@petri999 said in #50:
> Little similarity to chess. 1st hockey popular enough to make it a business i.e. there is sensical incentive to train hard. Second in global world you do not need locals. NHL it totally reliant on hiring people from places where hockey is popular and quite of the #1 or #2 sport. Like Finland, Sweden, Czech, Russia, B elarus and few others. Obviously to bulk of players are from Canada where ice hockey is the most popular sport.
well. that might have been my point. thanks for picking up, hockey not foreign to you, or me. That professional can exist in a region, and it does not mean that the thing is actually practiced at all there.. only watched (and with commercial pressure to let some less interesting aspects in proportion to the finer aspects, as it might sell more tickets in a place with no tradition of the thing, tying in to the post suggesting the spectacular of chess as a "way" in.
where do the tip of iceberg visible professionals will come from. Yes, from where it has been a transversal tradition (other words for well spread practice among social tissues or structures?).
I guess in the context where there was a tradition, seeing a rarefaction at the professional end, might say something about the rest of the population. I am not sure.. I am just asking questions, as often.