CHESS ARBITERS ASSOCIATION

Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on Sunday, July29th, 2012, at North Shields

Present: Alex McFarlane, Geoff Jones,Dave Welch, Stewart Reuben, Lara Barnes,

  1. Apologies.Apologies had been received were from Peter Purland, Alec Webster, Kevin Staveley, Wilf Arnold, Dave Thomas, Neil Graham, Richard W Jones, Priscilla Morris, Neville Belinfante, Paul Bielby, Simon Woodcock, Ian Campbell, , Roger Edwards, Peter Gibbs, David Sedgwick, Tony Corfe, Alan Ruffle, Kevin Markey, Gerald Jepps, Cyril Johnson, Robert Milner, John Swain, Ewart Smith, Rod Middleton, Arnold Lutton, Carl Tillotson.

Neville Belinfante had just heard that morning that his father had died. The Association sends its condolences to Neville.

  1. Minutes.Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on Sunday, July 31st, 2011, at Sheffieldwere accepted as a true record
  2. Matters arising. 7. There had been no response from the members re the attitude towards arbiters. 11. The ECF CEO had declined to let the CAA view the document on etiquette. The document did not get put before the ECF October meeting. 12.a. The chairman reported that Jack Rudd had been appointed a FA
  3. Chairman’s Report.The Chairman had nothing to report
  4. Treasurer’s Report. A copy of the treasurer’s report is attached The secretary reported that he held no cash float because of the switch to emailing notices out, he had banked all the cash he had collected. The secretary also reported that number of members had fallen, he believed because some members had not realised that along with the AGM minutes emailed out, there was a renewal form. It was agreed that in future the renewal form would be emailed out as a separate document.

The treasurer’s report was accepted

  1. Chief Arbiter’s Report.Alex McFarlane reported thathe had been surprised when the website had been cut off and he was in the process of moving it.

Following on from the championships at Sheffield, it was felt that support for the arbiters and the organising team was shown to be lacking from the ECF executive. Iin fact someone with employment law training had said if the team had been employed, the ECF could have faced a strong case.

Alex was thanked for his report.

  1. .There was no reports from thedelegates.
  1. Election of Officers A proposal to elect the officers en-bloc, was accepted.

(Office)(Nominee)

ChairmanLara Barnes

SecretaryGeoff Jones

TreasurerWilf Arnold

Chief Arbiter Alex McFarlane

Information OfficerAlex McFarlane

Committee Dave Welch

Kevin Staveley

Neville Belinfante

ECF DelegateNeville Belinfante

Chess Scotland Delegate Alex McFarlane

WCU DelegateKevin Staveley

Richard Jones was appointed Independent Examiner.

  1. Mike Gunn would take back to the ECF the concern that the meeting felt over the proposed splitting up of the ECF. In particular the proposal that the Congress and England team be linked together caused concern with some of the congress funding coming from Charitable sources. It was suggested that the championships could be run through the BICC/ service company.
  1. Stewart Reuben was thanked for providing the members with the proposed changes to the laws of chess and explaining to meeting some of the thinking behind the changes.

3.6 & 3.7a before and after diagram should be added to show the knight and en passant moves.

3.10 The move is called legal when all relevant requirements of Articicles 3.1 -3.9 have been fulfilled.

4.2 Move from after the comma to start of the sentence “Only the player having the move” etc

5.1a 5.2a & 5.2b Change in accordance with “Articles 3 and 4” to “Articles 3 and 4.2. to 4.6

6.2a The last sentence. Change “the” clock to “his” clock.

6.2e Change “must be acceptable” to “is acceptable”

6.3 After a discussion suitable wording could not be agreed on and this was defered to looked at before the Turkey meeting.

6.10b “The arbiter shall install the correct setting and adjust the times and move-counter, if necessary.”

8.1d Change “must” to “is” inline with 6.2e

Alternative 8.5 is not supported by the membership

12.2 The playing venue is defined in the “Glossary” and the playing area should also be defined there.

Appendix E 10.9 change 9.a and 9.b to 8.a and 8.b (item 8 is being deleted)

  1. Any Other Business

a)An email had been received from David Sedgwick in regard to CAA members attending FIDE arbiting seminar. It was agreed that, in this instance, to reimburse David and Alex McFarlane £50.00 each.

b)It was proposed and accepted that the CAA should provide up to £500.00 towards approved CAA members who would be attending in Turkey.

c)It was suggested that the committee should consider moving the AGM date and venue. A Friday night date was suggested at a 4NCL weekend.

There being no further business the meeting closed at 7.00p.m.