Readers of GM Lubomir Kavalek’s chess column in the Washington Post might have noticed that today’s column (March 19, 2007) is shorter than usual. It is not an optical illusion.
The Washington Post decided to reduce the award-winning chess column by almost a third to accommodate other features on the comics pages. Readers who would like to make comments about the change or about the chess column can contact the Washington Post by e-mail at comics@washpost.com; or by phone via the comics hotline 202-334-4775; or writing Comics Feedback, The Washington Post, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington D.C. 20071.
You can read GM Kavalek’s column at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/30/LI2005033001223.html
Some older columns can be accessed at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/columns/chess
Please help fight to keep chess in the Washington Post!
Thank you Susan! We must fight for GM Kavalek! Let’s all write to the Washington Post!
It’d be a little insincere if ALL of us did it, since all of us don’t read the Post.
Shows you what’s important at the Capitol.
GM Kavalek is a wonderful writer. We need to support him. I’ll write to the Washington Post. Thank you!
Comics are what’s important at the Capital? Not sure I follow you on that.
We should have bought more Washington Posts before this happened. 🙁 I guess the only alternative is to write-in and express displeasure.
Papers are dying anyway, he should get a blog like Susan Polgar!
Typical Washington mentality! Clown in the Whitehouse and they make room for more comics! No wonder we Americans havent had a Super GM born on U.S. soil since Robert Fischer. In Iceland they have a television program where Masters play rapid games of chess where experts comment on the games being played. On U.S. television instead of culture and learning we have The Simpsons and King Of The Hill. At theaters we have ‘Jackass The Movie’, a celebration of idiocy. As a nation we have to unite and stand up for chess if it means putting pressure on elected officials and those running for government office!
Susan, we’ve managed to secure some TV and radio coverage (interviews this week) for Sophie Seeber, who’s going to represent England at the European Chess Championships. This is a miracle in the UK, but shows what a carefully worded press release can sometimes achieve.
Full details on chesstales.blogspot.com
Keep up the great blogging
All right, I wrote the Washington Pravda, which I despise, and I won’t pay money for that trash, even if I do read it online.
Lubos Kavalek is a national treasure (even if he’s Czech). He’s one of a very few reasons to read the Post.
Paul Serrano
Fairfax
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