hi,
You're miscounting here completely again.
Counting the number of federation members is a bad idea.
Count the number of people who know a game and regurarly play it.
Draughts (internatoinal 10x10 checkers, using polish rules) is really
tiny.
It is not culture to get a member of a club in a nation like
Netherlands anymore,
netherlands is a very weird nation in that respect.
Yet many learn the game. You shouldn't let yourself get led by
federation numbers,
but by the number of people who know a game and play it regurarly.
Active official competition players is simply a bad measure.
The online chess servers are indeed a bad measure.
It is spreaded over a number of servers. Yahoo has a daily load of
about 7000 that are nonstop playing,
chessclub.com which used to be a paid club and still is, it has about
a million who visit, yet as a membership
has a cost of 50 dollar, which is 500 yuan nearly a year, that's a
price i'm not willing to pay either.
chessclub offers free membership to titled players. Yet i'm titled
and i have to pay how about that?
Having 2 dutch titles and a fidemaster title seemingly doesn't count :)
The strongest players are at chessclub.com
It's about 2500 nonstop (so 24 hours load) now, chessbase is becoming
a tad larger now, note also a paid
chess club. About 3000 load. Yet again you have to either buy a
product of them for 50+ euro for a free 1 year
membership, or you have to pay 25 euro a year for membership.
There is a range of servers. Each one has about a 500-1000. Most are
paid.
There chess is really doing bad of course.
Experience learns when you setup a free server with a good client
that you soon get a huge load.
5000+ is very normal.
There is a lot of tiny communities with a 400+ players 24 hours a day
online.
that's what you get when there is 105+ nations playing chess.
Each federation wants their own server.
Yet they do not want to pay for it. FIDE really is doing very bad there.
Their problem would be they go to commercial companies which have all
their own
interest, instead of using a few of their guys who already work in
organisations and are objective.
Vincent
On Jan 14, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Mark Boon wrote:
On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Thomas Lavergne wrote:
Couting xiangqi and shogi players as chess players is a bit unfair...
Sorry if I caused confusion, I didn't mean to count those as Chess-
players. I just stated that to show that despite large population-
numbers in say China, most of those people play Xiang-Qi rather
than Wei-Qi.
This in contrast to a large country like Russia where I believe
Chess is by far the most popular. In Holland however, Chess comes
only at third place (or maybe even lower) after Bridge and Draughts.
Mark
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