Which Candidate Should the ECF Support in the FIDE Presidential Election?

[JustinHorton]

While I am fairly sure who is being referred to here, may I point out that discussing things in this way does tend to exclude the large number of forum readers who will not know.

[Jonathan Rogers]

While I am fairly sure who is being referred to here....

Well, I'm not! FFS, name the guy, no law will be broken!

(My best guess would be Dominic Lawson, but it's only a guess, since I tend to associate him with efforts to deny climate change rather than managing political campaigns).

[Alex Holowczak]

While I am fairly sure who is being referred to here....

Well, I'm not! FFS, name the guy, no law will be broken!

(My best guess would be Dominic Lawson, but it's only a guess, since I tend to associate him with efforts to deny climate change rather than managing political campaigns).

Remind me never to be on your team in a game of Cluedo.

[Matthew Turner]

I assumed they were talking about Phil Ehr, but I have to admit I was struggling to care.

[Michael Farthing]

Cluedo and chess clearly do not go together..

[Jonathan Rogers]

The CSC clue isn't helpful enough! Isn't virtually everyone said to be involved, one way or the other?!

[JustinHorton]

It's like M&M Enterprises, everybody has a share

[Jonathan Rogers]

While I am fairly sure who is being referred to here....

Well, I'm not! FFS, name the guy, no law will be broken!

(My best guess would be Dominic Lawson, but it's only a guess, since I tend to associate him with efforts to deny climate change rather than managing political campaigns).

Remind me never to be on your team in a game of Cluedo.

Can you have teams in Cluedo? (This would indeed have more implications for the Rogers household than the identity of the next FIDE President).

[Roger de Coverly]

Isn't virtually everyone said to be involved, one way or the other?!

You are looking for a name who is big in CSC, restored big in the ECF and a serial election fighter outside the world of chess (but possibly not winner).

[Michael Farthing]

Isn't virtually everyone said to be involved, one way or the other?!

You are looking for a name who is big in CSC, restored big in the ECF and a serial election fighter (but possibly not winner).

The word 'advisor' might also offer a clue - particularly the sort appropriate for a closed game rather than an open one.

[Jonathan Rogers]

All right, all right! Next you'll be telling me that Malcolm never said that the advisor had been conspicuously successful in his own experiences!!

Personally, I still have my doubts, but now look what you have all done! Even I am not naming him now!

[JustinHorton]

Anybody wants to know just DM me (swift answers unlikely after 1730 BST as there's a film on the telly then some football probably more interesting than Group C).

[Stewart Reuben]

Roger >If allowed, you wonder how "none of the above" would fare in a FIDE election.

Not at all well. But take the last US Presidential election. NOTA might well have won and would have been my preferred vote.
NOTA is a slap in the face for voluntary officers. To elect somebody else is one thing. To choose nobody at all, rather than a candidate, is soul destroying.

[Roger de Coverly]

To choose nobody at all, rather than a candidate, is soul destroying.

Recent ECF experience has seen it used to remove an existing director or two, or express dissatisfaction with attitudes expressed by a prospective director.

[Stewart Reuben]

Roger. I understand that. I meant destroying the soul of the candidate.

I think it happened to me once. I was one of five candidates for a Head of Science position. The interviewing Board decided not to appoint any of us. I f you applied and somebody else got the job, fair enough. But it was awful when it was decided no candidate was good enough.