12. Class Certificates Motions (Chris Mallon) (re-designated as 2012-G1 and 2012-G2)

[Lyle Craver]

I have re-designated Chris' motions 2012-G1 and 2012-G2. Please note that the mover requests 2012-G2 be conditional on the passage of the first motion.

Please accept my apologies for the delay in bringing these to a vote!

[Christopher Mallon]

Motion #1
That the CFC Handbook be amended as follows:

Delete Section 738 (Certificate of Life Master) and replace with:

Section 738. Rating Categories, Titles and Certificates.

a) The CFC officially recognizes the following titles, rating classes and CFC rating floors: National Master (2200), National Candidate Master (2000), Class A (1800), Class B (1600), Class C (1400), Class D (1200), and Class E (1000).

b) To achieve standing for any class or title, the player must:
i. Have at some point had a published CFC rating above the minimum rating floor for that category or title
ii. Have in three separate tournaments achieved a norm, which is a performance rating at least 100 points above the rating floor
iii. For the purposes of these norms, only CFC ratings count, and the player must have played at least five games.
iv. Matches may not be used as a norm.
v. An event can be used as a norm for multiple classes - for example, a 2300 performance event can be a norm used by the same player for Class A, National Candidate Master AND National Master.

c) Certificates. The CFC will provide, free of charge, certificates to those who achieve the title of National Master or any higher title that the CFC chooses to award. Certificates for lower titles or classes are not automatically provided, but may be requested. The CFC Executive is empowered to set a fee for this service not to exceed $10 including shipping.

Motion #2

To be abandoned should Motion #1 not pass. That Section 738 a) of the CFC Handbook be amended as follows:

Insert "Senior National Master (2400)," prior to "National Master".

I split it into 2 motions because I do not want people opposed to the SNM title to possibly delay or even derail the whole motion as has happened in the past with other motions.

I believe Vladimir Drkulec has seconded these motions but he can confirm that. I switched the wording back from Category to Class to avoid confusion with the FIDE tournament rating categories.

[Fred McKim]

I wonder if you should call these in 738 part a) as "life titles, rating classes, etc"

How is the administration to work ? Does the player contact the business office or rating auditor, perhaps ? Is a list to be maintained ?, etc

[Christopher Mallon]

That sort of thing is more of a "regulation" rather than something that goes in the handbook. The Exec can decide the best way to handle that, including what fee level up to $10 to charge for the service.

[Christopher Mallon]

It shouldn't cost $10 to do them, but the NM ones are free... so setting the fee at $10 you could contract someone to do them as they come in and it should basically pay for itself with a little extra to that person for their time.

I would suggest that they should be signed, probably by one of the President, Secretary, Ratings Auditor, or perhaps the ED. (With a nice pen, btw...) So finding someone local to one of these people would be the best bet. Shouldn't be too hard.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

I'm willing to support Motion #1.

As for Motion #2 - no. I'm opposing the Senior in the title. Chess has a tradition with a Grand.

[Lyle Craver]

I don't have a problem with the use of 'Senior' for 2400+ players.

Both the CFC and USCF have used the term Senior Master for 50+ years that I personally know of - not sure how far further back it goes so it's not like the Senior Master title is at all new.

[Vladimir Drkulec]

I split it into 2 motions because I do not want people opposed to the SNM title to possibly delay or even derail the whole motion as has happened in the past with other motions.

I believe Vladimir Drkulec has seconded these motions but he can confirm that. I switched the wording back from Category to Class to avoid confusion with the FIDE tournament rating categories.

I can confirm that I have seconded these motions.

Vladimir Drkulec

[Christopher Mallon]

Lyle, clarification - You didn't give these motion numbers, are they being voted on?

[Pierre Dénommée]

I wonder if it is not too easy to get those title.

There should be a maximum number of unrated opponent for a norm to be valid.

The rating of the title candidate must not be provisional

There should be at least one third of the opponents belonging to a class or to a higher class then the class that the player is attempting to achieve. For example, for a class B title, at least on third of the opponents must be from class B or above.