Dearest Zsuzsa,

I, along with newspaper journalist Eric Mark, were the only
non-present or former Executive Board members who attended the meeting
on February 19 where your proposal was discussed. (Former board
members Frank Brady and the Liebermans were there).

The vote was 4-1 in favor of your proposal, but only after a lengthy
debate. Beatriz Marinello was the sole vote against. We all know that
Beatriz dislikes you and will vote against anything that you propose.
However, you also know that I have strongly disagreed with the actions
of Beatriz in the past and have even sued her in court and will
possibly do so again.

However, this time is perhaps the first time where I felt that the
objections of Beatriz had some validity.

In the first place, I know both you and Paul Truong very well. I have
known both of you for more than 20 years. Your personalities are
exactly the opposite. You are an exceptionally, perhaps even
excessively, gracious and polite person. You never say a bad word
about anybody. You never complain about your losses. You did not even
complain when you lost to a 1700 player in the US Amateur Team East
last year.

Paul Truong, however, is a highly confrontational, in-your-face,
stick-it-to-him kind of guy. Paul Truong is, in my opinion, a very
dangerous man to try to do business with. A perfect example comes from
the training program for the so-called Dream Team. As you will recall,
I was present at the Executive Board meeting on March 16, 2003 when
Paul Truong first presented his proposal for a Dream Team Woman's
Olympiad training program. Every person in the room thought they heard
Paul Truong say that this program would cost the USCF nothing. Turns
out that Paul Truong did not really say that and the program cost the
USCF at least $20,000. More than that, Truong repeatedly and in public
forums threatened to sue the USCF for the money.

Here is what I posted to the groups on March 17, 2003, the following
day:

"5. The super-stars of the show arrived with the introduction
by Paul Truong of the US Woman?fs Olympic Team. The team consists of
Zsuzsa Polgar, Irina Krush, Jennifer Shahade, Rusudan Goletiani, and
Anna Zatonskih. What was amazing was how stunningly beautiful these
five are, especially when lined up together. All of the board members
clamored to be photographed with these five supermodel chess
grandmasters. Awards were presented to these five members of the team,
including an award by Frank Niro, and by Malcolm Pein representing
ChessBase, who awarded them $8,000 worth of ChessBase software. Paul
Truong announced that their next stop would be the Offices of IBM,
where they will each be awarded the latest high-technology laptop
computers to prepare for their chess matches. They will be given top
level trainers, including Grandmaster Boris Gulko. I have no doubt
that very soon we will be seeing them on CNN news. They make fantastic
role models for our youth.

"Sam Sloan"

As anybody can see, I made no mention of the fact that the USCF was
supposed to pay for all this. The reason I omitted this detail was
that Paul Truong had led us all to believe that this was a service
being provided to the USCF Free of Charge. It did not take long
however for Paul Truong to inform us that the USCF owed $50,000 (fifty
thousand dollars) for what we thought we were getting for free. Paul
threaten suit for the money and he also demanded $20,000 for the girls
for the chess lessons they were receiving. (He had told us that USCF
was not required to pay the teachers. He had left out that the USCF
was being required to pay the students!)

If we had known that this program for chess lessons for woman chess
players was going to cost the USCF $20,000, it would have been
rejected out of hand. We could not even really afford to pay the
travel expenses to send a men's team to the Olympiad in Spain, much
less pay for chess lessons and for stipends for the girls team.

In spite of the fact that you and Paul Truong are the opposite in
personalities, he is now your spokesman. (Perhaps he does not realize
that many years ago I used to be your spokesman.) We all admire the
fantastic and amazing job Paul Truong has done to publicize you and
chess. However, we still have to be careful in dealing with him.

It is obvious that these emails, supposedly from you, are actually
from Paul Truong. I wonder if the REAL Susan Polgar has even read
these emails and is familiar with the contents.

Here is the proof: You (supposedly) wrote.

