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just wonder if any of you people, can help

my mate have set up an chess club in the heart of Manchester, and it been going for over 18 months now.
but the question is that, how do we spread the word etc, to get people in?

John Reyes wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 18, 2018 12:40 pm

but the question is that, how do we spread the word etc, to get people in?

Ask the ECF for £ 5,000 perhaps?

John Reyes wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 18, 2018 12:40 pm

just wonder if any of you people, can help

my mate have set up an chess club in the heart of Manchester, and it been going for over 18 months now.
but the question is that, how do we spread the word etc, to get people in?

Facebook can be surprisingly useful; I got more enquiries through there than I do the club website. Word of mouth as well; if five people come regularly give them a `mission` to bring a friend with them.

Well now, if we knew the answer to that we'd be millionaires.

I've bought this book. I shall read it and tell you the answer soon.

If you're going to ask the ECF for £5,000, be sure to include the words "feminist", "diverse" and "central" in your proposal. They don't have to mean anything, they just have to make the ECF look bad in the press release that you'll produce if your request is denied. You could throw "democratic", "fair-trade" and "organic" in there too.

Flyers at Manchester/Stockport congresses. Notice on the Manchester Chess website. Create a website. Flyers at some of these: http://www.manchestersfinest.com/shoppi ... anchester/

The first question must surely be to define 'social chess club' . Is it just more sociable and relaxed than a normal club? Is it a gateway for potentially getting people off the internet and into face to face chess and then proper competition. The marketing needs to be directed at the audience, and may not be effective if limited to conventional chess methods. Existing 'club' members who play on -line might like to flag the club up on their site, either in personal profile or by writing a plug. But you do need to be clear about objectives to inform the publicity. [ I've seen how club welcome juniors, can be interpreted as junior chess club to the disadvantage of all]

J T Melsom wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:03 pm

The first question must surely be to define 'social chess club'

Easily done: crap chess for pissheads

Chris Goodall wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:30 pm

Well now, if we knew the answer to that we'd be millionaires.

I've bought this book. I shall read it and tell you the answer soon.

If you're going to ask the ECF for £5,000, be sure to include the words "feminist", "diverse" and "central" in your proposal. They don't have to mean anything, they just have to make the ECF look bad in the press release that you'll produce if your request is denied. You could throw "democratic", "fair-trade" and "organic" in there too.

we do have females at the club, as well as diverse (hey I'm Chilien) and it is at the central of Manchester

John Reyes wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:39 pm

Chris Goodall wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:30 pm

Well now, if we knew the answer to that we'd be millionaires.

I've bought this book. I shall read it and tell you the answer soon.

If you're going to ask the ECF for £5,000, be sure to include the words "feminist", "diverse" and "central" in your proposal. They don't have to mean anything, they just have to make the ECF look bad in the press release that you'll produce if your request is denied. You could throw "democratic", "fair-trade" and "organic" in there too.

we do have females at the club, as well as diverse (hey I'm Chilien) and it is at the central of Manchester

My point is that having greater than zero women doesn't make an organisation feminist. That's not what that word means. But I feel it's a distinction that's lost on most people.

David Robertson wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:34 pm

J T Melsom wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:03 pm

The first question must surely be to define 'social chess club'

Easily done: crap chess for pissheads

Everyone thinks the people worse than themselves are playing crap chess. There are people who think you play crap chess. Most of them have more class than to wrap it up in casual classism.

Chris Goodall wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:56 pm

Everyone thinks the people worse than themselves are playing crap chess. There are people who think you play crap chess. Most of them have more class than to wrap it up in casual classism.

Otherwise known as a joke

Nick Burrows wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 18, 2018 4:48 pm

Chris Goodall wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:56 pm

Everyone thinks the people worse than themselves are playing crap chess. There are people who think you play crap chess. Most of them have more class than to wrap it up in casual classism.

Otherwise known as a joke

You learn more about a person from what makes them laugh than from what they claim to take seriously.

You also learn much about a person who takes offence at a joke when none was offered, who fails to give people the benefit of doubt, who quickly makes accusations based on the flimsiest of information...

What doubt? He has a history, on this forum and on facebook, of sneering at young people, old people, state-educated people, and everything outside a 10 mile radius of his own club.

Chris Goodall wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 18, 2018 6:02 pm

What doubt? He has a history, on this forum and on facebook, of sneering at young people, old people, state-educated people, and everything outside a 10 mile radius of his own club

It goes without saying, I have no such history - as the evidential record amply confirms. Never mind

the whole point is to support Face to face chess in a social area and also to support a market, that don't want to play evening chess