"samsloan" wrote in message
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On Feb 20, 10:04 am, "Chess One" wrote:

Phil Innes
Vermont

PS: I have also lost a game to a 1700 player, and the last time I
directly
watched Susan Polgar play it was a couple of games against a world
champion,
Khalifman - and she did rather well, as indeed she did against another W
Ch,
Karpov. I only mention these facts in case anyone should actually think
the
1700 business is typical. In serious rated play I think S. Polgar's
Olympiad
performance at board 1 for USA is an indicator of playing strength
against
strong, determined opposition - if indeed this was the implicate question
or
innuendo in what follows:

Sam,

Polgar played

hey! you sam slaon cut everything but the postscript! why is that?

let's say you are now publicly on record as ducking losing $314,000 on your
watch

and lets say your personal obsession with watching S. Polgar, who is not
just a very strong player and chess advocate to the community at large, but
a candidate board member, stands in place of watching this catastrophic loss
across every USCF portfolio

let's say you would rather speculate on past issues, than answer any of the
questions i posited about your own current board responsibility

and let's also say you are no worse than any other politico, since a mere
third of a million dollars is no skin off their nose, its just members
money - why discuss it at all? someone else must be responsible

but lets finally say that this incestuous personality trashing does
absolutely nothing for chess in the usa, rather the opposite - and in a real
sense we are all looking for that someone else who /can be responsible/

phil innes

and not that /this/ is relevant to what i ask Sam Sloan to answer, but in
terms of playing strength Susan may be on the same order as her sister
Judit, who is what? #8 in the world? i don't say better than, but of their
personal encounters at the chess board, its not Judit who is ahead

at the US Team two years ago...hardly a protected place,
whatever that means. Does she have to play there every year to be

"unprotected"?

That was the tournament to which I refer below. Take a look at:

http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain....13881-12452240

You will see that in the first round Polgar, player #91, lost to
Roberto Jose, player #385, who was rated 1796.

Since then, Polgar has never played in a rated tournament, other than
quick rated tournaments, except for the New York Mayor's Cup, a
tournament Truong organized for her. In the New York Mayor's Cup, she
refused to allow Hikaru Nakamura to play because he was a dangerous
opponent who would have beaten her and who could not have been bought
off.

Perhaps you missed what I wrote about this at the bottom of my article:

"The last time Susan played chess in an open tournament was more than
two years ago and there she lost to a player rated 1700."

Sam Sloan

I am not saying that Polgar is not a strong player. She is indeed very
strong. In fact, she is rated number 21 in the USA.

However, she never plays in an event where she cannot control the
pairings. She only plays when she knows well in advance who her
opponents will be and prepare something especially for them.

There is nothing really wrong with this. However, when she was a
rising star in the chess world about 20 years ago she was one of the
very few top players who would play in open Swiss events and take on
all comers. Now, she is just the opposite, playing only against
carefully selected opponents.

Sam Sloan