17-03-2014, 07:34 PM
Thankyou for your update David. I, like Derek am concerned that no actual decision, whether approved or not will not be known until August.
However, I have a bigger concern & it's always been paramount to me & outweighs any reason to charge the likes of SJC etc, that is schools/small junior clubs. You only have to look at the grading to see that some school/club internal tournaments are graded & of course there are events, like the Lanarkshire Primary team. There is no way that they can affiliate, as it is, a lot of schools struggle to keep their chess clubs going. What is proposed regarding grading & Derek has mentioned this as a concern also, will kill school chess. This is outrageous when Chess Scotland keeps on mentioning implementation of Chess in Schools across Scotland. Yet I still haven't seen evidence of this & now it seems what already exists is threatened.
I also wish to add incase members are not aware, that it is the area graders that initially input all the information/ results of tournaments into the grading system & that part of process is not done by Chess Scotland.
However, I have a bigger concern & it's always been paramount to me & outweighs any reason to charge the likes of SJC etc, that is schools/small junior clubs. You only have to look at the grading to see that some school/club internal tournaments are graded & of course there are events, like the Lanarkshire Primary team. There is no way that they can affiliate, as it is, a lot of schools struggle to keep their chess clubs going. What is proposed regarding grading & Derek has mentioned this as a concern also, will kill school chess. This is outrageous when Chess Scotland keeps on mentioning implementation of Chess in Schools across Scotland. Yet I still haven't seen evidence of this & now it seems what already exists is threatened.
I also wish to add incase members are not aware, that it is the area graders that initially input all the information/ results of tournaments into the grading system & that part of process is not done by Chess Scotland.