CFC Presidency

[Vlad Drkulec]

Re: CFC Presidency

Sasha, let me be the first to commend you on this move. Whether or not you succeed, you are showing genuine concern for the state of chess in Canada. No one, and that includes the vanguard of the old boys' network Steve Douglas, should disrespect you for wanting to better the current dismal state.

You are running against someone who first of all says he'd very much like to get away from the CFC President position and go back to his kids in Windsor.

I have been neglecting them. At the moment we are only sending 23 or 24 Windsor kids out of the 300 or so that are attending CYCC. Windsor is less than .7% of the Canadian population. If everyone else in Canada sent kids to CYCC in the same proportion there would be 3500 kids attending CYCC. We would be sending 30 or more if I had the time to focus more of my attention on the local chess scene though I might run into limitations on my time since I spend almost every day working with the local kids. Only in Paul's world would it be a drawback for a CFC president to actually want to work with kids to increase the interest in chess.

I think you should use that against him.

Please do, Sasha.

Whoever is to be CFC President should WANT to be CFC President and should WANT to tackle the serious challenges.

If I didn't want to be CFC President, I wouldn't be running to be CFC President.

But second of all, you are running against someone who is anything but transparent as he claims to be or at least to want to be.

I think I have been pretty transparent.

Example: for the past several days, Sid Belzberg has had an offer on the table for Vlad to consider. Publicly posted here on ChessTalk. The response from Vlad on ChessTalk: absolute silence, until he just posted yesterday something about claims that FIDE supported Russia's annexation of Crimea are false, and so Vlad hasn't changed his stance. This is according to emails and tweets from FIDE officials. Well, duh! Charles Manson is probably still maintaining his innocence too!

But let's forget about FIDE and Russia for a moment, let's focus in on Sid's offer. As Kerry Liles posted, Sid was more than magnanimous in trying to set aside all the insults Vlad had sent his way and just make something work between them. Sid showed that he can be forgiving and extend an offer in the pursuit of what is best for Canadian chess. But here's the key: Sid wrote that Vlad could contact a few people, a certain Michael K and even Garry Kasparov himself, if Vlad wanted corroboration or evidence on the FIDE / Crimea claim.

I count seven emails from Sid yesterday. Michael K was copied on all of them and responded to one of them. I probably made a similar number of emails back to them. I also had some email exchanges with Rick Roth Director of Communications for the Canadian Foreign Affairs minister the Hon. John Baird, P.C., M.P. It is not in my job description as CFC president that I have to keep Paul Bonham informed of my correspondence on a national holiday no less.

Did Vlad ever contact Michael K or Garry Kasparov? WE DO NOT KNOW. Vlad has remained steadfastly silent until he comes out with the stuff about FIDE tweets / emails. So for evidence that FIDE has not supported Putin, Vlad relies on... FIDE.

I and members of the executive have asked for some reliable, independent confirmation of these claims. None have been forthcoming. If you are going to claim that FIDE made some announcement you should be able to point somewhere where that announcement was made. I have asked for two names of players whose federation has changed recently from Ukraine to Russia and have received no answer.

And while the whole readership of ChessTalk, many of whom are paying CFC members, waits to find out if Vlad contacted Micheal K or Garry Kasparov to hear out the other side, Vlad has nothing to say on that at all. Nothing. Thanks for the "transparency", Vlad!

Transparency does not mean that I have to give a blow by blow description of every action I take, immediately after it happens in order to satisfy a non-member and a troll such as yourself.

Gary Kasparov is running for FIDE president. The burden is on him to reach out to his voters. If he put as much energy into talking to us as he has in trying to punish us maybe there would have been less acrimony. The executive have been talking to Sid Belzberg his close personal friend and Robert Hamilton who is Kasparov's man in Canada. Michael K has indicated that Sid is not part of the Kasparov campaign. The members of the executive were under the impression that Sid was part of the campaign.

