Michigan, near Chicago
Ashley's Million-dollar chess tourney - but bring your own clocks
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Always wanted to visit Michigan; been to Chicago.
Most of the chess activity in Michigan is on the other side of the state, near Detroit. Maybe they're getting some publicity over there.
I had a battle buddy from St. Clair Shores, MI.
Bulla wrote:
I_Am_Second wrote:
Youre going to this tournament for 1 of 3 reasons:
1. You just want to play chess
2. Youre in it for the money
3. Youre going just to say you went
I'm going because I want to support this new structure in chess tournaments and I fully believe in their vision.
+1 .... I am going for all the reasons 
When I ask around san francisco bay area, everyone already thought of it, some registered, some thinking and some decided not to go. I didn't hear of a single player or their parent - what is millionaire chess? or even where will it be? las Vegas? The Mechanics Institute Chess newsletter has it. US CHess Life have second page ad every month on it. Has occassional artciles on it in their sites (see the one they added yesterday - http://www.uschess.org/content/view/12707/767/)
So definitely in my area, they know every bit of it. Not even that, from across the other half of the Globe, Bangladesh, 3 players already confirmed me of joining and I am looking for a cheap accommodation for them in Las Vegas.
So they are reaching out as much as they can - but wont be possibly able to reach every area in first shot. There will be future events I hope and slowly people will know everywhere.
That's fine. Existing chess players know about it. But, if you want to increase interest in chess, you have to communicate outside of the chess community. Otherwise, the pool of players remains the same.
Bulla wrote:
I do think it will get more schools to be open to the idea of having a chess club. Besides the obvious benefits of kids playing chess, now they'll have the added benefit of making some money too. Maybe schools could put together a team of say 10 kids to compete. If only one kid wins they make more than double their money back. The skys the limit.
It seems that you have an issue with the accounting equalities or equivalently with the first law of thermodynamics.
If chess players, as a group, win money by playing, when they spend some to organize the tournaments, it means that money is flowing into chess by some source. The breakup between professional players and good amateurs is irrelevant, there has to be a source.
What is that source supposed to be ?
Like I said before, in all seriousness, this millions of dollars tournament with unlimited expenses may be part of an international money laundering scheme.
Irontiger wrote:
Bulla wrote:
I do think it will get more schools to be open to the idea of having a chess club. Besides the obvious benefits of kids playing chess, now they'll have the added benefit of making some money too. Maybe schools could put together a team of say 10 kids to compete. If only one kid wins they make more than double their money back. The skys the limit.
It seems that you have an issue with the accounting equalities or equivalently with the first law of thermodynamics.
If chess players, as a group, win money by playing, when they spend some to organize the tournaments, it means that money is flowing into chess by some source. The breakup between professional players and good amateurs is irrelevant, there has to be a source.
What is that source supposed to be ?
Sponsors. It can also come from advertising.
...what pipe dreams we have in this thread.
Call it what you want but I refuse to settle for mediocrity.
Bulla wrote:
Irontiger wrote:
Bulla wrote:
(...) it means that money is flowing into chess by some source. (...)
I do think it will get more schools to be open to the idea of having a chess club. Besides the obvious benefits of kids playing chess, now they'll have the added benefit of making some money too. Maybe schools could put together a team of say 10 kids to compete. If only one kid wins they make more than double their money back. The skys the limit.
What is that source supposed to be ?
Sponsors. It can also come from advertising.
So now you have a problem with orders of magnitude.
Soccer (for instance) attracts much more sponsors/advertising than chess. Either you believe it could be reversed the other way round, or you think sending school kids compete for soccer prize money is a smart move. Both make you pretty much delusional.
I'm not arguing the fact that other mainstream sports like soccer, baseball, football etc attracts more attention than chess. What I do believe is that chess can be more popular and attract more attention than its current state.
Bulla wrote:
I'm not arguing the fact that other mainstream sports like soccer, baseball, football etc attracts more attention than chess. What I do believe is that chess can be more popular and attract more attention than its current state.
Possibly, but you argue so with wet-dreams examples of school subziding children to go to the MC event with some nonzero hope that they do not end up in the red.
Too lazy to Google Detroid. In which state it is?
Irontiger,
I'm just brainstorming ideas. Name calling and belittling people isn't much of a discussion. Who knows what the future holds for chess.
Bulla wrote:
Irontiger,
I'm just brainstorming ideas.(...) Who knows what the future holds for chess.
I do not, but I know some reasonable bounds which you crossed vigorously.
And your area is?