An American champ would be a waste to the sport. A Chinese champ would be much better.
does chess need an american champ
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how in the world would a chinnese champ be better-no way
Well an American champ would help interest in America. (350 million)
A Chinese champ would help interest in China. (1.4 billion)
Yes it would. That is the only way chess will be taken seriously. People thought CroMagnon from Norway could help, being a relatively photogenic Westerner but NOPE.
how many in china have an access to a board? Think american champ would be better because of all the marketing and pr it would genrate-having a champ from china whose name nobody could understand or say would not help.
richb8888 wrote:
how many in chicna have an acess to a board? Think maerican champ would be better because of all the marketing and pr it would genrate-having a chanp form chinw whose name nobody could understand or say would not help.
Guess what language is spoken by more people in the world than any other language. I'll give you a hint: English is a distant third place.
so? Mexico does not even come close to the pr and marketing power of the United states if you had a champ who had some personable and played off on the marketing . The western world would go crazy over a spanish speaking champ from educador. The resat of the world would yawn with a chap form china . China is still a pretty poor country for a vast amount of people just trying to survive-hvaing a chess board on the table would be very unlikely.
If you had an namerican champ and a rival from china then it would work.
Unless the Chinaman was tall and really good looking like that Korean actor that had a bit part in Arnold Schwartzenegger's comeback romp The Land Stand (2013).
richb8888 wrote:
so? Mexico does not even come close to the pr and marketing power of the United states if you had a champ who had some personable and played off on the marketing . The western world would go crazy over a spanish speaking champ from educador. The resat of the world would yawn with a chap form china . China is still a pretty poor country for a vast amount of people just trying to survive-hvaing a chess board on the table would be very unlikely.
What does Mexico have to do with anything?
The answer was Mandarin Chinese with about 2 billion speakers. English is 3rd with 335 million. There are way more people that can "understand a Chinese name" than you think.
does not matter what they speak---------a good chunk of those 2 billion are so poor they would not have the money to buy a chess game-tryingot hang on. Froma pr point a guy who speaks mandarin would hardly do wounders for the rest of the world. There is a connection with the rise of popularity of chess and American being involved back in the Fisher days. It has never been as popular since with the void of a real top American player--------Achamp form the rural heartland of china is not goingot do that.
American champ love him or hate him would bring the worlds spot light backon chess.
The Chinese already found a good square from which to launch an attack. They call it the "Tiananmen Square." 
(OK, sick joke.)
I would not say that -----there is one American right near the top-----I think it could be a few years and again he might regress. There are more Chinese but the money power language is English. How many people in China do not even have access to the daily internet----------it would be pretty high.
pawpatrol wrote:
richb8888 wrote:
how many in chicna have an acess to a board? Think maerican champ would be better because of all the marketing and pr it would genrate-having a chanp form chinw whose name nobody could understand or say would not help.
Guess what language is spoken by more people in the world than any other language. I'll give you a hint: English is a distant third place.
Spanish?
i think we need a norwegian champion. cus he is the best.
Your numbers must be off. English is one of the 2 official languages of India. That's over 1 billion, right there. English is also cumpulsory in several other countries.maybe you mean day to day vernacular,but Manderin doesn't meet that standard either.
pawpatrol wrote:
The answer was Mandarin Chinese with about 2 billion speakers. English is 3rd with 335 million. There are way more people that can "understand a Chinese name" than you think.
Those statistics concern native speakers of a language. If one includes people for whom English is not their first language, the numbers are considerably different:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
I really dont care how popular the game is, I like playing it-but a lot of people on here complain and worry about the popularity of the gameo and fret over it non-stop. I think it would be a good boost in popualarity once again in the game but I am not missing any sleep over it-----the anit -amaerican people will pop up lol