02-04-2012, 11:28 AM
aburnett Wrote:Also, the FIDE rating issue has to be addressed - we were under the impression that our semi-final was being FIDE -rated, but you say it's not. Is there a financial disincentive? A work-load issue? As the premier team event in Scotland, with the best time-control in the entire chess calendar, these games should be FIDE-rated.
I collated the FIDE data last year for Richardson and Spens. It is minimal extra work usually involving creating FIDE pnums for new players. Apart from that it is simply the domestic data processed and the output in FIDE format. No real hassle - but see next.
As the organiser of the competition it is Andy's call of whether it is FIDE rated. During last year's event Andy indicated there were two clubs had complained about the event being FIDE rated. There was also one individual player went behind CS and directly to FIDE complaining that he was unaware that the whole event was being rated - ie he had thought it was only the final. The event was flagged up as being rated by the start and finish dates being several months apart - which suggests the player did not look at the following link. Once the facts were presented to FIDE the data was processed as intended.
Scottish events which are to be FIDE rated appear on this page. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=SCO">http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list ... ountry=SCO</a><!-- m -->
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As you can see there is no registration of the Spens or Richardson this season.
Andy M can answer for himself but I understand that his feeling was that the top players did not want to risk their FIDE ratings in the event and by stopping rating the event it would be more likely to encourage them to play.
On the old noticeboard you can see from Andy M post on July 16 2011 the intention to discontinue FIDE rating.
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