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Why Are Clubs so Boring Now
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Sep 10, 2025
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Why are clubs so boring? Not enough interaction.
A) Chess.com clubs begin with sharing a bond: a famous player, or opening, or township, etc. We joined to learn about the subject, meet people who knew things about it, learn new ideas from those folks, share our experiences.
B) Are we still talking and learning about that shared aspect that started our club? We should be analyzing games as a group, like famous player examples, and reviewing games we have played in that opening or in the spirit of the player, or the town (e.g., Chelyabinsk, Vienna, or Wilkes Barre).
C) There are some great players out there who have written books (or videos) on chess, and who are fun with whom to visit and learn. Vote Chess and Streaming are both good examples of interactive, real-life-chess club-like experiences for chess.com format that can include these celebrities. But, the hurdle is usually that enlisting these leaders requires capital investment--why real live chess clubs are meeting in borrowed space from restaurants.
I think if our clubs could reach the members interactively on the founding subject, members would find more fun and a sense of gaining something by participating. We need sponsors. How can we reach out to give something back to those sponsors?
I think the #1 reason is that members are invited and given Admin positions.
If you invite me to join your club, then you want me in your club and, therefore, I must be important and valuable. If I'm important and valuable, then I have already done your club a favor simply by joining. I don't need to do anything more for your club.
If you make me an admin just because I joined your club, then I must be really important and really valuable and now that I have that Admin power, I don't have to do anything for your club to earn it?
good point, i promote like everybody into admin and stuff normally so they dont leave