22-12-2011, 01:11 AM
Clement Sreeves Wrote:If you think these grading limits are severe, you should feel sorry for the Dutch- I was talking to Wouter Spoelman (rated 2580 at the time) at the World U20 last year and he told me that in general you had to be 2600 to take part- they made an exception for him!
You say we should reward the top 3 of each age-group - this doesn't make sense because obviously some age-groups have a number of strong players, while others have few. Even if the limits are lower than what I suggested, I still feel this is the right approach.
Disagree Clement. Grades were never designed to be used in this way. Some individuals, through no fault of their own, will be at a big disadvantage by this system. Your approach doesn't necessarily make it more likely that more players in the stronger age categories would go abroad anyway, it just makes it more likely that fewer in the lower age categories would be eligible. ;P