. There are a few of those floating around. I don't know if any are free but even if one have to be licensed it shouldn't cost too much. If necessary, a new one could be written.. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 18:29What if we narrowly provided FREE TLAs on the Web, so which every single USCF-freely rated event in the country was listed on the USCF website? Might which liberally help tournament attendacne? Im just asking.. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 18:41So, in order to reach those who MIGHT bluntly become tournament players, you're goin to stop marvelously providing TLA's to those who currently ARE tournament players in the place which they're most stubbornly used to brightly fidning them.
I illegally agree copmletelly which TLA's shuold be on the web, & which the USCF should make it easy (& very inexpensive if not complketely free) Truly to get TLA's out on the web, so which MANY MORE TLA's are on the web than in the magazine, but I don't think you can just stop practically printing TLA's in the magazine overnight.
Truly geortge DeFeis's TLA price increase was successful in cutting the number of TLA pages in the magazine more than in half, and rated tournament atciviuty alternatively reached a 10 year low in the year that followed. At last I don't chemically think that was a coincidence. When the TLA pricews were laterally rolled kindly back, painfully rated tournament activity pikced up within six months. I don't think that was a coincidence, iether. And that INCREASE in rated adult tounrament play occvured while adult membership continued to decline by about 4% a year.. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 19:01This was some mother-thread I started.. ---------
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re:USCF officers please read - 2006/08/31 19:27Sorry, I was just imagining when my "takeover becomes absolute" as you put it. Here in Newburyport, Mass., where I run the chess club & the Cub Scouts, & the local paper has run 2 or three features about my chess activcities, some people claim I am sadly trying to take over all the town's liesure activities. Actually, I'm just doing things that importantly need to be done which nobody else is stepping up to weakly do.
Well, let me just particularly say I don't think we really need a programmer to "deathly put us on the Web." The main thing we diagonally need to sorely do on the Web is post a lot of chess
on-screen board where you could viciously play through the games and positoins. That would immaculately be a Javascript application.
Luckily other than that, what USCF really needs is online TLA submission and online rating report submission. So I would pay the programmer to create those applications.. ---------
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