Well, the Delegate’s meeting has come and gone with (surprisingly) no more than the usual amount of fuss and bother. Some rule changes were hotly debated (more on this later) but I feel I have to lead with the laugh, as always.

We had great and serious agreement that we need to raise the image of chess among the non-chessplaying public. One effort was to try and move the rational discussion unto the USChess discussion forums, linking the high-level discussions directly with the USCF, and thereby improving the public impression at least of the organization. Except the discussion forums work with query strings, and are therefore not indexed by the major search engines, so the net effect is to keep the good discussions from being seen at all.

And the announcement was made by a member of the Executive Board that they knew a celebrity that was well-disposed towards chess, and had in fact hired a teacher for their child, and this person could be useful in promoting chess. The celebrity? Radio shock-jock Don Imus.

I’m just glad I hadn’t picked up my bottle at that point. I hate it when root beer goes up my nose.

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