CFC Member Stats

[Bob Gillanders]

Re: Member Stats Comparision - CFC & FQE

Breakdown of the member stats can be found here:

http://chess.ca/membership-stats

[Hans Jung]

Re: Member Stats Comparision - CFC & FQE

Ironic that one of the top organizers in Canada congratulates organizers on a great job. Thank you Garvin for all your hard work and endless giving!! Wish I could support you more.

[Bob Armstrong]

Member Stats Comparision - CFC & FQE

Congratulations Bob on great membership numbers!



Hello Paul,

To get a quick estimate, I downloaded the latest Bulletin électronique from the FQE site and sorted by the Échéance column.

There were 1469 active members (those with expiry dates past May 01, 2017). In addition, 359 people had their memberships expired in the first four months of 2017; they probably can be considered a part of the active pool.

Of course, the same file contains 151 records with expiry dates between 1753 and 1899 ;-) but the rest of the data seems fairly clean.

Hi Vadim:

Nice stats..........

Now, back to my question........I wonder how many FQE members actually have fully-paid up CFC memberships as well (We know there is one, Hugh Brodie)?

I have played in FQE tournaments a number of times, and have an FQE personal rating page, and an FQE rating. But I personally have never paid for an FQE membership to my knowledge, and I don't think I was ever given one just because I had registered for an FQE-rated tournament.

Is it the case that almost no CFC members have actual FQE memberships? And that almost no FQE members have actual CFC memberships.

If so, is this not the result of the CFC-FQE Accord of some years ago?

Each side agreed to treat each others' memberships as if they were there own, at least for CFC-rated and FQE-rated tournaments? If all you wanted was to not have to buy the other's membership to play in their tournaments, and weren't interested in the chess politics of the other side, nor any perceived member benefit of the other side, then there was no need at all to hold dual memberships.

I would expect that Hugh Brodie is a bit of an exception, since Hugh did wish to actively take part in CFC Chess Politics (And has been a CFC Voting Member, formerly Governor). But are there many more like Hugh.........I'd be surprised if there are more than a handful!

Bob A

NOTE: FQE is not a lot smaller than CFC when it comes to fully-paid-up Membership! And it is just one province, and I bet there are few non-Quebec-resident members. CFC is dealing with 9 provinces...........

[Vadim Tsypin]

Re: CFC Member Stats

Congratulations Bob on great membership numbers!

I don't think this includes people who purchased tournament memberships. At least another 1000.
Anyone know how many members in the FQE membership?

Hello Paul,

To get a quick estimate, I downloaded the latest Bulletin électronique from the FQE site and sorted by the Échéance column.

There were 1469 active members (those with expiry dates past May 01, 2017). In addition, 359 people had their memberships expired in the first four months of 2017; they probably can be considered a part of the active pool.

Of course, the same file contains 151 records with expiry dates between 1753 and 1899 ;-) but the rest of the data seems fairly clean.

[Garvin Nunes]

Re: CFC Member Stats

Chess is growing across Canada. Thank you organizers for your hard work!

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: CFC Member Stats

I am a member of both (CFC and FQE).

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: CFC Member Stats

I don't think this includes people who purchased tournament memberships. At least another 1000.
Anyone know how many members in the FQE membership?

Hi Paul:

Technical question - do any of the 2,100 odd CFC members we've been talking about, also hold FQE memberships?

I, for example, have an FQE rating number, but as far as I know, I am NOT an FQE MEMBER......... but FQE does sell FQE memberships, don't they?

Ignoring the CFC stats, how many members in good standing does the FQE have (And do any of them also have CFC Membership?)?

Bob A

[Paul Leblanc]

Re: CFC Member Stats

I don't think this includes people who purchased tournament memberships. At least another 1000.
Anyone know how many members in the FQE membership?

[Vlad Drkulec]

Re: CFC Member Stats

Final membership count as of May 1 = 2,140.
Highest since 2005. Thanks everyone.

Great job, Bob!

[Bob Gillanders]

Re: CFC Member Stats

Yes, we can. Membership stands at 2,129 with a few days to spare.
The highest it has been in the last 11 years.

Final membership count as of May 1 = 2,140.
Highest since 2005. Thanks everyone.

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: CFC Member Stats

Congratulations to all the organizers across Canada who have made this possible and to Bob for holding everything together with baling wire and duct tape.

Hi Vlad:

Congratulations for seeing this as a somewhat priority for CFC - you & Bob G have patiently and steadily driven this issue home to Ctalkers, and organizers.......and the results are obvious. Good work to you both.

Bob A

[Neil Frarey]

Re: CFC Member Stats

Cooking the books, Bob?

[Vlad Drkulec]

Re: CFC Member Stats

Yes, we can. Membership stands at 2,129 with a few days to spare.
The highest it has been in the last 11 years.

Congratulations to all the organizers across Canada who have made this possible and to Bob for holding everything together with baling wire and duct tape.

[Bob Gillanders]

Re: CFC Member Stats

We are closing in on our target.
Membership count today is 2,102 after a significant contribution from the Grand Pacific Open.
Can we get another 26 in the next 10 days?

Yes, we can. Membership stands at 2,129 with a few days to spare.
The highest it has been in the last 11 years.

[Larry Bevand]

Re: CFC Member Stats

This Chess'n Math event had a total of 458 players, thanks to the hard work of Leslie Armstrong and her team. There were a total of 32 regional qualifying events held across the province over the last few months.

The results should be posted on our site www.chess-math.org

We would be happy to rent space at the event next year...it would help pay the rental of the hall...which I believe was around $15,000 for one day!

Larry