[Sasha Starr]

Re: CFC Presidency

De : Alexander Starr

Date : 2014-07-02 08:00:53

A : Marcel Laurin

Sujet : Re: You have my support for the CFC presidency !

[Sasha Starr]

Re: CFC Presidency

Egis,
Unlike FIDE, CFC elections are individual for every Exec position.
But please be assured - all healthy forces in CFC are concerned with the direction the current management is leading, and will support proposed reforms.
In particular, I'm seriously considering joining the Executive team.
Would you like to be a part of Executive team as well?

Thank you, Michael! Here is a support we are getting from Quebec:



Mr Sasha Starr,



My name is Marcel Laurin and I am a CFC lifemember, # 100337.



I play regularly in chess tournaments in Ontario (Ottawa area) and in Quebec (Trois-Rivières, Montréal, Outaouais).



I am since the 80's a chess organizer, a Tournament Director and actually the President of the Ligue d'Échecs de l'Outaouais.



I am also writing chess reports: Chess Canada # 59 page 39, En Passant # 75 page 13, some news about me En Passant #87 page 12, CFC Newsletter July 2013 and some other related articles in March and April 2014. I am also writing articles in almost every FQE Échec magazine since three years.



I am the organizer of the Gatineau Open, an EOCA Grand Prix event and the TORO, tournament # 9 of the Tour du Québec.



You will have to visit our site at www.matoutaouais.org to learn about the success of a chess League, the LEO. In three years, we transformed a 37 members weak organization with one club (CEH in Hull) in 137 active members with three chess clubs (CEA in Aylmer and CEG in Gatineau). We are now teaching chess in more than10 schools with competent chess instructors (FQE diploma), are in different chess promotions all year long and we have great support of independant sponsors and of the City of Gatineau. Today, parents want their kids to learn to play chess and we are taking that opportunity in offering our services appropriately. This year, we will open two more chess clubs in September for that purpose one in Buckingam sector of Gatineau and one more in Hull dedicated for beginners.



The CFC needs dedicated people like you with a vision for correcting the ''laisser-aller'' of the last ten years. It is a huge and urge problem and you will have to take drastic decisions to rebuilt the health of the organization in giving that missing or disappeared confidence of his members across Canada and recreating the not so far pride of being a CFC member.



You enumerate a lot of good solutions, you have that creativity, the energy and the will for correcting the situation and with a strong team work of your Governors, you can succeed !



The CFC needs you ! You are the man for that job ! Good luck !



Marcel Laurin,

President of the Outaouais Chess League





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[Sasha Starr]

Re: CFC Presidency

'My chess/organizational accomplishments will be better discussed a year from now!'

I am trying to see what qualifications you have for the job. So your recent accomplishments would be better revealed now :), unless you are relying on your charm.

My chess/organizational accomplishments include executive positions in private and public companies, the latter include Director of the Grandmaster Technologies Inc., the others were GM Yasser Seirawan and GM Duncan Suttles. Together with my wife IWM Nava Starr I was one of the organizers of the charity event in Toronto for GM Gary Kasparov, I personally know many chess personalities in Canada and around the Globe. Most importantly, I know how the chess is organized in many different countries, and in many of them chess has a very prestigious place in the society, and I have a vision how to make a progress in Canada.
There are many sceptics, and if they'll prevail, we'll continue to have what we have...
I want Chess in Canada not just to survive, but to succeed!

[Sasha Starr]

Re: CFC Presidency

That is clear to me regarding the elections. With the grandiose plan (5000 members considering the same members' definition as now) Sasha Star will need a good team to accomplish that.

Personally I will not seek any Exec position at the CFC.

Thank you, Egis, for taking your time to comment on my thread. 5000 members? It is just a beginning!:)

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: CFC Presidency

Egis,
Unlike FIDE, CFC elections are individual for every Exec position.
But please be assured - all healthy forces in CFC are concerned with the direction the current management is leading, and will support proposed reforms.
In particular, I'm seriously considering joining the Executive team.
Would you like to be a part of Executive team as well?

