Re: Fischer's death again begs the question: Why is there no chess

David Kane wrote:

> It is unclear. Elementary school chess
> has large numbers and almost no draws. Participation
> drops with age as the draw rate increases.

A pretty obvious place to shout "correlation is not always causal".

Some kids drop out because they turn out not to be so good at it, 
other kids drop out as it's not the current flavour of "cool", 
other kids drop out because they've found something they like 
better, and so on.  I stopped playing seriously at about 16 when it 
became abundantly clear that I wasn't going to amount to much, and 
my ego wasn't up to that realisation at the time... hey ho.

I can't recall anyone dropping off the roster of usual players at 
the high school chess club because they complained about the draw rate.

Pete.
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