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It is unfortunate that hacking of the CFC website has necessitated that a new one be built. Work on that is ongoing, and I want to salute and thank those undertaking this challenging project.
White the website is being re-created, I thought I would offer some 'constructive' suggestions for positive features which the project could develop and use, going forward.
1) One thing the FQE website has, which the earlier CFC site did not, is an index of TD's. There is an 'underline' link on the TD's name, which enables a 'click connection' to other events which that TD has done. This would be a positive feature for the CFC to incorporate for its events and TDs.
2) IA David Cohen has done exceptional work in documenting Canadian chess history, during the past several years. This is really important. David's work is ongoing and wide-ranging, and he has had assistance from people across Canadian chess. My suggestion here is that the CFC do some of this as well, with the new website, in creating a history section listing its past governing officers -- CFC Presidents and FIDE representatives -- year-by-year. As well, people who have earned advanced organizer credentials, such as IA, FA, NTD, and so on, could be listed as well.
3) The previous CFC website had tournament cross-tables going back into the mid-1990s, if memory serves. These are being re-constructed now. How far back does the CFC archive contain, regarding historical cross-tables? It would be wonderful if we could have a complete index of every CFC-rated event available, on the website. This would take years to achieve. The BC Chess Federation website has done much of this, for provincial events, and some national events as well.
4) This next one is very ambitious, and would certainly take many years to attain. Hugh Brodie's CanBase database, of Canadian chess games has been developed by Hugh, over a period of several years, into an exceptional resource of the important games in Canadian chess history. Right now, this site cannot be accessed on a 'play-through-the-game-on-screen' method, in the same way certain other sites, such as chessgames.com and 365chess.com, offer. The database has to be downloaded to one's computer, and then used. But having a online usable connection between the cross-tables of events, and games directly from them, on these website(s), would really be an extraordinary feature to develop. Not all games would be accessible in this way, of course, since they may derive from other scenarios not directly connected to the cross-tables on the website. The amazing site olimpbase.org does some of this -- it is a website dedicated to chess Olympiads, and everything about them. There, one can connect from cross-tables to games in a user-friendly manner.
Respectfully submitted,
Frank Dixon
NTD, Kingston
White the website is being re-created, I thought I would offer some 'constructive' suggestions for positive features which the project could develop and use, going forward.
1) One thing the FQE website has, which the earlier CFC site did not, is an index of TD's. There is an 'underline' link on the TD's name, which enables a 'click connection' to other events which that TD has done. This would be a positive feature for the CFC to incorporate for its events and TDs.
2) IA David Cohen has done exceptional work in documenting Canadian chess history, during the past several years. This is really important. David's work is ongoing and wide-ranging, and he has had assistance from people across Canadian chess. My suggestion here is that the CFC do some of this as well, with the new website, in creating a history section listing its past governing officers -- CFC Presidents and FIDE representatives -- year-by-year. As well, people who have earned advanced organizer credentials, such as IA, FA, NTD, and so on, could be listed as well.
3) The previous CFC website had tournament cross-tables going back into the mid-1990s, if memory serves. These are being re-constructed now. How far back does the CFC archive contain, regarding historical cross-tables? It would be wonderful if we could have a complete index of every CFC-rated event available, on the website. This would take years to achieve. The BC Chess Federation website has done much of this, for provincial events, and some national events as well.
4) This next one is very ambitious, and would certainly take many years to attain. Hugh Brodie's CanBase database, of Canadian chess games has been developed by Hugh, over a period of several years, into an exceptional resource of the important games in Canadian chess history. Right now, this site cannot be accessed on a 'play-through-the-game-on-screen' method, in the same way certain other sites, such as chessgames.com and 365chess.com, offer. The database has to be downloaded to one's computer, and then used. But having a online usable connection between the cross-tables of events, and games directly from them, on these website(s), would really be an extraordinary feature to develop. Not all games would be accessible in this way, of course, since they may derive from other scenarios not directly connected to the cross-tables on the website. The amazing site olimpbase.org does some of this -- it is a website dedicated to chess Olympiads, and everything about them. There, one can connect from cross-tables to games in a user-friendly manner.
Respectfully submitted,
Frank Dixon
NTD, Kingston
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