Paul Cooksey wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:21 am
Thanks to everyone who has voted so far. The initial voting surprises me. I thought I would see a large vote in favour of No, since this forum represents a lot of the people whose toes would be stepped on.
IM Jack Rudd wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 6:07 pm
Interesting question. I suppose you could ask another question: "what chess do we think should be provided that isn't currently being provided by outside operators, and would it be a good idea for the ECF to provide it?".
Yes, it would be good to hear peoples opinions. My own thoughts were similar to Roger's - FIDE rated weekend tournaments. Partly because we are unimaginatively suggesting some thing done more in the past But also because the lack of FIDE rated chess is often stated as a gap.
I had not though of the ECF running online chess as Joey suggests. I can see some drawbacks, but good to collect ideas.
The problem is that you get used to what exists and it is difficult to think outside the box, so here are some ideas that might turn out to be complete disasters
A four nations international with Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England U21s
An online universities challenge with the final four progressing in to big event in a nice venue
Forming a partnership with the Association of Conservative Clubs and encouraging local organisers to use their premises for weekend events
Doing interviews and running biographies of junior players on the ECF website and then taking them to potential sponsors