Weibel Chess

I have removed my posting of last night as Tom withdrew his permission for his initial response to the parent.  He revised his comments without any history of the events that led up to the initial decision of the Weibel parents not to attend the 2012 CalChess State Championships.  In his revised statement he only presented information on how he felt future situations similar to the ones that occurred to our players, parents and team might be avoided.  He did give permission for the inserted information to be posted along with his willingness to work on any further details of these statements:
FROM TOM:
"1. When a child enters a tournament where I am a director, I want them to be treated absolutely equally regardless of race, background, gender or team/school/coach affiliation.

2. Regardless of the outcome of the vote, all players in Northern California are welcome to have a fun and enjoyable State Championship Event experience.

3. Both John McCumiskey and I (as the chief TDs) have offered to be the direct contacts with any player, parent or coach that may have an issue with any organizer that runs a CalChess tournament, and we will personally help resolve any issues directly with the player, parent or coach.

4.  Both John and I will supervise the TD staffing to ensure that any TD will not oversee a section where they have sibling participating.  We will also be instructing the entire staff as to what their responsibilities are and how issues should be resolved properly."

Tom Langland
CalChess President