"samsloan" wrote in message
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If Susan Polgar wants to organize her own tournament in Lubbock, Texas
and call it the "Susan Polgar Tournament of High School Champions" and
award scholarships to Texas Tech University, everybody will applaud.
Nobody will object.

However, what she is trying to do here is taking a long established
tournament, the Denker Tournament of High School Championships,
grabbing it away from the USCF and converting it into a Polgar
tournament.

If Arnold Denker were alive today, he would be appalled. He would
never stand for this.

O, ARNOLD, I HARDLY KNEW YE

Good Grief! I didn't know Arnold /very/ well, but he liked to write to me,
quite often out of the blue and with his own volunteered emphasis, so I
think I knew him /enough/.

What he would want, as far as I can measure, is for some chess to be played,
and since in this instance the issues are

(a) the Denker name is not to removed or changed
(b) that the best location for continuation of the Denker is at issue, and
(c) the Denker approached Paul Truong to investigate location, not the other
way around
(d) that USCF has itself [!] claimed to 'own' the Denker [!] while
(e) failing to fund it so that other than rich kids can attend, and
(f) can't match other offers that would /substantially/ fund the Denker so
that
(g) the best young players could take part

Well... I think I have a fair sense of what Arnold would like with his own
bequest to the nation!

And clearly, what anyone would like is not always achieveable, but the art
of business management is the ability to negotiate the real world of the
possible - here are the options:-

Here we seem to have two levels of possibility; a better than current one,
matched against a theoretical and declining one.

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A GOOD DEBATE?

The rest of this is about ownership and control, and chess-as-property, not
an address to what benefits the kids or public exposure to the game - which
many people think is why USCF was established. On that topic, not a word!

It would be fair to compare the two - and that at least would provide a good
debate.

The fiddle-faddle argument about names is brought to you by the same outfit
who allied the Berry name to the national championship ~ that, apparently,
is not any issue, even though the national championship is still
scandalously underfunded - how IRONIC that funding Scholastic levels
championships with the Denker and the Polgar - with AS MUCH - money should
be resented!

This is nothing to do with Mr. Berry as a sponsor, nor is it any criticism
of him. Why should other sponsors of chess not have their names attached to
events? They do everywhere else in the world, even unto Aeroflot. Though
sometimes the name is second to the title... this is all a red herring! A
shoal of 'em!

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When such spectacularly spun commentary emerges, without any real
comparision to what USCF can provide, what we can sensily debate is a
COMPARISON. And as with issues of public decency of expression, we can do
that on the basis of Who Benefits or Who is Affronted - which is to say
about the Denker - which is better from the perspective of the...

PARTICIPANTS RIGHTS

If USCF politicos cannot compete at this level of dialog and management
praxis to promote the best foundation for the future of chess in this
country as vested in its young players, they should give it up!

But resenting people who can do better is nothing other than whining about
something lost and for which the nation no longer invests its confidence in
USCF. That 'vote' already seems in, and people have voted with their feet,
and walked away from the mess of control-intrigues which continue,
apparently indifferent to what further us.

Phil Innes

Similarly, by holding a "Susan Polgar World Open" and a "Susan Polgar
National Open" she is infringing on the real World Open and the real
National Open.

It is feared that next she will be trying to take over the big USCF
scholastic events. For example, she could take the National Elementary
Championship and call it the Susan Polgar National Elementary
Championship.

And, she has not even been elected yet. Imagine what havoc she will
cause if she actually gets elected and is still doing these things?

Sam Sloan