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Originally Posted by Harry Payne
I can absolutely not see how the continued
attacks on Bill Goichberg, is adding to this conversation in any
meaningful way. We are looking for ideas to help make future U.S.
Championships better. So Sam I am going to ask you to confine your
comments to the topic ,or do not post on this thread again. Thank
You .
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Bill Goichberg's name is mentioned because he organized the 2007 US
Championship the same way he organized the World Open.
At the World Open, Bill Goichberg decided the playing dates, the time
control, the number of rounds, the entry fees, the prizes for each
section, the special rules and in short everything about the
tournament.
He was able to do that because he owns the tournament. It is his
personal property. I believe that he has a registered trade name for
the tournament.
That is fine and nobody will object because everybody knows that he
owns the tournament.
However, Bill Goichberg does not own the US Championship. The members
do. Nevertheless, he ran the US Championship the same way that he runs
the World Open, deciding whom to invite, who got in for free, who had
to pay an entry fee and how much, the format of the event, the time
control and everything else about the tournament.
I was on the board at the time and neither I nor any other board
member was ever consulted about these decisions. The first we heard
about them was when we read them on the uschess.org website.
However, everybody naturally assumes that these decisions were made by
the board. As a result, when anything goes wrong, we get the blame.
Witness for example, Joel Benjamin's letter published in "New In
Chess" magazine in which he blames all the problems with the US
Championship on me, Sam Sloan, when I had nothing to do with any of
it.
Sam Sloan