Mr. Ali Nihat YAZICI, the President of Turkish Chess Federation, has exempted the 8-member Palau Chess Team Delegation to the 2012 World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey from paying 100 Euros for accreditation and transportation fee aside from providing players and captain pocket-money of 70 Euros. Thank you so much, Mr. Ali Nihat YAZICI.
I STANBUL HERE WE COME (Without Tito)
There are good news and bad news.
Which one you want to know first? Okay,
bad news first… Tito Cabunagan, one of the committed team members of Palau
Chess Team to Istanbul Olympiad, will skip this 40th World Chess Olympiad.
In his email to all members of the team, Tito noted:
“Hello Guys, I
have a big problem. The Japanese JICA Study Team is coming on August 15, 2012.
They will be here for one month. Their main purpose is to finalize the grant
aid of 2x 5000 KW generators for Aimeliik Power Station. I’m the only Technical
person who can assist them in their study.
I have just
completed my documents for Visa application. Anyway, I will reserve that for
Norway in 2014.
Good luck to all of you guys. Tito
The good news is about an email from Mr. Jan Berglund, Palau’s Delegate in 2008, 2010 and 2012 World Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia and Istanbul, Turkey respectively. It is dated June 30, 2012 and it read as follows: Dear Mr. Hernandez, I am spending some time in Greenland for the time being. Unfortunately, I have extremely small possibilities to use internet here. But, I managed to get an hour in tonight. I studied your correspondence with me lately and want to clarify something that struck me.
Maybe you remember
signing a request to become a CACDEC nation in the highest category when we
were in Khanty-Mansiysk? I handed it in two copies, one to one of the FIDE
treasurers and the other one to the chairman of CACDEC. They both promised me
orally that there was no problem with that. They would both see to that it was
going to be granted.
So, following your debate about the 100 Euro, I got surprised. What had happened? Therefore I contacted my friend Ali in Turkey. This is what he pointed to me – see below! If you cannot open the link I can tell you that Palau is mentioned in the link as one of the nations that DO NOT have to pay this Euro 100 – for our 8-people delegation. However, if there are any accompanying people, outside these eight, they must pay.
I’ll be back when
I have better possibilities with internet access, but I thought this was
extremely relevant information to pass on as quickly as possible. Best wishes,
Jan
THIS IS WHAT ALI NIHAT YAZICI POINTED OUT: After a relevant research on the GDP per capita, concerning the FIDE affiliated federations, the Turkish Chess Federation came to the following conclusions and decisions: 1. Based on the request of FIDE Developing Commission, the organizers of the Istanbul Chess Olympiad will pay to each listed federation the amount of 70 Euros as pocket- money for each player and captain.
Listed Federations
2.
Above this, the Turkish Chess Federation decided to help those federations that
face financial shortage, by excluding all the members of the delegations
(players, captain, chief of delegation, delegates, accompanying persons, etc)
from their obligation of paying to the organizers the 100 Euros per person
obligatory fee for accreditation, transportation, etc. This exemption is valid
for participants staying in official hotels.
As organizers of Olympiad we hope to see all
our friends having good conditions in Istanbul. On behalf of TCF, I want to ask
to FIDE by respecting this research attached to this announcement, to check and
revise CACDEC federations. Gens Una
Sumus Ali Nihat YAZICI
There
is one good thing to know, the new General Manager of Palau Royal Resort, Mr.
Masahiro Fujita, has granted the annual leave applied by Roberto Hernandez to
participate in the Istanbul, Olympiad. When Hernandez represented Palau in the
2009 Oceania Zonal Chess Championship in Australia and 2010 World Chess
Olympiad in Russia, he brought 100 PRR brochures in each occasion to promote
Palau and PRR. He will do the same in Turkey.
This
is the composition of Palau Chess Team –Team Captain is Jamie Kenmure of
Australia, the same team captain of Palau chess team in Russia; the Delegate is
still Mr. Jan Berglund; Head of Delegation is Elizabeth Manuel, wife of Board 4
player Menandro Manuel, Geodetic Engineer (Surveyor) of Surangel and Sons;
Board 1 will be Roberto Hernandez, Musician of PRR; Board 2 (still to be
decided if Mohammad Manik Hossain can make it) and Board 3 is Bernardo Garcia,
I.T. Manager of Palau Pacific Resort.
If Manik could not make it, Elizabeth will play on Board 2. The couple (Menandro and Elizabeth) will tour Europe after the Olympiad. They will spend 5 days in touring Italy, France and Germany and back to Istanbul on their way back to Manila.
They
take advantage of this golden opportunity to tour Europe after getting 15 days
of free full accommodation by participating in the Olympiad. This may be a
motivation to others to spend a few extra days in Europe than to have a longer
vacation in their country or LOOKING FORWARD TO 2014 TROMSO, NORWAY WORLD CHESS
OLYMPIAD IN NOVERMBER.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 12 &13
Volume 21
Issue 45
July 09, 2012
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