16-05-2014, 07:29 AM
I helped draw it up, in response to really awful behaviour by some players - basically, your selection committee doesn't really have the right to reject people who are stronger at chess than others. You need to have some procedure to prevent them being considered for selection in the first place (for teams, at least). We had the situation where a player might score more than his/her colleagues, but would cause all of them to play worse than they might otherwise have done - sum total, a worse team performance than if you replaced him/her by the next in line in strength.
I don't think there is anything in it that any Scottish players (that I have been to Olympiads with) would worry about. You can drink and party as much as you like so long as you are fit to play the next day! But if you're out all night in someone else's bed, you don't leave your room-mate panicking as to where you are (and worrying you'll be sent home if he/she goes to the team manager about it!). You don't install a relative in your room if it happens to have a spare bed - at least, not without the team manager's permission. You don't say really horrible scathing things to the person sat beside you, just before the start of a match. You keep the team manager informed if there might be a visa issue rather than pulling out 10 days before the start. Etc!
I might add, it's based very closely on the agreement that our NZ Olympic athletes have to sign...
I don't think there is anything in it that any Scottish players (that I have been to Olympiads with) would worry about. You can drink and party as much as you like so long as you are fit to play the next day! But if you're out all night in someone else's bed, you don't leave your room-mate panicking as to where you are (and worrying you'll be sent home if he/she goes to the team manager about it!). You don't install a relative in your room if it happens to have a spare bed - at least, not without the team manager's permission. You don't say really horrible scathing things to the person sat beside you, just before the start of a match. You keep the team manager informed if there might be a visa issue rather than pulling out 10 days before the start. Etc!
I might add, it's based very closely on the agreement that our NZ Olympic athletes have to sign...