Anyone notice the numbers of high school affiliates Feb 2003 to Feb 2004?
1282 to 953, down a whopping 25%. That's a rate of decline worse than the
adult regulars. And one could speculate that each high school affiliate had
maybe ten kids hooked up to the fed.
Looks like a career in American chess is grade 1 learn the moves, grade 3
reach Expert, grade 6 Grandmaster, grade 8 early retirement.

RSHaas

CHESSRAPE Risk: BAN High School Chess Matches NOW!!!

Contrary to what many people believe, chess is not the
harmless little experience that many in the sport would
like for you to believe. While light chess matches may be
relaxing and enjoyable, with the subject in full awareness
and control of his or her actions and thoughts, high school
level chess matches are a different breed of dog. High
school chess teachers have special training which makes
chess a very powerful weapon in their hands, a weapon which
can be used to create entertainment and excitement, but also
which can be abused to create severe damage and destruction
in the impressionable young minds of our high school students,
students who have no choice but to either participate in these
games, or demonstrate in front of their peers that they are
anti-chess. Because our students have to go to school, there
is no way for them to avoid this problem.

Chess teachers dismiss the issue of risk in general with chesss
by claiming that "all chess is just a game." This, however,
has never really been proven, and several experiments, such as
those done by Kasparov, have demonstrated the opposite: that once
someone is in the clutches of a deep chess match, they CAN be made
to do things which violate their moral code (such as grabbing at
the other player's pieces or comitting mistakes), with the added
evil twist that the victims of malicious chess control will often
be dismissed if they raise their complaints. As the internet
proliferates, however, more and more stories of chess abuse are
surfacing, including one outlined in a recent lawsuit against a
New York player, who is said to have outplayed a man into signing
over millions of dollars to him while deep in concentration during
a game.

Such instances of overt control are rare. More commonly, a chess
abuser uses chess the way a drug dealer would use drugs: they
give the victim a taste of the "high" created by chess, then they
withdraw it, knowing full well that their victim will come back
for more. Many female chess players on the net combine this
technique with their sexuality to addict men to them, withdraw
the chess fix, and refuse to play them again until they get what
they want, usually increasingly large amounts of money. Male chess
players tend to seek sexual rewards, reminding their victims that
to get their fix, they have to come across sexually, or "please
him and obey his wishes." This type of abuse doesn't work on
everyone, but a skilled player will find those who are most
vulnerable to it, and capitalize on their ignorance.

Applied to high school chess matches, you have a powder-keg of
danger which can explode anytime a high school hires a chess
teacher. A predatory chess teacher, say a pedophile, has a gold
mine of opportunity to commit his (or her) crimes, without ever
being detected by anyone except the victim, and only then when
it is too late. The innocent setting of a high school doesn't
shield the mostly underage student body from abuse, nor does
the innocent nature of most high school games. The predatory
chess player is given access to the minds of the student body
via these games, and that is a sufficient "hook" to begin the
process of abuse.

Even for those who don't believe in direct "chess rape" being
possible, few would argue the existence of the well-documented
chess FETISH, or those who are sexually aroused by even nonsexual
uses of chess. The high school chess game therefore serves as a
conduit by which a percentage of the audience is likely to have
this fetish unmasked. While it is true that the fetish would
exist without the game, only to be triggered later in life, there
is no reason that the high school should be the catalyst for an
underage individual to get in touch with his or her chess fetishes.
To this extent, a high-school chess game is no more appropriate
than a PG-rated BDSM show fully equipped with whips and chains.
Since experienced chess players are well aware of this fetish,
and since they know that *some* of their easier-to-beat youthful
subjects are going to have a fetish triggered, those subjects
become easy prey for the predatory, experienced chess player.

To understand the special rape risk presented by high school chess
players, consider that the pedophiles and statutory rapists are
already generally known to seek out high schools because they are
a victim-rich territory, made even richer by the near-total
ignorance most of them have about the potential for chess abuse.
That sexual predators seek out target-rich environments is nothing
new, but where high school chess is concerned, there is a problem
in that unlike other dangers, this one is not recognized. My aim
with this article is to change that and to promote awareness and
proper safety, and to urge high schools to stop the practice of
hiring chess teachers, for the safety of our children.

If one does not accept that all chess is just a game, then one
has to acknowledge the potential for abuse in the high school
setting, as this would set the stage for the abuser to target
his or her victims without anyone, including the victims, being
any the wiser. Obviously, no chess player performing at a high
school is going to directly attempt to abuse chess at the game,
but it is at the game that the seeds can be planted, which grow
down the road.

The abusive high school chess player uses the game to condition
the victims, who will generally surface from the crowd due to
an existing fascination with chess. To the student, this "fetish"
will be something they do not understand, and do not have any
idea how powerful it can be. In fact, many in the chess-fetish
community, especially the females, speak of their first realization
of their fetish arising as the DIRECT result of a chess player
visiting their school (or summer camp, which is almost as bad).
Even though the game was benign, the chess itself was quite deep
and left a lasting impression. It is very easy for a chess player
to condition a highly eager subject in what the subject presumes
to be a safe setting, and when the subject assumes the chess
player has been screened for things like a criminal background
(which most are not), or even a surface check of where the chess
player participates on the internet. Many chess players who perform
at high schools participate openly in the chess-fetish community,
in fact, and can be traced with something as simple as an internet
search.

