How to make money from chess

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Gerard Killoran
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How to make money from chess

Post by Gerard Killoran » Fri May 02, 2014 3:53 pm

I think you can't do better than this:

http://websterjournal.com/2014/04/23/co ... hess-team/
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Re: How to make money from chess

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Fri May 02, 2014 4:24 pm

http://websterjournal.com/2014/04/23/co ... hess-team/

"$1 million program proposal made by Susan Polgar to Texas Tech, documents reveal"

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Re: How to make money from chess

Post by JustinHorton » Fri May 02, 2014 8:43 pm

I did like "The Journal reached out to Webster's public relations office". Is that just an Americanism or a very dry satire on public relations-speak?

Proper piece of journalism, that piece, though.
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Re: How to make money from chess

Post by JustinHorton » Fri May 02, 2014 8:55 pm

"When asked how Webster’s budget compared with the proposal of the competing institution referenced in the TTU memos, Giblin said the figures did not match up. Giblin was unable, however, to elaborate on the dissimilarity. Giblin theorized the assertion of a competing institution may have been a negotiating tactic used by Polgar or Truong."
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Re: How to make money from chess

Post by David Robertson » Fri May 02, 2014 11:21 pm

Plenty more here in the Washington Post. I wonder if anyone attaches any kind of KPIs to these numbers.