Dear Victor,
Thank you for questions on substance. It is a pleasure for me to answer them although
I am puzzled why didn’t you address those directly to my dear wife who is her own person. Women are not considered “appendages” to their husbands anymore, right?
My spouse Diana Tsypina is an accomplished professional and entrepreneur. She holds Master of Sciences degree in Computer Science and worked with distinction for several decades in Canada in the leading Crown corporations and Information Technology companies. Diana is also a business owner and has significant investment income.
Like many of our colleagues, Diana Tsypina started her successful career as a chess arbiter by leveraging her professional qualifications to master the tournament management software such as Siwss Sys, Vega, and Swiss Manager. By working hard at the scholastic, youth, and national events, she rose through the ranks and distinguished herself:
• First, by becoming
the first female FIDE Arbiter in Canada (title awarded at 89th FIDE Congress
2018, 26 Sep - 6 Oct, Batumi, Georgia),
• Then, by becoming the
only active female International Arbiter in Canada (after late Evelyn Stringer , b. 1928) (title awarded at 3rd quarter PB
2019, 7-8 September, Budapest, HUN).
Diana and I extremely happy that, due to great efforts of Ontario organizers to promote gender equity in chess, two distinguished ladies,
Corinna Wan and Karen Wan (titles awarded at 2020 2nd FIDE Council meeting). Congratulations again, Corinna and Karen! The IA Norms are awaiting you and all the bright hard-working Canadian arbiters in the international events that we will be able to bring to Canada together after this election.
Her background and advanced skills in mathematics and computer science brought Diana Tsypina into a rarified circle of the world’s topmost authorities in Swiss pairing implementation algorithms. Since 2018, she is a
ranking member of the FIDE Systems of Pairings and Programs Commission (SPP), contributing a lot to the advances of tournament software, including online platforms, worldwide.
https://spp.fide.com/2019/10/23/spp-meeting/
A lifetime CFC and FQE member, Diana Tsypina
served with distinction, including as Chief Arbiter or Deputy Chief Arbiter, in several dozen World, Continental and National events, as well as in huge international festivals in Europe and the marquee norm events in Canada and the USA. Some of you, honourable Voting Members, took part in such events as the 2018 edition of the Canadian Youth Chess Championship / Canadian Open in Quebec and the 2019 edition in Saskatchewan, of the GM Norm event at the famous Max Dlugy’s Academy in New York.
Diana’s official FIDE card can be accessed here:
https://ratings.fide.com/profile/2631717
Diana Tsypina submitted a
routine category upgrade application to FIDE for CFC’s acknowledgment in December 2020. It was later established that
this application met or exceeded all legal requirements codified in the FIDE Handbook B06, Annex 2, "
Regulations for the classification of the chess arbiters".
Yet, for unknown reasons, Diana was viciously attacked by a member of the CFC Executive who suddenly decided to play a role of a self-proclaimed gatekeeper for Canadians’ advance through FIDE – a role that the CFC Exec didn’t entrust him with.
“
The Board of Directors of the Chess Federation of Canada overwhelmingly voted to support Mrs. Tsypina's application despite the objections of our delegate who ultimately resigned because the board disagreed with [the delegate’s] interpretation of our role in this process.”
The application has been properly processed by FIDE. Diana decided not to reply to the former delegate’s unfounded statements – she has a business to run and politics is not her style.
Now, some VMs has upped the ante and stepped into the public realm to attack my wife’s and my reputation and our good names. By repeating hearsay, and quoting in public, materially unfounded and patently false allegations, they put their own reputations in question.