That is clear to me regarding the elections. With the grandiose plan (5000 members considering the same members' definition as now) Sasha Star will need a good team to accomplish that.

Personally I will not seek any Exec position at the CFC.

[Michael Barron]

Re: CFC Presidency

What will you bring as your team (especially for the Execs)?

Egis,
Unlike FIDE, CFC elections are individual for every Exec position.
But please be assured - all healthy forces in CFC are concerned with the direction the current management is leading, and will support proposed reforms.
In particular, I'm seriously considering joining the Executive team.
Would you like to be a part of Executive team as well?

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: CFC Presidency

What will you bring as your team (especially for the Execs)?

[Michael Yip]

Re: CFC Presidency

'My chess/organizational accomplishments will be better discussed a year from now!'

I am trying to see what qualifications you have for the job. So your recent accomplishments would be better revealed now :), unless you are relying on your charm.

[Gary Hua]

Re: CFC Presidency

Hi Sasha,

Thanks for your suggestions and your willingness to run for the CFC presidency. I totally agreed with your proposals with the main aim of promoting chess in Canada and to increase the membership of CFC. We have a couple of World champions the recent one Harmony Zhu and a couple of North American Champions at the recently concluded Tarrytown. We should use these opportunities to popularize this " sport " recognized by the IOC to the general public which I think is a huge market. Sad to say, we have less than 2000 current members. I am really encouraged by this event and wish you all the best in the election.

I really hope whoever wins should really work towards the objective of making CHESS a popular sport in whole Canada.

By the way, do the CFC members have the voting rights ?

[Sasha Starr]

Re: CFC Presidency

Sasha, let me be the first to commend you on this move. Whether or not you succeed, you are showing genuine concern for the state of chess in Canada. No one, and that includes the vanguard of the old boys' network Steve Douglas, should disrespect you for wanting to better the current dismal state.

You are running against someone who first of all says he'd very much like to get away from the CFC President position and go back to his kids in Windsor. I think you should use that against him. Whoever is to be CFC President should WANT to be CFC President and should WANT to tackle the serious challenges. But I don't see Vlad stepping aside to let you take the position, which means everything he wrote is just hot air (oh, the fun of puns.... Vlad Drkulec... hot air.... Anthropogenic Global Warming.... it's too much!)

But second of all, you are running against someone who is anything but transparent as he claims to be or at least to want to be.

Example: for the past several days, Sid Belzberg has had an offer on the table for Vlad to consider. Publicly posted here on ChessTalk. The response from Vlad on ChessTalk: absolute silence, until he just posted yesterday something about claims that FIDE supported Russia's annexation of Crimea are false, and so Vlad hasn't changed his stance. This is according to emails and tweets from FIDE officials. Well, duh! Charles Manson is probably still maintaining his innocence too!

But let's forget about FIDE and Russia for a moment, let's focus in on Sid's offer. As Kerry Liles posted, Sid was more than magnanimous in trying to set aside all the insults Vlad had sent his way and just make something work between them. Sid showed that he can be forgiving and extend an offer in the pursuit of what is best for Canadian chess. But here's the key: Sid wrote that Vlad could contact a few people, a certain Michael K and even Garry Kasparov himself, if Vlad wanted corroboration or evidence on the FIDE / Crimea claim.

Did Vlad ever contact Michael K or Garry Kasparov? WE DO NOT KNOW. Vlad has remained steadfastly silent until he comes out with the stuff about FIDE tweets / emails. So for evidence that FIDE has not supported Putin, Vlad relies on... FIDE. And while the whole readership of ChessTalk, many of whom are paying CFC members, waits to find out if Vlad contacted Micheal K or Garry Kasparov to hear out the other side, Vlad has nothing to say on that at all. Nothing. Thanks for the "transparency", Vlad!

