7. 2013-H Membership requirements for FIDE-rated events (Bond/McKim) -commentary only

[Michael von Keitz]

Replace the wording of Section 7, p. 790h with the following: "All Canadian players who compete in a FIDE registered event must be members in good standing of the CFC, or possess a valid tournament passport prior to the start of the tournament."

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Replace the wording of Section 7, p. 790h with the following: "All Canadian players who compete in a FIDE registered event must be members in good standing of the CFC, or possess a valid tournament passport prior to the start of the tournament."

a valid tournament passport

What is that? The Handbook gives 0 (zero) search results.

[Bob Armstrong]

Hi Hal/Fred:

I agree with Egis - I don't recognize this term.

Is a tournament playing fee going to be acceptable? Or are you trying to prohibit it for FIDE-rated events?

Bob A

[Christopher Mallon]

Hi Hal/Fred:

I agree with Egis - I don't recognize this term.

Is a tournament playing fee going to be acceptable? Or are you trying to prohibit it for FIDE-rated events?

Bob A

The TPF was originally referred to as a tournament passport.

I can't see the existing wording because the CFC site is all screwy for me right now trying to read the handbook.

[Halldor P. Palsson]

What are we doing here?

Is this motion an accommodation for the CFC/FQE agreement?

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

I can't see the existing wording because the CFC site is all screwy for me right now trying to read the handbook.

If you used Firefox as a browser, switch to other one (chome, IE) just to read the Handbook. The issue is with a very huge handbook file and Firefox inability to handle huge files.
It would better to split a handbook into sections as before.

As for the motion:
http://www.chess.ca/membership-rates talks about "Non-member tournament fees"
If the motion would pass, the mentioned webpage should be updated too, and the somewhere a description of the Passport must be given.

[Fred McKim]

The motion clarifies that someone can play in a FIDE rated event with a tournament membership (yes, yes, I know this isn't the right name .... but we are all having trouble coming up with an acceptable one - on the CFC web site membership page, I called it a non-member tournament fee).

[Pierre Dénommée]

How many Non-member tournament fees did we collect last year? How many of those were in FIDE rated tournaments.

I do not see the usefulness of the motion because nobody can play a CFC rated tournament without a membership and all FIDE rated competitions must also be CFC rated.

Do we want to say that a Canadian player cannot play in a FIDE rated tournament anywhere in the world without a CFC membership?

[Christopher Mallon]

Do we want to say that a Canadian player cannot play in a FIDE rated tournament anywhere in the world without a CFC membership?

Technically this is actually a FIDE rule, that someone must be a member in good standing of their national federation.

[Bob Armstrong]

It makes sense to me that if a Canadian wants to play internationally under the Canadian flag ( = member of the Canadian Federation ), then he should have a valid CFC membership.

Bob A