PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 2:43 pm Post subject: Reply with
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billbrock wrote:
Here's the sad thing: I can't think of ONE girl from Illinois in the
past 15 years who would have met Susan's stringent (but not overly so)
benchmark. (Five years ago, Yelena Gorlin, two-time winner of the IL
Denker qualifier, came close....)

This is the problem we need to fix. Right?


No. We do not need to fix that.

The All-America team is supposed to be the elite. These are the
players who will be sent abroad at USCF expense to represent the
United States of America in the World Youth Championships and
children's Olympics.

We need not more than two or three girls in each age category. In some
cases no girl will meet the standard, especially if we do not have a
girl capable of winning a medal at her level.

All of which reminds me: Was it not your friend Kevin who FAKED a
bunch of chess tournaments which were never played to get his step-son
onto the USCF top-50 list and win a money prize as a result??

Sam Sloan Wink