As many of you may know, Hal Bond resigned last month from his position as CFC FIDE Representative. I have known Hal for more than 15 years, I have played in Guelph many times, and successfully collaborated with him as a National Team Captain and Master Representative. I have always greatly respected him and was really sorry to hear about his decision.
Next week, the CFC will have a special voting members meeting for the election of a new FIDE Representative. There are 3 candidates for this position: Aris Marghetis, Vadim Tsypin and myself.
You can find a lot of information here:
http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/sh...ction-Feb-2021
Vadim Tsypin, as an experienced chess politician, has a very strong campaign. He put a lot of time and effort into approaching practically every voting member and many regular players (who have no voting rights, but every endorsement is important). I don't use this approach, but I fully understand him.
As part of his campaign, Vadim sent an email to me (!!) with a great offer to publicly support and endorse him, because he is the best candidate for this position.
Maybe I am just an old-fashioned person. Maybe I am still living in the 19th century. Maybe I don't understand modern trends in chess politics. But I don't understand this at all. How could a candidate send this kind of email to another candidate with such a peculiar proposal?
Vadim believes that he is the best candidate... and that may be the case. Vadim believes that he will get overwhelming support in every province... possible as well. However, as a respectful human being he shouldn't send this sort of email to another candidate.
It's like if I were to play chess against Vadim and propose that he resigns in the initial position, before the game even starts. Why? Because I am a better player and will very likely win this game anyway.
CFC chess politics is really funny sometimes.
Next week, the CFC will have a special voting members meeting for the election of a new FIDE Representative. There are 3 candidates for this position: Aris Marghetis, Vadim Tsypin and myself.
You can find a lot of information here:
http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/sh...ction-Feb-2021
Vadim Tsypin, as an experienced chess politician, has a very strong campaign. He put a lot of time and effort into approaching practically every voting member and many regular players (who have no voting rights, but every endorsement is important). I don't use this approach, but I fully understand him.
As part of his campaign, Vadim sent an email to me (!!) with a great offer to publicly support and endorse him, because he is the best candidate for this position.
Maybe I am just an old-fashioned person. Maybe I am still living in the 19th century. Maybe I don't understand modern trends in chess politics. But I don't understand this at all. How could a candidate send this kind of email to another candidate with such a peculiar proposal?
Vadim believes that he is the best candidate... and that may be the case. Vadim believes that he will get overwhelming support in every province... possible as well. However, as a respectful human being he shouldn't send this sort of email to another candidate.
It's like if I were to play chess against Vadim and propose that he resigns in the initial position, before the game even starts. Why? Because I am a better player and will very likely win this game anyway.
CFC chess politics is really funny sometimes.
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