I've been a CFC member for well over a decade and have organized & directed some local regular & active tournaments here in Nova Scotia. It doesn't seem too long ago that the CFC was a functional organization that provided a magazine (usually delivered on-time), annual catalog, reasonable rating fees, and dependable goods and services. So what the hell happened?
My annual membership expires the beginning of November. My current annual membership provided me with exactly one magazine, two CFC entries into local tourneys and a CFC is dire financial trouble (where it is expected to be corrected by increasing rating fees). Not exactly what I signed up for. To renew now I will get exactly zero magazines, higher rating fees (ergo lower prize funds), and a deficit with looming litigation that could cost the CFC its very existence.
I believe it is time for drastic measures. The current CFC hierarchy is archaic and non-functional. I cannot see it evolving without dissolving. Each year we get a change of executive with new ideas but never enough time to implement however enough time to really screw things up. For the most part it is the same "old boys club". I am tired of all the increasing politics which has festered from a minor irritation to a systemic infection.
In all of this, I believe that the CFC has forgotten who holds this organization together -- it is people like myself -- just regular guys and girls that want to play chess. We don't want the politics.
My solution -- I believe that the provinces and other sub-groups should opt out of the CFC and let it resurrect itself as a new entity whereby it isn't restricted by its anemic existence. New constitution, new government, one member one vote.
I plan on running local tournaments with no connection to the CFC. I hope to convince the local players that we can thrive without being stymied by the CFC.
Unless someone can convince me to renew my membership, I won't be back until the CFC gets it stuff together. I expect lots of criticism but then again this is Chesstalk. Most would just walk away (like all those disappearing memberships) -- by getting this off my chest before I leave, I hope that I can generate honest discussion that can assist in making the CFC what it should be in the 21st century.
Joe
CFC # 109017
45 days remaining
My annual membership expires the beginning of November. My current annual membership provided me with exactly one magazine, two CFC entries into local tourneys and a CFC is dire financial trouble (where it is expected to be corrected by increasing rating fees). Not exactly what I signed up for. To renew now I will get exactly zero magazines, higher rating fees (ergo lower prize funds), and a deficit with looming litigation that could cost the CFC its very existence.
I believe it is time for drastic measures. The current CFC hierarchy is archaic and non-functional. I cannot see it evolving without dissolving. Each year we get a change of executive with new ideas but never enough time to implement however enough time to really screw things up. For the most part it is the same "old boys club". I am tired of all the increasing politics which has festered from a minor irritation to a systemic infection.
In all of this, I believe that the CFC has forgotten who holds this organization together -- it is people like myself -- just regular guys and girls that want to play chess. We don't want the politics.
My solution -- I believe that the provinces and other sub-groups should opt out of the CFC and let it resurrect itself as a new entity whereby it isn't restricted by its anemic existence. New constitution, new government, one member one vote.
I plan on running local tournaments with no connection to the CFC. I hope to convince the local players that we can thrive without being stymied by the CFC.
Unless someone can convince me to renew my membership, I won't be back until the CFC gets it stuff together. I expect lots of criticism but then again this is Chesstalk. Most would just walk away (like all those disappearing memberships) -- by getting this off my chest before I leave, I hope that I can generate honest discussion that can assist in making the CFC what it should be in the 21st century.
Joe
CFC # 109017
45 days remaining
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