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Attention to all SWOCL-ites:

This years South-Western Ontario Chess League annual general meeting will be held here at the CFC discussion board, beginning tomorrow and ending sometime before the...

Do you really believe that to sell chess you need to show people its politics? When you want to "see what organized" hockey is about do you go to NHL governors meeting?

Is the AGM open to the public or just to cfc members?

An interesting article:
http://www.kaggle.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/kaggle_win.pdf

On a related issue, I am curious whether anyone has investigated the effects of having more frequent...

There are no bonus points. FIDE has some differing circumstances from us though in that that there are very few low rated players-- until recently the floor was 2000.

In fact when calculating...

This was discussed before: If we were to move to a rating fee only model the life membership rating fee could remain at $3. I have not advocated to take away the life membership benefits.

Further,...

With that said, were this motion to pass I think it would have no effect on anything whatsoever, either in promoting or demoting member participation.

Perhaps I will be the only one to voice this opinion here, but it is my opinion that this "limitation of rights" section makes perfect sense, and should be left alone. This view has to do in...

Did the CCC have an in depth discussion to reach this consensus? It appears to me that perhaps the CCC supports Bob A.'s opinion in the same way the youth committee supports Michael B.'s.

It is...

Perhaps to avoid future confusion the governors on the youth committee could provide some sort of precis of their proceedings-- a simple accounting of the committee members for and against a course...

I think this is a bad idea... any written warning will just appear on his blog the next day and make the cfc look more foolish/petty.

Just ignore the guy if you don't like what he has to say.
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Is there a list of all the players currently qualified?

Check this:

http://www.chess.ca/MemStats.shtml

In place and accounted for.

I think Aris' system in Ottawa is by far the best used in Ontario. The 200 point sections, and ban on "playing up" ensure that all your games are close.

The Hart House System with premium on...

Hi Bob,
The list hasn't changed since Dec. 31st.
Those are the totals for 2010.

One of the greatest challenges facing organizers of events is attracting travelling players; transportation and hotel costs can discourage even the keenest of players.

It has not been uncommon for...

This tournament looks awesome.
I would like to play in this event one year...
There aren't many event of this caliber in English speaking locales.

How can they be a competitor? There is no market share here-- only promoting chess, which both the CFC and CMA do.
There is an obvious difference between promoting chess in Canada and promoting the...

Hi Bob A. and Ken,
I am curious whether your convictions on this matter would be satisfied if the meeting were made open to the public after it was completed. I don't personally have a problem with...

I don't think anyone here sees them as competition.

I also don't think that we (the cfc) have anything to off kids of that age group, right now.

What would be the ideal relationship between the...

Or they could just not invite everyone's favourite IM. ;) It was so shameful when that guy played in the U2400 section of the Canadian Open 2008 (while his ratings were, cfc 2428, fide 2392)

Not to be negative, but I don't think it is possible for us to appeal to young kids with our current standards.
Kids are not going to play long chess in the way we think about it.
The reason...

Is that necessarily a bad thing? Are we not supposed to represent the members?

(For the record I think the meetings should remain closed... but only because we often discuss things which might be...