THE SAM HATERS

I would recommend just ignoring Sam.-- Taylor Kingston

There is little doubt that NMnot Taylor Kingston,
a class A player who proclaimed himself to be
2300+ Elo rated, hates Sam Sloan. There are a few
other ritualistic Sloan haters and, to be sure, a fair
number of Sloan detractors.

Contrary to NMnot Kingston's lies, Sam has also
attracted several supporters. This writer is one, and
GM Larry Evans has long espoused many of his views
about chess governance.
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The current attempt to explain away Sam's
accomplishments is to argue that , like a broken clock,
he gets the time right twice a day when shouting about
USCF lapses and crooked deals.

Nonsense. Sam wrote voluminously about the
disastrous USCF decision to leave New York, the center
of American chess, for atrocious Crossville, Tennessee
-- our Caissic cross-to-bear. His critique, if
anything, understated the costs, though at the time,
he appeared totally over the top.

The truth about Crossville first began to appear
when Sam and this writer began questioning the nature
of title to the property and the cost of the small new
building, which is about 45 percent the size of the
old headquarters in New Windsor. I finally reported
that the cost would run to at least $650,000 -- over
twice the initial estimates. I was called "a liar" by
the usual suspects,. Just two months later the Board
itself released PRECISELY THAT NUMBER as the new
estimated cost.

If one counts future ancillary costs of that tiny building,
the real cost of construction and aintenance and improvement
will run to a million or more bucks.

Sam was at the forefront in exposing the horrors
of moving to Crossville, and his attacks hit home
nearly every time. His errors were frequently
underestimations of costs because he tried to use
conservative numbers.

The response to the above will be something
about Sam having wives, babies, and reporting that GM
Leko was dead. In short, the ad hom reponses will be
vicious and irrelevant.

But such is the style of NMnot Kingston and his ilk.

A pleasing aspect of Sam is that he writes under
his own name. Unlike NMnot Kingston, Sam has never
felt a need to invent other monickers so as to PRAISE
HIMSELF. That really was the limit when our NMnot
posted under other names in order to support himself
during debates. Such is not in Sam's character. He
is an honest man, sometimes mistaken but
sincere -- unlike our NMnot.

Yours, Larry Parr




Taylor Kingston wrote:
On Nov 1, 2:16 am, Rich Hutnik wrote:
On Oct 31, 8:14 pm, Taylor Kingston wrote:

Rich, you may not be as familiar with Sloan as most rec.games.chess
regulars are. Virtually everyone here, with the lamentable exception
of Larry Parr, will tell you that Sam has no genuine interest in
improving chess. His only interest is in drawing attention to himself.
He simply uses chess and the USCF as a means to that end, along with
pornography, racism, and his various other interests.

Ok, thanks for the info. I popped into chess.misc out of getting
interested in chess again, and I see the swarm of Sloan posts on here,
so I was curious about who the heck Sloan is, and why Sloan matters.

Sloan does not matter. His election to the USCF Executive Board a
while back is just further proof of Abraham Lincoln's maxim that you
can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people
some of the time. Basically, Sloan cries "Wolf!" at everything the
USCF does, posting here and elsewhere every suspicion and accusation
that enters his mind, whether it's backed by facts or not. If he is
occasionally right, it is not due to any competence, virtue, or real
investigative effort on his part; it's just that even a stopped clock
is right twice a day.
Basically, Sloan predicts every day that "It will rain here today."
When it does happen to rain, Larry Parr proclaims Sloan's clairvoyant
powers. Everyone else here just laughs, if they pay any heed at all.

I am also a bit confused what Sloan wants. Sloan just wants packback
or does Sloan want to become officer of U.S Chess Federation again?

Sloan wants to draw attention to Sloan. That's all. He tries to do
this in all manner of ways, ranging from running for USCF office to
posting the history of his sex life on the internet.

Actually maybe I should just not give a damn and drop off here for 6
months or so until Sam gets bored.

That's not likely any time soon. I would recommend just ignoring Sam
and concentrating on the rgcm posts that interest you.