14-08-2014, 08:31 PM
i still feel this whole affair is unnecessary, there are very few disabled chess players in Scotland. The ones who enter tournaments appear to be accommodated without any difficulty. If there were any issues I'm sure we would have heard about it. The regular disabled players keep coming back year after year, something must be going right.
The only difficulty in the past in my experience has come from a disabled player deliberately making unreasonable demands, causing unnecessary stress amongst opposing players and being thoroughly obnoxious. I fear a repeat of this should these guidelines be adopted.
There is also a fear amongst some reasonable players that if they dont agree with Steves motion then they will be labelled as being discriminatory against disabled players.
The only difficulty in the past in my experience has come from a disabled player deliberately making unreasonable demands, causing unnecessary stress amongst opposing players and being thoroughly obnoxious. I fear a repeat of this should these guidelines be adopted.
There is also a fear amongst some reasonable players that if they dont agree with Steves motion then they will be labelled as being discriminatory against disabled players.