Chess Scotland Adult Selection Criteria

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This will penalise those players who don't have an income. I am currently unemployed and have been for 18 months and will find it financially difficult to play the amount of FIDE games required as well as fund playing for Scotland itself. Also the selection deadline date is unknown. A player may spend £1000 to enter a FIDE rated tournament abroad, believing he has played in the 6 month period then find he is outwith the period by a few days. There is a large apartheid at the moment in pension arrangements in Scotland where public sector workers get far too much of the cake. A teacher e.g. can get a pension of £20,000 p.a. while someone in private sector, having saved up £100,000 might only get £3000 p.a. due to penal annuity rates.