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WCOC stands for World Championship and Olympic Committee and has been making recommendations.

http://www.fide.com/component/content/a ... board.html

The concept of not being able to agree draws, enforced in the European Championships, is being wound back. A cynic would suspect this has more to do with personality clashes inside FIDE than with the merits of the decision.

3. For WCC cycle events (including continentals and zonals), the “no draw offer” rule applies only for the first 30 moves, except events organized with theswiss system where no kind of “no draw offer” rule shall be applied.

The European Continental Championship is a Swiss, a qualifier for the World Cup and thus the World Championships and is one that has outlawed early draws in past events.

http://www.eicc2013.pl/index.php/8-eicc ... nship-2013
http://www.eicc2013.pl/index.php/inform ... egulations

Players may only agree to a draw after the 40th move has been made by black. Players violating this rule will be forfeited. If a player is offered a draw before the 40th move has been made by black, he should call an arbiter. His opponent shall be punished for distracting, according to the FIDE Laws of Chess.

Those who lost to Feller at the Olympiad will get their rating points back.

10. For the Feller case, WCOC is proposing the following:
a) all players who lost rating points to Feller in the Olympiad should have them given back,

The players who were defaulted for agreeing a threefold repetition draw in under forty moves also get their points back

11. For the Baron - Safarli game in Plovdiv 2012, the WCOC recommendsthat FIDE PB accepts the appeal of ACP on behalf of both players to be given back their rating points (5 rating points each). The three-time repetition is included in the Laws of Chess and it is not a violation.

Excellent news all round!

I must admit I'd never heard of this body before - is it an official offshoot of FIDE or is it an independent Committee?

Andrew Bak wrote: I must admit I'd never heard of this body before - is it an official offshoot of FIDE or is it an independent Committee?

I had to look it up as well. I believe it to be one of the many FIDE committees. If presented with an issue, the reaction of the FIDE Presidential Board is to create a committee to advise them. It's not entirely a positive move, the more appointments in the gift of the FIDE Board or President, the greater the powers of patronage.

Actually it might be officially termed "Commission" rather than "Committee".

http://www.fide.com/fide/directory/fide ... sions.html

Nineteen(!) in total plus two "Special Projects".

Roger de Coverly wrote:
Those who lost to Feller at the Olympiad will get their rating points back.
10. For the Feller case, WCOC is proposing the following:
a) all players who lost rating points to Feller in the Olympiad should have them given back,

I'll believe it if/when it happens, maybe they could adjust the match result too

Reviving this old thread, FIDE want Feller's prize and medal back.

Failing that, "Proceedings will be taken", although what and where are unspecified.

http://www.fide.com/component/content/a ... eller.html

Nothing about rating points and the match result though.

Hard to believe this is still dragging on but as I understand it on 1 August 2012 Feller was banned by FIDE for two years and nine months so that will be up in three days time. Guess that's what's triggered this letter. I hope FIDE are not contemplating legal proceedings for the recovery of the gold medal and the 5000 euros as disciplinary action by the French federation has already been thrown out of a French Court once on technicalities and it could prove to be very expensive and maybe unnecessary. Presumably the letter citing the non-return of the items will make a further suspension easier to impose on Feller. Good summary of what went on in 2010 in the attached ChessBase report.

http://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-confi ... ating-case

Feller already made a come back at the French Blitz championships in February this year finishing 20th!

http://www.echecs.asso.fr/ResultatNew.a ... &Action=Cl