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Frank, I am not privy to conversations between the Windsor organizers and Vlad, so I can’t comment on that. You have made a claim that Victoria’s family received special treatment in return for her acting as the official photographer. She did receive an honorarium of $1,000 as Head of Delegation. We typically do award an honorarium to the HOD, so there is nothing unusual here. You have implied their airfares and hotel bills have been paid out of some slush fund. Totally false. Other than the HOD honorarium, the family has received the same treatment as other families. There is no scandal here. Please retract your comments.
I do realize that we have no yet published a detailed report of the CYCC / WYCC spending. I will see about putting that report together over the Christmas break.
I am privy to the conversations between the Windsor organizers and myself and this individual is delusional. No such conversation took place. No payments were made. No plane tickets were paid for. No hotel rooms were paid for. Conspiracy theories can be amusing though.
Last edited by Vlad Drkulec; Wednesday, 23rd December, 2015, 12:20 AM.
No mention of last years CYCC? Your defense itself is amusing. Why should we trust your word? Obviously you would deny it, given the implications of you admitting you did so. I'm surprised you'll admit you supported Kirsan, a known Putin crony and ISIS linked idiot, but deny this? Yet, again this is you were talking about. Why don't you go preach to a rock about how Kirsan is innocent? Even the bloody rock knows when to tune out stupidity.
Last edited by Frank Broughton; Wednesday, 23rd December, 2015, 12:34 AM.
Of course you and your pack of mangy chihuahuas have infinite time to post escalating claims and hump the leg of anyone who will engage you. I don't need to offer any defense against a featherweight such as yourself. You will implode of your own accord.
All my 12 year old kid wants to do is play chess. The benefits keep revealing themselves. He's been reading and editing my writing before I post. When this thread started I emailed everyone involved in chess over and up here in the Cariboo/Chilcotin (57 people). Tomorrows chess club meet at the library we'll talk about it. Kids...Should be a good showing.
Frank, is there to your knowledge tangible proof of these allegations? Because if there is, it would seem this could be grounds for legal action against Vlad and / or the CFC and possible removal of Vlad as President and of the CFC's NFP status.
Don't threaten me with that toothless old bogeyman. I know him better than anyone posting here. I'm the one that pulled his teeth. This post of yours was a new low even for you but not entirely unexpected.
You are my Elmer Fudd and I am your Bugs Bunny. We all know how this ends. I am a wascally wabbit.
Hey, hey, hey
Just think while you've been getting down and out about the liars and the dirty, dirty cheats of the world,
You could've been getting down to this sick beat.
- Taylor Swift, Shake it off
I guess the Windsor organizers were lying when they were speaking to Vlad openly about it? I think not.
I guess you were lying "Frank Broughton". After talking with last year's chairperson, I can verify that Victoria received nothing for volunteering to be a photographer at Windsor 2015 CYCC. HTH.
Of course you and your pack of mangy chihuahuas have infinite time to post escalating claims and hump the leg of anyone who will engage you. I don't need to offer any defense against a featherweight such as yourself. You will implode of your own accord.
Which appears to have already happened. I must have been clairvoyant.
Originally posted by Paul Bonham aka Elmer FuddView Post
... now we see Vlad again presiding over another very contentious action, approval of a bid from his home city against several other bids. But there is the aspect of innocent until proven guilty, so for now the only thing Vlad is guilty of is very bad judgment and a total inability to sense (or an inability to care about) the optics of a particular action.
The optics of the action are that there were no bids into the beginning of December. I talked to the people I know which include a number of parents whose kids once attended my classes or the classes of some of my friends. They invited some of the parents of my students. I would suggest that you consult a lawyer if you think that in any way constitutes a conflict of interest. I didn't want to waste the rest of the winter like we did last year and find that we had to not have a CYCC, Canadian Open or NAYCC. The best way to ensure that did not come to pass was to get out there and try to organize a bid for all three. I did so. Shortly after I announced that Windsor was going to bid, I heard through the grapevine that Larry Bevand and the CMA was once again interested in putting in a bid. I immediately contacted him and asked if this was the case. He said it was and I encouraged him to put in a bid. At that point I was not sure of the final form of the Windsor bid so it was a relief that there was another bid on the table. If the Windsor bid could not come together there would be an alternative. Shortly afterward I learned that the FQE might be interested in bidding. A few days later I talked to Bernard and he confirmed the interest and sent me the information that was posted. And following that I learned that Hattie and her group were trying to put in a bid.
The one thing that seems as if it should be easily provable is the conflict of interest you mention regarding parents of children Vlad is doing paid coaching for also being part of the Windsor organizers putting in a competitive bid to the CFC.
Explain the conflict so that a layman can understand it.
Simply reporting this to whatever government ministry oversees the NFP act might be sufficient to get Vlad's forced resignation?
Get right on that. You do realize that any such complaint which was not deemed frivolous would be generate a hearing where the complainant would be cross examined if it were to make it that far? Certainly they would have to identify themselves and would open themselves to claims of libel. If they successfully caused the bid to be cancelled they and even you could be on the hook for economic damages and punitive damages that could reach into the millions.
Also Frank, if you do have proof of these allegations, you might want to contact the people Vlad mentioned he is working with... I think he mentioned Caesars in Windsor, who are apparently very involved and might want to know if the person they are working with is provably unscrupulous.
Scurrilous anonymous allegations don't carry much weight.
To do that "Frank" would have to come out of his anonymous shell. Nice touch assuming a false identity to give the illusion of being a real person.
Last edited by Vlad Drkulec; Thursday, 24th December, 2015, 01:03 AM.
Nice touch assuming a false identity to give the illusion of being a real person.
Vlad, please don't flatter yourself thinking I'd go to all that trouble just to tarnish your golden reputation. You're the President of the CFC.... that's kinda like being Master of the Universe, if you get my drift. Maybe you should re-read Horton Hears A Who... and really think about "who" you might be in that story.
No, I'm not your antagonist Frank Broughton or whatever, and if he is a fake, well, SOMEBODY cares enough to go to some trouble. Guess everything isn't hunky-dory in Whoville. But it does appear he has no proof of any of his allegations, and so relax, Vlad, you're off the hook. For now.
Except that in the other thread, you seem to have almost confessed to making sure it was the Windsor bid that won. You explain to Larry that once you start making promises to people who back you, you pretty much have to keep them. It doesn't take a genius to read between the lines. Oooops!
Edit: I just noticed something in Vlad's post: "At that point I was not sure of the final form of the Windsor bid so it was a relief that there was another bid on the table. If the Windsor bid could not come together there would be an alternative."
Now, dear ChessTalk readers, I ask you, what does that sound like to you? Doesn't it sound like Vlad, the President of the CFC, was viewing the Windsor bid as "the" bid and all other bids were simply alternatives if the Windsor bid fell through? Doesn't it sound as if Vlad wasn't even going to consider any other bids unless his own pet bid couldn't make it? Hoisted by his own petard!
Last edited by Paul Bonham; Thursday, 24th December, 2015, 04:21 AM.
Reason: see Edit: section
Only the rushing is heard...
Onward flies the bird.
I might add that whoever Frank Broughton is, he did mention that we are in the "post-Borislav Ivanov" era of chess, which immediately got my attention since I've many times said that post-Borislav Ivanov, all chess results are basically tainted. Kind of like when baseball had the steroids issue and McGwire and Bonds were hitting 70+ home runs for a few seasons in a row, except that baseball has since reverted back to its mean. But chess.... who knows? Half the civilized world could be cheating now, not in every game and on every move, but in choice situations, and no one can prove a thing.
Only the rushing is heard...
Onward flies the bird.
“At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right”
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