15-09-2012, 04:51 PM
Peter D Williams Wrote:I was just trying to find out if Scotland has a policy of support for juniors in chess.Do you hold regular training sessions provide coaching for juniors and if so are the parents expected to pay the full amount or does the Scottish chess federation help towards the cost? I assume the parents fund the full cost of any trips aboard when juniors are playing for Scotland.Is they a specific sum of money set aside for juniors?
Here in England we do hold some training sessions which the parents contribute to for invited players and we also have the John Roberson trust which i believe has helped some juniors.We do not as far as i know give regular help towards the cost of chess coaching.We do of course send GM and IM with the English juniors when playing for England and the English Chess Federation covers this cost the parents pay for the trips for they children with some players getting some funding but i have no idea how much is given!We have also recently allowed more the one player in each age group to play for England.Does Scotland allow more than one player in each age group to go say to the world juniors.
Any way i thought it would be interesting to hear people views on this subject.
Peter,
I was the International Junior Director for Chess Scotland between 2008 and 2011. Whilst in post it was my policy to not disclose or discuss how the budget was spent. Two main reasons for this.
(a) Any discounts given for financial hardship remained private.
(b) It stopped coaches comparing and contrasting their fees.
For similar reasons (I believe) the International Director for Chess Scotland Adult teams will not reveal the fees paid to each Grandmaster in the Scottish Olympiad team or the fee agreed with the GM captain of the team.
If you what to know how many entries Scotland put into each age group at tournaments ... look on the tournament web site. You will find us under SCO
However, your main concern seems to be how England organise things. I suggest you take that matter up directly with officials of the ECF.