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A little more about "funding FIDE expenses": The national federations will prosper as FIDE prospers. FIDE should provide for its members instead of being supported by them.
Reduce membership fees by 50% immediately.
25% reduction per year of all other fees.
Guess where is it coming from?
NO. It is from Kasparov's Election Program http://kasparov2014.com/program/ - Illumzhinov offers "Building stronger national federations" and similar goods...
Let me ask all of you here: what is it in Illumzhinov's program http://fidefirst.com/ that makes it so much better for Canadian chess then Kasparov's program?
I'd like to have the answers from all of you, including CFC Members, Governors, Executives. Thank you.
NO. It is from Kasparov's Election Program http://kasparov2014.com/program/ - Illumzhinov offers "Building stronger national federations" and similar goods...
Let me ask all of you here: what is it in Illumzhinov's program http://fidefirst.com/ that makes it so much better for Canadian chess then Kasparov's program?
I'd like to have the answers from all of you, including CFC Members, Governors, Executives. Thank you.
So, where's will the money come from? To decrease fees and increase the budget by 100% in the next two years requires money.
So, where's will the money come from? To decrease fees and increase the budget by 100% in the next two years requires money.
Who or what will supply the money?
Is it reasonable to ask a candidate to disclose the source of financing, especially BEFORE he won election?
Even if he did, next thing what you'll ask for is a Bank guarantee from the top 5 Banks, etc. LOL!
Is it reasonable to ask a candidate to disclose the source of financing, especially BEFORE he won election?
Even if he did, next thing what you'll ask for is a Bank guarantee from the top 5 Banks, etc. LOL!
It's reasonable to ask the source of the funding.
Maybe you haven't heard there are no free lunches.
Tromsø’s local newspaper Nordlys broke the news. According to their sources (now confirmed) parties in the Norwegian Parliament are supporting additional Olympiad funding of 12 million NOK (about 1.5 million EUR). That will feature in the revised national budget to be finalised on June 13th.
The agreement was confirmed by one of Tromsø’s MPs, Øyvind Korsberg of the Progress Party.
There’s every reason to believe we have majority support for an additional amount of 12 million NOK for the Chess Olympiad. Labour, the Progress Party, the Liberals and the Christian Party will make up the majority.
Korsberg also made it clear to Nordlys how important he considers this event to be for the entire nation:
I’ve been very involved in this case since early morning. It’s incredibly important to follow through with the Chess Olympiad for Tromsø, Northern Norway and Norway itself.
The amount secured is 3 million NOK (about 360,000 EUR) less than Norwegian Chess Federation President Jøran Aulin-Jansson had asked for, although he told chess24 that the total amount was required in order for the event to take place.
But Aulin-Jansson told Stavanger’s newspaper Aftenbladet:
12 million is on the way to 15 million, so now we can be absolutely sure that there will be a Chess Olympiad in Tromsø.
Hans Olav Karde, President of the Tromsø 2014 board, spoke to NRK:
We still have to search for sponsors for the remaining 3 million, but for that we have such a tailwind that we’ll manage.
Aulin-Jansson, who was initially criticised by Magnus Carlsen’s manager Espen Agdestein for “creating uncertainty in the 181 nations registered”, was obviously pleased to hear the news:
We are grateful and happy. It’s been quite a silly situation. Especially when the news reached the entire chess world it created massive uncertainty. A lot of nations have registered and organised themselves in order to take part, and we got a lot of attention from FIDE.
If 1500 chess players from 181 nations had to change their plans for August due to the cancellation of the event it would obviously have been a disaster. When Aftenbladet put that to Aulin-Jansson he responded:
It would have been more than embarrassing - it would have been devastating for Norway as an organiser of such events.
But now seems to be just the right time to book your tickets for Tromsø – 57 days to go!
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