Executive Directors Report
I trust everyone is anxiously awaiting the return of OTB chess. Prior to the pandemic lockdown, CFC memberships had been growing at a steady clip for several years. The vaccine is now beginning to be distributed, so I do believe the end is in sight. I predict clubs and tournaments will start to return in May 2021. No doubt a few clubs may not return or instead be reconstituted under new leadership. Some players may have found a new home in online chess, but I suspect that will be a small number. Once we are beyond COVID19, I anticipate continued growth.
During this lull, we have been preparing for the future. Our new (Go) membership management system has been launched. There are still some wrinkles in the system, but there has been a steady flow of new members and renewals since October. If you haven’t tried it yet, go ahead even if it isn’t time your renewal time yet. You can log into your account and update your personal information. If you can’t login, it is probably because we don’t have your email on file. Send us an email and we’ll fix that.
We have built a new website. Or I should say, thank you Don Parakin our new webmaster. Don came on board to help with the Go membership launch, and identified our critical need for a new website when our site was hacked again. Don has created a more stable functionally efficient site utilizing software tools developed in recent years. The core functions have been restored and the balance is time. We now have the last 5 issues of Chess Canada available for viewing.
We are now rating online chess hosted on third party servers. This has been a challenge to TD’s in tournament submissions but more importantly in dealing with online cheating. The issue is discussed more in other threads. I am looking forward to trying out the new platform, Tornelo. Also the question I am frequently asked, will CFC continue to rate online games after OTB chess returns? Why not, if the interest is there.
A note our TD’s, you should upgrade your Swiss Sys software to version 10 for 2021. It is available on our website for download. When you do, send me an email for an updated access code.
I look forward to seeing everyone in person hopefully soon in 2021 at the club!
I just received this from our ExD today, and will make some comments after I have a chance to review it ........
FS2021Oct (2).pdf
Last edited by Fred McKim; 12-18-2020 at 05:54 PM. Reason: Modified file
It looks like about $25k in losses for six months which is actually a little better than expected. Today the cash balance has gone up a bit from the beginning of the meeting when it was $55k and we are now at $57k in cash. Olympiads have been cancelled for 2021 so we are looking at 2022 before any major expenditures aside from normal salary. We are looking at a year before we run out of cash with no cash coming in but I think we will get some money from the foundation and I still think we should be able to get $10k to $20k from the government.
I have seen no evidence of that. WADA Sanctions concerns World Championships. Olympics and Paralympic games, not chess Olympiads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44th_Chess_Olympiad , https://www.fide.com/news/229
FIDE has already claimed that this exception applies and that the Olympiads can go on.Originally Posted by CAS
I would trust what FIDE said at the general assembly more than what some wikipedia page says. The FIDE calendar shows no olympiad in 2021 aside from the olympiad for the disabled. My understanding is that Minsk Olympiad in 2022 has been cancelled and moved to Russia though that is not reflected in the FIDE calendar which still shows Belarus as the site.
Last edited by Vladimir Drkulec; 12-18-2020 at 10:33 PM.
The decision to cancel has been omitted in the minutes https://www.fide.com/news/863 . This cancellation is good for us.
I guess it was actually the FIDE Online council meeting.
Q4OC-2020/12. To authorize the FIDE President to finalize contracts for the organization of the World Cups in Russia in 2021 and the Chess Olympiad in Russia in 2022.
I believe FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich mentioned it in the FIDE general assembly as well though I don't know exactly at what point in the six hour meeting as I watched it after the fact on youtube and was jumping around in the meeting.