14-08-2016, 08:16 PM
[quote="Jonathan Livingstone"]
We all love our chess, but I don't really know how much more evidence we need before there is some country wide realisation that the game is doomed. Is like the Ice Age, it is happening, just not as obvious as you might think. The ice melted over time, and the chess boards are disappearing from the landscape too. So as a Glenrothes, Glasgow or Lothians disappear. We loose a Sabre Tooth Tiger, a Woolly Mammoth and a Plesiosaur.
2016-15, 2015/14, 2014/13 Season Congress Numbers displayed below
AYR - 95, 114, 117 * (*includes 7 for 1 day Junior event)
MARYMASS - 88, 78, 91
LARGS - 54, 44, 71* (* includes 10 for 1 day Junior event)
DUNDEE - 114, 134, 127
OBAN - 111, 100, 93
EDINBURGH - 171, 207, 188
End of selective quotation
Jonathan,
surely a better way to measure the decline or stability of organised chess in Scotland is to measure the number of games submitted for grading per season. I don't have the numbers to hand but Dougie probably does.
PS
The Plesiosaurs actually became extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs = 65 million years ago.
unless the Loch Ness monster is a plesiosaur
We all love our chess, but I don't really know how much more evidence we need before there is some country wide realisation that the game is doomed. Is like the Ice Age, it is happening, just not as obvious as you might think. The ice melted over time, and the chess boards are disappearing from the landscape too. So as a Glenrothes, Glasgow or Lothians disappear. We loose a Sabre Tooth Tiger, a Woolly Mammoth and a Plesiosaur.
2016-15, 2015/14, 2014/13 Season Congress Numbers displayed below
AYR - 95, 114, 117 * (*includes 7 for 1 day Junior event)
MARYMASS - 88, 78, 91
LARGS - 54, 44, 71* (* includes 10 for 1 day Junior event)
DUNDEE - 114, 134, 127
OBAN - 111, 100, 93
EDINBURGH - 171, 207, 188
End of selective quotation
Jonathan,
surely a better way to measure the decline or stability of organised chess in Scotland is to measure the number of games submitted for grading per season. I don't have the numbers to hand but Dougie probably does.
PS
The Plesiosaurs actually became extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs = 65 million years ago.
unless the Loch Ness monster is a plesiosaur