Why bother to CENSURE Sloan? Bill Clinton get introble, and he laughed
about it. Sloan, right now, is laughing. Every time you CENSURE Sloan,
you give him more votes in the next election. The best way to embarass
Sloan is to examine his past.

Marcus Roberts

samsloan wrote:
Duncan Oxley wrote:
The following motion by Joel Channing has passed by a vote of 3-0 with
Channing, Goichberg and Hough in favor and Sloan, Marinello, Schultz and
Tanner abstaining.

Bill Goichberg
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November 29, 2006:

I move that the Executive Board of the USCF censure Sam Sloan for his
failures to adhere to the Standards of Conduct as highlighted and noted in
the attached emails.

( NOTE: I added a * to each of the highlighted lines in case your news
reader does not show it --Duncan)

Joel Channing

Violations of (1c), (2e), (3), (3b) & (3d)

From: Sam Sloan ]
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:59 AM

To: ; ;
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Subject: Letter Agreement with the Seattle Chess Foundation

Letter Agreement with the Seattle Chess Foundation

*I wish that everybody here would get my email address straight.

*My email address for all official USCF Business including the business of
*the Executive Board is

*Let us try that again. My address is

*Let us try that again. My address is

*Now that I have explained this three more times, I hope that you will
*remember it this time. This is not the first time that you have made this
*mistake. Let us try to make it the last.

I do have an old address, which is . That address is
still working and I use it for newsgroup postings, but I rarely check it,
because I receive more than one thousand spam emails per day at that
address.

However, I did happen to check it this morning, for the first time in more
than a week, and I discovered an email from Bill Hall containing as
attachments the June 2006 contract with AF4C and the May 18, 2000 Letter
Agreement with Seattle Chess Foundation.

*I cannot understand why Bill Hall did not send those important documents to
my actual working address, which is

*Is this part of the conspiracy?

*Kindly tell Bill Hall that my address is

*Should I say it again? Try to remember this and repeat after me. Sam
Sloan's address is [b]

*Now, turning to the actual document dated May 18, 2000, in no way could
*this be considered to be a legally enforceable contract. It is simply a
*letter, endorsed by George DeFeis. It states that Seattle Chess Foundation
*promises to incorporate by June 15, 2000, so it was not even a corporation
at the time of this letter. In addition, I have no way of *knowing whether
the American Foundation for Chess is the same legal entity as the Seattle
Chess Foundation.

*However, assuming for the sake of argument that it is a legal contract, the
*key paragraph is the following:

*"The format of the SCF/USCF Championships will be set by SCF after prior
*consultation with USCF, but shall be in a manner generally consistent with
*past US Championships and with other events of this caliber or type. SCF
*contemplates that for the year 2000 US Championships the format will be
*either a 10 player or 12 player round robin event for each of the overall
*or women fs categories."

*It also states that after 2005 the SCF agrees to pay to the USCF an annual
*fee of $10,000.

*On page 5 of this document are hand written entries: "$100,000 prize fund".
"$100K was the agreed upon prize fund".

*So, the purported agreement between Bill Goichberg and AF4C (which the
board has never voted on or even known about before it *was posted on the
USCF website) fails to adhere to this agreement in at least the following
respects.

*1. It fails to guarantee a $100,000 prize fund or indeed any prize fund at
*all. It seems obvious that AF4C plans to run an El Cheapo event this year
*with many or most of the games played online and a nominal prize fund.

2. The format of a knock-out event involving two-game matches is not "a
manner generally consistent with past US Championships and with other
events of this caliber or type". No US Championship or any other event of
this caliber or type has ever been conducted in this format.

3. The AF4C has not paid nor has it promised to pay the annual agreed upon
fee of $10,000. I would be interested in knowing whether the AF4C ever paid
the required annual fees for the years 2000-2005. If they have not paid,
they should now pay the back money they owe us, before there are any further
discussions.

4. The agreement states that the SCF will be holding the US Woman's
Championship, but this year AF4C states that it will not be holding the US
Woman's Championship.

I am extremely disappointed in Bill Goichberg for directing that this
announcement of the US Championship be posted on the uschess.org website,
without addressing these concerns and without even informing the rest of the
board or consulting with the board or taking a vote by the board on these
issues prior to making the announcement.

Sam Sloan


Violations of (1), (1c), (3) & (3b).

