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Well if your second statement was true, we probably could have found a player !
As far as I know we weren't approached by anyone willing to participate, nor did we seek out anyone. I'm not sure if we even received any official documentation, as opposed to just reading about it on the web.
I wonder who can fill Michael's shoes as the OCA President if a vacancy should appear if he wins CFC Presidency?
No one wanted to take on the job at the OCA AGM at Hamilton.
when can the common chess player use this new CFC Website?
I looked at it but looks like alot of money spent but for what purpose?. All I want is to read about ratings and upcoming tournaments and Cross tables.
As long as the emag is emailed to me that is fine. Otherwise I'd doubt I'd ever use the bells and whistles on this new website.
i would be more interested in this kevin, if all of the cheers for him weren't coming from a mainly anoymous bulletin board. Does anybody even know who he is, outside of ottawa ?
In late 2006, I received a phone call from somebody representing himself as Neil James Frarey, asking if I was willing to direct the Canadian Open. I was non-committal, but before long it was announced that I was directing the tournament. On the basis of what was known about him, that seemed typical. After determining that the event would be held in two sections, and that exactly one GM (Kevin Spraggett) would be specially invited, I assented to direct. I also received emails. The rest, as they say, is history. At the 2007 Canadian Open, I did not see a Neil James Frarey, or if I did, he was not introduced or identified to me. The rumour was that he absented himself from the tournament as part of the agreement under which he ceded management of it. So, inside or "outside of Ottawa", I don't know that NJF exists. Or, as probably nobody would express it in Russian:
[strike]Есть[/strike] Быть Нил Джеймс Фрейри? Это не вкусным вопросом.
I wonder who can fill Michael's shoes as the OCA President if a vacancy should appear if he wins CFC Presidency?
No one wanted to take on the job at the OCA AGM at Hamilton.
At one Canadian Championship (1978), Camille Coudari (later IM and co-director of The Great Chess Movie) out of nowhere asked if I was a separatist. After a brief double-take, I replied: "An Ontario separatist? There doesn't seem much point." He laughed, too.
Yes. They (the OCA) sold Bob Armstrong one... as far as I know, he is the only Life Member of the OCA.
This is largely because nobody could figure out how to become a Life Member of the OCA (and as I recall, there was a lively discussion of the fee... which I don't recall)
The consensus at the time was that CFC Life Members *should* be remitting a provincial membership fee every year...
However, this is all too hazy in my memory now. Perhaps Bob A. can recollect better than I can...
The fee is 15% of whatever the CFC Life Membership fee is.
But in any case that totally ignores all of the problems still inherent in that, and I couldn't get anyone else to care about it much when I tried before.
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