I really can't imagine Vlad being any more obnoxious. Sasha, I hope you rub his nose in it. He can go back to his Windsor kids and sing "I Did It My Way" to them... maybe one of them will kick him in the shin and wake him up from his reverie.

Thank you for your post, Paul!
I'm very much concerned with the direction CFC is heading. Membership is steadily shrinking, a big patron of Canadian chess is being chased away, no explanation was ever given to the CFC's endorsement of Ilyumzhinov, so we are all hostages to a small group of people pretending to know what's best for Canadian chess!

[Sasha Starr]

Re: CFC Presidency

Great post! Paul

.....from the other Vlad D
(actually, the original Vlad D)

Thank you, Vlad, its about time to wake up and smell roses!

[Sasha Starr]

Re: CFC Presidency

Thank you very much for your questions, Michael,
At the present I have same knowledge about current financial state of the CFC, its strategic plan etc., as you.
My chess/organizational accomplishments will be better discussed a year from now!
As per my time - I'm in the private business and have means to allocate the time required.
You are welcomed to send me an email, I may have something to discuss with you.
Have a great day!

[Vlad Dobrich]

Re: CFC Presidency

Great post! Paul

.....from the other Vlad D
(actually, the original Vlad D)

[Paul Bonham]

Re: CFC Presidency

CFC Presidency - Message to Governors.

Dear Governors, CFC Members and lovers of chess.

Please accept this post as confirmation that I will be running for the CFC Presidency in the upcoming election.

etc...

Sasha, let me be the first to commend you on this move. Whether or not you succeed, you are showing genuine concern for the state of chess in Canada. No one, and that includes the vanguard of the old boys' network Steve Douglas, should disrespect you for wanting to better the current dismal state.

You are running against someone who first of all says he'd very much like to get away from the CFC President position and go back to his kids in Windsor. I think you should use that against him. Whoever is to be CFC President should WANT to be CFC President and should WANT to tackle the serious challenges. But I don't see Vlad stepping aside to let you take the position, which means everything he wrote is just hot air (oh, the fun of puns.... Vlad Drkulec... hot air.... Anthropogenic Global Warming.... it's too much!)

But second of all, you are running against someone who is anything but transparent as he claims to be or at least to want to be.

Example: for the past several days, Sid Belzberg has had an offer on the table for Vlad to consider. Publicly posted here on ChessTalk. The response from Vlad on ChessTalk: absolute silence, until he just posted yesterday something about claims that FIDE supported Russia's annexation of Crimea are false, and so Vlad hasn't changed his stance. This is according to emails and tweets from FIDE officials. Well, duh! Charles Manson is probably still maintaining his innocence too!

But let's forget about FIDE and Russia for a moment, let's focus in on Sid's offer. As Kerry Liles posted, Sid was more than magnanimous in trying to set aside all the insults Vlad had sent his way and just make something work between them. Sid showed that he can be forgiving and extend an offer in the pursuit of what is best for Canadian chess. But here's the key: Sid wrote that Vlad could contact a few people, a certain Michael K and even Garry Kasparov himself, if Vlad wanted corroboration or evidence on the FIDE / Crimea claim.

Did Vlad ever contact Michael K or Garry Kasparov? WE DO NOT KNOW. Vlad has remained steadfastly silent until he comes out with the stuff about FIDE tweets / emails. So for evidence that FIDE has not supported Putin, Vlad relies on... FIDE. And while the whole readership of ChessTalk, many of whom are paying CFC members, waits to find out if Vlad contacted Micheal K or Garry Kasparov to hear out the other side, Vlad has nothing to say on that at all. Nothing. Thanks for the "transparency", Vlad!

I really can't imagine Vlad being any more obnoxious. Sasha, I hope you rub his nose in it. He can go back to his Windsor kids and sing "I Did It My Way" to them... maybe one of them will kick him in the shin and wake him up from his reverie.