Organising tournaments - they've all gone !

[andyburnett]

Andy B - A word of warning. FIDE does not normally recognise Scheveningens for title norm purposes.

There have been many cases of abuse in the past from this type of event.

I didn't know that Alex - thanks for the info. Most of the abuses I've read about were small all-play-alls (there was a famous one in Macedonia years ago) and things like the Myanmar (Burma) rating scandal.

Any particular reason why a Scheveningen system tournament would be more open to abuse than others? I seem to recall Michael Adams (maybe?) getting one of his GM norms in a tournament of this sort in Belgium when he was young.