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by Roger Lancaster » Thu Mar 23, 2023 5:18 pm
For anyone interested to hear some of the content, the conference was streamed and John has given the site address. Having said that, there's 15 hours of talk and, unless you have time on your hands, you're probably well advised to pick the subjects closest to your heart. As to criticism, there's a problem that - with presenters coming from around the world and sometimes being not too fluent in English - their words aren't always clear over the audio system. Also, the focus was more on teaching beginners and near-beginners, usually at school, which made it less relevant for those of us who coach at the next level up. Plus, as one speaker neatly summed up, it was to a large extent a case of "preaching to the choir" in that most present appear to have been funded by chess organisations - I can't say that I recognised a single face, other than conference chair John Foley and CSC chair Malcolm Pein, from the English chess community. This probably sounds rather negative so, to redress the balance, I'd add that there definitely were some worthwhile thoughts and ideas.
