CFC "magazine"?

[Hugh Brodie]

The CFC voting members are discussing the CFC online "magazine" (or lack of it). The last issue I received was titled "2017-L8" and was received in October, 2017. Have any been produced since?

[Vladimir Drkulec]

I looked through my emails and it appears that was the last issue though I would have thought that there was some since.

[John Upper]

I looked through my emails and it appears that was the last issue though I would have thought that there was some since.

there has been (only) one issue since: "Dragon": 117 pages, and included games annotated by LeSiege and Hambleton.

I don't email them, and don't receive them by email, so I don't know why CFC members wouldn't have got it.

[Vladimir Drkulec]

there has been (only) one issue since: "Dragon": 117 pages, and included games annotated by LeSiege and Hambleton.

I don't email them, and don't receive them by email, so I don't know why CFC members wouldn't have got it.


It is likely we did. The hotmail search function is not what it once was. Once I added "Dragon" to the search it came up. A link was emailed to members on April 17, 2018.

[Hugh Brodie]

It is likely we did. The hotmail search function is not what it once was. Once I added "Dragon" to the search it came up. A link was emailed to members on April 17, 2018.

I checked all my old emails (and deleted ones) and found no email with a link around that date. The "current" one announced on the CFC home page is the last one I received (2017-L8). What is the link to the one (or more than one) sent after that one?

[Steve Douglas]

I checked all my old emails (and deleted ones) and found no email with a link around that date. The "current" one announced on the CFC home page is the last one I received (2017-L8). What is the link to the one (or more than one) sent after that one?

Hi Hugh:

I got an email with the link on April 20, 2018. The "sender" was Bob Gillanders. I will send you a private message with the link.

Steve

[Hugh Brodie]

Hi Hugh:

I got an email with the link on April 20, 2018. The "sender" was Bob Gillanders. I will send you a private message with the link.

Steve

Got it - thanks!

Even though it was sent in April, 2018 - all the games and reports (except the Dragon analysis at the end) are from 2016 (or earlier).

[Ken Craft]

It is time to kill the 'magazine".

[Alex Ferreira]

October 2017 / April 2018. Potatoe Potaato.
It's been over a year now. It's defunct.

Is it coming back? Why did it die? Will there be a substitute? Can we review the CFC membership fees and structures?

Alex F.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

October 2017 / April 2018. Potatoe Potaato.
It's been over a year now. It's defunct.

Is it coming back? Why did it die? Will there be a substitute? Can we review the CFC membership fees and structures?

Alex F.

http://chess.ca/newsfeed/node/1118
Submitted by John Upper on Thu, 03/21/2019 - 16:51

"The image above is a low-rez version of the the first six of fourteen Critical Positions from the next issue of Chess Canada."

[Ken Craft]

The publishing schedule is farcical.

[Fred McKim]

There no longer is a publishing schedule for the e-magazine. John Upper is still Editor and receives payment only when he sends us a new edition. The money saved from the scarcity of issues has gone towards other expenses. John is paid monthly for his work on the CFC Newsfeed (this is part of the Newsletter contract) which is updated frequently.

At some point we will address this, but I don't think the current CFC Board of Directors will act on this imminently, as the cost savings is being channeled elsewhere for now. The Voting members could put forward a motion of some sort to hasten an action.

For what it's worth, yes there was one additional magazine after the picture of the one on the CFC front page.

Fred
CFC Treasurer
(Informal E-Magazine Liaison)

[Ken Craft]

There should be a magazine. It should be bi-monthly or quarterly and it should be of comparable size to the hard copies of En Passant/Bulletin. Failure to provide such a publication is a disservice to the membership.

[Fred McKim]

There should be a magazine. It should be bi-monthly or quarterly and it should be of comparable size to the hard copies of En Passant/Bulletin. Failure to provide such a publication is a disservice to the membership.

The CFC has to live within it's means. We can't afford to have a publications budget the same as we had 30 years ago. Just to jog people's memory, at one time we had 3 paid employees and operated an online and physical store.

In today's world there is a division of people between those who want their information in a printed/printable journal form (see New in Chess or American Chess Magazine) vs those who prefer a daily updated newsfeed form (See https://en.chessbase.com/ (ChessBase) or https://www.chess.com/news (Chess.com)). This has to be considered going forward.

[Ken Craft]

Given that it is an emagazine, that reduces the printing and mail costs from 30 years ago. We, the members , are entitled to a printable journal.

[Fred McKim]

Given that it is an emagazine, that reduces the printing and mail costs from 30 years ago. We, the members , are entitled to a printable journal.

Just out of curiosity, did you print off John's emagazine, given it's non-conventional format ?

[Ken Craft]

No because it was too bloody long.

[Hugh Brodie]

The FQE online magazine has been coming out regularly every month (except April - which I haven't received yet) with timely news.

Likewise the BCCF Bulletin, which came out a few days ago - with a report from the Grand Pacific Open, which had finished a few days earlier.

[Erik Malmsten]

There should be a magazine. It should be bi-monthly or quarterly and it should be of comparable size to the hard copies of En Passant/Bulletin. Failure to provide such a publication is a disservice to the membership.

The regularity such as quarterly is more important than the size. Even just 10 pages culled from the newsfeed, links to the crosstables of completed events, AND a list of upcoming events - that is the most important function, to nudge players. Go to the customers, not to have the customers search out your webpage when they get the urge.

Everybody should quickly receive the news of historic proportion, such as winners of the Canadian Closed and new GMs.

[Vladimir Drkulec]

The e-magazine is definitely on our to do list but at the moment it is probably number four or five on the list. At the moment PayPal is frozen so that leaps to the top of the list.

[Ken Craft]

Is there been any movement on this file?