"PB" wrote in message
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Phil:

Those are figures for all of England. It would be possible but
tedious to regionalise them, and the definitions for such an exercise
would need some thought.

I note that the 2007 ECF Year Book lists 9 clubs in Cornwall, which
implies perhaps a maximum of 16 matches?

Yes - that's way down since 30 years ago. Probably 18 league matches and 3
or 4 cup KO format ones. Then for some, county games which used to be about
1 per month, and we had a rated club championship. Maybe 20 rated-games per
year is an average?

On payment, I am a couple of years out of touch but the system as
applied to Cornwall would have been that the Cornwall County Chess
Association would pay the national body ?0.92 (say $1.75) per game
played in the Association's tournaments, and half that amount in the
case of junior tournaments. How the Cornwall Association collects
this money from its local clubs/players is entirely a matter for the
Association - I have seen various models depending on local
circumstances, which vary widely.

Interesting. So about $35 pa for that 20-game player [though this may be
offset by local art 'grants' and such - isn't some lottery money going to
chess now? Maybe just centrally to BCF?]. My old club colleague Ian George
is now the CCCA Sec, I'll ask him, and also how is his Pirc?

I further assume that these fees - 92 new pence per game support the cost of
ratings by BCF, and nothing else - not a magazine, eg.

My own Club plays in two leagues, in both Kent and Sussex. It is
those leagues which pay the national rating fee of ?0.92 per game.
But as it happens we pay the leagues not per game, but a sum per team
we enter, and we trust someone in the leagues has done their maths OK
to meet the leagues' costs. Then our own Club members pay an annual
subscription (currently ?48) to the Club to cover our team entry fees
and the Club's other costs, and we trust that our Club Treasurer has
got her budget right. At the moment the players in my Club's team
matches also pay a supplementary amount of ?2 per match, but that's a
contentious issue.

?1 = $1.90 very very roughly.

OK - that's a fair outline of club fee system, & maybe typical. Although I
notice you Saxons use money instead of Heva! being able to make payment in
mackeral.

Statistically, I mention in passing that there are a further 3,056
players in the English system who had rated games in 05/06 but none in
06/07.

I note 17 players whose first affiliation is listed as Camborne &
Redruth; 13 of them had rated games in 06/07, the average number of
games amongst those 13 being 16, and the median 14.

A very good report - and I thank you.

[I lived in Sussex one Summer, eat figs! and cycled back and forth on a
sit-up-and-beg 1919 bicycle twixt Arundel, Chichester and down the lanes
Bogner way, past Blake's house - easy cycling below the Downs. I met Lady
Goodwood there, who, at the time seemed to own half of Africa, and since I
didn't fawn before her, La assumed I was indeed the viscious Viscount Innes,
something of a raconteur, and engaged me in topics which I had to gloss
being entirely innocent of them! But I never played chess in Sussex except
with her driver who was good enough to play 'blind' while driving.]

This side of the pond only 25% of adult USCF members [that's 7,500 players]
play a minimum of 10 rated games per year.

Cordially, Phil Innes


regards

Paul Buswell