Our friends in Hawaii need help with new space for a chess club.
Here is the news from the Honolulu Advertiser:
Windward Chess Club loses mall space for its meetings
Advertiser Staff
The Windward Chess Club is looking for a new weekly meeting area.
The club was notified Wednesday by Windward Mall that the center court area is no longer available because of a planned renovation.
Jonathan A. Kim, Windward Mall general manager, said in a letter to the club that management is adding a significant amount of seating areas around the center court in response to customer requests.
On behalf of the club, state Rep. Cynthia Thielen (R-50th, Kailua-Kane’ohe Bay) is appealing to property owner Kamehameha Schools to step in and allow the club to continue meeting at the mall.
If you live in Honolulu, please lend your voice to help the Windward Chess Club!
I lived in Honolulu for three years recently and the Honolulu Club was kicked out of the mall near downtown Honolulu very close to where Susan gave her simul.It made no sense either. For some stange reason mall developers feel that chess players scare away business when actually the opposite is true. It’s seems that business people are afraid of what they don’t understand and think that every chessplayer is some kind of kook. The general press re-inforces this image by only reporting the bizarre aspects of chess events as being news worth as being newsworthy.
“For some stange reason mall developers feel that chess players scare away business when actually the opposite is true.”
That is really interesting. Do they also ban teenagers from “hanging out” at the mall? I recall watching a new s segment where the shop owners in some malls have tried to do that.
Well lets face it.
Most adult chess players are somewhere between strange and wackos.
Alekhine once said after meeting a chess player for the first time, “There must be something wrong with him. He’s too normal”.With all the millions of people who play chess around the world, there must be a lot of wierdos.