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**Iconoclast** · 10-25-2007, 08:42 PM

The ACF now has a top secret Star Chamber called the "Coffee Lounge" (CL.) It is a secret forum on Chess Chat, invisible to members with less than 200 posts. It is inhabitted by: ACF Vice President KB; ACF Imeadiate; Past President Denis Jessop; ACF Ratings Officer Bill Gletsos et al. The CL is so secret that when one poster uttered just a two-word thread name outside the CL, he was banned. The thread is "Toolbox Alert."

The fact that this place exists and is used by top ACF officials and executive to ridicule State Officials and backstab ordinary players, shows that the current ACF is riven with individuals who are not fit to hold office. It should be then of no surprise to anyone, that ACF officials are not democraticly elected to their postion by the players, but self selected individuals who's main objective is the occupy the office and follow the rules - rules that continue to manifestly prevent quality leadership from taking office.

The Coffee Lounge is symptomatic of all that is wrong with the administration of chess in Australia. It is all talk, it is all secret, it is awful.

10-25-2007, 08:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
Iconoclast Immoderator Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Wollongong NSW Posts: 2,302	Coffee Lounge and the ACF The ACF now has a top secret Star Chamber called the "Coffee Lounge" (CL.) It is a secret forum on Chess Chat, invisible to members with less than 200 posts. It is inhabitted by: ACF Vice President KB; ACF Imeadiate; Past President Denis Jessop; ACF Ratings Officer Bill Gletsos et al. The CL is so secret that when one poster uttered just a two-word thread name outside the CL, he was banned. The thread is "Toolbox Alert." The fact that this place exists and is used by top ACF officials and executive to ridicule State Officials and backstab ordinary players, shows that the current ACF is riven with individuals who are not fit to hold office. It should be then of no surprise to anyone, that ACF officials are not democraticly elected to their postion by the players, but self selected individuals who's main objective is the occupy the office and follow the rules - rules that continue to manifestly prevent quality leadership from taking office. The Coffee Lounge is symptomatic of all that is wrong with the administration of chess in Australia. It is all talk, it is all secret, it is awful. __________________ The individual is hopeless without the group. The group is hopeless without its individuals.