The battle for ECU Presidential elections begins

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Re: The battle for ECU Presidential elections begins

Post by JustinHorton » Mon Aug 11, 2014 9:38 pm

Well maybe David, but if the argument was that you should enthusiastically support a candidate because that gives you influence with them if they win, are you not by extension poorly placed if you enthusiastically campaigned for the winner's opponent? (I don't see how it works one way but not the other.)
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Re: The battle for ECU Presidential elections begins

Post by David Sedgwick » Mon Aug 11, 2014 10:30 pm

JustinHorton wrote:Well maybe David, but if the argument was that you should enthusiastically support a candidate because that gives you influence with them if they win, are you not by extension poorly placed if you enthusiastically campaigned for the winner's opponent? (I don't see how it works one way but not the other.)
Actually, the ECF campaigned strongly for Garry Kasparov, but decided not to campaign for Silvio Danailov.

Time will tell whether Zurab Azmaiaparshvili will be forgiving as a result.

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Re: The battle for ECU Presidential elections begins

Post by Stewart Reuben » Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:29 pm

I very much doubt Azmay will care about how England supported Danailov.
It is all water under the bridge and now we should return to trying to organise chess best for chessplayers and English chess. Certainly FIDE Officials have never previously shown themselves in any way to care, after the election, about the fact that ENG voted for the candidate other than Kirsan.

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Re: The battle for ECU Presidential elections begins

Post by Andy Howie » Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:53 pm

Chris Rice wrote:ECU GA proclaim that Crimea is Russian not Ukrainian. http://www.chessdom.com/european-chess- ... nd-crimea/
They agreed it was Ukranian but brought this in to cover every territorial dispute in the future. I was sitting with the Ukrainian delegate and most of us waited until they gave the nod before voting for this

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Re: The battle for ECU Presidential elections begins

Post by Chris Rice » Sat Oct 11, 2014 7:05 am

OK the election might be over but there appear to be issues as to what Danailov was doing when he was in charge. The ECU General Assembly (due to take place on 25 October 2014 Batumi, Georgia) Agenda has at item 5:

5. Legal issues - Contracts

5.1 Claims by the Montenegro Chess Federation for the European Youth Championship 2013

By a letter (last demand), Montenegro Chess Federation sent through its legal representative a claim for the amount of 30,270 euro to be paid by ECU by October 2, 2014. The amount relates to the ECU fees from the European Youth Chess Championship 2013 in Budva. Former ECU President Silvio Danailov and former ECU General Secretary Sava Stoisavljevic were officially called to submit a written report to ECU Board and General Assembly regarding the case in question. ECU Board to report to the GA about the existing situation and actions taken.

5.2 ECU & IDEARTE co-operation

According to the article 48 (d) of the ECU Statutes, the Board has to approve of the contract and subsequently present it to the ECU General Assembly. Idearte representatives have been invited to Batumi to present their opinions and plans, as well as to confirm their statements made at the ECU GA in Tromso, Norway.

Facts

A. Abstract from the official Board meeting minutes in Warsaw, Poland annex 3
B. The final contract that was signed between Former ECU President Mr. Silvio Danailov and Idearte does not contain any clause for guaranteed sponsorship/revenue in disagreement with the ECU Board's respective decision.
C. The final wording of the contract signed never came to ECU Board for approval.
D. Annex 1 containing the minutes from GA in Tromso and presentation made by Idearte.
E. Former ECU President Silvio Danailov was officially called to submit his comments in writing to the ECU Board and General Assembly.

5.3 Information about the existing situation and actions taken
ECU Board to inform about other agreements and/or claims, and actions taken respectively.

http://www.ecuonline.net/com/news/single/735.html

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Re: The battle for ECU Presidential elections begins

Post by Roger de Coverly » Tue May 26, 2015 6:02 pm

Chris Rice wrote: but there appear to be issues as to what Danailov was doing when he was in charge.
As a follow up to this, the chessdom website is now reporting the existence of a strangely named Delaware (US) company, namely the European Chess Union LLC with the inference that money due to the European Chess Union may have been paid into this name alike.

http://www.chessdom.com/ecu-press-relea ... w-details/
http://www.europechess.org/european-che ... ouncement/

The European holder of the ECU name describes itself as an independent association with its seat in Switzerland.
http://www.europechess.org/regulations/statutes/