The Commonwealth

[Jonathan Livingstone]

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the timing of the event was bang on the end of the school term for most regions, and actually during term-time for other regions. I am aware of the stated reasons for this early scheduling of the Scottish i.e a busy summer for chess with Olympiad and Glorney.

I am not one of our stronger players but was excluded from entering for this reason alone, and I know the early scheduling ruled out many other players.