Er, if rising rent is a problem, and a chess club is charged on a per-night basis, then the home chess club is effectively paying twice as much as it would otherwise have to do, unless you presume that chess clubs budget for opening the club every week during the season, and are able to accommodate normal (social) club nights as well as double the normal amount of competition nights (i.e. league matches).Joey Stewart wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 7:22 pmI can't see why a league would have a problem with a team playing all their matches away - it doesn't inconvenience the opposition in the slightest, and with the prohibitive costs of rising rent I wouldn't be surprised if in future more clubs end up having to do this.
Now if the venue was big enough for social chess (or club championships matches or other club events) in one room, and league matches in another room, and the visiting team were prepared to pay half of the cost of hiring the room, that would work. But if not, then this is not workable. You can understand why some leagues have a central venue where the members club together to pay the hire costs. The London League does (did?) this.