On Feb 6, 8:52 am, "Chess One" wrote:
"Sam Sloan" wrote in message

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SAM TAKES ON

6. As to why I in particular would be the target of most of these
impersonations, the best way to explain it is that I am the equivalent
of the "Jack Anderson" of chess. Jack Anderson as you will recall was
a newspaper columnists reporting on J. Edgar Hoover's apparent ties to
the Mafia, Watergate, the John F. Kennedy assassination, the Nixon
Administration, the Savings and Loan scandal, the CIA plans to
assassinate Fidel Castro, the Iran-Contra affair and so on.

AIRS

He was a
crusader against corruption. Henry Kissinger called Jack Anderson "the
most dangerous man in America". The USCF Insiders such as Bill
Goichberg have the same view of me as Richard Nixon had of Jack
Anderson.

UNDER-WEIGHT CHESS SETS?

I am sure Sam Sloan is in the right of it - that a certain petty corruption
exists, as among any burocratic class of people who maybe even perforce
wheel and deal with each other. But citing the mob, Watergate and Hoover
seems a tad extravagant in terms of the national importance of USCF, and one
wonders if Sam doesn't have the same sort of inflated opinion of himself as
Our Bill?

The real crime of USCF is that it is so small. With adjustments for
population growth it is hardly incremented since the 72 Fischer boom
membership. And it is small because it is petty, personality based rather
than systemicly managed, and it is small because all its activities are
essentially clerical ones to do with maintenance of a system serving the
current fold.

Whereas its mission statement, in its first substantive clause declares that
its function as 501 non-profit is to popularise chess to a general public.

7. Because I have a wide readership,

When I left Sam Sloan's Fide-Yahoo group a few months ago, the main
correspondent was Sam Sloan himself, who made proclamations rather than
interactions - then Eric J and I would then disagree on them. We 2 seemed to
be actually the readership. Of course, now and again someone would pop out
of the woodwork to make a point or to say goodbye.

Does P Innes understand that a readership isn't the same thing as
participating in a discussion? I guess not.

Sam Sloan may indeed have a wide readership, though not by any evidence a
readership on chess topics.

anybody wanting to bring down the
USCF leadership might decide to impersonate me.

I rather wonder if the wide readership think so? Or in fact, who at all
thinks that? I would say that from everything I read Sam Sloan did not have
much of any chance of re-election.

Paul Truong is a
complete nobody in the world of chess. When he started impersonating
me, nobody would have bothered to read anything written by him.

Interesting comment. There certainly are other opinions on that - the last
time I counted the quantity of articles in 2006 the 'complete nobody'
managed to get Susan Polgar about 50 mentions in mainstream press in the
same year that USCF managed 2.

Okay - I think that's enough. I am aware that this is a massive
cross-posting,

Then remove some groups.

but rather than it being counter agit-prop, I suggest to all
readers that what I have written seems more evidently true to me, and the
chess public about the relative importance of chess, Sam Sloan and Paul
Troung - and suggest it is another view - and a view based on what I do,
which is chess journalism.

This is today's giggle. P Innes is about as much of a journalist as my
pet turtle.

In the event, I am now interviewing Mr. Truong, which I am sure will elicit
further excitements!

Slow pitch softball....

To those of you who thought chess was boring - I hope I now confirm your
opinion

I also hope I faithfully reflect the general opinion on these matters of
65,000 chess readers every month.

You have 65K people post in reply to your self-described 'journalism?'