01-07-2015, 06:40 PM
WBuchanan Wrote:Hi Andy - perhaps my lack of clarity, as usual. I thought you were asking why there is a discussion on the grandparent issue, when no-one has proposed a Scotish grandparent as a sufficient criterion for international selection eligibility.
My reading is that the wording IS such a proposal - as only a FIDE 'SCO' registration would necessary to define the Scottish connection for international selection. There isn't anything about being born in Scotland, playing there or having a Scottsih parent.
I'm not au fait with the FIDE requirements (or even if they even need a grandparent connection) but I think the requirements for a 'Scottish connection' criteria should be defined by Scottish members - unlike the Championship eligibilty, it seems to be missing.
Cheers
Walter
Cheers Walter but I'm still not getting it!
At present there is no FIDE requirement for any kind of connection to a country except for SCO
There is nothing I have found in the current constitution which relates to this at all, and the only relevant part of the new Constitution is ...
16.2. To be eligible to represent Scotland in any international competition, a person must be:
16.2.1. a member of Chess Scotland currently registered as Scottish (‘SCO’) with the World Chess Federation (‘FIDE’), and
16.2.2. Able to satisfy any other criteria (including age and rating limits) set by the organisers of the tournament concerned.
Selection of individuals and/or teams who will represent Scotland in international competition is the sole responsibility of the appropriate board of selectors. Qualification according to the above criteria is no guarantee of being considered for selection.
So far, the only discussion seems to have been around whether the grandparent rule is agreeable or not for international selection, when in fact it doesn't exist, hasn't (apparently) existed and isn't being proposed?! Whether it should exist or be proposed and debated (re: the Constitution) is a slightly different issue from what I've seen on this thread. #:-s