Wednesday 31 August 2016

On to Baku

The 2016 Asian Chess Summit has just finished in Al Ain, and tomorrow I'm travelling to Baku for the Chess Olympiad. A number of teams are already arriving in Azerbaijan, with the opening ceremony tomorrow (1st) and play starting on the 2nd.
The Asian Chess Summit covered a lot of interesting topics, and had a number of good presentations. In no particular order the main take aways from the summit were

  • Successful federations have motivated and energetic leaders
  • You need to measure all your metrics (number of players, number of games, number of schools)
  • Understand your brand, and your target audience
  • Different cultures respect chess in different ways
  • Success attracts success
I'm now off for a romp through the desert and hopefully will be back for tomorrow's flight.

1 comment:

JoshV said...

I'm now off for a romp through the desert and hopefully will be back for tomorrow's flight.

Are you riding a camel?