13-01-2014, 03:46 AM
Peter,
I am really struggling to see what your line is. You seem to feel that all age group competitions should be played at centres of highest population from a travel cost viewpoint. We are ChessScotland, representative of every area of our country. Is it not correct that national age and gender competitions should be rotated geographically throughout Scotland to give everyone a "fair" chance to compete?
Do you wish the Scottish junior age champion to be always from the Glasgow or Edinburgh central belt area, say, or would you rather it was the best player in their age group like Andrew McClement (Macrahanish), Ali Roy (Maybole), Anna Milton (Aberdeen), Monica Espinosa (Girvan), Murad Abdulla (Aberdeen), Kai Pannwitz (Inverness), Vagif Ramazanov (Aberdeen) or Liam Richmond (Oban) to name a few?
The cost of travel to national events for the parents of these players is considerable. The cost of international events to recent places like Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Istanbul, Slovenia, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates is positively frightening.
I am trying to put a "fair" perspective on things from a parents costings point of view regarding national and international chess.
I am really struggling to see what your line is. You seem to feel that all age group competitions should be played at centres of highest population from a travel cost viewpoint. We are ChessScotland, representative of every area of our country. Is it not correct that national age and gender competitions should be rotated geographically throughout Scotland to give everyone a "fair" chance to compete?
Do you wish the Scottish junior age champion to be always from the Glasgow or Edinburgh central belt area, say, or would you rather it was the best player in their age group like Andrew McClement (Macrahanish), Ali Roy (Maybole), Anna Milton (Aberdeen), Monica Espinosa (Girvan), Murad Abdulla (Aberdeen), Kai Pannwitz (Inverness), Vagif Ramazanov (Aberdeen) or Liam Richmond (Oban) to name a few?
The cost of travel to national events for the parents of these players is considerable. The cost of international events to recent places like Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Istanbul, Slovenia, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates is positively frightening.
I am trying to put a "fair" perspective on things from a parents costings point of view regarding national and international chess.