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hailthorn011 wrote:. I've heard a lot of success stories about establishing Go clubs in school settings and whatnot, so I'm at least hoping I can emulate that success at least partially.

This is largely because 50% of that second word in the phrase....."club." For most people/places a vital point is the social experience of the club itself. If you have a fun, social atmosphere where people get together and chat with friends, they'll show up even if they aren't as interested in go. Many groups have enough "go" available, but not enough "club" (often this is because of the difficulty reaching a critical mass, having enough people show up to keep the environment fresh and interesting). If you have a school (especially a high school where everyone is in the same place for many hours a day), people will use virtually any pretense to socialize with their friends, if they happen to get a few people interesting in go, you can have them all getting together, socializing and playing go (=

In the same vein, if there's an active chess club, piggy-backing on that is a great way to have a head start on creating that social experience. It also helps that it's fertile territory for finding people who might be interested in learning go (and who knows, you may just pick up chess as well!).

Mef wrote:

hailthorn011 wrote:. I've heard a lot of success stories about establishing Go clubs in school settings and whatnot, so I'm at least hoping I can emulate that success at least partially.

This is largely because 50% of that second word in the phrase....."club." For most people/places a vital point is the social experience of the club itself. If you have a fun, social atmosphere where people get together and chat with friends, they'll show up even if they aren't as interested in go. Many groups have enough "go" available, but not enough "club" (often this is because of the difficulty reaching a critical mass, having enough people show up to keep the environment fresh and interesting). If you have a school (especially a high school where everyone is in the same place for many hours a day), people will use virtually any pretense to socialize with their friends, if they happen to get a few people interesting in go, you can have them all getting together, socializing and playing go (=

In the same vein, if there's an active chess club, piggy-backing on that is a great way to have a head start on creating that social experience. It also helps that it's fertile territory for finding people who might be interested in learning go (and who knows, you may just pick up chess as well!).

Yeah, I might ask a few if they'd like to try Go after a few visits. But I don't want to be the new guy trying to convert people to a new game.

So how did your visit go?

AVAVT wrote:So how did your visit go?

It was canceled. Or at least that's what I was told. Maybe the Chess God knew a Go player was coming and didn't like that. lol Anyway, they told me that next Tuesday they'll be there, so one more week.