Re: ECF Vacancies
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:39 pm
I believe that Sean is submitting rating results to FIDE directly without the need for an IRO. The question is will other FIDE rated events go down this road also?
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Any such arrangement can only be a very temporary expedient.John Upham wrote:I believe that Sean is submitting rating results to FIDE directly without the need for an IRO. The question is will other FIDE rated events go down this road also?
I agree completely. I consider it essential that the Board makes an appointment no later than the day of the Finance Council Meeting, even if has to reconvene after the Council Meeting to do so.LawrenceCooper wrote:The main thing is that someone does the job as it's too important to be left vacant as there will be a backlog of tournaments to be registered and then submitted, particularly over a busy time like Easter.
Spare a thought for those of us with fixed-time return train tickets.David Sedgwick wrote:I consider it essential that the Board makes an appointment no later than the day of the Finance Council Meeting, even if has to reconvene after the Council Meeting to do so.
I guess the relevant question is: Did anyone tell him? One can't blame the webmaster for having incorrect information on the website if no one told him which information should be included.Christopher Kreuzer wrote:PS: This page:
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/?page_id=2975
Lists Hawkins as an FM, but his FIDE rating page lists him as an IM:
http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=412686
I've e-mailed the ECF webmaster (following other corrections I sent in last year).
I've seen someone produce this list before, so such a thing exists.Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Really, though, someone (possibly the IRO, possible someone else) should give the online list a thorough check for discrepancies against a current masterlist, where-ever that is held.
I compiled a list for the last IRO but I've not seen an updated list from him since then.Alex Holowczak wrote:I guess the relevant question is: Did anyone tell him? One can't blame the webmaster for having incorrect information on the website if no one told him which information should be included.Christopher Kreuzer wrote:PS: This page:
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/?page_id=2975
Lists Hawkins as an FM, but his FIDE rating page lists him as an IM:
http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=412686
I've e-mailed the ECF webmaster (following other corrections I sent in last year).
I've seen someone produce this list before, so such a thing exists.Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Really, though, someone (possibly the IRO, possible someone else) should give the online list a thorough check for discrepancies against a current masterlist, where-ever that is held.
The other corrections I e-mailed were in 2011. Hawkins became an IM in 2010. I'm not sure whether the online list back then was also incorrect, or whether it was correct and there was a complete overwrite that introduced a new error. Probably the former, as back in 2011 I didn't check every entry (unsurprisingly), and only noticed when checking something else. So what probably happened is that the change from FM to IM in 2010 didn't get passed on from the person responsible to the webmaster. I wouldn't blame the webmaster at all in this (he has responded efficiently to other corrections I've pointed out), and my original post didn't touch on that issue (Alex was the first to use the 'blame' word).Alex Holowczak wrote:I guess the relevant question is: Did anyone tell him? One can't blame the webmaster for having incorrect information on the website if no one told him which information should be included.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: I've e-mailed the ECF webmaster (following other corrections I sent in last year).
The FIDE site has a list, the ENG GM one is http://ratings.fide.com/title_norms.pht ... ountry=ENGLawrenceCooper wrote: I compiled a list for the last IRO but I've not seen an updated list from him since then.
It has now.Jonathan Bryant wrote:John Upham wrote:The web site lists the following positions as being vacant:
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Manager of Prisons Chess
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Is this position really vacant? I recall it being reported that it had been filled.