FG, I concer with much of your remedies. The question is, then,
how to impliment them! The brutal truth is that evolution of chess admin can only be achieved through the ACF, or if it is unable to facilitate ichange, by circumventing it all together.
There are no shortages of plans to "fix" chess, espesially so when there is currently no leadership, only a maintance crew. Nevertheless, as is the case OTB, a bad plan is better than
no plan. The resent ACF history is littered with stillborn reformations. How long can we whip a dead horse before our arms drop off.
The commercial agents in Australian chess are on the cusp of sidelining the ACF and the ACF appears unable to defend itself (being a dead horse.) The commercials will have a plan sooner or later - after all, that is what commerce does. The unifying factor will be a rating service bigger and better than the ACF's, and able to provide a service to junior and state associations
at an irresistabley low cost.
Watch.
