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Canada will not be participating this Olympiad. We were denied for a late entry, even though the deadline was months ahead of the start of the event and the ICCF had been informed we were entering a team asked for an short extension to set the lineup. The appeal was also turned down. I posted the following on an international correspondence chess message board and repost it here for Canadian chess players who may be interested.
"It seems Canada will not be competing in Olympiad 18.
The man who sets our team was on vacation. When he returned he had the names of the players but not the lineup. He emailed the ICCF and told them Canada would participate and asked for an extension to submit the lineup. This was still many MONTHS before the Olympiad was to begin and before the deadline for entering. Some days after the deadline he received a reply he would not receive the extension. He sent the team lineup at that time but, of course, ICCF did not enter Canada. The appeal has recently been rejected. Chile was also rejected for entering late.
The Olympiad is 5 sections with a mere 9 teams in each section. Very small by recent standards as each player only gets 8 games. I could ridicule the small number of teams but I will not do that. After all, they had 45 teams and it is easy to place that number of teams into 5 sections. An extra two teams, Canada and Chile, would have been an inconvenience.
As many of you know, I spent a decade organizing chess in Canada between around 1974 and 1986. Building the membership, pairing the events AND promoting the ICCF. Chess is inclusive and not exclusive. You have to work with people when you organize an event. Sometimes you have to chase them to enter or play. The more players and teams there are, the more interesting and better the event. I have never heard of teams being excluded in this manner and must conclude it was done because of mathematics. It's easier to divide 45 by 5 than it is to divide 47 by 5. It would never enter anyones mind to try to find another 3 nations to enter teams because they had a deadline for entries. Never mind that last Olympiad there were 55 teams and 11 teams per section.
Now many of you might wonder why the number of teams has fallen off so much since the last Olympiad. I wonder why they have lost 10 teams.
Many of you might think organizations lose members. To a large extent the members run away from an organization. This often happens when an organization falls into the trap of managing the organization with the 3 deadly sins. The deadly sins of managing an organization are:
1. Idiot Management.
2. Cronyism.
3. Infighting.
Gary Ruben. SIM, IA."
"It seems Canada will not be competing in Olympiad 18.
The man who sets our team was on vacation. When he returned he had the names of the players but not the lineup. He emailed the ICCF and told them Canada would participate and asked for an extension to submit the lineup. This was still many MONTHS before the Olympiad was to begin and before the deadline for entering. Some days after the deadline he received a reply he would not receive the extension. He sent the team lineup at that time but, of course, ICCF did not enter Canada. The appeal has recently been rejected. Chile was also rejected for entering late.
The Olympiad is 5 sections with a mere 9 teams in each section. Very small by recent standards as each player only gets 8 games. I could ridicule the small number of teams but I will not do that. After all, they had 45 teams and it is easy to place that number of teams into 5 sections. An extra two teams, Canada and Chile, would have been an inconvenience.
As many of you know, I spent a decade organizing chess in Canada between around 1974 and 1986. Building the membership, pairing the events AND promoting the ICCF. Chess is inclusive and not exclusive. You have to work with people when you organize an event. Sometimes you have to chase them to enter or play. The more players and teams there are, the more interesting and better the event. I have never heard of teams being excluded in this manner and must conclude it was done because of mathematics. It's easier to divide 45 by 5 than it is to divide 47 by 5. It would never enter anyones mind to try to find another 3 nations to enter teams because they had a deadline for entries. Never mind that last Olympiad there were 55 teams and 11 teams per section.
Now many of you might wonder why the number of teams has fallen off so much since the last Olympiad. I wonder why they have lost 10 teams.
Many of you might think organizations lose members. To a large extent the members run away from an organization. This often happens when an organization falls into the trap of managing the organization with the 3 deadly sins. The deadly sins of managing an organization are:
1. Idiot Management.
2. Cronyism.
3. Infighting.
Gary Ruben. SIM, IA."
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