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Hey, Sam, my apologies. I believe I was the first to use the expression
'replace FIDE' here on this site.  It was an innocent use; I am [oddly]
neither a chessplayer nor a visitor to chess sites*, and had I known the
expression was inflamatory, I never would have used it. 

To anyone who has been offended, you have my sincere apologies. It was
never my intent to have more than a good theoretical discussion of where
chess could go. I do notice that no one here has taken the opportunity to
turn up the heat. And the discussion has been going on for a while. I
would think [and hope] that we can continue the discussion in the same
vein without anyone being offended by the phrase. Certainly this site of
any in the world is the place to discuss the topic in a [relatively - I
know us *here* too well to hope for anything better :-) ] calm and mature
manner. And I think a good percentage of the participants and readers of
this site either do or could enjoy the discussion. 

Joe

* I very infrequently visit Chessville, because a friend writes chess
fiction which shows up there occasionally; that's all I look for, that
friend's work.