08-04-2014, 08:57 AM
"There is no respectable argument whatsoever for giving no funding to the 2016 Olympiad and putting it all into senior chess instead.
The Seniors are doing fantastically well and are a credit to our country's chess scene. The Olympiad is the pinnacle of international team chess and is where Scotland shows the best chess it has to offer on the world stage. It would be incomprehensible in almost all other countries to actively penalise your strongest national representative team. This is an astonishing statement from a man apparently desiring to be the Scotland Open Olympiad captain.
The 2016 Olympiad team would have a very different look without funding I imagine."
The current budget is split arbitrarily adult
enior 80:20.
Our top rated seniors team is actually very good and would have a good chance of medals. The AGM might instruct the ID to make the split 50:50 or 0: 100. It is not so ridiculous. We have already removed GM appearance fees since no value for money. I hope a lot of people stand for ID at the AGM eg Andy Burnett, David Oswald etc as then members can vote for the person with their views.
Name Title Fed Rating G B-Year
3 Motwani, Paul g SCO 2477 2 1962
4 McNab, Colin A g SCO 2448 2 1961
9 McKay, Roderick M m SCO 2375 0 1952
10 Morrison, Graham f SCO 2357 2 1958
11 Bryson, Douglas M m SCO 2351 0 1957
12 Pritchett, Craig W m SCO 2348 9 1949
The Seniors are doing fantastically well and are a credit to our country's chess scene. The Olympiad is the pinnacle of international team chess and is where Scotland shows the best chess it has to offer on the world stage. It would be incomprehensible in almost all other countries to actively penalise your strongest national representative team. This is an astonishing statement from a man apparently desiring to be the Scotland Open Olympiad captain.
The 2016 Olympiad team would have a very different look without funding I imagine."
The current budget is split arbitrarily adult
enior 80:20.Our top rated seniors team is actually very good and would have a good chance of medals. The AGM might instruct the ID to make the split 50:50 or 0: 100. It is not so ridiculous. We have already removed GM appearance fees since no value for money. I hope a lot of people stand for ID at the AGM eg Andy Burnett, David Oswald etc as then members can vote for the person with their views.
Name Title Fed Rating G B-Year
3 Motwani, Paul g SCO 2477 2 1962
4 McNab, Colin A g SCO 2448 2 1961
9 McKay, Roderick M m SCO 2375 0 1952
10 Morrison, Graham f SCO 2357 2 1958
11 Bryson, Douglas M m SCO 2351 0 1957
12 Pritchett, Craig W m SCO 2348 9 1949