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My Last Motions to the Board

Kindly put the following eight motions on the agenda for the last
meeting of the current USCF Executive Board

I have removed the prologia and exponential explanations, to leave the 8, as
proposed:

Motion One: Resolved: Executive Director Bill Hall is hereby Censured
and Reprimanded for failing to provide any documents at all pertaining
to the Pension/Profit Sharing Plan.

(1) Has Mr. Hall been requested in writing to provide information to the
board as a result of the board's previous instruction to him, and by a
particular time? Has he made over response to this putative document, such
as, for example, on the possibility of achieving the board's directive
within the time stated?

Motion Two: Bobby Fischer USCF Membership

The by-laws passed twice the last time being in 1992 on a motion by
Joe Lux states that all chess players recognized by FIDE as USA
Grandmasters are USCF members.

(2) RJ Fischer does not wish to be listed as a USCF member. Phil Innes,
Tuesday July 31, 2007, and is already on record as regretting USCF's linkage
his name with the organisation.


Motion Three: Larry Evans Issue

With this
motion, we are no longer asking, we are directly ORDERING the Chess
Life editor to fully reinstate Grandmaster Evans. If Mr. Lucas still
refuses to reinstate Grandmaster Evans, he can look for another job.

(3) Does this mean that GM Evans should be offered his previous column,
notwithstanding any demurrer by the editor?

Motion Four: Ratings of Olympiads and Other Major Events

The major point in my grand plan to increase the reach of the USCF and
ultimately to bring us more members and more money is to bring into
the rating system the major international events, like the World
Championship events, major tournaments like the Aeroflot Open and the
Reykjavik Open and the Olympiads. The purpose is to give all the top
level super-grandmasters in the world a USCF rating and ID number,
thereby encouraging those players to come to the US and compete in our
tournaments and also to increase the prestige of our rating system.

(4) These activities are already part of Fide's system, and in fact Fide's
system is coming here! The arguments are therefore that USCF should not
remain within Fide, but compete with it, if this should indeed be thought
sufficient to attract players from around the world. I also notice no
budgetary numbers attached to such an activity for Super-GMs, which I
presume means 2700+.

There is also a secondary purpose which is to discourage some of these
foreign top level players from sneaking into the lower class sections
of our tournaments to win big money.

(4... continued) I understodd the first clauses above to mention Super-GMs,
but do we see here another idea? That these 2700+ players would not be
recognised in a super-tournament lower-class section?

Not only will this bring us more prestige, it will bring us more
money. Already several of the First Saturday tournaments in Budapest
Hungary have been USCF rated and the organizer there, Mr. Nagy, has
stated that he will gladly pay rating fees to have all of his
tournaments rated.

(4... even more...) I bet he would! - but this is the opposite tack to
attracting players here, since more and more US and Canadian players are
going to Laszlo's tournaments in Buda. He told me once that it was
inexpensive for players to go there from around the world, and expense would
seem to be the main attractor - holding cheap norm tournaments in the US is
surely a preferable goal than sending US players to Budapest.


Motion Five: The Executive Director is hereby directed to purchase a
three-chip camcorder which will be a SONY 2100 or equivalent at an
estimated cost of less than $2300 and will be used to video broadcast
on youtube and elsewhere meetings of the board and major events such
as the National Elementary Championship. The purpose of this
expenditure will be both to give the general membership the impression
(however false) that the board is trying its best to deal with the
problems facing the federation and to promote our events and get more
kids to play.

I made this motion at the meeting in Stamford. It was not voted on
because Bill Hall agreed to do it.

(5) What? How can he agree to do something not voted on? I pass on
commentating on the efficacy of this attempt (however false) to communicate
anything at all.

Like everything else that Bill Hall
agreed to do, it was never done, and thus I am making this motion
again.

Motion Five: Bill Hall Censured for failing to provide the tapes of
the August and November board meetings to Terry Vibbert for posting on
the website and also commending Terry Vibbert for his fine work in
posting all of the May meeting and part of the February meeting on the
website.

[no comment]

Motion Six: Irina Krush Tournament of Girl Champions


I move that the USCF Establish an
Irina Krush Tournament of Girl Champions to be played every year at
the same time and location as the US Open Championship and the Denker
Tournament.

aut Caesar aut nihil! aut mors aut victoria! I thought the confidence of the
chess community to various parties administering scholastics events was well
known?

Motion Seven: Censure Bill Hall for failing to conduct and report an
inventory of USCF Files and Records and Commending and thanking Donna
Alarie for her efforts to recover the records.

During my first meeting of the board on August 14, 2006, it was
revealed that almost all financial records and other records of the
USCF are lost or destroyed. Bill Hall later stated that 125 storage
boxes has been located in a storage bin in Crossville. In a BINFO,
Bill Hall was directed by the VP of Finance Joel Channing to take an
inventory of the contents of these storage boxes and provide this
inventory to the board.

Bill Hall never did it.

(7) While this may or may not be censorious behavior, can just anyone ask
the Ex Dir to do anything - without the board deciding on it? As above, if
the issue was deemed /urgent/ by the board should some time-line be
associated with the activity? If the matter was deemed /important/ by the
board, should they not have assessed the time it would take to inventory 25
archived boxes, and approved salary to do so?

Motion Eight: Commenting Tim Tobiason for scanning and converting to
DVD format back issues of Chess Life newspaper.

(8) Yes, though I imagine that Mr. Tobiason would not like to be commented
upon, though if anyone were to commend him, he may well be pleased!

Phil Innes

Please put these eight motions on the agenda.

Sam Sloan