Appearance fees for our best players

[Mike Scott]

Mike,
I'm looking at the under 18 open age bracket next year and there are 6 that I would select now! (I'm not a selector though) for those tournaments. Say 3 in Euroyouth and 3 in World Youth. There are a couple of younger age groups where it's similar. Why would you try and restrict this to 5 players for the whole squad?

Sorry Angus - missed this comment. I didn't mean to suggest that I only thought 5 should go: all I was saying was acknowledging that 10 would cost the same as 5.


Robin,
In addition to the benefits this training does to their skills, it will instill in the players the habit of work - the idea that its normal to work at chess.