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4.J Chess Foundation of Canada
After a rough start to 2020 the Foundation assets have climbed back above the value at this time last year.
As of this moment we have $370,000 invested and expect to...

4.I Rating Auditor
There have been very few regular rated events since my last report. Furthermore, my ability to oversee the rating system is on hold until the website is complete and
the rating...

Chess activity in BC is about half of what it was when we had live chess. The rating fee and membership revenue from our online events is about a quarter of what we were getting when we had live...

Given that most of our activity has been online and Quick rated, many players are opting to purchase tournament memberships for $8 adult or $4 junior, there is no financial burden for players.
The...

FIDE to CFC Conversion Rate:
When rating events containing new players with FIDE ratings, the CFC will assign to such players
an initial CFC rating of FIDE + 125. This will replace the current...

A few more, congratulations!
Chen Ji Zheng, Toronto
Mohan Dixit, Markham
Jayden Yang, Richmond Hill
Daniel Lee, Windsor
Shon Lazarev, Toronto
Jayden Su, LaSalle, ON

Time to congratulate another six players for earning the COVID rating bonus:
Tan Le, Vancouver
Abigail Wang, Surrey
Alan Wang, West Vancouver
Carina D'Souza, Toronto
Henry Yao, Richmond Hill...

Vlad mentioned camera monitoring.
Is anyone currently doing that for ONL in Canada?

The CFC Junior Co-ordinator is a natural for this committee.
Also, Felix has done a very good job administering the grants over the past several years.

Victor, thank you for your support. I am willing to have another look at the starting ratings for players with established ratings elsewhere.
Can you e-mail me with a proposal that I can discuss? ...

Rating Auditor Report
The rating system continued to perform as expected with some minor inflation at the lower end, which I assess to be the bonus formula doing its job
and some minor deflation in...

Chess Foundation of Canada
Boring is good in the investment world these days and the Foundation had a boring year.
Funds under management $333,746 down a few percent in line with market conditions....

I only have experience with chess.com screening for cheating in our BCCF tournaments and they seem to do a good job.
I think we're asking for trouble if we set up our own complaints department. Why...

I feel that the Rating Auditor’s primary goal is to protect the integrity of the CFC’s most valuable asset, the Regular ratings.
If re-elected, I will not change the K factor as I believe that the...

Rating Auditor
I am willing to stand for Rating Auditor

I need to make a small clarification regarding the rating boundaries for eligibility:

Those who have initial regular ratings less than 1000, are eligible for a second bonus of up to 200 points....

I'd like to congratulate the first seven players to earn the 200 point COVAID-19 bonus:
Anni Guo, Markham ON
Kaitlyn Tao, Windsor ON
Drake Chen, BC
Aiden Li, Kitchener, ON
Edward Enns,...

I remembered another detail about the limitation to 4 games per day for regular rated tournaments. When we updated the conditions for regular rating a few years ago, we were faced with a few junior...

Don, just on the website issue, my rating software that was constructed by Vincent Chow 2-3 years ago no longer works.
I think the problem is the link to the tournament results on the old website....

The BC Senior last month was game in 90 with 30 second increments.
I think most players enjoyed it and if felt more like OTB chess than most online tournaments, not only because of the slow
time...

Chess Foundation Trustees
Current status of trustee terms (CFC Secretary please correct me if I am wrong):
Lloyd Lombard 2023 (re-elected for 4 years at the 2019 AGM)
Hugh Brodie 2022
Hans Jung...

Tony, these are interesting ideas.
I don't have any objection to 6 games per day for U1200 players. The only downside would be if there was at least one game in each round where both players used...

I have been asked about rating floors before.
First, are you sure there is a problem that needs to be solved? How prevalent is "sand-bagging" and is it worth distorting the rating system in an...

In the migration to the new website, I have lost the ability to audit the rating system.
Vincent Chow built a very useful program for me that collected data from the rating list.
It now does not...

I'm looking forward to hearing about the barriers to entry created by imperfections in the rating system. This is the first time I have heard about it.
Paul Leblanc
CFC Rating Auditor