International Draughts Federation

Currently IDF is a strong, well-organized international federation, with significant and stable funding, does a lot for the development of draughts-64 in the World, and spends big, in draughts standards, finances for organizing competitions and participation in it of players from different countries. The IDF Board decided: in the case of participation of individual players in such "championships", organized by different organizations and not sanctioned by the IDF, these players will not be able in the future to take part in any competitions held by the IDF or under the aegis of the IDF. This decision of the IDF made not for the struggle with competitors, we count holding such "world championships" as direct and intentional infliction of harm to the reputation of draughts-64 in the World, a continuation of the FMJD attempts to "rock the boat", to split and weaken draughts-64. Separately I want to tell about invokes of Mr. Otten to vote a certain way on our General Assembly. Since the Section-64 left the FMJD we behaved maximum discreet, avoiding aggressive statements against it, even though that the FMJD has an unpaid duty to us. But in response we received new attempts to interfere in the activities of our organization. In this regard, I will say the following. The FMJD aggressive policy aimed at promoting only one game at the expense of others has already led to the split in the FMJD and the allocation of draughts-64 unit into an independent organization. However, the FMJD Board made no conclusions from this devastating for the FMJD image event. It is better to the FMJD Board not to try to initiate a conflict with us once again. We believe that the FMJD should focus on holding of competitions in draughts-100, which is enshrined in its statutes by the General Assembly of 2015, not interfering in our activities, just like we do not think (at least until we are not forced to do this) to conducting competitions in draughts-100 . Time has proved that the IDF chose the right course of development, as for the federation, and as for draughts-64 in the World. I am confident that we can achieve a lot more still with your support.