5A5 - DISCUSSION ITEMS - New Business

[Lyle Craver]

Any Voting Member wishing to discuss any matter not on the agenda is welcome to post here.

If any specific topic generates enough postings to warrant a separate thread I'll create the thread and move all discussion on it there.

[Pierre Dénommée]

On December 3rd, there will be an LTD seminar in French in Montreal, I will be the lecturer. All candidates who will successfully write the exam on Sunday will be granted the FQE LTD title.

There should not be two separate LTD certifications for Quebec and Canada. It should be possible to get the CFC LTD title by simply paying the licence fee after successfully completing the Quebec examination. I cannot guarantee that any participant will have an interest in the CFC title, I only want to emphasize that having two examinations is counterproductive especially since the CFC is making now effort to make public his own Tournament Rules which are the only significant difference with the FQE content.

[Lyle Craver]

Which "own tournament rules" do you have in mind? The CFC follows FIDE much closer than does the USCF.

I would definitely support harmonizing these though if the CFC were updating the curriculum would think a module on how to submit reports via the software should be part of it at least for the lowest level.

I would also expect the updated FIDE language on time controls to be an important change from 10 or so years ago when the CFC last updated these.

The essential problem with TD certification is that I don't think we have an appetite to make certification mandatory and everybody agrees certification is useful but barely on the priority list at all. At the present time of CTD, RTD, NTD, IA the last named is the only one I hold that anybody notices at all!

[Pierre Dénommée]

For the tournament rules, see http://chess.ca/sites/default/files/07-08gl2.pdf .

[Pierre Dénommée]

It is better at page 35 of this GL. Not everything in this has been approved.

http://chess.ca/sites/default/files/07-08gl3.pdf

The result of voting http://chess.ca/sites/default/files/07-08gl4.pdf

The CFC also has a Code of Ethics that is very similar to the FQE Code of Ethic.

[Richard Bérubé]

Hi Lyle,

The FQE has translated the FIDE laws of chess new edition into french. This document will be used to build an official FIDE rule book in french as was asked to AIDEF by FIDE.

[Richard Bérubé]

List of tournaments who needs an organizer

Somebody can tell me what tournament needs an organizer for 2017 ?
Women Championship ?
Canadian Closed (Zonal) ?
Junior ?

The FQE can surely organize one or two of those.

[Hal Bond]

Richard - thank you for asking about our national tournaments. The Women's Closed was held this year, so 2018 is ok for that one.

The Canadian Junior and Canadian Zonal Championship are both awaiting bids.

[Pierre Dénommée]

Richard - thank you for asking about our national tournaments. The Women's Closed was held this year, so 2018 is ok for that one.

The Canadian Junior and Canadian Zonal Championship are both awaiting bids.

Why not doing a non zonal Canadian Women Championship on in 2017? We can still get titles without foreign players with 3 or more WIM.

[Vladimir Drkulec]

List of tournaments who needs an organizer

Somebody can tell me what tournament needs an organizer for 2017 ?
Women Championship ?
Canadian Closed (Zonal) ?
Junior ?

The FQE can surely organize one or two of those.

None of those tournaments has an organizer at the present time.