Mensa operates 12 chapters in Florida. Translated directly to chess we'd
see money for chess in Tampa Bay, in Orlando, in Miami, in West Palm, in
Sarasota, in Jacksonville, in Tallahassee, and most everywhere else.
How much money does the USCF lay into those areas? Answer -- Nothing. How
much does the Florida Chess Association lay into those areas? Answer --
Nothing. Mensa dues are about the same as USCF dues.
Start pounding the table for a Mensa model for chess. Demand it. Insist
upon it. Brush away the many skeptics. Challenge the state associations to do
better if they think they're so hot. How could a vapid Florida Chess
Association operate frequently in all 12 areas of Florida. The FCA would
implode.

RSHaas

In article , RSHaas says...

Mensa operates 12 chapters in Florida. Translated directly to chess we'd
see money for chess in Tampa Bay, in Orlando, in Miami, in West Palm, in
Sarasota, in Jacksonville, in Tallahassee, and most everywhere else.
How much money does the USCF lay into those areas? Answer -- Nothing. How
much does the Florida Chess Association lay into those areas? Answer --
Nothing. Mensa dues are about the same as USCF dues.
Start pounding the table for a Mensa model for chess. Demand it. Insist
upon it. Brush away the many skeptics. Challenge the state associations to do
better if they think they're so hot. How could a vapid Florida Chess
Association operate frequently in all 12 areas of Florida. The FCA would
implode.

RSHaas

How does it increase the resources.

Your analogy is still BS.

Kevin L. Bachler

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"RSHaas" wrote in message
...
Mensa operates 12 chapters in Florida. Translated directly to chess
we'd
see money for chess in Tampa Bay, in Orlando, in Miami, in West Palm, in
Sarasota, in Jacksonville, in Tallahassee, and most everywhere else.
How much money does the USCF lay into those areas? Answer -- Nothing.
How
much does the Florida Chess Association lay into those areas? Answer --
Nothing. Mensa dues are about the same as USCF dues.
Start pounding the table for a Mensa model for chess. Demand it.
Insist
upon it. Brush away the many skeptics. Challenge the state associations
to do
better if they think they're so hot. How could a vapid Florida Chess
Association operate frequently in all 12 areas of Florida. The FCA would
implode.

RSHaas

I can't imagine anything worse tham modeling ourselves after Mensa. Here's
an insititution that supposedly is filled with all the smartest people in
the country, and yet they've done, collectively, absolutely nothing for the
public good.

Come on, even the USCF does stuff for inner-city kids. Can anyone name
ANYTHING that Mensa has ever done, for anyone? And don't start rattleing off
arcane, piddly little scholarships. I'm talking something that makes news.

What Mensa DOES do is massage their own fractured egos, convincing
themselves at arduous, nose-picking conventions that depsite the universal
derision that was heaped upon them in high school, and despite the fact that
most of them never get laid, are terrible dressers, and bad eaters, they are
still better than everyone else.

The only thing worse than advocating Mensa as a model for anything is being
a dues-paying member. Stop talking about Mensa, you're giving chess a bad
image.

"What Mensa DOES do is massage their own fractured egos,..." (tmb)
============
Mensa does what Mensa wants to do... and they do it well. As a chess
federation Mensa would run circles around the USCF.
Your comments remind me again that the biggest problem in chess is the chess
players themselves. They're the world's worst organizational material... at
least when they're wearing their chess hats.

RSHaas

Your chubby for Mensa bears examination, but no longer in this forum.

Go, go, get ye to Mensa. But don't try to sell that stale bag of goods here.

TMB

"The Masked Bishop" wrote in message . com...

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Come on, even the USCF does stuff for inner-city kids. Can anyone name
ANYTHING that Mensa has ever done, for anyone?

Mensa provides a place for hyperintelligent people with no social
skills to find mates and breed more hyperintelligent uber-crotchfruit.
And the district model is very, very important in accomplishing this.

(Stewart Q. Sutton) wrote in message . com...
Kevin L. Bachler wrote in message ...
In article , RSHaas says...

Mensa operates 12 chapters in Florida. Translated directly to chess we'd
see money for chess in Tampa Bay, in Orlando, in Miami, in West Palm, in
Sarasota, in Jacksonville, in Tallahassee, and most everywhere else.
How much money does the USCF lay into those areas? Answer -- Nothing. How
much does the Florida Chess Association lay into those areas? Answer --
Nothing. Mensa dues are about the same as USCF dues.
Start pounding the table for a Mensa model for chess. Demand it. Insist
upon it. Brush away the many skeptics. Challenge the state associations to do
better if they think they're so hot. How could a vapid Florida Chess
Association operate frequently in all 12 areas of Florida. The FCA would
implode.

RSHaas

How does it increase the resources.

Your analogy is still BS.

Kevin L. Bachler


He could explain how it would increase the available resources but you
would have to be smart enough to qualify for Mensa to underestand it.
____________________________________
I am a member of Tampa Bay Mensa and still do not understand it. Not
even Mr. Haas himself fully understands the details of how it would or
would not work.

KidDon

"Stewart Q. Sutton" wrote in message
om...

Mensa provides a place for hyperintelligent people with no social
skills to find mates and breed more hyperintelligent uber-crotchfruit.

I'll be damn. Who knew?

StanB

(Stewart Q. Sutton) wrote in message . com...
"The Masked Bishop" wrote in message . com...

snip


Come on, even the USCF does stuff for inner-city kids. Can anyone name
ANYTHING that Mensa has ever done, for anyone?

Mensa provides a place for hyperintelligent people with no social
skills to find mates and breed more hyperintelligent uber-crotchfruit.
And the district model is very, very important in accomplishing this.
______________________________
While that does describe some Mensans, it does not describe all
Mensans. (I don't think it describes Geena Davis very well -
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000133/).

Also see,

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/featur...usMensaMembers
http://www.mensaww.org/famous.htm
http://www.newmexico.us.mensa.org/famous_mensans.htm
http://www.cbrmensa.org/famous.html

KidDon