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The rickety Death Star is the unholy alliance that can't shoot straight currently rampaging. It is not the CFC.
That is good clarification... I don't know about everyone else, but I think it would work better if you posted directly without all the obtuse references and inferences.
Chesstalk is enough of a barrier to sensible discourse in and by itself - please don't make it worse.
I presume that Hal gave the letter to them after they received the forgery, so as to demonstrate to them that he was not the author of the forgery. We still have the question of who leaked the original to Mr. Tsypin. Vlad, I will continue to give you the benefit of the doubt. If you did not leak the letter, do you have any idea who did? I am not asking you to name this person, I am only asking if you suspect anyone in particular? We know that it had to be someone on the Executive, unless Hal himself sent the email to someone else, or forged it himself, which does not seem to be the case. Given that neither yourself, nor Hal we shall presume, leaked the original, who else may have done so? In other words, who else exactly is on the Executive? Do you agree that one of these names must have been the leak-er? Or do you subscribe to the hacked at the airport theory?
I like the way Brad articulates his questions. This approach resembles a journalistic investigation.
2018 CFC AGM took place in August 2018. The new line-up of Executives started work on August 22, 2018. Latest FIDE elections (after which the Hal's email was leaked) took place on October 4th, 2018. Here's a list of Executives (Directors) at the time copied from the CFC website:
2018 / 19 -- Online AGM
President
Vlad Drkulec
Vice President
Egis Zeromskis
Secretary
Lyle Craver
Treasurer
Fred McKim
FIDE Representative
Hal Bond
Youth Coordinator
Christina Tao
Director at Large
Mark Dutton
Last edited by Victor Itkine; Thursday, 18th March, 2021, 02:43 PM.
One can only speculate. The person who leaked the email to Mr. Tsypin was of course in cahoots with him, thus must have stood something to gain. Since Mr. Tsypin was on a FIDE committee, and clearly wanted to replace Hal Bond as our FIDE representative, anyone who scratched his back would likely get their own back scratched in return. Someone on the Executive wanted something from Mr. Tsypin in return for the leak. This is elementary my dear Watson.
I presume that Hal gave the letter to them after they received the forgery, so as to demonstrate to them that he was not the author of the forgery. We still have the question of who leaked the original to Mr. Tsypin. Vlad, I will continue to give you the benefit of the doubt. If you did not leak the letter, do you have any idea who did? I am not asking you to name this person, I am only asking if you suspect anyone in particular? We know that it had to be someone on the Executive, unless Hal himself sent the email to someone else, or forged it himself, which does not seem to be the case. Given that neither yourself, nor Hal we shall presume, leaked the original, who else may have done so? In other words, who else exactly is on the Executive? Do you agree that one of these names must have been the leak-er? Or do you subscribe to the hacked at the airport theory?
I first met Hal when we played each other at a tournament in Kitchener in 1984 (thanks Ed Thompson!). We played a few more times over
the years (Ottawa, Arnprior, Kingston), usually a draw - he liked Alekhine's Defence and I didn't. Mostly I know Hal from his volunteer
role as Canada's FIDE Representative. I've found volunteering to be rewarding personally, but I also learned never to expect a 'thank
you'. All the more so in the Canadian chess community, unfortunately. So, I'll just take this opportunity to say a public 'Thank you'
to Hal, for a lot of years of hard work that benefited us all.
Some heavy forging AND misleading editing going on there Neil conflating two very different situations four years apart. No application was filled out in 2018. Hal remained FIDE rep. Much ado about nothing.
I think the word you're looking for is 'truncated'.
Forgery is what you're familiar with ...as in Hal's email.
Some heavy forging AND misleading editing going on there Neil conflating two very different situations four years apart. No application was filled out in 2018. Hal remained FIDE rep. Much ado about nothing.
Last edited by Vlad Drkulec; Wednesday, 17th March, 2021, 10:59 PM.
Vlad called me the same day and confirmed that he had been contacted by Vadim and Berik, and €20,000 from FIDE was being offered to the CFC if I am replaced.
The normal approach of detectives is to ask the simple question, who stood to gain?
Okay Columbo, what did I stand to gain? More work? Perhaps I could give up my chess lessons by which I earn a living and work longer hours for free for the CFC? Quit being ridiculous.
This rickety Death Star has multiple thermal exhaust ports built in and I know exactly where they are.
As far as I could tell the original email was innocuous but some at FIDE were angry about even the unforged version. They should try being CFC president for a few days. Sheesh!
So long as the Chess Federation of Canada continues to suckle FIDE's teat ... in one form or another (re: missing 60k, re: Anton etc.) these sorts of conflicts will continue to occur.
Chess in Canada at grass root & street level does not require FIDE.
Don't need FIDE to survive! Don't need FIDE to thrive!
Thank you Nikolay for the clarification and the link to a more up to date thread.
Best of luck to you (or anyone for that matter) who has to navigate the nonsense of the NFP act as it applies to the CFC.
It boggles my mind that an organization like the CFC has to be governed by such an obtuse set of regulations. Ridiculous.
Nevertheless, the CFC is stuck with it I guess and as in the case of the NHL (and other organizations) only the lawyers benefit.
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