On Apr 18, 10:23 am, Rich Hutnik wrote:
On Apr 18, 5:48 am, David Richerby
wrote:

The falling membership of national associations doesn't particularly
concern me. The associations just don't seem to be relevant to even
the regular tournament player, let alone the average guy who likes to
play the occasional game of chess against his friends or online.

So, you are saying that Chess is fine in Canada? Perhaps Canada will
be the first of multiple nations that will happen to cause FIDE to no
longer be relevant as more and more get themselves delisted?

He seems to be saying that if Chess in Canada were in the position of,
say, Nine Men's Morris in Canada, or Parcheesi in Canada, or Chinese
Checkers in Canada, Chess would still be fine.

Checkers and Reversi have their associations, but many who play those
games are hardly aware of their existence. There is, I'm sure, some
sort of Go association in Canada too, although I wouldn't know what it
is or where to find it. There probably is one for Chinese Chess, but
I'm doubtful about Shogi.

As for FIDE, I thought that since it was carted off to one of the
former Soviet Republics, the USCF and other national chess bodies had
made arrangements to leave it and, say, join the PGA or something. I'm
surprised that this isn't the case.

John Savard