Should there be National Chess Scholarships to train girls and boys to become US Chess Champions?

[Boojatta]

Not all scholarships need to be for the usual kinds of formal education with many students per class. It's possible for young people to study chess at their own pace with help from tutors. A scholarship would pay for the cost of tutoring.

Perhaps chess doesn't require enough physical activity for it to be considered worthy of the funding that popular Olympic sports receive?

Should there be government-backed student loans for girls and young women who want to study chess? Alternatively, should government-backed student loans be for the exclusive benefit of young women who have signed up to study something like nursing, art history, or early childhood education?

[Mojambo]

1. An elite unit of Chess warriors.

I like it. I like it a lot.

[Pyrzqxgl]

2. I think we need schools to train fiddlers to compete at the National Fiddle

Contest in Weiser Idaho, or the one in Galax Virginia, or Union Grove North Carolina
I think theres still a National Hollering Championship in Mountain View, Arkansas. We
need schools for those things & lots of other stuff like tuning your ukelele, or playing
The Ullian Pipes, or the French Harp.

[Boojatta]

3. Was it possible for Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer to have...

taken time out from their match in Reykjavik, Iceland to make a trip to Mountain View, Arkansas for some hollering? Actually, given the bitterness of relations between Kasparov and Karpov, it might have been a good idea for those two to take a trip to Arkansas to holler at each other.

[jmowreader]

4. The National Hollerin' Contest is in Spivey's Corner, NC

[Pyrzqxgl]

12. Thanks for the correction. We had Leonard Emmanuel (the National

Hollering Champion in the 1970s) out here to the San Diego
Folk Festival back in those years sometime. I remember country
singer-comedian Hank Penny saying "that's nothing, he should have
heard my ex-wife".

[Puregonzo1188]

5. What is with all the chess topics, am I missing something? This is like the third one. (n/t)

[seabeyond]

7. i am curious myself, ... n/t

[Boojatta]

18. Everybody is missing something.

Maybe this is something that you were happy to have missed. Maybe not. You decide.

[AngryAmish]

6. NO

What a stupid idea.

[Boojatta]

8. What process of thought led you to that conclusion?

[AngryAmish]

11. I am assuming you meant gov't funded scholarships

There are many activities that people like to do. Some people play chess, some people like to collect stamps and others masturbate a lot.

These are all activities/hobbies. It is not the role of a government to promote one hob by over the others.

It is a role of government to promote useful professions so we can use their skills (nursing et al).

[Boojatta]

15. What about sports?

Should new stadiums get municipal approval to be built? Should Olympic athletes get any government funding? Should college students get subsidies because of their athletic pursuits if they are attending a college that receives government subsidies?

[AngryAmish]

16. In order:

1. Of course there should be municipal approval for sports stadiums. Zoning, traffic etc. is all effected by large structures where many thousands gather. Do you mean municipal funding? Of course not. We have that in Chicago (White Sox park - a crooked deal).

2. No funding for Olympic athletes. That is the system today (IIRC).

3. Yes, if the sport pays for itself. At U of I mens football and basketball pays for all the other sports (including scholarships).

Besides, chess is an activity, not a sport. Masturbation is also an activity and we don't fund that (nor should we).

[Bonobo]

9. Only if the girls have to wear bikinis. nt

[Jack Rabbit]

10. You mean something like this?

From Susan Polgar's Blog?

[Boojatta]

13. Polgar doesn't know anything about chess.

She just fiddles around and hollers at people.

[Boojatta]

14. Kick to elicit more replies.

[LeftHander]

17. No. money needed for GOP's endless wars......nt

[The Straight Story]

19. okay, now you are making me want to play you a few games of chess

do you play online? :)