04-03-2014, 07:41 PM
Hi Andrew (Greet),
Sorry for getting the transfer fee situation wrong. The FIDE transfers list does indeed have 2000 Euros next to your name, (as it does other amounts next to other transferees) but doesn't distinguish whether or not you paid that amount to switch allegiance immediately, or preferred to wait 1 year for a free transfer. It appears to have been the latter - my apologies.
I hadn't realised you'd been resident in Scotland for so long - an East coast/West coast divide in chess tournaments keeping our paths from crossing too often? In any event, from the sound of things you are passionate enough about your future plans here, more than surpass all the requirements to represent Scotland and I wish you good luck in Tromso (if you are picked) and elsewhere!
As a footnote, I get the impression from speaking to others that it isn't an unwillingness, at all, to accept 'non-Scots' into the Scottish team, but rather a repeat of the whole Jacob 'Danish-Scottish-Danish' nonsense which worries us.
Sorry for getting the transfer fee situation wrong. The FIDE transfers list does indeed have 2000 Euros next to your name, (as it does other amounts next to other transferees) but doesn't distinguish whether or not you paid that amount to switch allegiance immediately, or preferred to wait 1 year for a free transfer. It appears to have been the latter - my apologies.
I hadn't realised you'd been resident in Scotland for so long - an East coast/West coast divide in chess tournaments keeping our paths from crossing too often? In any event, from the sound of things you are passionate enough about your future plans here, more than surpass all the requirements to represent Scotland and I wish you good luck in Tromso (if you are picked) and elsewhere!
As a footnote, I get the impression from speaking to others that it isn't an unwillingness, at all, to accept 'non-Scots' into the Scottish team, but rather a repeat of the whole Jacob 'Danish-Scottish-Danish' nonsense which worries us.