2014 Junior International Events

[Phil Thomas]

At the World Youth, Euroyouth and the EU Youth, the organisers normally provide a "free" place for the Head of Delegation and one coach (full board accommodation). CS pay the flights and transfers for these folks.

I beg to differ with the above statement.

My children represented Scotland in the EU Youth in Mureck and the Junior World Championships in Slovenia in 2012. The funding for both events was for one ‘Accompanying Official’ only. I have always felt it was not a good use of the CS Junior International Budget to send a HoD to events who did not also act as a coach, as was the case on several occasions in the past.

Linda, in my experience this varies with the tournament. However what has been constant over the years has been the situation regarding free accommodation. To accentuate this point I quote below 3 paragraphs from the regulations for EuroYouth 2014 (Georgia in October).

• Each federation can register one (1) player in each of the categories - under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and
18 (boys and girls), with the maximum number of twelve (12) players (“invited players”).

• The players placed 1-3 in the previous European Youth Chess Championship will have the personal right to participate in the tournament

• Free accommodation and full board will be provided for invited players, personal right players and also for head of delegations from October 18 (dinner) to October 29, 2014 (breakfast).

Any attempt to take the free accommodation places and transfer them to other players (such as two players in the same category) would put Chess Scotland into a highly dubious legal position.