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[Vlad Drkulec]

My problems tend to be inopportune disconnections. I have also had Chess.com boot me out into an analysis screen so that when I was trying to play the...

[Vlad Drkulec]

It really did not get too far into chess politics beyond some general observations. I told Sasha that I was going to be restrained.

I have...

[Vlad Drkulec]

I was a floater for the first round of a tournament with a 15-10 time control that was CFC quick rated. My clock started and I saw a blank screen. I...

[Vlad Drkulec]

It was no stunt. FIDE sent me an email which implied that I could attend the meeting. Hal's hatred for all things XXXXXXXX1 was getting very difficult...

[Vlad Drkulec]

Hal Bond
Sat 2018-10-20 10:34 AM
To: CFC executive

I have gone thru my email updates to the Executive and none of them was copied...

[Vlad Drkulec]

All this was covered in the AGM. Hal didn't want us to make a public stink. The 20,000 Euro figure is a fabrication. I can't find any such statem...

[Vlad Drkulec]

We are going to be trying the free version of Zoom for an executive meeting probably next weekend. We might try Zoom at the next quarterly voting member...

[Vlad Drkulec]

I am unaware of any $20,000 amount. There was talk of chess sets, clocks, DGT boards, arbiter seminars, FIDE trainer seminars, and subsidies for tour...

[Vlad Drkulec]

I would not read too much into the suspension with pay. Think of it as an enforced vacation for someone who works 16 hour days, seven days a week. They...

[Vlad Drkulec]

It might be cause for concern if FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich had not been in touch and explained the situation. The suspension with pay, had everything...

[Vlad Drkulec]

The original email was pretty innocuous. The forgery was obviously done by a European. The only board member that I didn't know well at the time was Egis....

[Vlad Drkulec]

Everyone on the executive denies that they shared the file. There are ways to get an email with certain software that can be installed on a phone or computer...

[Vlad Drkulec]

As president of the CFC, I am an unpaid volunteer who works many hours in a week to advance the interests of the CFC. If the board demands that I do something...

[Vlad Drkulec]

How is it unanimous if I declined to agree to it. I consulted with our lawyer and he told me not to send the email. After talking to our lawyer, Fred...

[Vlad Drkulec]

We were supporting Hal. Hal's statements are incorrect. I will have much more to say on this later....

[Vlad Drkulec]

FIDE’s investigation

You replied on Tue 2021-02-23 5:23 PM



Aleksandr Martynov

Tue 2021-02-23 3:01...

[Vlad Drkulec]

Miyamoto Musashi says, "Do nothing which is of no use."...

[Vlad Drkulec]

I found him as having played 22 games. The father sent me something on the CFC facebook page about a day ago. It looks like an interesting book....

[Vlad Drkulec]

I would like to push back on the notion that someone on chesstalk has a "great idea" that involves a fair amount of work that the CFC president...

[Vlad Drkulec]

When you get to the Julius Caesar Ides of March level of the last election, friction is an understatement. The executive were going to make a decision...