{"id":28,"date":"2012-07-18T01:11:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T00:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=28"},"modified":"2014-02-02T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T11:45:35","slug":"ecf-membership-grading-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/ecf-membership-grading-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"ECF Membership &#038; Grading Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 1st September 2012, changes will occur in the ECF Membership Scheme and Game Fee, These changes were touched upon at the AGM. They will affect us all and are described <a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishchess.org.uk\/?page_id=18690\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What impact will possible league policies have on this matter?<br \/>\nWill increased costs reduce club memberships?\u00a0 Will clubs reduce league participation?<br \/>\nWill membership be a requirement of the league, or will clubs administer game fees?<br \/>\nWhat value do your club members place on having an ECF authenticated grade?<br \/>\nIs a break-away league viable? Would ECF members play in &#8216;locally-graded&#8217; matches?<br \/>\nWould a 2-tier league with membership required only for div 1 players be a viable compromise? Many questions have been raised with no obvious answers.<\/p>\n<p>What are your views?\u00a0 Has your club decided which policies to support?<br \/>\nWhat league policies would you and your club like to see?<br \/>\nPosting your comments here may influence the options being considered..<br \/>\nIt may also assist Robin to prepare an options document for presenting to the LCM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 1st September 2012, changes will occur in the ECF Membership Scheme and Game Fee, These changes were touched upon at the AGM. They will affect us all and are described here. What impact will possible league policies have on this matter? Will increased costs reduce club memberships?\u00a0 Will clubs reduce league participation? Will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}