Most town and county leagues tend to feature the same players year on year. You don't need to know their exact ages to know that the average age increases year on year. Also the leagues I'm involved with seem to be propped up by former players returning to chess rather than new players coming through. Like Martin I have a genuine fear of where we will be in ten years time.Michael Farthing wrote:NME. Would you like to present the evidence? Quite difficult I would have thought as dates of birth are not readily available.MartinCarpenter wrote:Well I do know the player base everywhere I play in the North is getting steadily older, at a rate disturbingly close to ~1 year/year
Unfortunately I don't think there are any easy solutions, unless something happens to create a chess boom a few years from now.