I'm sure the ECF can speak for itself, but I rather think the ECF CEO believes it is your job.Louise Sinclair wrote: It is not the job of the leagues to pressurise players regardless of respect or lack of it for an organisation.
After all he writes
In earlier drafts of the membership proposal, it was going to be the denial of a national grade which was going to be the membership enforcer. As they didn't want to discourage chess (!), they didn't do the obvious solution of removing games played by non-members from grading result files, instead they proposed to not publish grades for non-members. It was pointed out that grades would be leaked and so they came up with the idea of fining leagues and counties instead.C15.13.1 wrote:The cooperation of clubs, leagues, congresses and other organisations in maximising the take-up of ECF membership is vital.
That's why leagues whether they like it or not are going to have to vote on the imposition of restrictions on whether non-members are allowed to play chess in their leagues. You might come up with something convoluted such as
.Non members are only permitted to play at most 3 games each in the league and are restricted in total to 10 games per club per team per season.
The point of the three games is to take advantage of
This restricts it to ungraded players, but the Rates proposal (yet to be approved) words it more generously asC15.13.1 wrote:Ungraded players, therefore, will be allowed to play up to 3 games a year in graded league, club or county competition without having to be an ECF member and without counting towards the percentage of non-members applied to calculate the Game Fee payment set out in section (a) above.
The point of restricting the games to ten is that it caps the league's cost at £ 10 per team per club.C15.13.4 wrote: (1)for League and Club games where not less than 85% of the competitors playing in the League/competition in question are Direct Members the respective rates shall be reduced to £1 per game for Standard graded games and £0.50 per game for Rapidplay graded games and in calculating the figure of 85% competitors who are not Direct Members who play not more than three games in the League per season/competition shall not be counted.
In practice you might have the headroom between 100% and 85% to allow more than three appearances by non-members. The £ 1 Game Fee is still going to leave you with a probable need to ration non member appearances, to cap your expenditure.