Trying to renew membership

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John Upham
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Re: Trying to renew membership

Post by John Upham » Wed Aug 26, 2015 3:48 pm

Peter D Williams wrote:
Should be fun when Peter goes into the chess club at the University and the person running it says do you play chess :lol:
I assume that the answer will be "No" or has Peter started playing again?
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Re: Trying to renew membership

Post by Jon Mahony » Wed Aug 26, 2015 3:52 pm

Roger de Coverly wrote:
Jon Mahony wrote: You’re probably right, life can just take over. I know from experience just running one congress a year takes a bucket load of time.
He's named on their website as the contact point for the London Chess Classic Festival events.
http://www.londonchessclassic.com/festival_events.htm
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Re: Trying to renew membership

Post by Mike Truran » Wed Aug 26, 2015 3:55 pm

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Re: Trying to renew membership

Post by Peter D Williams » Wed Aug 26, 2015 5:37 pm

John Upham wrote:
I assume that the answer will be "No" or has Peter started playing again?
Well Peter did play me a friendly game but i guess that does not count as a real chess game so answer is No but when he goes to university this year he may join the chess club. That is why i was checking to see what membership he may need just in case he wants to play for his university,.

It took us a while to find the chess set.

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Re: Trying to renew membership

Post by David Blower » Tue Sep 01, 2015 4:35 pm

There were over 10,000 members of the ECF last season, at this point only 3,400 (nearest hundred) have renewed.

I refuse to believe that 6,600 have lost interest in chess, so why is the membership renewal rate so low.
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Re: Trying to renew membership

Post by Steve Rooney » Tue Sep 01, 2015 5:07 pm

David Blower wrote:There were over 10,000 members of the ECF last season, at this point only 3,400 (nearest hundred) have renewed.

I refuse to believe that 6,600 have lost interest in chess, so why is the membership renewal rate so low.
Simple answer is that there is no incentive to renew promptly, as far as I am aware, and for many league players there's no requirement to do so until they are want to play a congress or similar.
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Re: Trying to renew membership

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Tue Sep 01, 2015 5:33 pm

Yep, what Steve said.
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Re: Trying to renew membership

Post by Dragoljub Sudar » Tue Sep 01, 2015 8:18 pm

Only a third of my club will renew directly and the rest will get their bronze level membership via the county as Nottinghamshire is a MO; this will probably happen at the end of this month after our treasurer has received all the relevant information from the clubs. If you check the ECF membership list again in October it should be much nearer the 10,000 mark.
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