wrote:
Yes, I am big patzer: I saw 22.Nxg7 in game 2--just misevaluated the
position, and I'm not sure what possessed me to play ...Rd3 in game 3
(other than a feeling that I had to do _something_). But that's not
the funny I'm talking about.


Intellectually, I don't feel any differently about Sam Sloan and his
general effect on the dysfunctionality of USCF politics than I did
yesterday.

Emotionally, it's harder to hate a person after having played chess
with him.

Bill Brock is all warm and cuddly about the man he called a
"kiddie-f*cker".