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Topic: TRADITIONAL CHESS CLUB GOING BANKRUPT IN BRAZIL
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I just read an article about a traditional chess club (over 100 years old) in Brazil that is going bankrupt.
One of the reasons (I don't know whether the main one), they say, is the lack of people interested in playing over the board chess nowadays:
"the popularization of online chess games turned chess players little interested in challenging 'flesh and blood' opponents face to face" and "Chess is a victim of Internet"
The club, that used to have 800 members in the 1960's, now has got barely 40 paying regularly and can hardly pay the rent and utilities.
Is that happening around the world, in your city, or this is something isolated, like bad management or else?
The club is "Clube de Xadrez de São Paulo (CXSP)" and the article (in Portuguese, sorry) is
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/esporte/ult92u483075.shtml
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Here is the link to the club with a couple of interesting pictures and simul games of Capablanca there in 1927, just before losing the match to Alekine, plus Kortchnoi and Karpov pictures and games too.
http://www.cxsp.com.br/
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That is unfortunate. Can't say if that's happening here too. I'm not a member of any chess club here and they aren't very well known.
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Well, when i was a child, I played chess in the clubs. Sometimes chess by correspondence (traditional). Now ( Adult), It,s difficult to play in the clubs. I play by internet. It,s my opcion. I agree with "Chess is a victim of internet" Maybe, when i.ll be retired, I,ll return to the Club!!  I prefer that.
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