4. Executive / Officer Reports

[Lyle Craver]

To all executive members please post your reports in this section using the lettering system given in the agenda

[Fred McKim]

4L Treasurer's Report

We finally took DGT up on it's offer of Developmental Prices on Clocks an e-Boards. There were so many moving parts that it took us months to finally get something to the Country's Organizers. I think the final numbers are perhaps in the order of $35,000 being spent. Thanks to Larry Bevand for partnering with us.

We are presently working on GoMembership. Vlad, Bob, and I have had a couple of demos so far and we are presently deciding what portion on the CFC database we will be initializing in that separate environment (that will probably run a weekly update link). This has it's own agenda item. One of the things coming out of this will be a closer relationship between us and the Chess Clubs that make up the heart of chess in Canada.

Fred McKim
CFC Treasurer

[Vladimir Drkulec]

This report is from Vadim Tsypin, our publicity officer, who is currently travelling where the internet is not reliable.

CFC Publicity Officer report, Q4 2018


Dear colleagues,

My mandate from the Board includes three principal aspects: - writing drafts of CFC press-releases and some external communications as needed, - continuing to engage Ambassadors and other appropriate officials, - posting interesting news on the CFC Forum and other Web resources.

I was privileged to write and publish a CFC press release devoted to the election of Christina Tao as the CFC Youth Coordinator. This was sent to mass media and government officials. We received some positive feedback from the Parliament Hill.

I was explaining the CFC developments in French in Quebec and tried to engage the FQE rank-and-file with our national federation. One of such examples was the DGT equipment offer.

I systematically informed the Executive, players and parents about changes in regulations and new developments related to such events as the World Youth / World Youth R&B 2018, World Women’s CH. 2018, World Cadets 2019.

I believe that this aspect remains crucial since the CFC has to react to new challenges in the near future. One example is the change in the format of the World Women’s Championship Cycle which would make it very hard to organize Canadian Women’s Zonals. As we know, the FIDE has replaced the former knockout system by the Women’s Candidates tournament, seeking to harmonize men’s and women’s cycles. For the current, transitional cycle, three of the eight players are semifinalists from the WWCC 2018 while the other five are selected by rating. Going forward, most will be selected by rating or via Women’s Grand Prix. It means that our Zonal champion will never again be qualified directly to play for the world title. Therefore, the Canadian female players would lose their principal motivation to play in the Women’s Zonal. We’ll need to find other incentives for them to keep this tournament going.

Respectfully submitted by Vadim Tsypin.

[Aris Marghetis]

I was not aware of these changes to the Womens Zonal system. Does anyone know exactly where I could find the complete changes in effect for 2020 & 2022?

Thank you, best regards, Aris.

[Pierre Dénommée]

There will be a Women Word Cup in 2020. We could reasonably assume the our Canadian Women Champion will be invited as our Canadian Champion is on the other World Cup.

The rules of the Women World Cup have not been made public yet, but if there our Zonal means nothing, we would have an excellent reason to complain at the next FIDE GA.

Vadim, you a much closer to the FIDE president then anybody in the CFC. As his advisor, I hope that you will advise him to keep our zone intact and preserve the rights that are comes with our zone.


http://fide.com/component/content/ar...hip-cycle.html

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Vice-president report:

Most of my work as a VP was giving my opinion on various matters. A bigger work was performed by organizing/arbitrating several tournaments (Aurora weekend open with 160 players; Oakville Rapid & Blitz with 70 players); and supervising the club with ~60 members.


You might see that it was posted by

"drkulec
CFC Vice President".

My name seems was compromised by someone...

--
Egis

[Pierre Dénommée]

My principal actions during this period have been to stay current of FIDE matters and establish an new League.

FIDE has released a wealth of information, some related to my task (future Women World Cup) other relating to various rules modifications.

The most significant rule change is that, for all norm tournaments, only one half point bye per tournament will be allowed. Consequently, all other missed games by a player will count as 0. This also applies to all FIDE rated tournament unless the organizer has announced in advance something else.

The Qualification Commission has clarified the impact of allowing a player who is playing under the FIDE flag in a norm tournament.

FID players. The effect of these players on norm applications from tournaments in which they take part was discussed. Council's view is that they do not count either as a player from the player's own federation or as a foreign player. FID itself does not count as a federation.

A Chess 960 FIDE rating will be introduced. Tournament can be sent for rating beginning November 1st, but the first Chess 960 FRL is not expected before July 1st 2019 if enough tournaments have been received. The rules for Chess 960 Rating have not been been created yet, we know neither the K Factor nor if there will be more then one Chess 960 FRL based on the time control.

No publicity has been made by the CFC about many important changes affecting all FA and IA. Everybody should be made aware of these changes, especially those concerning the retraining and re-certification of all current IA and FA. http://www.fide.com/images/stories/N...s/Annex_65.pdf

I have also founded a League under the NFP Act as a protest against the multiple deficiencies of the Quebec's NFP Act. It will give me greater understanding of the Act that governs the CFC. The new League did take advantage of the DGT offer.

