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To be accepted as a member of the SaintEmilion Chess club applicants must meet tough standards of conduct, personality fitness, and acceptance of its members who all vote on any request to become a member. People who apply will be judged as to what kind of team member they would be. Also the primary factor in accepting is not how good they play chess or how strong is their desire to improve their chess skills or even how strong is their desire to become a member. The primary focus of the club is for its members to help each other in improving their chess skills. Therefore the most important factor in judging a person's acceptance is how strong would their desire be to help other members improve their chess skills. Many say that they would but deeds not words are what is going to looked at in examining and judging a person's fitness to become a member. They must measure up to our tough standards of conduct. This tough policy will ensure the Clubs success.
Club Minimum Requirements
Any thing that you can get for nothing is usually worth just that, nothing.
In the consideration of what the minimum requirements should be for my club I think that if the requirements are too low people will not have much respect for the club and it will lose credibility and its prestigious appeal. Most people want what they can not have. If any organization involved in training others has such low minimum requirements that most any one can enter, it loses it appeal and prestige. Most people do want to belong to a group that they can feel proud of being a member of.
Just like colleges there are minimum requirements, A SAT test is given to determine not your intelligence but to help determine how well you will succeed in that college and is a major criteria in evaluating an application. The score is used to help determine if you will win acceptance to it. Since we do not give tests the only way to determine ones probability of success is from their past accomplishments.
If they are mediocre players now it could indicate a lack of motivation and desire to study to raise their level of expertise. It may indicate that they are looking for an easy way to raise their ratings. They may be more interested in having others help them succeed than spending the time needed in study. I have seen many who are constantly looking to just the openings for a easy way to win games. How many people tell us that they are using their time in study to improve their chess skills other than the openings, not many.
If these people join our group they may put time demands on our members to be constantly helping them instead of spending their time in helping themselves. Others who need help will suffer from the lack of available people to help them. If our club develops a lopsided amount of these low rated people, other members will feel that the interest of the club is not in their best interest any more and will leave.
I have worked too hard on this project to give it away to people who have little appreciation for getting things worthwhile by not working for it. They usually are use to getting what they want for nothing or try to cheat to obtain things much like abusers do. These people would show little enthusiasm in helping others and not show any desire to read what I have spent months in putting together here. If low rated people really want to belong to this club let them prove it by deeds, not words and let them go to work in the study of the basics to meet our minimum requirements
If you type gstat s you will get the standard ratings of the players on the server. At present it is at 1550 average. Letting people join to be full members much below the average FICS standard level would seriously harm the integrity of our club. Our adherence to a code of values is shown as evidenced in the character and actions of quality, not quantity of our membership.
Guidelines for choosing people to invite to our club.
This is a guideline for choosing people to invite to our club. First of all we know who we don't want, and so this will give us clues on how to choose who we do want. We don't want people who have little empathy for others. Empathy is the capacity for experiencing the feelings and thoughts of others. The opposite is people who appear to have no conscience when it comes to taking things from others. They show no appreciation for anything that you might do for them. Their selfish attitude is concentrated on only what they can get from others for free with out giving anything back in return. Every day of their whole life is one of finding what they can take from others and then give nothing in return. Not so much as even a "thank you" for any thing you might give them or going out of your way to do them a favor. They behave much like a self-centered five-year-old in their ego-centered attitude that has little regard for others. They really do not appreciate anything at all that you may do for them. You can never expect such an egocentric, egoistic to ever be concerned with thinking about how they may help others. They are concerned only with their own activities or needs and are thinking only of their own self-satisfaction. These people would never be a good team member or show any desire to help any one in our club to increase their chess skills. So how do we weed out these types? The answer lies in the observation of their habits and behavior. Pay no attention to what they say in regard to how helpful they think they are towards others. They are adept in fooling others into believing they are kind and helpful individuals, in order to take advantage of others. One way of discovering their true nature is in how helpful they may be if you ask them for a favor. Or try giving them something and see how appreciative they are. Are kind words appreciated? Do they ever offer to help others, in need? What is their attitude toward others? Is it one of trying to make friends or one of competition always striving to win an argument etc. Do they insult others? Belittle others? Claim they are really good at something? Bragging about their skills or achievements. Use your imagination in this regard, to find ways to test them to uncover their true personality, and observe how they treat others.
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