You have also forgotten one of the most famous sayings in chess.Martin Regan wrote: What pomposity.Why not resign on principle then?
"No-one ever won a game by resigning" - Tartakower
You have also forgotten one of the most famous sayings in chess.Martin Regan wrote: What pomposity.Why not resign on principle then?
I haven't yet done much in the role, it's true. I got appointed to the role with no job description and no budget, and don't really know what to do with such a position. Most of what I've done so far has been low-level stuff along the lines of putting people in touch with the relevant disabled chess organization, or passing on complaints concerning disability-related stuff.David Sedgwick wrote:Can you tell us something about the initiatives which you are taking to promote chess amongst people with disabilities?IM Jack Rudd wrote:My official position, as the ECF Manager for Disabled Chess, is that I am concerned about this potential appointment.
And can you explain how you feel the election of Dominic Lawson as President would jeopardise those initiatives?
That they nominated him as "the Board" rather than individually rather suggests so, at least for the non-retiring directors. It's a possible question for the two new candidates for the Junior post and for two of the three standing for Non-Exec Director. The support of one of the three candidates for FIDE Delegate can be inferred as his organisation was a nominator, possibly a question for the other two as relationships with other Federations, FIDE and ECU is one of the areas where the President usually gets involved.John McKenna wrote: Is there any reason to believe that they can?
As long as you ignore the Streatham blog. That usually takes the weekend off for pieces about art or history, but it's five days and counting. It didn't much like the candidacy of that chess boxing bloke for Marketing Director or AP this time last year, but the sustained aggression has outdone even its hostility to the recycling of columns by the Times Chess Correspondent.John McKenna wrote: I'd say nobody has really denigrated and abused him so far
To my mind it is more a question of good manners and what might be considered acceptable behaviour.Kevin Thurlow wrote:Do we really have people here who think "political correctness" is a good idea? It wasn't a good idea in Germany in the 1930s and it still isn't.
Lenny Bruce had a good routine about that, (“We agree to be offended by certain words.") but if I publish it here, people will start foaming at the mouth...
I am still willing to be your new leader and have no worrys about being bad mouthed.Michael Flatt wrote:
If members of the ECF are so concerned about who becomes President, why have they not nominated a single candidate themselves?
It is all too easy to be negative and complain about the actions of the Board without offering any viable alternative. What is your alternative?
Yay, Godwin's Law in action. It's been a while since I've seen such a great example of that.Kevin Thurlow wrote:Do we really have people here who think "political correctness" is a good idea? It wasn't a good idea in Germany in the 1930s and it still isn't.
So do you think disabled people would want to be involved with an organisation that has allocated no budget for their specific needs and has appointed someone to a role relating to them who doesn't know what to do?IM Jack Rudd wrote:I haven't yet done much in the role, it's true. I got appointed to the role with no job description and no budget, and don't really know what to do with such a position. ...
My concern with Lawson is not so much that he would jeopardise initiatives so much that he might jeopardise participation; the "I don't want to be involved with an organization whose leader thinks it's fine to call me 'mentally handicapped'" concern.
I think that Jack Rudd's ill-considered remark arose from falling into a bear trap set by an earlier poster who had provided a hyperlink to the 2006 newspaper article and misrepresented what Dominic Lawson had written.Ian Thompson wrote:An interview with Dominic Lawson about his candidacy has appeared on the Chessbase website. It includes reference to Jack Rudd's negative comments above, and links to some articles he's written about disabilities.