02-05-2015, 05:06 PM
Andy Howie Wrote:and if the Minor section decides not to come along??
Then they would be missing out on the chance to see the stars of the modern Scottish chess scene in action
Seriously though, there are arguments in favour of both approaches - and I still stand by my first posting that in the event of sponsorship/extra funding then increasing the top section prizes could be considered.
Without this, I have no real objection to the distribution as is, other than that it would be nice to have bigger prizes in Scotland at the top levels as it might allow the better players to spend more time improving their chess towards international level. We are obviously a long way from this scenario though.