On Oct 26, 2:46 pm, Offramp wrote:
On Oct 26, 1:52 pm, " wrote:

REUBEN FINE: "The USCF is a meaningless paper organization, generally
antagonistic to the needs of its masters."

When were these said? Last month? Ten years ago??

This appears to be a slight misquotation of something Fine wrote in
1976, in the second edition of "The World's Great Chess Games," page
224. Fine wrote "The USCF *_was_* [not is] a meaningless paper
organization," referring to the USCF's failure to resist Soviet
political machinations in deciding how a successor to world champion
Alekhine was to be determined. The full paragraph:

"Unfortunately for the Western masters the Soviet political
organization was stronger than that of the West. The U.S. Chess
Federation was a meaningless paper organization, generally
antagonistic to the needs of its masters. The Dutch Chess Federation
did not choose to act. The FIDE was impotent.
"The result was a rescheduling of the tournament for the following
year ..."

So in that sentence Fine was referring specifically to the USCF in
1947. How long he continued to hold this opinion, or if he ever
changed his mind, I am not sure.