25-09-2016, 01:25 PM
For playing in the Leyland FIDE Open congress, you pay the non-English fee (same fee as ECF Gold Membership). Leyland congress pay the £1.50 it is charged by the ECF. Other congress may pass on that fee to you with a higher entry fee. We choose not to.
A non FIDE congress would expect you to be ECF Silver membership or pay to pay (£7). For example the Leyland Major, which is not FIDE rated.
So for English congresses (if you are registed with FIDE as Scottish) FIDE congresses do not require ECF Gold membership, but Non FIDE events would require ECF Silver Membership.
At least that is how I think it works having just read my Leyland entry from which I have just downloaded from my website.
A non FIDE congress would expect you to be ECF Silver membership or pay to pay (£7). For example the Leyland Major, which is not FIDE rated.
So for English congresses (if you are registed with FIDE as Scottish) FIDE congresses do not require ECF Gold membership, but Non FIDE events would require ECF Silver Membership.
At least that is how I think it works having just read my Leyland entry from which I have just downloaded from my website.