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I don't understand why St Albans could not be FIDE rated. Three games in a day is permissible.Michael Flatt wrote: Neither congress is able to register their Open as FIDE rated as they have to schedule three games on Saturday, through not being to able to book the venue on Friday evening.
NickFaulks wrote: I don't understand why St Albans could not be FIDE rated. Three games in a day is permissible.
So we're back to the problem of the venue having to be cleared by 10pm ( or soon after ). In the old days that wasn't a worry, but times have changed.Roger de Coverly wrote: They use sessions of three and a half hours.
FIDE rating regulations[1] specify:NickFaulks wrote: I don't understand why St Albans could not be FIDE rated. Three games in a day is permissible.
I doubt it's the venue being the problem. More likely the players, arbiters and organisers wanting to get home or to the pub at a more reasonable hour.NickFaulks wrote: So we're back to the problem of the venue having to be cleared by 10pm ( or soon after ). In the old days that wasn't a worry, but times have changed.
It’s been a while since I played there - 2011 I think it was - but I thought it *was* elo rated back then. Perfectly possible I’m misremembering, though.NickFaulks wrote: I don't understand why St Albans could not be FIDE rated.
I don't believe it (St Albans) has ever been Elo rated. In the Open, the whole field would most likely have ratings, but that's not quite the same thing.Jonathan Bryant wrote: - but I thought it *was* elo rated back then.
2017 qualifiersMichael Flatt wrote:The last complete list of qualifiers (2016) is given at: http://www.britishchesschampionships.co ... iers-2016/
It might be an interesting exercise to determine how many players would have qualified under the proposed 2018 qualification regulations.
Would the so called "weak tail" actually disappear?
In terms of numbers of lower rated players participating, the key point is perhaps not so much abolishing the rights of tournaments such as St Albans, Hertford, Scarborough, Kidlington, Blackpool etc to qualifying places, but to sweep away the qualification based on domestic grade.Mick Norris wrote: If anyone defers qualification to 2018, then there would still be an issue then, so maybe 2019 would be the real test of any new system
Although with the Under 21, Under 18 titles and Women's titles determined in the British, it makes for difficulties if potential competitors are excluded because they aren't able to play lots of tournaments to qualify by a Grand Prix route.Graded >=218
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right!Paul Cooksey wrote:.....the paper does not adequately explain what the organisers are trying to achieve.
It's a slightly reworded version of the 2017 Regulations.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: Why two wildcards here, rather than one? Is this new or carried over from the old system?
I think the new wording is marginally inexact, since two of the BICC signatories, namely Ulster and the Isle of Man are not Federations in the FIDE sense.(h) 2 nominees for the County in which the Championships are being held; or if the Championships are held outside England, two additional nominees for the Organisation in 14(a)-(g) hosting the Championships.