23-12-2011, 02:10 PM
Angus,
Firstly I apologise for my previous post: I didn't mean to cause any offence and of course it was never my intention to belittle the achievements of any other players.
My point was it seems unnecessary to send a massive squad to the worlds at probably great expense when there are other options available. I only went to one individual worlds tournament and now look? I'm provisionally 14th on the live list; it hasn't done me any harm not going. Instead I gathered experience at the European U18 team (maybe something we should look into sending a team to again?) and many British champs. Alex makes a very good point about hidden costs of extra coaches and other such things. My point is that the Worlds/Euros are overrated to some degree.
Also, I'm I not objective? I don't have any relations in line for selection and know many of the players reasonably well.
Interesting would be input from Jacob et al here as they are the players in Scotland who really know how to make top players.
Andrew (McH), I have one student face to face but over skype and playchess seems to be working great. It's an interesting idea having frequent training sessions like you suggest and it seems like something we should look into. There is of course no replacement for over-the-board coaching and I know Robin has some ideas regarding that as well.
Calum
Firstly I apologise for my previous post: I didn't mean to cause any offence and of course it was never my intention to belittle the achievements of any other players.
My point was it seems unnecessary to send a massive squad to the worlds at probably great expense when there are other options available. I only went to one individual worlds tournament and now look? I'm provisionally 14th on the live list; it hasn't done me any harm not going. Instead I gathered experience at the European U18 team (maybe something we should look into sending a team to again?) and many British champs. Alex makes a very good point about hidden costs of extra coaches and other such things. My point is that the Worlds/Euros are overrated to some degree.
Also, I'm I not objective? I don't have any relations in line for selection and know many of the players reasonably well.
Interesting would be input from Jacob et al here as they are the players in Scotland who really know how to make top players.
Andrew (McH), I have one student face to face but over skype and playchess seems to be working great. It's an interesting idea having frequent training sessions like you suggest and it seems like something we should look into. There is of course no replacement for over-the-board coaching and I know Robin has some ideas regarding that as well.
Calum