Opening a new file on reform
Vijay Tagore
Friday, December 21, 2007 03:07 IST
Chess body plans changes to criteria for Olympiad and National championship
MUMBAI: The All-India Chess Federation is believed to be initiating some drastic reforms. The aim, according to a top functionary of the associaion, is to improve the standard of the game in India and performance of the players abroad.
A proposal to make Elo rating as criteria for the selection of the Olympiad teen will come up for discussion at its general body meeting in Chennai on Friday. The AICF sources say the proposal will be approved.
The ground-breaking move, as one AICF official said, is aimed at giving more emphasis on performance of the players at the international tournaments than on the national circuit.
For example, top finishers at the year’s National A were hitherto being picked for the year’s Olympiad which was necessarily were not the country’s best players. Last year, a rank outsider like DP Singh, who was not even an International Master at that stage, managed a top four finish at the National A and got automatically selected for the Olympiad ahead of some Grandmasters.
The new reform will ensure that only players with high Elo ratings would only represent the country at the biennial Olympiad. As per the present rating, Vishy Anand (2801), P Harikrishna (2668), K Sasikiran (2661), Sandipan Chanda (2593) and SS Ganguly (2585) are the top-rated players. “We want to send the best from the country to the Olympiad,” said Sameer Salgaokar, one of the vice-presidents of the AICF.
The AICF, said an official, believes that because of this flawed method, India, known to be one of the powerhouses in world chess, finished 31st the Turin Olympiad in 2006. The next Olympiad will be held in Germany in 2008. The other big change is to reduce the number of participants at the National A.
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The Indian Fed also supports their players. What is the USCF doing for our players?
The only thing that the USCF is doing is lining Bill Goichberg’s and his buddies pockets with membership money.
Back to the topic at hand. If AICF is going to go with rating as the only criteria, they need an activity requirement to stop the top players from just sitting on their rating.
I would say that it should be quite a large number of games to make sure the players cant sit on their rating.
India will still never medal
The completely forgot Koneru, who is rated higher than the last two on that list.
The Olympiad has a mens and womens section. I can only assume they hope Koneru will play on the womens team.
If Koneru wants to play on the mens team there will be pressure on her to play the womens team.
31 place for India is kind of low.
Koneru has already answered this by saying she would rather play in the open section.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4318
Small correcdtion Koneru stated she would prefer to play in the womens section unless the women’s team had a chance of winning a meda. But, that will never happen.
Konero should be board 4.
The report has left out Koneru Humpy completely. She is the fourth strongest male or female in India !
Susan are you watching !?
She just crossed your rating in the very recent lists 😉
AICF came out with a coaching programme Idea on Jan 11 2008. They had asked state association to send 10 names of 10 players between age group of 7 to 15. They also asked players/coaches to register themselves as coaches for these coaching programme but offered meagre fee of Rs.1000/- per day for GrandMaster. Its over four months now.
Summer Vacation is comming to end soon which would have been the best time to coach school going chess players. But not a single programme is announced till date.
AICF is only annoucing nothing in practice.
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