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An idea has surfaced as to how women, with male support, could raise money at "open" weekend tournaments, for women's chess promotion:
1. Women’s entry fees go into a women's chess promotion pot;
2. We figure out how much of an entry fee goes to tournament expenses, less prizes;
3. We then calculate what % of the women’s pot has to be contributed to the general pot to help cover all non-prize expenses;
4. If a woman wins a prize, she is paid from the women’s pot;
5. The balance of funds are given to a group specifically formed to raise funds to promote women's chess and to implement concrete programs.
The argument is that at this time women are generally under-represented numerically in tournaments, and for historical reasons have not achieved the rating levels of males. So nearly all prizes are won by males.
So it is preferable to have part of women's registration fees going to women’s chess promotion, rather than male-won tournament prizes. Admittedly, it does mean the prizes would be very slightly smaller, with part of the women's registration fees being allocated to the fund.
I'm with Roger. This is needlessly complicated. Are you related to the drafters of the Income Tax Act?
Your diagnosis also does not seem to be valid. Women players can win as many class prizes as the sections they compete in. So they have chances for class prizes the same as the rest of us class players. There are 9 women over 2000 and of those 2 over 2200. They would have the same problem in an open section of winning a prize as any 2000 to 2200 player would have.
Simply encouraging organizers to add an U2200 prize in all tournaments where there is an open section over 2000, would give all those players U2200 (including most women players) a chance to win a monetary prize while competing in the open section. I would think this would help everyone because it must be a bit frustrating to reach 2000 but then have to go through a period where chances of getting a prize are small when playing Canada's best players. This could discourage players who seem to spend years in the 2000 to 2100 rating zone. This of course includes many players of both genders. Not that I think money is the main motivation for playing chess but it's nice once in a while to earn your entry fee back.
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