ADDITIONAL REASONS FOR REMOVING CFC PRESIDENT FROM OFFICE
Let’s look at two recent episodes of the CFC President’s alarming behaviour.
FIRST EPISODE
At the CFC Board of Directors, a vote was taken on the intention to ask CFC Publicity Officer Vadim Tsypin to resign due to his unworthy behaviour and attempt to bribe. While the majority of Directors voted for an action, President Vladimir Drkulec declined to move forward. By doing so, the CFC President broke the new CFC bylaw which reads: “At all meetings of the board, every question shall be decided by a majority of the votes cast on the question.”
The President justified his inaction as follows:
In my opinion Hal Bond’s commentary on this situation is well put (taken from this Forum: http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/sh...ampaign-Thread post #76):Originally Posted by Vladimir Drkulec
If any of the Voting Members are interested in finer details regarding this episode, they can be read in another thread on this Forum (English Chat – A Vote of No Confidence for the CFC President; https://www.chesscanada.info/forum/s...-CFC-President). The position of the CFC President is detailed in posts ## 22, 24, 33, 34, 35, 36, and 43, and my position is in posts ## 23, 32, 37, 38, and 42 in that thread.Originally Posted by Hal Bond
SECOND EPISODE
In December 2020, Diana Tsypina (Tsypin’s spouse) submits her application to Hal Bond to be promoted to IA Category B at her 1-year anniversary since she was granted IA Category D title. It takes at least five years to be promoted to IA Category B. Tsypina makes her move 4 years early, ahead of others who wait their turn. After been rejected by Hal Bond, Diana Tsypina escalated her issue to the CFC President Vladimir Drkulec, who decided to endorse her application. The CFC President justified his decision as follows:
The year prior Vadim Tsypin made a similar move applying to become a Category B IA one year after receiving his Category D title. Vadim Tsypin at the time convinced the CFC President Vladimir Drkulec to petition FIDE for an exemption to time served. Hal Bond, as soon as he found out what happened, brought the issue to the CFC Board of Directors, and at its unanimous direction Vladimir Drkulec was forced to write to FIDE a letter of retraction. In his email to CFC Directors dated February 13, 2020, Vladimir Drkulec confirmed that Tsypin misled him (and FIDE) regarding FIDE Arbiter classification regulations:Originally Posted by Vladimir Drkulec
“That I wrote the retraction is only proof that I believe I acted incorrectly” (re: petitioning FIDE).
How then, one year later, can Vlad commit the same error for which he publicly apologized when a similar situation arose regarding Diana Tsypina?
This last episode immediately led to Hal Bond’s resignation. To the displeasure of most of the CFC Directors, Vladimir Drkulec rejected the initiative to appoint Aris Marghetis as a new FIDE Representative by the Board’s decision, and instead convened a Special Meeting for this purpose. Surprisingly, at this Special Meeting Vladimir Drkulec publically endorsed Vadim Tsypin – the person who misled him in the past and who the majority of board of directors voted to resign as CFC Publicity Officer – for the Director position of CFC FIDE Representative:
So, instead of offering Vadim Tsypin to resign from CFC Publicity Officer’s position (because he feared to be sued by Vadim), Vladimir Drkulec promotes him to become a CFC Director and the CFC FIDE Representative! Why on earth he acted in such a way we can only guess. Perhaps, for a better assessment of the situation, it is worth paying attention to the opinion of Hal Bond, which he expressed at this forum (http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/sh...ampaign-Thread post #76):Originally Posted by Vladimir Drkulec
CONCLUSIONOriginally Posted by Hal Bond
Vladimir Drkulec has acted out of accordance with the majority vote of Directors and he has knowingly repeated his previous error with seemingly no regard for the rules. His only justification is a vague fear of being sued, which is clearly just an excuse – he only received friendly legal advice, but did not consult an independent lawyer. This is no way for a President to behave. If you disagree with the choice of the Director’s majority vote and do not want to execute it then you resign, just like Hal Bond did after Tsypina’s application was approved by the CFC. When you also add in Vlad’s further disregard for the rules and due process in the February Special Meeting (which has been pointed out in this thread above), there is no doubt in my mind that Vladimir Drkulec is not acting in the best interests of Canadian chess and should be voted out of office.
P.S.
I deliberately do not use the episode with the forged Hal Bond email in my reasoning, because there is insufficient evidence of exactly how the original email was leaked from the internal correspondence of the CFC Board of Directors.