Leinster league - player eligibility

Razzen

Hi all,

I've been told that players (from the same club) must not have a rating 150 greater than a registered player in a higher division, is this correct? Is this strictly enforced?

midajoh

http://www.leinsterchess.com/LCU_League_Rules.pdf

I think it's stated in paragraph 6.7

Ciaran

It is strictly enforced. Any games that player plays will count as a win for their opponent and the player's team will be deducted a point.

cdeb

Worth noting that, for the purposes of this rule, any player with a rating under 1200 is considered to have a rating of 1200.

So (I understand anyway) someone who's 900 could play on a team above a 1349. The 900 is considered to be 1200, and so is less than 150 points lower than the 1349.

mikhail

Ciaran wrote: »

It is strictly enforced.

Pretty much. There are some grey areas involving players with no Irish rating (I think they're supposed to play under an estimated rating), and occasionally in the past a player who showed huge progression might successfully petition the controller to use his January rating instead of his September one so he could move up the board order.

The purpose of the rule, in case it isn't clear, is to deter excessive sandbagging, where a team puts their strong players on low boards to try to sneak points in a match where they would otherwise expect a hammering.

Razzen

Only asking, because looking at some of the leagues there are 2 maybe 3 players that look to be in violation of this rule? I'm sure I've just misread it! Can you sub down?

cdeb

You can't sub down. But it's hard to be sure who's declared on any given team rather than who's just subbed up for it. So a 1200 could sub three times on, say, the Ennis while a 1400 was playing on the O'Hanlon. The 1200 would have to be declared on the O'Hanlon (or lower), but that wouldn't stop him subbing up ahead of the 1400. But he couldn't be on the higher team permanently.

Just in case that's the confusion?

Razzen

Nope I think the examples i've been looking at, players have played more than the three games, so it easy to see which of the teams they've registered on.

Thanks for all the replies, definitely understand the rule better now!