

They called the college president to complain and invited reporters over to tell their sad stories about being discriminated against by the mean chess players. The final tally: 44-6 against Mel and his buddies.īut of course this was just what the dissidents wanted. Finally, the president held a vote on expelling the dissidents from the chess club. They spent all of their time bothering the chess players so no actual chess got played. Checkers itself was not very challenging they wanted to convince everybody else to stop playing chess. But of course this is not what the dissident chess club members wanted. If you want to play checkers, go start a checkers club,” the president said. The new president became tired of the constant whining of the checkers promoters. But nobody else wanted to play checkers besides the original six. Soon they became bored with just playing checkers among themselves, and they decided to try to get everybody else in the chess club to play checkers. So, a small group, a total of six, of the chess club’s members said they wanted to play checkers. He convinced them that now was really the time to start playing checkers. Some of the people didn’t like the new president, and Mel noticed this.

Time passed, and the chess club got a new president. Mel was still the only guy who wanted to play checkers.

The chess club finally held a vote, and it was 49-1. And when he didn’t get his way, he left in a huff and would disappear from the club for weeks on end. He spent all of his time haranguing them to stop playing chess and start play checkers. In fact, he was so bored of chess that he wanted all of the other members to play checkers too. One day, one of the members, let’s call him Mel, grew bored with playing chess and decided he wanted to play checkers. The chess club became very popular and gained dozens of members. There once was a highly successful university chess club.
