AGM

[Phil Thomas]

I have had restricted internet access over the past week but was able to read the thread daily.
It does surprise me that nobody has commented upon the 2nd paragraph.

2. No one has the right to refuse to meet a disabled player against whom he has been correctly paired.

I suggest amending that to read.

2. No one has the right to refuse to meet a player against whom he has been correctly paired.


The first version version could be interpreted to imply that a refusal to play an opponent could be acceptable in the case of an able bodied player.

Quoting myself because postings on main body of motion 1 pushed this posting back 2 or 3 pages in a few hours.
As always I suspect that no replies indicate tacit agreement.

Expanding on my theme. The question of refusing to play an opponent in a correct published draw falls into similar categories as the overall guidelines of motion 1.

(A) In a FIDE event it is already forbidden to change a published draw - unless two players were due to play for the second time.

(B) For CS events it is up to CS to decide what to do if a player refuses to play the correct opponent in a published draw.

© For independent events controlled by independent people - common sense will hopefully prevail.


However this is a slightly different situation to the main body of motion 1.

CS licensed arbiters could be instructed by CS to stick to the FIDE regulations for all swiss draws they do at any event. Sadly its too late to put this as a motion to the 2014 agm. However, I wonder if the principal is generally agreed by notice board readers.