Chess Scotland Adult Selection Criteria

[andyburnett]

An interesting range of approaches, many of which I had looked at previously - the English language ones being the easiest of course: google translate has problems with even basic stuff let alone 'regulation-type' translations.

I'd like to somehow include the Scottish in our criteria somewhere, but as I mentioned previously, the dates are very awkward - either very dated or too close to the team events in question.

The 'minimum' rating floor is also something I have strongly considered, and may be a way of offering hope to those haven't reached a target of games played? Say, 2300 base for the Open team in Olympiad - if there is not enough interest from those over 2300 who have reached the games threshold, places could be offered to others starting from the highest-rated down, for example. For the women's team, say, 1700 as a floor rating.

Yes, yes, of course me mentioning this is just fuel for the 'but you said...' gang. Knock yourselves out

AndyB, If you already are applying an 'activity' floor, would applying a 'ratings floor' as well not create a fault line?
 
Eg - does that mean that in the situation where no-one higher rated with enough games had accepted, a 2320 with no games in the previous six months would be eligible automatically in front of a 2280 with 20 games - who would presumably not be considered?
 
Cheers

Hi Walter,

Yes, that is exactly the problem with combining the two. I don't know how prevalent 'rating floors' are in team selections, and I don't think Scotland has enough players at this players to make it a workable idea anyway, although Singapore seems to have quite a similar distribution to Scotland ratings-wise.

I mentioned the Olympiad in the scenario above, but it was actually the Euro Team Championships that brought the possibility to mind - it is a ridiculously strong event (at least, it was in Iceland 2 years ago and likely to be so again in Crete this year) and Scotland are struggling to be competitive - even putting out our highest-rated-possible team would leave us languishing in the very lowest reaches of the event seedings-wise.

On the other hand, I feel it is important for us to be represented at such team tournaments and it also offers excellent experience and opportunities to our players.

Cheers,
Andy B

PS Can someone PLEASE make the forum posts more visible/readable? Quoted posts in colour or something? Andy McH - check your emails!!