Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the
Swiss Go Federation
Bern 4/2/01
In attendence: H-P. Baumann, L.Trippel, R Morrison, P. Grueter,
A. Held, U. Rusterholz, A.Wagner, A. Rosenheck, M. Wirdham.
The meeting opened with a short review of the year by the President.
All in all it was not an unsuccessful year, with additional
tournaments being organized, and two groups of touring professionals.
Several clubs (Zuerich, Bern, and Geneva) seem to be experiencing an
upswing in their activities.
He also reports that Switzerland has been invited to take part in the
European team championship- scheduled for July in Russia - location to
be decided. Given that it is in July, and that travel will be
expensive, it seems improbable that we will participate.
He mentions that he has learned that at the annual meeting of the
E.G.F. in Berlin, Held had made a bit of a fuss, and asks for a
report.
Held explains that he was very unhappy with the behavior of the
executive of the E.G.F., listing about 5 or 6 items which he found
unacceptable. He explained that at the meeting, he was not alone in
his dissatisfaction, and was joined by others - in particular Sweden,
Germany, France and probably the U.K . The result was to put it
mildly a lively discussion*.
The meeting then turned to several financial matters.
It was decided that there was sufficient money available for the
Federation to definitely offer support for the Championship, and
possibly for other tournaments if requested, possibly to the extent of
2-300 fr.
Support for internationaltournaments - European team, pair, women's
for instance was also considered. It was decided that it would be
possible to offer partial support, and that all cases would be
considered individually.
The treasurer delivered his report -- cd attached document. To sum it
up, the federation is in a good financial state. As of the meeting,
there have been no fees paid for the year 2000 by Lausanne. Contact
will be made to see if they are still active.
Basle announced that they are prepared to organize the 2001 Swiss
Championships.
The question of whether a player could collect points towards
representing Switzerland t the WAGC before obtaining Swiss Citizenship
was raised. Trippel pointed out that it is clearly stated in the
constitution that only Swiss citizen's can collect points. However he
also added that we should not forget that we have mad a decision that
if someone who has never gone to the WAGC should win the Swiss
championship, then the point system is suspended and he/she has the
right to go without having earned the required number of points.
Also it was decided that for the Swiss championship, the ranking would be decided
on 1st -the number of wins
2nd - SOS
3rd - SODOS
In the case of a tie in points for the right to represent Switzerland, then a special playoff
game will be organized - unless any of those tied has never been to Japan, then he/she
has priority.
Trippel asks how Switzerland should handle the problem of Kyu and Dan
vs rating. He explains that a statistic has been calculated which
measures how well a country has been matching their kyu and dan
ratings to the E.G.F. numerical rating system.
It was decided that Switzerland should abide by the European rating
system, and award kyu and dan levels only after a player is at least
20 points into the range of the level as indicated by the rating
system.
Grueter presents a plan for creating one or more leagues of teams.
The idea being that during the course of the year, each team would
play every other team in its league. The hope is to encourage contact
between the various clubs, and of course$ go in general. The idea was
deemed a good one. After discussion it was decided that the optimal
size of the team should be four players, and that clubs with
sufficient man (oops, make that people) power can put as many teams as
they want into the field. Games to be played without handicap.
It was decided that he will prepare the plan in detail and submit
copies to each club before end of February.
Rosenheck reports that he has been contacted by someone representing a
group of Japanese Go tourists who will be visiting Zurich in July.
There will be about 25 strong go players who will want to play go. It
was clear that especially at that time of the year, Switzerland, even
by reaching down into the depths of the kyu pool could never satisfy
such a request.
It was suggested that he make this clear to the organizers of the tour.
There being no further matters for discussion, the meeting was closed.
* Should anyone be sufficiently interested to want the details they
* can be had by contacting Held.
