2024-06-25 23:06:11
Bulgarian Chess Federation 2022 – the one licensed federation for the game of chess in Bulgaria, presents its place concerning the present scenario in Bulgarian chess. As all pals of chess know, one federation is at the moment licensed to manage the game of chess in Bulgaria – BFSh 2022.
Formally a member of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) is one other group – the Bulgarian Sports activities Chess Federation, adopted at a gathering of the Common Meeting of FIDE on 17.12.2023. With this place, we intention to make clear how this example got here to be and what measures are being taken BFSh 2022 to get out of the created chaos.
As a licensed federation, BFSH 2022 submitted paperwork already in November 2022 for consideration of its candidacy on the assembly of the FIDE Common Meeting.
For a similar session of the Common Meeting of FIDE, paperwork for acceptance as a member have been additionally submitted by the BSFSH – respectively, the dialogue of the candidatures of the BSFSH 2022 and the BSFSH was positioned on the agenda of the Common Meeting weeks earlier than the occasion. On the night of 15.12.2023, a brief electronic mail was acquired from FIDE’s authorized director that the FIDE Council (the governing physique of the federation) determined to not contemplate the candidature of the BFSH 2022 on the upcoming Common Meeting. On the identical date, the agenda uploaded to the FIDE web site was amended, and BFSH 2022 was dropped from it. To at the present time, this choice has not been introduced to us, we’ve got not been knowledgeable of the explanations for it, however it’s a undeniable fact that on the assembly on 17.12.2023, consideration of the candidacy of the BFSh 2022 was not allowed. Because of this, solely the candidacy of BSFS, and the delegates didn’t even have the chance to hearken to the place of BSFS 2022, which is why BSFS was elected as a member of FIDE.
We consider that the election of the BSFSH is the results of a process performed in dangerous religion, during which, for causes unknown to us, sure officers from FIDE favored the election of the BSFSH regardless of the apparent contradiction between the candidature of this affiliation and the FIDE statutes. The exclusion of BFS 2022 from the agenda was performed particularly in order that the delegates of the Common Meeting couldn’t hear our place and, accordingly, can be misled by the one-sided info introduced to them by the individuals main the assembly. Even on this scenario, a number of the delegates current objected to the way in which the process was performed (expressed particularly by the delegate of Scotland, Andrew Howie), as a result of the FIDE structure doesn’t enable the agenda of the Common Meeting to be modified at such quick discover.
However regardless of all of the procedural gripes described above, the absurdity of the choice to simply accept BSFS as a member of FIDE lies principally in the truth that by definition FIDE members ought to administer the game of chess on the territory of their nation. The BSFSH not solely doesn’t perform such exercise, however couldn’t perform such exercise with out violating the Legislation on Bodily Training and Sports activities, which mandates that administrative features are carried out solely by the licensed sports activities federation. Individuals who perform actions for which a license is required with out having one are punished with a fantastic of BGN 5,000 to BGN 10,000.
This selection additionally contradicts the FIDE statutes, based on which solely a federation that has the authority to manage the game of chess within the territory of the respective nation/jurisdiction is usually a member of FIDE. In Bulgaria, such powers are granted solely by advantage of a license granted by the MMC, and since 2022 this license is held by the BFSh 2022. To acquire it, the BFSh 2022 should meet plenty of standards, verified over a number of months in a process during which 4 different associations utilized for a license additionally participated. The issuance of this license was appealed in court docket, and with a call of a panel of the Supreme Administrative Court docket, the regularity of the license was confirmed at first occasion. Alternatively, BSFSH is an affiliation and not using a historical past, based on 03.10.2023, solely 10 days earlier than it submitted paperwork for acceptance as a member of FIDE, and representatives of solely 3 golf equipment have been current on the founding assembly. BSFSH doesn’t meet the standards for a federation beneath Bulgarian regulation and has by no means participated in a license acquisition process.
Because of this, the authentic Bulgarian chess federation can not take part within the related worldwide organizations, as a result of the FIDE statute permits the membership of just one federation from every nation, with all of the destructive penalties for Bulgarian chess.
The best way during which the BSFSH has benefited from its membership in FIDE additional testifies why a corporation that has not gone by licensing procedures shouldn’t be allowed to characterize Bulgaria. BSFSH has solely rights in reference to this membership, particularly – to register and report competitions of worldwide ranking held on the territory of Bulgaria, to register Bulgarian rivals for participation in official championships from the worldwide calendar, together with, however not restricted to, as representatives of Bulgaria with the precise to have their bills coated by FIDE and the organizers. The best way during which they benefit from these rights is indicative:
1. No competitions from the State Sports activities Calendar, in addition to different tournaments organized by golf equipment which are common members of the licensed federation, are registered and reported.
