15-08-2016, 04:03 PM
I might have been reading between the lines of what you said initially (you said follow the trend, also '“There is general acceptance that we move move more and more towards FIDE tournaments. The Spens and Richardson are already there.”') - your responses have been more forthcoming in the latter part of this thread. If you organize a new tournament and make it FIDE rated and get reasonable entries it doesn’t follow that players like the FIDE-rated bit. Maybe it doesn’t matter if it’s just the one even, but then if as seems likely more FIDE rated tournaments feature in your future plans it will be easy to say ‘the FIDE ratings idea proved popular’. When you personally want to do something that may be controversial, it’s better to get direct, clear feedback about it. I think in general that CS often manages to somehow sidestep this part… :| Cheers