Have you ever wondered why we have such a low number of titled players in Africa ?
Well I think its mainly due to lack of making it a goal to have more players titled. In itself the goal is easily attainable. We only need to have rated tournaments.
The FIDE requirements for a rated tournaments are two fold.
1.If its a round robin all games, with rated and unrated opponents, are counted in the round Robin tournament. Example of round Robin tournament: 9 players, 9 tours; you will play with all the players one by one. FIDE requirements for round Robin tournament: at least one-third of the players must be rated; if 10 players, 4 must be rated.
2. In a Swiss System only games with rated opponents are counted in the Swiss or team tournament and you only need a minimum of 5 rated players. Example of Swiss tournament: 100 players, 9 tours; you will play only with 9 players.
Either one of these is easily attainable without having to request grandmaster from overseas to attend!
A simple strategy I can propose is that we work on an immediate basis to establish 10 Annual Fide rated tournaments in countries which are already active in Chess development.
With that logic, South African Open, Botswana Open, Zimbabwe Open, Egypt Open, Morroco Open, Zambian Open, Angolan Open, Nigerian Open, Algerian Open and a Namibian Open. In truth SA Open and The Angolan Open are already done so we would need to work on 8 countries.
This would be a simple initiative which could easily drive!
What do you think?
Well I think its mainly due to lack of making it a goal to have more players titled. In itself the goal is easily attainable. We only need to have rated tournaments.
The FIDE requirements for a rated tournaments are two fold.
1.If its a round robin all games, with rated and unrated opponents, are counted in the round Robin tournament. Example of round Robin tournament: 9 players, 9 tours; you will play with all the players one by one. FIDE requirements for round Robin tournament: at least one-third of the players must be rated; if 10 players, 4 must be rated.
2. In a Swiss System only games with rated opponents are counted in the Swiss or team tournament and you only need a minimum of 5 rated players. Example of Swiss tournament: 100 players, 9 tours; you will play only with 9 players.
Either one of these is easily attainable without having to request grandmaster from overseas to attend!
A simple strategy I can propose is that we work on an immediate basis to establish 10 Annual Fide rated tournaments in countries which are already active in Chess development.
With that logic, South African Open, Botswana Open, Zimbabwe Open, Egypt Open, Morroco Open, Zambian Open, Angolan Open, Nigerian Open, Algerian Open and a Namibian Open. In truth SA Open and The Angolan Open are already done so we would need to work on 8 countries.
This would be a simple initiative which could easily drive!
What do you think?
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