Batumi (Georgia) Olympiad

[Douglas Bryson]

If Nigel Short does not accept Scotland as a separate nation in terms of  FIDE ,
then he cannot accept England, Wales and Channel Island teams for the same reasons.
Anyway, FIDE aren't stupid, they don't want to lose all those affiliation fees.

Short doesn't accept England as being the valid rep from these islands either. He was merely pointing out the anomaly that Britain has multiple country reps rather than one country to represent the UK. He joked in his initial comments on the issue that he wanted to enter a West Hampstead Olympiad team with his then near-neighbour Jon Speelman.

As to affiliation fees that's the one aspect of the new pres programme which may be of immediate benefit to CS. "We will cut immediately, or waive, fees paid to FIDE… FIDE should help federations, not the other way around." 


https://www.chessscotland.com/documents/...shrift.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_so...es_in_2018

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/arkady-...-president

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/vic...t_01.shtml