However, you have not responded to the main charge, which is you "then
traded it back for a lucrative scholastic tournament".

I know that you eventually gave the CalChess treasury back (but only
after a lawsuit was filed against you) but I have never previously
heard that that was part of a deal to give you a lucrative scholastic
tournament.

Is that true? Did you organize or direct any big CalChess tournaments
at that time?

Sam Sloan-

Your facts are almost correct.
A lawsuit was filed and then promptly dropped by the politicos in
CalChess who were trying to get the CalChess Scholastics for
themselves after I had (many months earlier) won the competitive
bidding. I was under no legal pressure to make a deal and I publicly
wrote the children's subscription money was not mine nor did I ever
claim any of it.
Changing the border of the northern California and southern California
state affiliates was just an extreme attempt to wrest the CalChess
Scholastics for themselves and to cover up the diversion of CalChess
funds into a secret bank account which was never disclosed to the
CalChess membership.

Sheesh
Rp