The Irish Chess Union

EGM

An EGM will be held on Sunday 4th October starting at 2.30pm in the Ierne Sports and Social Club, Gracepark Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9.

The EGM will address four motions proposing the adoption of:

A new Constitution (the attached draft tracks the changes to the existing Constitution) A Disciplinary Code that is to be incorporated into an Appendix A of the Constitution Revised Rules for the holding of the Irish National Club Cup Competition (INCC) including a provision that these rules can only be changed in the future at a General meeting Revised Eligibility Criteria for International Selection

The four documents involved can be accessed at the following links;

Draft Constitution of the Irish Chess Union
Draft Disciplinary Code for the Irish Chess Union
Draft Rules for the National Club Championship
Draft Eligibility Criteria for International Selection

The new draft Constitution and the Disciplinary Code reflect discussions at last year's AGM about suggested changes required in these areas.

The draft revisions of the INCC rules are designed mainly to clarify the rules about eligibility etc of teams to enter the event and to give the arbiter and tournament director some options about how it is to be run depending on the volume of entries.

The draft International Selection Criteria set out the minimum activity levels required to establish eligibility for consideration for selection. They also propose to revise the manner in which non-nationals have to establish their eligibility for selection. The essential point here is that when a non-national has played once on an Irish national team, s/he is subject to the same rules as players born on the Ireland of Ireland or players whose parents were born in Ireland or are citizens of Ireland for future selections.

AGM

The AGM will be held on Sunday 11th October 2015 commencing at 11.00 am in the Academy Plaza Hotel, Findlater Place, (just off Upper O' Connell Street, Dublin 1). the Irish Blitz Championships will take place at the same venue starting at 2.30 pm with registration from 1.45pm onwards.

Proposed motions and nominations for the Executive Committee should be emailed to [email protected] by midnight on Wednesday 26th August 2015.