Originally posted by Brad Thomson
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It should be noted that I was on very friendly terms with Hal up until he tried to go after XXXXXXXXX1 just before the AGM. Hal wanted to bypass member discipline rules which require due process. I thought that was a very bad idea. Hal also wanted a public shaming. I thought that was a bad idea. Before things came to a boil we attended the Sport Tourism Canada conference together in Ottawa where I picked him up in Guelph and we drove up and talked for hours about this and many other things. We also went to Oshawa to meet with a Sport Tourism official from Durham region and for me to give a small talk about chess being a sport as part of a panel discussion on esports in their esports facility on a college campus.
Hal Bond turned on me not because of my actions with respect to this FIDE problem, but because I would not let him sink the CFC in his Ahabesque quest to destroy his Moby Dick.
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