Membership advocates have a habit of backing off when asked what their changes mean in practice. If you advocate a policy, you should be prepared to defend it.Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Do you really think people making dire forecasts here will either distract or demoralise those implementing this enough to have any effect? Those implementing this should (hopefully) have the self-discipline to not waste time being micromanaged by those posting to this forum... (unless of course they need advice).
From the viewpoint of local organisations, the ECF cannot be prevented from writing its suicide note. They can reserve the right to look to their own survival regardless of the effect on the ECF. Or not, as the life of an ECF director would be much easier if in some way or other, the national chess scene was transformed into a top down organisation where it was local bodies that had to seek permission from the ECF rather than the other way round.