CFC Voting Member
Would you mind to add (or post elsewhere) actual dates what will be used for the selection process (ratings since/till; first offers, etc). Thnx. I assume the Olympiad date is set already.Originally Posted by Victor Plotkin
Was a participation bonus in the Championship before too? (not just for a prize places)
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CFC FIDE Representative
1. Olympiad: Aug 1 - Aug 20, 2020. The deadline for rating: 5 months before the start, that means Mar 1, 2020.
2. FIDE (for the National Team) on Mar 1, 2020 will be taken. CFC and FIDE (for ladies) on Mar 1, 2020 will be taken.
3. Bonus/penalties for Canadian Championship: 20 points for silver, 10 points for bronze, penalty 10 points if didn't play/withdrew. The Champion gets the spot automatically.
Could please Vlad confirm the correction for the next Women Championship-2020? (3 months before the deadline instead of 5).
Last edited by Victor Plotkin; 05-02-2019 at 10:26 AM.
International Arbiter
FIDE Report
FIDE Report:
The new FIDE leadership is proceeding with changes to the World Championship cycle for both Men’s/Open and Women. A Congress is planned for later this year to ratify these and other changes but the details are not yet known.
The Women’s Cycle has been modified to resemble the Open version, and the challenger for the Women’s title will be determined a Candidates Tournament which will be held in Kazan, Russia, from May 29 – June 18. The Men’s/Open Championship match will be extended to 14 games. Agon has been removed from the equation and FIDE has invited bids for the next match.
The most significant changes are proposed for the World Cup. From the proposal copied below, you will see that the World Cup will be one round longer, and Zonal representation is to be replaced by a Federation’s final standing at the most recent Olympiad, starting with 2020. This proposed change is of great concern to FIDE America, which relies on the Zonal structure in its business model and for its championships. In fact, Europe is the only Continent which does not use its Zonal structure for competition, although the Zone Presidents in Europe are part of the FIDE Executive Board.
I hope to gain a better understanding of this World Cup proposal and your comments are welcome. Even though our results at the Olympiad are typically good enough to qualify for a spot in the World Cup, elimination of FIDE Zones is a concern for Canada. You may recall that the World Cup was not attracting bidders (Khanty Mansiysk hosted 4 in a row!) so it was became an obligation for Olympiad bids.
Congratulations to our newly crowned Zonal Champion GM Evgeny Bareev, and to IO Aris Marghetis for putting together and excellent tournament. I believe this event has room to grow and I look forward to the sequel next year.
The World Cup proposal is presented below for your perusal.
Respectfully submitted
Hal Bond
FIDE Zone 2.2 President and Delegate, Canada
Proposal for the new World Cup format
206 participants are to compete in the World Cup. 1 additional round (Three extra days).
156 players (78 pairs) start in round 1. 50 highest-rated players are directly seeded into round 2.
Approx. 300,000 $ additional budget is required (234,000 $ for prizes + expenses for the venue, arbiters, etc).
Number of participants – 206.
I. 26 spots are distributed among the following categories:
- World Champion
- Previous World Cup semi-finalists
- Junior World Champion
- Women’s World Champion
- Average rating
- President’s Wild Cards
- Organizer’s Wild Cards
(to be specified).
II. 100 participants are decided according to the Final Ranking of the Olympiad 2020.
The top 100 federations are to be represented by their national champions or highest rated players (to be specified).
Maximum 40 federations per Continent may get the “federation spot”. If there are more than 40 from the same Continent, the “federation spot(s)” go(es) to the next federation(s) in the Final Ranking.
If the “federation spot” is given to a player qualified by average Rating, the additional spot goes to the average Rating.
III. 80 are distributed among the four Continents as follows:
- Each Continent is granted 3 spots – 12 spots;
- 8 spots are distributed according to the number of each Continental representatives in the Top 8 players according to the average Rating of twelve standard FIDE junior (under 20) RL from Feb 2020 to Jan 2021.
