20-12-2011, 10:18 PM
Robin,
I found the tone/style of your posts a little odd and I doubt whether it is likely to make senior players more likely to get involved. The senior players are generally older players, no doubt with other life commitments and less free time (and energy!) than some of the younger guys. They may well also have given up lots of time in the past.
I would suggest that a business like approach would be to setup a structure/system in which there are well defined roles for their unique skills: in which they can be confident that they have a productive role to play. If one wanted to tie appearance fees to some form of community service then one must be able to quantify that service, which is hard if there is no actual structure in place.
I think its your job to sell it to them. Mind you being a great chess player does not necessarily make you a great teacher!
That said I would say - keep up the good work!
I found the tone/style of your posts a little odd and I doubt whether it is likely to make senior players more likely to get involved. The senior players are generally older players, no doubt with other life commitments and less free time (and energy!) than some of the younger guys. They may well also have given up lots of time in the past.
I would suggest that a business like approach would be to setup a structure/system in which there are well defined roles for their unique skills: in which they can be confident that they have a productive role to play. If one wanted to tie appearance fees to some form of community service then one must be able to quantify that service, which is hard if there is no actual structure in place.
I think its your job to sell it to them. Mind you being a great chess player does not necessarily make you a great teacher!
That said I would say - keep up the good work!