2. Nationwide champions in several age teams should not allowed to characterize Bulgaria.
3. As an alternative, they manage, utterly illegally, the so-called “{qualifications}” by the BSFSH to be registered for participation within the European Junior and Ladies Chess Championships, who neither have a daily card file, nor have participated within the State Sports activities Calendar, nor have, from a purely chess viewpoint, no matter possibilities to characterize our nation with dignity. Furthermore, an open match for athletes with a ranking of as much as 2400 has been introduced as a qualifying competitors to find out the consultant of Bulgaria on the Beneath-18 World Championship. That is utterly absurd, since a participant with a ranking above 2400, an undisputed chief in his age in our nation, with plenty of successes in worldwide competitions, will not be allowed to take part. On this method, Bulgaria won’t be represented by its strongest younger chess gamers – another factor proof of the methods during which the BSFS makes use of the powers of acquired membership.
4. Alternatives for essential participation are missed – on the World Championships beneath 20 years, held not too long ago in India, Bulgaria had the precise to 2 quotas – one every for the youth and the ladies, which have been free for us, however such rivals weren’t registered and never took half in these championships. There was solely Beloslava Krasteva, who had acquired such a quota primarily based on her final yr’s rating in the identical championship. Bulgaria didn’t take part within the European group championships beneath 12 and beneath 18, which began on 20.06 in Greece. In 2019, our ladies’ group consisting of Nurgyul Salimova, Gabriela Antova and Nadia Toncheva received this championship. And now they will not even take part in it!
5. Some lists of rivals who weren’t allowed to take part in competitions in our nation, legitimate for worldwide ranking, are being ready, with out the BSFSH having the precise by regulation to any exercise within the administration of the game of chess within the nation.
On the identical time, the BFS 2022 holds for the second yr in a row all competitions from the State Sports activities Calendar, helps, based on its potentialities, worldwide participation of our chess gamers, actively seeks sponsors for them. The mass attendance on the championships this yr is considerably bigger than the earlier one, regardless of the above-mentioned obstacles and the chaos created by the acceptance of the BSFS as a member of FIDE. Right here is the place to notice that 68 golf equipment are members of BFSh 2022 and we’ve got almost 2000 registered rivals thus far, which is twice as many as in 2023. That is indicative of the expansion of our exercise. Nevertheless, to ensure that all of this to develop into high quality and a worthy illustration of Bulgaria on the worldwide stage, it’s vital to not be hindered – each us, the rivals and the golf equipment – within the above-mentioned methods. A few of the most essential and prestigious competitions are developing. Internationally, that is the Olympics, for which we’re planning a coaching camp. For the profitable realization of the lofty targets of the nationwide groups, that are utterly possible, all that’s wanted is calmness and offering the rivals with every thing they want earlier than such a discussion board.
For this function, it’s vital to beat the ego of the heads of the BSFSH, and as a substitute of attempting to impose a dictate, to present a possibility to adjust to the regulation. It offers for the licensed federation to find out and put together the nationwide groups. We might gladly settle for any further methodological and monetary help, however we completely can not settle for the whole lack of dialogue. Nor can we settle for our efforts being ignored. Nobody has a monopoly on the success of the contestants! On a nationwide stage, the person championships for women and men are developing, which will probably be held from August 3 to 10 with the participation of our main rivals. They are going to be earlier than the Olympics, will probably be organized beneath glorious situations and are a possibility for a remaining examine of the readiness of the draft nationals for women and men. The time for constructive choices is brief, however the need on our half is there – for the sake of Bulgarian chess. We thank all sponsors who, in these troublesome instances, consider in us and help our actions, together with financially. We additionally thank the golf equipment – our members, the rivals and the figures with whom we work for the event of Bulgarian chess.
With a view to defending the authentic pursuits of the Bulgarian chess neighborhood from the chaos created by the FIDE choice, in addition to with a view to upholding the supremacy of Bulgarian legal guidelines, the BFSh 2022 determined to attraction the FIDE choice to the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, given the apparent groundlessness of the identical and the variety of procedural violations dedicated throughout its assortment.
We consider that there’s justice and we are going to obtain our aim by uniting our complete chess neighborhood and by actions for the prosperity of Bulgarian sport.