- 60 spots are distributed according to the number of each Continental representatives in the Top 60 according to the average Rating of twelve standard FIDE RL from Feb 2020 to Jan 2021.
Example of application of point III.
If the calculations are made according to the January 2019 FIDE RL and FIDE junior (under 20) RL, the distribution would be as follows:
Europe – 48 (3 + 3 + 42)
Asia – 18 (3 + 3 + 12)
America – 10 (3 + 2 + 5)
Africa – 4 (3 + 0 + 1)
CFC President
As long as we can comply with FIDE requirements for naming our team, then I would be in favour of this minor change in the rules. Lets codify it at our next meeting.
CFC FIDE Representative
Vlad, I want to remind you that at last meeting we started discussing "late withdrawal" from the National Team (A.LeSiege). Any ideas? Looks like we postpone the discussion too often.
Rook
I also prefer option a.
Rook
Woman’s Coordinator
Very little to report on my official function. I though that the Kingston bid included a Canadian Women Championship each year, not only on Zonal year. One Canadian Championship can be organized for 2019 provided that there is enough players.
I have been been the Chief Arbiter of the Quebec Closed. Our new Champion is Zong Yang Yu who gained 23.8 FIDE rating points. The best improvement of FIDE rating goes to Qiuyu Huang who gained 70.4 points. I learned afterwards that Provincial Champions are no longer invited to the Canadian Closed. The winner with represent Quebec at the International Francophone Chess Association Championship where norms are possible.
I have also updated the FQE LTD examination and I am actively preparing for the next LTD seminar. There is something special about this seminar. I will report after it has been successfully completed.
I have incorporated a new League. There does not seem to be any demand in the Lanaudière region for a CYCC regional qualifier. I will organize one if there is a sufficient demand.
Respectfully submitted
Pierre Dénommée
CFC Junior Coordinator
4F Youth Coordinator report
4F Youth Coordinator Report:
Summary of Youth Event
PanAm Team:
Anabelle Atanasov will be the HoD of PanAm Team.
So far, there are confirmed 19 players registered into PanAm team
Communications between Ecuadorian Chess Federation has been established.
Anabelle already sent out registration form and try to setup the team. There is a early bird hotel discount before May 22, so Anabelle is trying very hard to get things go as fast as she can
Here is the PanAm registration process link
WCCC Team
I will lead the WCCC team to China
The communication between us and Chinese organizer has been established.
The registration deadline has been extended to Jul 25, which is after CYCC.
I also start working on the registration. There are few players already apply for approval as they can't participate in CYCC and want to go to WCCC. I will send another email for approval of these players
Here is the WCCC registration process link.
WYCC Team.
Vivek Srinvas will be the HoD of WYCC team.
Vivek has India background and he is very fluent in Indian language which is a bonus to the team as well.
I had posted the WYCC registration process link at chess forum.
OYCC presentation
I am going to do my first youth coordinator powerpoint presentation during OYCC time in Kitchener to educate youth chess families about the CFC structure, how to apply for the official players to WCCC/WYCC/PanAm/NAYCC, PanAm Junior U20/NAYCC Junior U20, U16 Chess Olympiad, the importance of different deadline date, the official players selection process and how to read each international tournament invitation file properly.
Christina
CFC Voting Member
Thank you, Christina, for your work and for informative report!
Thanks,
Michael Barron
CFC Secretary
Paul do you have a _rough_ idea how many of our members have USCF ratings?
I realize that's a hard question because unlike FIDE numbers USCF numbers don't appear on our 'TD's List'. I was thinking more "SWAG" (silly wild-a**ed guess) than something definite. I would strongly expect the %age to vary wildly within Canada based on region - for instance if you live in Windsor it is much easier to play in Detroit and Chicago events than say somebody from the Maritimes. 30 years ago when I lived in Winnipeg such US play as we got was in Minneapolis and usually involved one or two carloads worth of players...virtually no one below 2000 played anywhere other than Minneapolis.
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