Once the abusive chess player has conditioned his or her subjects,
the first step of the crime has been completed. In a certain
percentage of the subjects, a chess fetish will have been unmasked
and simultaneously satisfied by this "amazing" person who has
stumbled into their life. The chess player is fully aware of
what comes next, but the subject is not. The chess player knows
the subject will crave the chess experience, and relies on this
by using the reverse psychology of thanking the subject for their
sportsmanship, and then ignoring them. The subject, with the
impression of the chess player firmly implanted in his or her mind,
will then seek out the chess player, usually over the internet.
Sometimes the subject will travel into the chess-fetish community
in search of a similar experience, or someone who knows of the
chess player. It is there that they have arrived at the "second
crime scene" with the advantage to the chess player that they are
already preconditioned.

At this point, the chess player has not approached the victim,
but has been eagerly sought out because of the deep conditioning
s/he implanted during the innocuous chess game. The chess player
knows full well that the "nibble" by the student will lead to
another request for a game, at which point the conditioning can
be deepened considerably, and no one is around to see if the
"game" remains kosher. Having seen the students firsthand at the
game, the chess player uses that game as a second screening process
to find the most receptive (and sexually appealing) victims. The
second chess game results in a deeper addiction, deeper
conditioning,
and the process of brainwashing has begun, and the subject remains
convinced, until it is too late, that "chess is perfectly safe."

To those who think this control is impossible, look no further
than chess amnesia for a refutation of that argument: memory is
our primary form of self-control (as it lets us review our actions).
Our memory is a primal function which we normally cannot shut off.
You cannot watch something and tell your brain not to remember what
you are seeing; if someone else has done this to you, then your
control in the form of your memory has been LOST. This is why we
cannot remember certain moves, particular gambits, or other chess
techniques when under the stress of an important game.

To summarize, the problem of abuse by high school chess players
is caused by the mistaken belief that all chess is only a game,
the benign appearance of the game and the respectability of the
chess player, who may have a criminal record and who may even have
left evidence of a chess fetish on the internet, and the ability
of the chess player to condition his or her victims during the
game, followed by the knowledge that a student with a fetish will
seek out him or her on the internet at some point after the game,
with the lambs leading themselves to the slaughter in this case.

If you still aren't convinced, a recent article regarding "chess
assault" (these were reported to the authorities) can be found at

http://tinyurl.com/w0hi

In this article, a man stabbed a friend to death after the friend
had interrupted a chess game. This speaks perfectly to the hold a
chess fetish can have on people, what can happen when it gets
interrupted, and how dangerous it is to have a chess fetish.

This danger is real and ever-present, and it's something which can
be stopped simply by abolishing the practice of allowing chess
players to perform at high schools, or for any underage audiences,
and to make their adult audiences aware of the risks and dangers,
and to let them make an informed decision about whether or not they
wish to participate. Our ignorance is exactly what these sexual
predators thrive on, and fighting this evil is simply a matter of
raising awareness.

I urge those who read this PUBLIC DOMAIN article to send copies of
it to anyone they know who works in school administrations, and urge
them to put the safety of their children ahead of the need for the
cheap and deceptively dangerous and unregulated "entertainment" that
is chess. The potential for harm is too great and the practice needs
to be stopped NOW.

Ray Gordon
www.cybersheet.com/library.htm



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CHESSRAPE Risk: BAN High School Chess Matches NOW!!!

Ray,

I snipped your long article after reading it through. It has been my
experience that High Schools will conduct a back-ground check on any club
leaders, and also require character references. It is not my experience that
paedophiles have easy access to High Schools, or that there is any
particular association of chess and fetish-mongers.

You cite a news-story which had to do with two drunks who had become
room-mates. Chess seems entirely incidental to the article, and to the
subject of their dispute.

The Philly inquirer does not report either the DA or the Judge citing chess
as being a causitive factor, but suggests Librium and booze, and that
article is unrelated to High-school chess.

Perhaps the High Schools where you are do not conduct back-ground checks on
such folks as chess club leaders. Is that your real concern? Or do you
really think there is something more wide-spread and sinistre about chess
teachers and children?

Phil Innes

Ray Gordon
www.cybersheet.com/library.htm



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Ray,

Idiot,

That post was made from an ANONYMOUS REMAILER and was not posted by me.

"LeModernCaveman" wrote in message
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Ray,

Idiot,

That post was made from an ANONYMOUS REMAILER and was not posted by me.

So hard to tell, or care, when people dont use their names in their posts...
even so, it is a reply to whomever posted the damned thing, right? Phil

On 16 Feb 2004 07:23:24 GMT, (RSHaas) wrote:

Anyone notice the numbers of high school affiliates Feb 2003 to Feb 2004?
1282 to 953, down a whopping 25%. That's a rate of decline worse than the
adult regulars. And one could speculate that each high school affiliate had
maybe ten kids hooked up to the fed.
Looks like a career in American chess is grade 1 learn the moves, grade 3
reach Expert, grade 6 Grandmaster, grade 8 early retirement.

RSHaas

"High school" refers to any scholastic affiliate. Quite a few of these
were (are) actually school libraries which chose to be affiliates
rather than simple subscribers. A year ago, an "H" affiliate got CL
and SchoolMates for their $40. Now, they get no SM, and have gotten
some obviously rather thin CL's. If you don't run tournaments (and
most don't), would you keep paying just for a CL subscription?

Tom Doan

"Phil Innes" wrote in message
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"LeModernCaveman" wrote in message
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Ray,

Idiot,

That post was made from an ANONYMOUS REMAILER and was not posted by me.

So hard to tell, or care, when people dont use their names in their
posts...
even so, it is a reply to whomever posted the damned thing, right? Phil

Phil, if I may address you under a white flag?

LeMoronCaveman has been known to remail his own posts, and claim someone
else is doing it.