Author: KarinsDad
Date: 13:39:51 06/15/99
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On June 15, 1999 at 15:24:27, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Dear KarinsDad, > >You are dead right on this one. If the SuperGMS rake in the shekels then >maybe the money would trickle down to the rest of the chess world. Don't >you think that chess is more important than baseball or basketball or wrest- >ling? Why should an honorable gentleman like Mark McGuire make millions of >dollars and a guy like Joel Benjamin just get by? The reason that chess or >checkers or bridge ain't popular is that the "populace" at large can't >comprehend the complexities of these games and so rapidly lose interest. > >With "bells and whistles" it might be possible to interest the general >population in chess. Who knows, folks like you or Mike Valvo might become >the V. McMahons of chess if you play your "cards" right. > >The future looks bright for advanced chess, > >Tim Frohlick, ACP (advanced chess promoter) Well, I do think that as more people start acquiring a taste for chess in the chess in schools programs, that a higher percentage of the population will in turn support chess at the higher levels. However, I do not think that prostituting chess with advanced chess is the way to go. I do not think that chess is more important than baseball or basketball. I like all of these activities. Just because we pay TOO much money to professional athletes does not mean that we should support advanced chess as a mechanism to get more money for the top chess players. Note: I am not saying that the top chess players should not play advance chess as a way to make more money. They can do what they want. I am saying that I think it is a bogus activity with a short lifespan (maybe 5 more years) and I definitely think that there are more long term ways in which to improve professional chess monies and professional chess in general. KarinsDad :) ACO (advanced chess opponent)
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