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Re: 2023/2024 Season

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Post by Mark Howitt » Fri Oct 27, 2023 12:03 pm

MartinCarpenter wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 27, 2023 8:17 am

Mark Howitt wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 26, 2023 5:08 pm

Just interested to know what everyone thinks 

We covered this once already! No, no one gets played to play in the Yorkshire league. The whole idea is mildly offensive to be frank.

It does happen in the London league of course.

York had at least one important player missing - for very good real life reasons! - and Hull are just very solid now. Our bottom boards did brilliantly to keep it close - they've been driving us for the past few seasons. We're about 50% on the top 4 boards over that period, some huge percentage from 5-8.

Thanks Martin I remember u said that York didn't pay anyone I was just wondering if other clubs did. I think I remember Matthew Turner got paid to play for Hull in some comps and they paid Jon Speelman to write for them at some stage...

I get why people drop out of chess more now  LIke imagine you were thinking of it as a career or even spending a lot of time on it... you could get to IM and still make v little money from it 

I do know IM Simon Ansell has made decent money from poker though chatted to him a bit...