I agree with all that.
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I agree with all that.
1. The FQE does not want to have a team in Budapest, it would be far too late for that.
2. The FQE does not want to be a Federation affiliated to FIDE like Scotland, this is no longer allowed by...
I rarely read this board. I have received a request from FIDE directly in my inbox and I have replied to it.
Francophone Chess Championships in standard, rapid and blitz time controls. Direct titles possible, norms should be possible.
August 12th to 20th, at Laval University, Quebec City .
All the...
https://fide.com/news/2532
The new FIDE tiebreak regulations that should have come in force on July 1st have been postponed.
The U18 section has only 4 players and will be played as a double round robin, not as a Swiss. The tiebreaks have been adjusted accordingly because two of them are meaningless for a round robin.
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74 preregistered players an still counting.
Team Quebec won the online Francophone Team Championship for a third consecutive year.
Congratulations!
The Quebec Rapid Youth Chess Championship, which will also be used as a CYCC Qualifier, will be held in Montreal on Sunday May 28th 2023.
Tournament web site :...
It will begin tomorrow, but Canada has no team yet.
I am willing to stand for Vice-President and Director at Large.
I am willing to continue on the NAC.
I am willing to stand for director at large.
I am willing to continue serving on the National Appeals Committee.
I am willing to stand for Governor at Large,
I am willing to stand for Vice-President
The Olympiad will be held in India unless one ore more bidders manifest themselves within 10 days of last Sunday.
It is an individual open Swiss tournament and everybody can participate, even if not selected as the official CFC player.
Same problem in Quebec, Santa Claus Tournament has been cancelled because, with a few exceptions such as the NHL, all competitions and tournaments are now illegal in the province. Santa's tournament...
The Civil Aviation Minister of Morocco has forbidden all landings in his country until at least December 31st 2021. This has forced the postponement of this tournament to July 1st 2022 (Arrival) to...
After a mandatory COVID break, this tournament, which designate the Provincial Champion, will return on November 25th 2021. The Final will begin December 3rd 2021, one week after the quarterfinals...
I did not count 40 on the official FIDE crosstable, but it was quite close https://ratings.fide.com/report.phtml?event=215032.
The 2021 Francophonie Chess Championships will be held in Casablanca, Morocco, from December 25th 2021 (arrival) to January 3rd 2022 (departure). First round December 26th and last round January 2nd....
1.56 Any title application containing a norm not achieved before 30.6.2022 must include at least one norm from an individual Swiss tournament with every round containing at least forty participants...
I cannot locate any information about testing of officials. I can easily find testing of athletes of international and national level, which is very few players.
Obviously, all officials have...
There is something called therapeutic use exemptions https://www.wada-ama.org/en/what-we-do/science-medical/therapeutic-use-exemptions . It allows a person with a genuine medical need for a drug to...