Just because you have alternate means of publishing your tournament
announcement doesn't mean you're comfortable running a tournament with the
same amount of guaranteed money if one of your primary advertising avenues
were to dissapear. Sounds like Chess Life will be around in some fashion or
the other.

I was actually pretty pleased with the tournaround of one my TLA's I sent in
the other day. I hadn't sent one in in almost 10 years. It was emailed
back to me after about a week or so with everything correct. Seemed like a
fairly professional job.

"The Masked Bishop" wrote in message
y.com...
will cause severe problems for organizers who were counting
on TLA's in those issues that are suddenly cancelled.

I can't believe there are still organizers out there who use Chess Life
TLAs
as the prime vehicle for announcing their tournaments. If there are, then
they must be wearing hair shirts and living in caves, because between the
Internet explosion and the USCF implosion, who the hell would put their
eggs
in that basket?