16-08-2016, 06:28 PM
Jonathan
I meant a selective quotation in that I copied through only a very small part of your long posting.
I was suggesting that since the number of congresses per year fluctuates ...an easier and potentially better way to measure chess activity in Scotland could be to measure the total number of graded games per year.
While that sounds like a lot of work it is likely that the number is readily taken from Dougie' s unpublished data.
One could argue that league and congress game are different beasts but my view is that the sum of the two quantities can be used as a key indicator of the health of the overall chess scene in Scotland.
I meant a selective quotation in that I copied through only a very small part of your long posting.
I was suggesting that since the number of congresses per year fluctuates ...an easier and potentially better way to measure chess activity in Scotland could be to measure the total number of graded games per year.
While that sounds like a lot of work it is likely that the number is readily taken from Dougie' s unpublished data.
One could argue that league and congress game are different beasts but my view is that the sum of the two quantities can be used as a key indicator of the health of the overall chess scene in Scotland.