Fortunately, for practical purposes you can ignore the current state
of the USCF. Go to your chess club, play chess, enter tournaments, and
have fun. At least the rating system still works. If you have more
energy, you can work to do something about the state of the national
organization, but don't deprive yourself of enjoyment and your local
chess community of a much needed tournament player because there are
bozos at the top of the organization. Actually, bozo is not the proper
term - although irritating, Bozo was not a bad guy. Since you are good
with words, as shown by the term obfecation, I will let you supply the
correct word for some of our clownish but nefarious leading lights.

Jerry Spinrad

On Jan 24, 2:46*pm, "J.D. Walker" wrote:
B. Lafferty wrote:
Per Donna Alarie on the USCF Issues Forum:
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Okay, so Susan now has another "Last Statement" on her chessdiscussion blog.

There's also another article from the NY Times - on the Gambit Blog - for
today.

So as not to run into AUG, I'll just assume everyone can go to those places
and read the comments and come back here to discuss.

Susan's post is similar to previous posts only now not only is Bill
Goichberg not welcome to be on the sub-committee, but they would like Randy
Bauer removed too.

Calling for a complete investigation is about three months too late. USCF's
leaders had their chance to provide a forensic expert and did not do so. The
membership had to do it.

However, the answer now is simple. Since Ms. Polgar has no reason to
question the expertise of Mr. Ulevitch, is Mr. Truong willing to forward
permission to view his ISP records to Mr. Ulevitch? Obviously, Mr. Ulevitch
does not have a dog in this race and if there is evidence which he has not
considered in his report, I am confident that as a professional, he would
certainly be willing to consider it now.

In the meantime, the recall effort is now going forward and it is going
forward publicly. It is my intention to keep the USCF membership, the NY
Times and any other chess news outlet which inquires - informed of the
effort regularly. USCF's public image has been damaged long enough. It's
about time the members do some damage control and reestablish faith in the
organization by demanding that its leaders adhere to their fiduciary
obligation to consider the membership's best interests first. Those best
interests would be best served by the resignation of Mr. Truong from the
Executive Board.

Donna Alarie
Massachusetts Delegate

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The latest Polgar (or is it written by Truong?) missive can be found he
http://www.chessdiscussion.com/phpBB...&p=4175&sid=4e...

Mr. Lafferty,

It occurs to me that there may be a fair number of people that share my
situation vis a vis the USCF. *I was once a member for many years. *I
then left the chess scene for career reasons and did not return until 25
years later. *I always thought to myself, "Well, at least when I retire,
I can return to good old chess as a hobby..." *What I discovered when
this time came was appalling! *I will not rejoin this organization in
its current state.

Unfortunately, this means I cannot support the recall effort as a voting
member, and I cannot petition delegate(s) to do so. *This brings me to
this question: as part of the recall effort I would be happy to sign a
parallel petition by non-members that feel that the USCF must clean up
the filth and become a respectable organization. *Are there other
non-members that feel as I do?
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Cordially,
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