It's being alleged that the decision to resign was announced with insufficient warning so that only those with advance notice of the resignation could seize the opportunity to put their name forward. That contrasts with the Home Director position where Alex H had indicated his intention to stand down with enough notice for two candidates to put their names forward. It was however something of a surprise when having appeared to indicate he was standing down as an ECF director, he promptly stood for election again.Andrew Zigmond wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 11:58 pmIf Traci Whitfield had won re-election and then resigned, with the board subsequently appointing Alex then it might have been a stitch up. But that didn't happen.
I suppose cooperation with the UK Chess Challenge is better than the Basman era where at times there seemed to be open hostility . That said, the ECF's role as a "regulator" should mean that it keeps a relative distance from commercial operations.