04-05-2014, 10:29 PM
It's not just a matter of population difference - if I'm reading Hamish Olson's recent post on the junior page correctly, the French Junior Championship is restricted to the top 100 players at each age: so a 13-year-old boy rated 1600 wasn't good enough to take part. Do we have even 10 13-year-olds graded 1600 or over?
That's not to say that I think "we" (which I will interpret as the chess community in Scotland, rather than any specific organisation or set of organisations) are doing anything fundamentally wrong. The problem, as I see it, is that the people in charge of education in this country refuse to accept that we are no longer living in the nineteenth century.
That's not to say that I think "we" (which I will interpret as the chess community in Scotland, rather than any specific organisation or set of organisations) are doing anything fundamentally wrong. The problem, as I see it, is that the people in charge of education in this country refuse to accept that we are no longer living in the nineteenth century.