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Premise: Chess ought to be intellectual competitive sport among
individuals, like Archery or Running. And CVs avoid one-trick ponies. 200
years ago the Slack-Rope Dancers of Johann Maelzel, the Conflagration of Moscow,
and the chess-playing Turk Maelzel bought from Wolfgang von Kempelen
through Napoleon. Pre-computer automata all ushering the machine age with
automatic looms and hot-air balloons, preoccupying the more-than-half-scientific nerdy elite of so recent a day. Computers are
here for now, not yet beginning to be outlawed for good, logical extensions of automata power-driven by Maxwell equations, as of Babbage's theoretical Universal Engine also early 19th century. The Internet. Even if he/she dropped her Math, or Science, major for sociologic Law, or computer science, or business, the near-math types need places to talk shop, let her hair down, picking one another's brains to order. Technocrat-managers, computer-automata, on to surveillance devices, humdrum econometric, and defense-related supercomputers (good for weather). Hence early on CVPage 15 years ago became one among many venues attracting users and/or facilitators. Internet filling every cavity. CVPage (including one sorry nameless case who stressed and inarticulate self-describedly ''projects vomitously'' on other people, the worst sort of offender). All are tolerated where  one  numeric Chess evolv-ed (-ing) is reference point in full speculative variety. [''You don't need a weatherman to know which way
the wind blows.'' --Bob Dylan]