24-07-2015, 08:50 AM
Andy (B), Yes, of course you are absoutely right. Players have asked me more than once, "Why do people write all that stuff?".
I fully expected people (attendees or otherwise) to attack the competence of the minute secretary. That is why my previous post acknowledged that it is open season. Go for it, enjoy yourselves, by all means shoot the messenger. In my own defence all I can say is that I wrote the minutes honestly and carefully.
With regard to eligibility, when I wrote the meeting was unanimous that is not the same as writing the voting was unanimous. Nobody at the meeting argued that a series of questions was a competent motion.
As the original author (along with others) of <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.chessscotland.com/international/elignational.htm">http://www.chessscotland.com/internatio ... tional.htm</a><!-- m -->, I can only hang my head in shame to learn that the words were very roughly formed. When read in the context of the complete page on the website, perhaps they are not all that bad but, hey, have we just returned to my first paragraph?
I fully expected people (attendees or otherwise) to attack the competence of the minute secretary. That is why my previous post acknowledged that it is open season. Go for it, enjoy yourselves, by all means shoot the messenger. In my own defence all I can say is that I wrote the minutes honestly and carefully.
With regard to eligibility, when I wrote the meeting was unanimous that is not the same as writing the voting was unanimous. Nobody at the meeting argued that a series of questions was a competent motion.
As the original author (along with others) of <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.chessscotland.com/international/elignational.htm">http://www.chessscotland.com/internatio ... tional.htm</a><!-- m -->, I can only hang my head in shame to learn that the words were very roughly formed. When read in the context of the complete page on the website, perhaps they are not all that bad but, hey, have we just returned to my first paragraph?