05-01-2014, 11:24 PM
I'm concerned about the words compulsory membership as I'm sure it would have an immediate detrimental impact on chess club membership and increase the burden or raising chess teams for the leagues, although I would be happy to proved wrong. I also think that the chess Scotland web site could benefit from having a chess games engine to play games on
I honestly cant see the benefit of remote players playing in tournaments as for this to work as an arbiter would have to travel the opposite way to the remote location. Perhaps the cost for this could be met by the remote player as I can see the average chess Scotland member wouldn't be too keen to subsidise this. More often than not remote locations have terrible Internet connectivity.
On a more positive note team events would have a better chance as arbiter/supervisor costs could be met by teams/clubs and would open the door for specialised tournaments. To allow remote players in existing tournaments would cause more issues e.g what if the internet failed which in turn would hold up and interfere with the running of the tournament. How do you define remote? By distance and/or traveling difficulty? Who would you rather be: the local player who now travels to the tournament at his own expense, and effort as opposed to the remote player who travels a short distance. There is also the problem of booking a remote venue by the arbiter (certainly not by the remote player)
To sum up - keep a level playing field by having on line tournaments for chess Scotland members. It's impractical to mix entrants
I honestly cant see the benefit of remote players playing in tournaments as for this to work as an arbiter would have to travel the opposite way to the remote location. Perhaps the cost for this could be met by the remote player as I can see the average chess Scotland member wouldn't be too keen to subsidise this. More often than not remote locations have terrible Internet connectivity.
On a more positive note team events would have a better chance as arbiter/supervisor costs could be met by teams/clubs and would open the door for specialised tournaments. To allow remote players in existing tournaments would cause more issues e.g what if the internet failed which in turn would hold up and interfere with the running of the tournament. How do you define remote? By distance and/or traveling difficulty? Who would you rather be: the local player who now travels to the tournament at his own expense, and effort as opposed to the remote player who travels a short distance. There is also the problem of booking a remote venue by the arbiter (certainly not by the remote player)
To sum up - keep a level playing field by having on line tournaments for chess Scotland members. It's impractical to mix entrants