Cornwall Chess

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I’ve had a quick look at the document after a busy day at work.

My opening thoughts are:

When to play

Although Ian George does not realise it possibly, the best way to kill off team chess is to make players play in whole teams at weekends.

I won’t be able to play at weekends. Others will also prefer not to play at weekends.

The notable exception, for me, is that there could be a team jamboree outside of the spring and summer months of tourism: April to October, and that this could also be a possibility for a Cornwall AGM before playing, for those wanting to arrive early and participate.

If there are no tournaments it is good for everyone together once a year at least.

I would like games to start earlier, I don’t understand why they can’t start at 7 pm like they did throughout the 1980s through to the two thousands. I would prefer to move to Monday games only once again, as well.

East and West

This proposal is very favourable if you are playing for Camborne, because the south-west of Cornwall is more densely populated than
 in the north-east.

The reality of this proposal is that everyone in ‘West’ has less distance to travel, everyone in ‘east’ is shafted.

The cute response to this is to not only point out that it is hard to split east v west. It must be made explicit now that Newquay is, very definitely, to the west of both Truro and Falmouth, so if players from there, with easy access to the A30 as well, ar’ West’ then Newquay is also clearly ‘west.’

Not sure on all of the rule changes, although most of them seem sensible on first glance.