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Why the insults Jean? If you know more about the current state of play between FIDE prospective bidders please enlighten us!!
Hal, only you seem to ignore that FIDE is a largely corrupted organisation. You should read New In Chess and Chessbase.com more often, for example. Why would FIDE's bidding process be given credibility when everything else, including elections and regulations, are run and made in dubious ways ? Everything is run and decided by the president, delegates and others being simply used as rubber stamps. We are dealing with an organisation that is supposed to be democratic but is not anymore. Your judgment is clouded by your ties with FIDE. This is what happens when someone is in a conflict of interest.
For a long time now you have been the FIDE rep to Canada instead of being the CFC rep to FIDE. For the former job, you are the perfect man.
I don't recall him ever saying anything positive about the CFC, so how else would I interpret it. It would seem he has joined the group of posters who find it impossible to say anything nice.
Please check your sources or back them up, before throwing empty accusations and posting nonsense like this.
Previously in did say that CFC was doing quiet well 1.5 years ago.
Also I thank all CFC volunteers, for making the most successful CYCC in Canadian history and breaking attendance record!
Most of them are unfortunately not part of CFC anymore, for legitimate reasons.
Kudos to them! :)
Last edited by Mikhail Egorov; Wednesday, 2nd November, 2011, 04:17 PM.
Hal, best wishes for success to everyone involved in organizing this bid!!
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
Jean, it is a popular conception that FIDE is a corrupt ogranization. I have not seen any evidence of that at all. Their finances are an open book, we have a Verification Committee to review them, and the Commission agendas are published before each Congress, and the results afterward. The President does not decide everything. Have you ever attended a FIDE Congress? You should try it some time instead of reading about it.
I also disagree with your take on my work as FIDE Rep. If was FIDE's man to Canada we would have lost our Zone in 2009, several people would not have their titles, and I would have been elected to the Presidential Board in 2010 instead of finishing last! My closest friends in FIDE are also the ones that I argue with the most. Different viewpoints are encouraged within the FIDE tent. They are far from perfect - much like each of their member Federations - but they continue to move forward.
Nope! I can't figure out what you want to say. Did you read the above statement again? Does it make sense to you as it is written?
And please don't wheel out the old "English is not my first language" excuse.
English is not my first language either, it is my third! But I try to give it all the respect it merits as the world's premier tool of communication.
By the way, you're not the only poster that butchers the English on ChessTalk. There are many others. I wish they would all have their children proof read what they write!
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