On Oct 4, 10:09 am, samsloan wrote:
by samsloan on Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:06 pm #72338

xplor wrote:Mulfish

but he is a life member and he is certainly not detached from
the USCF.

What proof do we have George has not passed on, canceling his USCF
membership agreement?

I can assure you that George Arndt is a real person and is very much
alive.

It is to be recalled that I was missing one issue of Chess Life which
I needed to publish my recent book "Pal Benko's Endgame Laboratory".

George was kind enough to send me the June 1982 issue of Chess Life,
which was the issue I was missing.

To thank him I sent him a complimentary copy of my book when it came
out a few weeks ago.

He PMed me a few days ago to thank me for the book and tell me that it
is a good book.

Sam Sloan

This is a typical lie and exaggeration from Sam. I posted this in the
forums, and somehow, he failed to indicate my response. Imagine that.

Here was my response for those who want to waste time on this:

I used to play in and was rated in with a Washington State rating (we
had a different rating system at the time) and competed in scolastic
play. On occassion, I was competitive with 2100 USCF rated players at
age 19, and played in the military. After serving, I stopped playing
chess as I was told that in order to get better, I would have to study
and was not up for it. While working for in the Human Genome Project
at the UW; I jumped back in to chess when I found out that my
university did not have a well organized club. I resurrected the ICCL
about 4-5 years ago, and have organized many national collegiate
tournaments. See my webpage at http://www.collegechess.org.