25-09-2016, 02:57 PM
I have an official response from the ECF
"There is no ECF requirement for a Chess Scotland member to hold any form of ECF membership in order to take part in events in England.
However, the ECF will charge Game Fee to a League @ £2.50 per grading result standardplay/£1.25 rapidplay for each result submitted for grading for a player who had not become an ECF member by the end of the season. A League will normally seek to recover these costs from the clubs giving rise to them, and a club may or may not seek to make recovery from the players concerned.
Furthermore, the ECF will charge Game Fee in the form of a flat "pay to play fee" of £7 to a non-FIDE rated congress for each entrant who was not an ECF or silver member on the date when an event started. The congress will normally impose a surcharge on entry fees for players who are are not ECF silver or above members (or alternatively offer a discount to those who are).
These considerations have led a number of non-ENG players active in England (e.g. Alexander Chernaiev and Bogdan Lalic) to take what might be termed an "economic" decision to purchase an ECF silver membership where the cost of this is less than the Game Fee/pay to play fees that would otherwise arise."
"There is no ECF requirement for a Chess Scotland member to hold any form of ECF membership in order to take part in events in England.
However, the ECF will charge Game Fee to a League @ £2.50 per grading result standardplay/£1.25 rapidplay for each result submitted for grading for a player who had not become an ECF member by the end of the season. A League will normally seek to recover these costs from the clubs giving rise to them, and a club may or may not seek to make recovery from the players concerned.
Furthermore, the ECF will charge Game Fee in the form of a flat "pay to play fee" of £7 to a non-FIDE rated congress for each entrant who was not an ECF or silver member on the date when an event started. The congress will normally impose a surcharge on entry fees for players who are are not ECF silver or above members (or alternatively offer a discount to those who are).
These considerations have led a number of non-ENG players active in England (e.g. Alexander Chernaiev and Bogdan Lalic) to take what might be termed an "economic" decision to purchase an ECF silver membership where the cost of this is less than the Game Fee/pay to play fees that would otherwise arise."
"How sad to see, what used to be, a model of decorum and tranquility become like any other sport, a battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee"