Right, Kennedy wasn't assassinated. Lincoln wasn't either. All conspiracy theories.
Making Chess Simpler for Americans
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Beast719 wrote:
Chess is is great game with a long history but like football it can never be considered truly global until it has conquered the most wealthy country in the world. Think about it - 8 billion people live in China and can you name a single Chinese chess player? Of course you can't they all play Go over there. It's a cultural thing I think.
What I would propose is a similar approach to that which worked so well to break the game in the good old U S of A. To recap from Pretzler's seminal work The American game:
"The game was radically simplified here to cater for the domestic American market. The King and Queen were removed ("What's with this Limey Monarchist baloney?" source: Robin Fischer GM) and replaced with a single all powerful President which could pretty much do what it wanted. The other pieces were all replaced by Cowboys with big hats and bigger guns. Time control was strictly limited to ensure games did not out-last the attention span of the indigenous population. The game can now easily be completed in its entirety during the advertisement break in The Simpsons over a Bic Mac supper..."
These small alterations had units literally flying off the shelves and General Electric's Chess TM was the biggest grossing game ever in that short period which constitutes American history.
I'm sure some small changes could be successfully made for the Chinese market any ideas Chess.com?
Always good to see ignorance alive and well in the world.
Yes, please tell us more about your conspiracy theories and the mountains of evidence which support them. I'm agog to know which senators are poisoning my water supply, who assassinated Kennedy and which teamsters control the Western world. Please, I implore you, disabuse me from all the lies I was told under my obviously flawed American educational system.