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Donald Wilson Wrote:The zip file under discussion contains four documents.

Three of these documents are quite small, and take up a negligible amount of space.

The fourth document, taking up about 90% of the file, is a proposal to introduce a new system for selecting Juniors to represent Scotland in international junior events.

It is my purely personal opinion that this proposal is not proper for Council, but should be discussed at the Chess Scotland AGM.

My reason for holding that view is that the proposed system concerns primarily the following people:
- the Junior International Director;
- the team of selectors for junior international events;
- the juniors who are in contention for selection to represent Scotland;
- and the parents/guardians of those juniors.
Few of the members of Council are actually among these concerned people. And while all CS members are entitled to attend Council meetings and express their views, only Council members may vote at Council meetings. I think everybody affected by the proposal should be able to vote on it, and therefore the proper forum to discuss it is a general meeting, not a Council meeting.

As I say, that's my pesonal opinion - and I'm no longer either a Council member or a member of the team of selectors, so whether the proposal is discussed at Council or not and whether it is approved or not has no direct impact on me.

I agree with Donald: this proposed system is not a proper subject for Council to discuss. But for a different reason. The agm puts directors in place to direct. There is little in this inordinately long document that needs to be discussed before the IJD puts it into place. However, there is one part of the document that is plain and simply wrong. FIDE does not provide funding to Chess Scotland for free accommodation places. Firstly Fide does not handle the money, the host nation does. Secondly free accommodation is specifically given to one invited player per federation per section.

I checked today to confirm, in my own mind, that the system has not changed. I quote from the Euroyouth entry form - which is easily obtained on the FIDE web site (not zipped)

"7.2 Free accommodation and full board will be provided for invited players and
players with personal rights from August 28, (dinner) to October 9 (lunch)".

The document submitted to council raises the prospect of, for example, the only under 10 player present paying in full in order to subsidise a second, third or fourth player in the U18 boys event. This is clearly not what is intended by the hosts. This, I suggest, is a fit subject for council to discuss. Worse than that the U10 player might not even get any coaching.
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