2012 Olympiad

[Douglas Bryson]

Of course it would be good for more events here at international time rates with your FIDE rating at risk rather than kept in a box under the bed. While our Olympiad and junior internationalist competitors are getting domestic practice Scotland currently has zero events listed on the FIDE website (Edinburgh Premier and Scot Champ 2013 will be added at some stage). Hard to understand the rationale of why Richardson/Spens are not FIDE rated - SNCL with 2 rounds a day is a tougher call but your opponent will also be finding it difficult - why not test your rating to see if its real.

Meanwhile our prospective 2 FIDE rated events before next July is somewhat dwarfed by Denmark (pop 5m) with 139
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Norway (pop 5m) with 44
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Slovenia (pop 2m) 34
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Slovakia (pop 5m) 37
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