Glorney Teams

[Andrew McHarg]

"I agree that we can learn from what other nations are doing. But I disagree that we need to "look seriously" at our selection procedures"

Glancing over these posts, it's really all quite fascinating.

Chess is a game of logic and reason, yet having returned to Scottish Chess fairly recently I'm too often left with the feeling that as a body we lack the ability to dispassionately apply either.

I just want to clarify what I meant with my quote above, as I think it's quite ambiguous in its current form. What I meant was that I don’t think the results of the latest Glorney are reason alone to “look seriously” at our selection procedures, because it wouldn’t have mattered what selection procedures we had; we’d still have been heavily outgraded. To suggest otherwise seems to imply that a wildly different outcome could have been the result of having different selection procedures, and I’m sure we can all agree that this would be unlikely?

I'm not advocating that we shouldn't look at our selection procedures as a rule.