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The Canadian Chess Hall of Fame Committee (Larry Bevand, Hugh Brodie, Ian Findlay, Fred McKim and Stephen Wright) is actively preparing to receive, review and vote on nominations for the 2022 class...

Stephen Wright and Hugh Brodie would be good sources.

Atlantic Canada has fared better than most other parts of Canada, Covid-wise, although Omicron did hit us. In 2021 NB had two single day CFC events and PEI had two full CFC weekend events. Our local...

Merry Christmas from the Maritimes !

The Canadian Chess Player of the Year Award was re-established in 2003 by David Cohen. While David passed away earlier this year, he wanted to see his project continued*and made arrangements with...

The Canadian Chess Hall of Fame was established in 2000 by David Cohen. While David passed away earlier this year, he wanted to see his project continued and made arrangements with Chess'n Math...

Maritime Open and 4 Side events

https://mcc.devastation.ca/mcf21.html

Fred

At the moment all online CFC tournaments are Quick Chess Rated. It seems to be popular (check the rating fees for 2020/2021).

At the moment there are no Covid-19 restrictions in public spaces in NB. Accordingly the organizer of the NB Tornado G/60 Championship this past weekend, had an event that resembled any pre-Covid...

4M. Treasurer's Report

As usual, I want to summarize the Financial Statements with a very brief Revenue Statement (May 1, 2020 - Apr 30, 2021)

Revenue

Net CFC Memberships .............. ...

I am thinking the organizer of any Canadian Championship would agree on Covid-19 precautions with the CFC Executive, in advance of the tournament. Masks could possibly be agreed upon a few weeks...

Bob maintains a list of players who have received a suspension from Online CFC play. Most were young juniors. I would guess there are a dozen names. I think in almost every case the player has been...

I think a discussion is warranted -- it's going to be next Easter before the next National event is held and things could be completely different by then.

Thanks, Fred, for starting this thread. Danny Goldenberg posted a message on chesstalk, so I copied it here. I'm not sure if he has access here. (his thread was titled "Nominations for CFC...

It is important to remember that we did not have our status revoked, for "bad" behaviour, but we were ruled not to fit the description of a charity. As a lawyer, Patricia, you might be in a unique...

I have been asked to post this by Tony Li. Tony also has a good background for this position.

Dear CFC Voting Members,

My name is Tony Li and I am running for Ratings Auditor. Below is a short...

I accept the nomination.

As a former Rating Auditor, myself, it sounds like Brendan has a good background to take on this job.

I am planning to run for CFC Treasurer for 2021/22.

The CFC AGM starts Sunday. This thread is open to anyone who is not a Voting Member and would like to ask a question or make a comment. It is also open to anyone who wishes to run for a CFC Director...

Good luck to all the Canadian players ............

Pierre

I think you've attached the rules for the Championship Section twice

Will players for at least the Championship section team be applying to Victor Plotkin ? It is my opinion that the...

Has this information been shared with potential Canadian players ? Online or Hybrid, etc ? I suspect the second weekend will overlap the Canadian Zonal events.

The CFC has a completely new Website. Our Webmaster, Don Parakin, is continuing to bring over features from the old site. I'm not aware of any broken links. You should simply report any issues to the...

Voting on the Motion has already began, so I'm not going to suggest any change. My interpretation is that it is a Straw Ballot, which will be used by the various parties to determine further...