FIDE Executive Board

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Re: FIDE Executive Board

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sat Oct 14, 2017 7:49 pm

NickFaulks wrote:In other news, DGT have announced that they are going to sell their DGT 2010 clocks to ALL federations for €15 each.
I would bye some as a club

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Re: FIDE Executive Board

Post by Alex Holowczak » Sat Oct 14, 2017 8:35 pm

Having established that Nigel Freeman reads the Forum, he may read this and decide to fix the proofreading error in the report from Day 6 of the Congress: http://www.fide.com/component/content/a ... day-6.html

The report helpfully explains: "FIDE Treasurer Professor Siegel proposed the following motion: “quote motion”. The members voted 37-20 in favour of the motion with 2 abstentions." :lol:

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Re: FIDE Executive Board

Post by Roger de Coverly » Sat Oct 14, 2017 9:31 pm

Here's what chess.com has to say on the quote motion

https://www.chess.com/news/view/executi ... -president

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Re: FIDE Executive Board

Post by NickFaulks » Sun Oct 15, 2017 1:16 pm

David Sedgwick wrote: Now it seems that there is a possibility, albeit a slight one at present, that the 2018 Olympiad won't be in Batumi after all
The 2018 Olympiad will be in Batumi.
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Re: FIDE Executive Board

Post by NickFaulks » Sun Oct 15, 2017 1:23 pm

Richard Bates wrote:Just as the London League has invested in a number of shiny new analogue clocks to accommodate the needs of their new venue as well... ;)
Has that really happened?

It would still make some kind of sense. The killer argument against digital clocks is that they will be stolen. This patently is not a danger with analogue clocks, which nobody wants.
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Re: FIDE Executive Board

Post by NickFaulks » Sun Oct 15, 2017 2:00 pm

Alex Holowczak wrote:The report helpfully explains: "FIDE Treasurer Professor Siegel proposed the following motion: “quote motion”. The members voted 37-20 in favour of the motion with 2 abstentions." :lol:
That is a blunder. However, the motion is shown correctly in the pdf which follows it.
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Re: FIDE Executive Board

Post by Alex Holowczak » Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:57 pm

NickFaulks wrote:
Alex Holowczak wrote:The report helpfully explains: "FIDE Treasurer Professor Siegel proposed the following motion: “quote motion”. The members voted 37-20 in favour of the motion with 2 abstentions." :lol:
That is a blunder. However, the motion is shown correctly in the pdf which follows it.
And now it has been corrected.

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Re: FIDE Executive Board

Post by Roger de Coverly » Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:04 pm

There's a long list of bullet points at
http://www.fide.com/component/content/a ... sions.html
EB-2017/26. To approve the proposed changes to the Laws of Chess.
But what are the changes?

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Re: FIDE Executive Board

Post by Stewart Reuben » Tue Oct 17, 2017 1:02 pm

But what are the changes?
The main one is that, from 1 January 2018, illegal moves will lose after TWO moves in rapidplay and blitz. Until then, it remains at ONE move.

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Re: FIDE Executive Board

Post by NickFaulks » Tue Oct 17, 2017 1:02 pm

Roger de Coverly wrote:But what are the changes?
It says they will be posted on the website soon.

This is an unfortunate result of the generally good idea of abandoning the mountains of paper given to people as they walk into the meeting, sending everything by email in advance instead. Federations who sent delegates who did not happen to be EB members didn't get the email, so still don't know what was going on.
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Re: FIDE Executive Board

Post by NickFaulks » Tue Oct 17, 2017 1:19 pm

Stewart Reuben wrote:But what are the changes?
The main one is that, from 1 January 2018, illegal moves will lose after TWO moves in rapidplay and blitz. Until then, it remains at ONE move.
Stewart,
Annex 19, containing all the changes, has been approved and is not a secret. However, I don't think it's my place to post it here. Could you do that?
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