"Unfortunately, the dirty USCF politics destroyed it. It was
promptly declined by the USCF in January 2005 because another deal was
made without my knowledge in the middle of 2004 while I had an
existing legal contract with the USCF until the end of 2004. I no
longer have any say in the program that I personally founded. In fact,
we no longer have any program. I prefer not to harp on the past.
However, I have expressed to a number of USCF board members about my
disappointment. I will not subject myself to this destructive dirty
political game."

I am absolutely 100% or even 1000% (which ever is greater) sure that
these words were written by Paul Truong. Susan Polgar would simply
never write such a thing. Paul writes and says things like that all
the time. Paul Truong often writes about existing legal contracts and
threatens suit. You never do that. Even the Fake Sam Sloan does a
better job of imitating me than Paul Truong does of imitating you.

I was present during the Special Executive Board meeting on Sunday,
February 19, 2006 which was called just to discuss your proposal.
Actually, I spoke twice at the meeting but both times I was shouted
down by Bill Goichberg before I had gotten to the main point of what I
was trying to say. The main debate was between Don Schultz and his
supposed puppet Joel Channing. In this heated debate, the "puppet"
argued that your proposal should be accepted "in principle" with Bill
Hall to negotiate the details. However, in opposition, the "puppeteer"
argued that the words "in principle" would be insulting to you and
must be left out.

It finally came down to a vote. There were three votes for the puppet
and two votes for the puppeteer, the other vote being Beatriz, who
voted with Don, the puppeteer.

Next, the debate was on confidentiality. Joel Channing argued that the
deal with you must include the proviso that there would be no
publicity and no public announcement of the deal until you had signed
a written detailed contract with Bill Hall. If there was publicity
before the deal was signed, then the deal was automatically off.

Everybody agreed to that. There was no need for a vote.

However, now YOU have broken that deal. By your posting on the USCF
Forum, you, the FAKE Susan Polgar, who is really Paul Truong, have
publicized the deal, and so therefore, by its terms, the deal is off.

And for good reason, because already you are adding provisions which
were not mentioned in your original email.

Here is what you wrote for the first time on February 25, 2006:

"4. This is a joint project between the SPF and the USCF. The
SPF would take care of the costs for the jackets, plaques, prizes and
training. The USCF will help publicize the award and its criteria as
well as recognizing the girls who make the team. It can be done on the
uschess.org website, the USCF weekly newsletter, Chess Life and Chess
Life for Kids, the same as for the current Trophies Plus All America
Chess Team right now. We need to let all girls know about this award
to motivate them to achieve higher.

"Please feel free to contact me directly if you wish to
clarify or discuss any specific issue. I hope that this will not be a
public fiasco on Internet newsgroup as rumors and misinformation has
started. This would hurt the program as well as our ability to raise
additional funds to help these kids. Thank you again for your time and
support.

"Best wishes,
"Susan Polgar
"www.SusanPolgarFoundation.org"

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So, you are asking for publicity for you at least equal to the
publicity the USCF gives to its All-America Teams that are sent to the
World Youth Championships in Spain and elsewhere. Nowhere, in your
initial email or in the debate before the Executive Board on February
19, was this requirement that the USCF publicize your program
mentioned. I personally do not see how the USCF can publicize your
program for girls when it does not even have an equivalent program for
boys.

In addition, there is another, perhaps even more serious problem. In
the email from you quoted above, you state: "The USCF will help
publicize the award and its criteria".

However, at the meeting on February 19, ALL of the board members,
including Don Schultz, the proponent of your proposal, agreed that
there would be no publicity given to your criteria and rating chart,
because it shows that the requirements for a girl to make the team is
100 points less than the requirement for the boys.

Thus, I believe that your proposal is already dead, as you must have
already known when you posted this to the USCF Forum.

Paul, I think in the future you need to get clearance from Susan. She
would have told you not to post this.

Sam Sloan