Phil, you and I don't get along at all. Yeah yeah, I know, I'm a Bitch - with a Capital B. Get over it, man. Oh, I forgot, you never were able to. We've been arguing about it since 2001, that is, when we were talking. We haven't talked for a few years now. In any event, with respect to the article you wrote about GM Susan Polgar, you are right, even if you had to throw yourself into the article a few too many times, ahem. Remember, darling, it's not about you...
So, I'm publishing your article that I happened to find at the Lubbock Avalanche Journal Online because it was well written (at least, in most parts) and it makes a point about chess in the USA on which you have always been correct.
All I can hope is that with Susan Polgar and SPICE, the St. Louis Chess Club and its backing, Cajun Chess, America's Foundation for Chess, Chess in Schools, the North American Chess Association, and other local and state groups too numerous to mention by individual name that are dedicated to promoting chess on a local level (from an acorn a mighty oak grows...), we will continue to turn out newly minted USA GMs, support our super-level GMs and encourage girls and boys of all races and income levels to take up the greatest game in the world and stick with it, climb the ranks, and become some of the best players in the world. May it come to pass.
Polgar: Never give up, the relentless pursuit of excellence
Posted: June 25, 2011 - 11:36pm
So, I'm publishing your article that I happened to find at the Lubbock Avalanche Journal Online because it was well written (at least, in most parts) and it makes a point about chess in the USA on which you have always been correct.
All I can hope is that with Susan Polgar and SPICE, the St. Louis Chess Club and its backing, Cajun Chess, America's Foundation for Chess, Chess in Schools, the North American Chess Association, and other local and state groups too numerous to mention by individual name that are dedicated to promoting chess on a local level (from an acorn a mighty oak grows...), we will continue to turn out newly minted USA GMs, support our super-level GMs and encourage girls and boys of all races and income levels to take up the greatest game in the world and stick with it, climb the ranks, and become some of the best players in the world. May it come to pass.
Polgar: Never give up, the relentless pursuit of excellence
Posted: June 25, 2011 - 11:36pm
2 comments:
He should get over himself. If Ms. Polgar were a man instead of a woman I doubt he would make such a fuss. And, if the American Chess Federation is not out in the public eye promoting chess, that's their fault.
An interesting point. Unfortunately, the USCF treated its most famous and bankable female chessplayer horribly and thereby shot itself in the head. Regardless, USCF seems totally unable to do anything to promote chess. It has a magazine that hardly anyone reads, it has a website that, I have to say, has greatly improved from its first days online but that is hardly what I'd call "outreach" or "promotion" - it's just "there" online, like millions of other websites, and the onus of promoting national USCF events is entirely on the shoulders of their organizers. Other than the St. Louis people, these organizers do not generally have the money or contacts necesary, and possibly not the skills-set needed, to do a decent job of promoting either their events or chess in general. I think it's pretty pathetic when primary school soccer has a higher profile in this country than chess!
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