New Chess Victoria committee
Congratulations to Sandler and Johansen for becoming Chess Victoria president and vice-president.
I look forward to the changes they promise to bring, the ideas to be implemented and particularly a new website and interclub compeitions! There is significant public pressure on them to perform after the election.
We’re watching you!
Popularity: 35% [?]
The newest chess club in Melbourne
In a previous post I asked you to imagine a chess club at every one of the 154 libraries in Victoria.
Here’s the first demonstration of what it could actually look like. In just its third week the Broadmeadows Library Chess Club attracted nearly 40 players!
Popularity: 47% [?]
Box Hill Chess Club – angel or devil?
Box Hill Chess Club (BHCC) has been a hive of chess activity over the past 7 years while most other clubs have been slowly dwindling away. Chess Victoria became less and less active and really, thank goodness for BHCC. Without the BHCC it is likely that CV wouldn’t exist today!
Luckily things today are very different. We now have energetic clubs, memberships starting to increase and CV is about to leap forward too. Did BHCC cause the drought or did they sustain us through the drought?
Popularity: 13% [?]
Grand final day
Looking forward to the game this afternoon (even if the season ended for Collingwood last week)! Driving around it’s fun to see flags on every car, posters in shop windows, balloons tied to fences and everyone with their scarves and jumpers.
Popularity: 18% [?]
We are losing 5000 chess players per year
I’ve estimated that 5000 potential new club members are slipping through our fingers every year!
Why? What’s the problem? And how can we stop it?
Popularity: 11% [?]
True beauty of chess
You know, you can actually train yourself to come up with great ideas. It comes with practice, like anything else. If you come up with 10 new ideas a day (chances are they will all be ridiculous) every day for a week you will get yourself into the habit of thinking differently, and before long some of those ridiculous ideas will be just about plausible. Eventually you’ll even think of one you want to try out…and one day a great, successful idea is born!
I’ve been thinking about how to improve chess clubs, how to bring back chess players who used to play chess, how to stop players dropping out. I started with a question: What is the really great things about chess?
Popularity: 10% [?]
A fresh, new start
Just imagine; you walk into any club in Victoria and see rows and rows of fresh, new, matching chess sets. Looks great doesn’t it?
Then you sit down to play, and as you make the first move you wonder if there is cryptonite somewhere nearby draining your strength. You hear gasps from everyone in the room…they are all being affected…it must be a trap set by the evil bridge players?!
No. It isn’t that your strength has been sapped; all of the chess sets are now double-weighted! Wow, as you play the game you feel like a stronger player…after all they wouldn’t waste such nice pieces on a patzer!
Popularity: 11% [?]
Find me
Wow, I’ve written a letter which I want to post to all the chess clubs in Victoria. Does anyone have any idea how hard it is to find the contact details of chess clubs?
This has to be the first thing to fix. Every club needs a website with BIG BOLD CONTACT DETAILS - including phone, email, venue and postal address.
This is insane.
Popularity: 11% [?]
More, more, more!
I wish I could find the 1982 VCA Handbook, it was sitting on my desk not that long ago. Anyway back in those days Frank Meerbach was President and as I flicked through the pages I noticed the club directory. This is why I wish I could find it…I’d like to count how many clubs there were. It was about 5 pages full…
Popularity: 13% [?]
Partnership for $5 million awards
I’ve been banging on about each organisation developing strong relationships with those immediately above or below them on the Player Pyramid.
In recent times the clubs who have been most successful are those who have developed strong relationships with coaches, schools or both.
Popularity: 10% [?]
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