21-01-2013, 11:10 AM
Quote:They must be normally resident in Scotland or within 50 miles of the normal meeting place of the club.
Rats, there goes our plan to use Naiditsch as a ringer.
Craig's point about the higher variance of CS ratings leading to some funny situations at the top of the order is a good one - as a corollary (and one of which Craig is almost certainly aware) it should be noted that for players lower down the rating scale it's more usual for the FIDE ratings to be somewhat anomalous, for the much simpler reason that they're often based on rather fewer games - but I still don't like the idea of ordering players by a rating system which isn't used in the competition. I'm absolutely in favour of FIDE-rating the Richardson, and if that's put in place I'd be absolutely in favour of allowing teams to use either CS or FIDE grades for team ordering, but at present I'm a bit uncomfortable with it. Given that we seem to be looking at rating again for the next year, I'm hopeful that this won't be an issue anyway.