From: Sam Sloan ]

Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 5:47 AM

To: ; ; ;
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Cc:

Subject: US Championship

At 01:02 PM 10/11/2006 EDT, wrote:

In a message dated 10/11/2006 10:48:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
Chessdon writes:
Dear EB:
I hereby submit the following motion to you for email vote. I discussed
this with Bill Goichberg and he favors it. I have also talked to Erik
Anderson and he likes it as well.
Moved: The winner of the 2007 US Championship would defend his titled
title in a match against the winner of the 2008 US Championship Tournament.
The process of a defending champion would continue through time.
I vote yes.
Don Schultz

I vote yes. Also, I like the concept of the champion holding the
title, which can only be taken away from him in a match of substantial
length. Bill Goichberg

*As usual, you have not thought clearly about this and considered the
*consquences.

If this motion passes, that will mean that there will no longer be a
tournament for the US Championship, thus ending a tradition that began in
1940.

Instead, there will merely be a series of qualifying tournaments the
ultimate winner of which will get to play a match for the US Champuionship.

*Who will pay for this? Surely not the AF4C, who only wants the prestigue
associaed with the US Championship, not just some *preliminary event.

Don likes the old FIDE System, where there were first zonal tournaments,
then the interzonal, then candidates matches and finally a match for the
World Championship.

However, that system worked because they did not have to pay the players.

Almost all of the top players were from the Soviet Union. Players like
Botvinnik, Keres, Geller, Petrosian and Smyslov were supported by the state
and played free of charge.

Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, the players started demanding to be
paid, and the Interzonal System collapsed.

In 1987, after no country in the world had submitted a bid to hold the
Interzonal, I submitted a bid to hold the event in the US Virgin Islands
and paid the required fee. Since the local country gets to designate two of
its own players to play in the Interzonal, I designated Anand and Zsuzsa
Polgar as my representatives.

In response to my bid, Dr. Lim Kok Ann, General Secretary of FIDE,
responded that the Hungarians were objecting to allowing Zsuzsa Polgar to
play in the Interzonal. Also, the regulations state that the two players
must be from the host country. Anand and Zsuzsa Polgar were not from the
host country.

I replied that unless Zsuzsa Polgar and Anand were allowed to play, I was
not willing to organize the event.

Incidentally, Anand was at the time just a little known young grandmaster,
but I realized that he was a future world champion, years before anybody
else did.

The matter ended there. Dr. Lim refused to agree to allow Anand and Polgar
to play in the Interzonal and I would not organize the event otherwise.

The result was that the interzonal was never held. Not only did I not hold
the Interzonal, but nobody did. Since then, there has never been another
Interzonal.

Now, the current situation is that Don Schultz has made a motion and Bill
Goichberg has vote yes. With only two more votes, it will have been decided
that there will never again be a tournament for the US Championship, without
even consulting the delegates or the membership.

*Frankly, I think that you guys are really stupid.

Sam Sloan


From USCF Forum posting: Violations of (1c) and (3b).

Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:28 am
Post subject: Bigger Scandal: Some Insider Candidates Did Not Pay Files

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*Even Bigger Scandal: Some Insider Candidates Did Not Pay Filing Fees

*Looking at the list of Candidates for the 2005 elections, it seems that
several approved candidates did not pay the required $250 *filing fee.

The following candidates DID pay the $250 fee:

Joel Channing
Greg Shahade
William Goichberg
Sam Sloan
Randy Bauer
Elizabeth Shaughnessy

However, the following candidates appear not to have paid the required $250
fee:

Robert Tanner
George John
Steve Shutt

Of particular interest to me is the case of George John. I have long
suspected that George John does not exist. By that I mean that although I
have met several times a person who calls himself George John, I suspect
that this is not his real name.

Therefore, I have searched for payments of exactly $250.00 by anybody,
thinking that in this way I might be able to find out the real name of
George John.

Looking for payments of exactly $250, I find that this amount was paid by
St. Benilde Chess on January 28, 2005. I suspect that this was the payment
for Steve Shutt.

I find a payment in the amount of $250 by Vela Middle School on 12/1/04. I
suspect that this was unrelated to the election.

There are no other payments of $250 by anybody during the relevant time
period.

*Therefore, at least one and possibly as many as three candidates did not
pay the required $250 filing fee, one of whom was elected.

Kindly investigate this.

This is bull ****. Goichberg just hates me for no reason. He's a racist
pig.

Sam Sloan