[Christina Tao]

4F Youth Coordinator Q4 Report:

2018 Youth Tournaments Summary:
Overall we had a very successful year for Youth Chess in Canada


2018 CYCC in Montreal, QC Jul 2nd- Jul 5th
We had record high number of players, 362 players attended CYCC in Montreal.

2018 WYCC in Halkidiki, Greece Oct 16th-31st
We had 11 players from U14 to U18 Open and Girls sections competed in Greece. There were 2 on-site coaches GM Alexander Cherniaev and GM Vlad Jianu supporting the team. Onsite HoD was Wendy Matsubuchi. Offsite workload were done by Christina Tao

2018 WCCC in Santiago de Compostela, Spain Nov 3rd-16th
We had 26 players from U08 to U12 Open and Girls sections competed in Spain. There were 3 on-site coaches GM Alexander Cherniaev, GM Gergely Szabo and GM Vlad Jianu supporting the team. HoD was Anabelle Kovatcheva

2018 Pan-AM in Santiago, Chile from July 21th to 29th, 2018
We had 14 players played in PanAm. It was a very success event with the visit from the Ambassador of Canada in Chile, Madam Patricia Peña to greet players. Max Chen came home with 2nd place in U12 Open section. HoD was Christina Tao

2018 NAYCC/ NA Junior U20 in Baja California, Mexico from Nov 16th to 21st, 2018
We had 22 players played in NAYCC across from U08 to U18 Open and Girls sections and 3 players played in NA Junior U20 section. I am very proud to announce we had 10 players coming home with medals and titles. Onsite HoD was Andrei Botez. Offsite workload were done by Christina Tao

2018 Chess Olympiad in Konya Turkey, Nov 24th-Dec 3rd
Despite the disapproval from CFC, Andrei Botez still formed a team of 5 players to play in U16 Chess Olympiad at Turkey.



2019 Youth Tournaments Development:

2019 Panamerican Junior U20 Chess Championship will be in Antigua, Guatemala Jun 01-08

2019 North American Junior U20 Championships will be in Charlotte, NC, USA, Jun 26-30
NA Junior U20 Invitation link

2019 CYCC - Regina, SK July 6-10, 2019
CYCC website link

2019 PanAm will be in Guayaquil, Ecuador from Jul 25 to Aug 2, 2019
Official player selection deadline date : Feb 15, 2019

2019 NAYCC will be in Kingston ON, CANADA from Aug 15-20, 2019
Official player selection deadline date : March 01, 2019
Player register themselves to the NAYCC organizer.

2019 WCCC will be in Weifang, China, Aug 20-Sept 2, 2019
Still waiting for the detail information about the tournament and deadline date

2019 WYCC will be in Nagpur, India, Oct 1-13, 2019
Still waiting for the detail information about the tournament and deadline date

2019 World Junior and Girls U20 Chess Championship will be in New Delhi, India Oct 14-26


Discussion:

1. A proposal that will let additional players to go to WCCC/WYCC without going thru the qualifier tournament, CYCC with strict approval process. All official players are still selected thru the CYCC tournament.
2. Next year U16 Chess Olympiad is still in Turkey. There are many players interested to go, however there is still under "travel with high risk" warning on government advisory website. Where is CFC standing on sending a Team to Turkey in 2019 U16 Chess Olympiad
3. Currently there is no funding to PanAm or NAYCC. Both tournaments are getting more popular in recent year, the team is getting bigger. Can there be some funding support towards the HoD as the amount of workload are increasing substantially.


Conclusion:

I would like to thank all the volunteers and organisers of all the YCCs across the country for bringing organized chess to Canadian youth. I would like to express a special thank you to this year’s CYCC organisers and volunteers for hugely successful tournament in Montreal. Last but not least I would to thank all the parents and families of the youth chess players for their support and encouragement of their children’s passion in chess. I hope the enthusiasm for international events by players and their parent continues.

Christina
Youth Coordinator

[Michael Barron]

Thank you, Christina, for your great work and for your report!

As you see, it's not the best place for Discussion about youth chess issues.
We have now CFC Youth Committee forum, where such discussions could take place.
Please post your proposals there for discussion.

I only want to stress importance of Youth Chess Olympiad.
Kudos to Andrei Botez for providing such opportunity for Canadian players!
Of course, Canada should participate in this event every year, including 2019.

[Vladimir Drkulec]

As you see, it's not the best place for Discussion about youth chess issues.
We have now CFC Youth Committee forum, where such discussions could take place.
Please post your proposals there for discussion.

Well actually this and the board of directors is the place for such discussion as it involves some considerations which the youth committee is not really equipped to deal with.