I intend to submit an amendment to this article at the next meeting but first I hope to hear from other governors, hopefully including those that originally crafted this article.
I was approached by Gerry Lichfield from the CFC office with an observation that this regulation, the way it is written is unenforceable.
In the first sentence, the requirement to use a foreign player's national or FIDE rating does not give a hierarchy (whichever is higher?).
In the second sentence, the phrase "changed foreign rating will be used to recalculate his CFC rating" implies that there is a country by country conversion formula. Does this exist? If the player/TD forgets or doesn't know about the change in foreign rating, the CFC office does not have the resources to track this down.
The third sentence is difficult due to the phrase "new resident".
Here are Gerry's comments:
Last I checked the handbook says if an outside player shows up, CFC subs his national rating, but if they reside in Canada for a time then CFC is not supposed to sub the rating.
This means the organizers must submit a report as such on status of outside players, otherwise it is simply my best guess.
Trouble is no organizers ever submit any such information thus that whole section of the handbook is out of order/useless unless organizers start reporting on status of foreign players.
Also everyone emails me asking as if I have made some kind of concrete decisions, in truth I simply guess in order to hopefully keep the system going.
Like I said, anything anywhere in the handbook that cannot be performed is out of order.
Another problem is handbook says we sub their FIDE or USCF rating, but it does not specify which in cases where they have both.
In 2010 I had many cases in 2010 North American Youth Chess Championships in Montreal were outside players had both.
So I used FIDE first, then USCF, trouble is parents wanted me to use FIDE or USCF depending on the situation that benefitted their child most. (Canadian child who played foreign players)
Again no clear direction, a lose lose situation. Handbook is out of order. All those motions made that cannot be simply completed are out of order.
Paul Leblanc
Treasurer, Chess Foundation of Canada
CFC Voting Member