The organizers of the Canadian Youth Championship provide chess boards, chess sets and chess clocks for all of the nearly 200 participants. The winner of each section will receive an all expenses paid trip to Turkey to represent Canada at the 2007 World Youth Championship. The tournament is being held at the Fairmont Laurier, a 5-star hotel.
All in all, this is an incredible first rate event. This is a part of what we want to bring to chess in the United States. There is absolutely no reason why the USCF cannot get 20-30-40 sponsors for every national scholastic event. There is no reason why all of our events cannot be run this way.
For this to happen, we need to work with and embrace the professional business people, volunteers, sponsors and supporters instead of disrespecting and chasing them away like what several current Executive Board members are doing.
Two thumbs up for the entire organizing staff of the 2007 Canadian Youth Championship!
Hah! White is playing a Colle-Zukertort! She must have Susan’s DVD. 🙂
Agree with Susan’s approach.
1. Build up the scholastics
2. Try to get a cadre of the scholastics to continue to play through teenage years and into young adult years.
This is the key to developing a lasting base of players – look at some sports with a broad popular base – they usually started in childhood and continued into adulthood.
I agree. The USCF needs to be marketed this way. I hope Susan’s team gets elected. They will know how to market our organization. How big is the Canadian Chess Federation? Are they larger than us? Why can’t our current leaders promote the game like the Canadians do? It’s really time for a change!
I also agree. The USCF must improve. The current bunch of board members are clueless and hopeless. It’s time for serious changes.
“Why can’t our current leaders promote the game like the Canadians do?”
just like the USCF, the CFC (CDN chess) isn’t in very good shape right now. Tnmts are very much reflective of the effort of the individual organizers (and we have some VERY good ones way up here in the Great White North) rather than being a success because of the CFC.
This is not to bash the CFC, but we have our issues to deal with up here, just like you folks do. (Sad, but true)
What we need to do then is kidnap…I mean, lure…these great Canadian organizers over. I think there’s a lesson to be learned here. We can succeed IN SPITE OF our local federations.
Do you know that the Canadian chess federation has only 3000 members or so, like the USCF had in the 1960’s? Somehow it manages to get by just fine on that little revenue. The USCF is a useless money pit.