{"id":92,"date":"2008-02-06T16:45:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T00:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2008-02-06T16:53:21","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T00:53:21","slug":"delay-of-chess-life-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Delay of Chess Life article"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in November, I mentioned <\/a>that I had submitted an article to Chess Life<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0based on my lecture “Eight-Dimensional Chess,” which they accepted and tentatively scheduled for spring of 2008. Now, alas, I find out that I will have to wait a little bit longer. The editor told me that\u00c2\u00a0the U.S. Chess Federation\u00c2\u00a0is having budget problems. He has to slash 8 pages from the March issue, and 16 pages from the April-June issues. That’s 20 percent of the magazine! And it’s even worse than that, because there are some sections, like the tournament announcements, that you can’t make any shorter.<\/p>\n

So my article will be pushed back later in the year, although the editor still likes it and wants to print it. Eventually.<\/p>\n

I can’t say that I’m too surprised about the budget crunch. There are warning signs all over the magazine in recent months — photographs replaced with two-tone illustrations, advertisements of a sale on membership dues, which suggests that they are having trouble getting enough income. Sadly, the USCF chronically seems to be either in political turmoil or financial turmoil, and sometimes both at the same time. So, what else is new?<\/p>\n

If any of you are lapsed USCF members, please consider joining up again <\/a>(at the new reduced rates!)\u00c2\u00a0so that they can keep putting out a quality magazine and print my article.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0You can tell them that I sent you. Thank you!\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in November, I mentioned that I had submitted an article to Chess Life\u00c2\u00a0based on my lecture “Eight-Dimensional Chess,” which they accepted and tentatively scheduled for spring of 2008. Now, alas, I find out that I will have to wait a little bit longer. The editor told me that\u00c2\u00a0the U.S. Chess Federation\u00c2\u00a0is having budget problems. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[202,206,204,205,203],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess-life","tag-article","tag-budget-crunch","tag-membership","tag-sale","tag-united-states-chess-federation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}