It appears that the U.S. Open in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which started Saturday,
Aug. 7, is still not newsworthy enough to be reported in the print media,
specificallyin the Sun-Sentinel newspaper, which serves Fort Lauderdale, its
county and surrounding counties. The Sunday, Aug. 8 edition of the paper had
absolutely not a single word about the age-old open championship, as far as one
could gather from the paper's Web site. I wonder how long it will take before
the paper "catches on" that there is an important national chess event being
held in its area. Any bets on what day the paper will start reporting on the
tournament?

George Mirijanian

With publicity it takes two to tango. I have no idea what USCF is doing to
publicize the Open. Maybe nothing!?

"Miriling" wrote in message
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It appears that the U.S. Open in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which started
Saturday,
Aug. 7, is still not newsworthy enough to be reported in the print media,
specificallyin the Sun-Sentinel newspaper, which serves Fort Lauderdale,
its
county and surrounding counties. The Sunday, Aug. 8 edition of the paper
had
absolutely not a single word about the age-old open championship, as far
as one
could gather from the paper's Web site. I wonder how long it will take
before
the paper "catches on" that there is an important national chess event
being
held in its area. Any bets on what day the paper will start reporting on
the
tournament?

George Mirijanian

"Miriling" wrote in message
...

It appears that the U.S. Open in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which started
Saturday,
Aug. 7, is still not newsworthy enough to be reported in the print media,
specificallyin the Sun-Sentinel newspaper, which serves Fort Lauderdale,
its
county and surrounding counties. The Sunday, Aug. 8 edition of the paper
had
absolutely not a single word about the age-old open championship, as far
as one
could gather from the paper's Web site. I wonder how long it will take
before
the paper "catches on" that there is an important national chess event
being
held in its area. Any bets on what day the paper will start reporting on
the
tournament?

Perhaps we should done a press release accompanied with some cheesecake
shots.

"Miriling" wrote in message
...
It appears that the U.S. Open in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which started
Saturday,
Aug. 7, is still not newsworthy enough to be reported in the print media,
specificallyin the Sun-Sentinel newspaper, which serves Fort Lauderdale,
its
county and surrounding counties. The Sunday, Aug. 8 edition of the paper
had
absolutely not a single word about the age-old open championship, as far
as one
could gather from the paper's Web site. I wonder how long it will take
before
the paper "catches on" that there is an important national chess event
being
held in its area. Any bets on what day the paper will start reporting on
the
tournament?

George Mirijanian

There was a small note in today's Sunday chess column in the Arts & Leisure
section.

Jon Haskel

"Jon Haskel" writes:

There was a small note in today's Sunday chess column in the Arts & Leisure
section.

Which is probably all it deserves at this stage. I would expect more
press for Karpov's enshrinement in the Hall of Fame than for the whole
US Open, unless something truly unusual happens in the tournament.

From the standpoint of the professional chess player, the US Open
has not been an important event for quite a few years.
--
Mike Nolan

"There was a small note in today's Sunday chess column in the Arts & Leisure
section. (Jon Haskel)
===============
Wow.. that ought to bring in about 500,000 new members from Broward county
alone.

Haas

Back in the old days when I ran tournaments in Atlanta, I often had
postcards printed somewhat in the style of a TLA. These I mailed to known
chess players and some to influential persons outside chess. One went to
Atlanta Journal sports editor Furman Bisher. Lo and behold a few days later he
published the entire thing at the end of his daily column free of charge!!
What a deal for chess in Atlanta.
The result was ZERO. Not a single new player was gained by this item read
by 400,000 subscribers.

RSHaas

"HAASpittle" wrote in message
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Wow.. that ought to bring in about 500,000 new members from Broward county
alone.

Haas

Assuming they can figure out how to move the chess pieces better than they
can figure out a butterfly ballot.

David Bohm

"David Bohm" wrote in message news:GWFRc.3644$yh.1801@fed1read05...

David, just curious ... are you a Doobie Bros. fan from Wisconsin (ca 1975)?

TBF

Which is probably all it deserves at this stage. I would expect more
press for Karpov's enshrinement in the Hall of Fame than for the whole
US Open, unless something truly unusual happens in the tournament.

Perhaps, I just don't consider the Hall of Fame important enough.

John Fernandez