On Feb 28, 9:02 pm, wrote:
On Feb 20, 11:15 pm, " wrote:



THINGS TO COME?

Susan Polgar's call for full transparency is more
than an exercise in good USCF citizenship. It is also
an unmistakable threat to the Board majority. And
almost certainly a substantive threat.

Namely: a bunch of podunk chess politicians, who
were feeling their power-oats, committed countless
arrogant acts that make no legal sense whatsoever and
have likely empowered Truong-Polgar in this legal case.

If one understands the true nature and, more
importantly, the manifestations of the political beast
that is a USCF politician, one understands that
irresponsible, self-defeating arrogance has been and
continues to be the modus operandi.

The self-confident and very detailed demands by
Susan Polgar for full disclosure leads me to alter an
earlier conclusion. I wrote that were Sam's legal
action dismissed tomorrow, GM Polgar would still rue
the day she ever became involved in USCF politics.

The glimmer of a different outcome peaks through
the curtain of events yet to come. Sam's legal action,
whatever its objective merits, will likely fail because
because the legal talent arrayed against our caped
crusader will outmatch his legal savvy and resources.
But there is another legal action that suggests itself:
Polgar-Truong v USCF. And that could turn out to be
the final chapter for the USCF as we know it.

What would better serve chess promotion in the
United States? The semi-public USCF that we have now
or a privately held USCF, owned and run by
Polgar-Truong?

But none of the above answers the question that
stays with me: why did Susan and Paul court Nemesis
in the form of Sam Sloan? Whether he is in the right
or the wrong, Sam's essential characteristic is constant:
he is a slavering-at-the-chops bulldog. He gets a grip on a
person's ankle -- before, perhaps, moving upwards into more
vulnerable bodily and legal areas -- and hangs on forever.
Or, at least, the number of years is large enough to make it
seem like forever.

Then there isFrankNiro. He had serious health
problems, and now this fated human moth is heading
south into the U.S. Open flame. The man must have
been driven mad by illness and his stint as USCF
executive director. Or, in a fit of penitential
maundering, he has settled upon painful,
chest-pounding self-destruction as a penance. There
are simply no other explanations for his wishing to
attend the U.S. Open -- of all possible chess tournaments.

So, then, Mr.Nirowill launch his own Charge of
the Light Chess Brigade. "C'est magnifique, mais ce
n'est pas la guerre," said the French military
observer Bosquet while viewing the attack. We imagine
Mr.Niro, like Chesterton's Napoleon of Notting Hill
in the eponymous novel, carrying a pennant -- perhaps
of Oregon City, Oregon -- and expiring even as he
drives its pointed shaft into the left foot of Randy Bauer.

Mr. Bauer will then be hopping about on his
right hoof, holding his left in total agony, screaming
for a doctor. Mr.Niro'sinert form will be lying
face down on the hotel carpet at the Delegates
Meeting. A curious bystander will prod at the corpse
with a foot and eventually turn it over. His eyelids
unclosed, Mr.Nirowill be staring upwards, a subtle
smile on his lips that will eventually, in rigor
mortis, harden into a very wicked grin.

Unnoticed by others, Paul Truong will saunter
past the hopping Mr. Bauer and bring down with
crushing force the elevated heel of his right shoe
onto the toes of Mr. Bauer's uninjured foot. The
latter will then fly through the air onto the floor,
his corpus jerking like a speared fish, with redoubled
cries of agony beyond bearing.

Nearby, Sam Sloan quietly draws a line throughFrankNiro'sname as among the defendants of his lawsuit.

Yours, Larry Parr

I'm going to the U.S. Open for two reasons, and two reasons only:

1) To play the game I love: Chess;
and,
2) To show my new wife the city of Dallas, TX, where I lived from 2000
to 2002.

I'm not afraid of anyone and I have nothing to hide. If the laptop in
question was still alive, I'd bring it with me. Maybe my old back-up
cd-roms will be of interest to someone someday. But certainly not in
the way Mr. Sloan thinks.

All of the financial data for the U.S.C.F. was either on Linda
Legenos' computer, or Barbara Vandermark's computer, or my desktop
computer in the office in New Windsor. I did not remove anything from
any of the office desktop computers, and left them all behind. Not to
mention the audit workpapers that were still in the possession of the
auditors when I resigned. Even my laptop was left in the office (on
purpose), so that my successor(s) could examine the files and take
anything they needed. That's why it was two or three weeks later when
I asked for it.

Everything that was on my website (shut down at the request of my
children for privacy reasons) is in my blog archives (or soon will
be), including the exact text of what I wrote about Susan and Paul on
my web site. The only omission (same reason) are photos of my children
and grandson.

The blog is free while the website costs money. I know how to blog
(thanks to training from pokerpages.com)but I don't know how to
maintain a web site. So switching from a web site to a blog (4 of them
actually) was a simple decision. I did that on July 31, 2007. It had
nothing to do with anything related to Sam Sloan, Susan Polgar or Paul
Truong.

By the way, I hope you are well these days, Larry. Please give my
regards to Dato Tan.

Best wishes,
Frank

If what you write here is true, you still have a chance to recover
your reputation, even though you are just now coming out of hiding
after five years after you disappeared in August, 2003.

Right now, your credibility is zero. Nobody who had any past dealings
with you believes anything you say any more. We have all been burned
by you.

If you want to come clean the first two things you should do is:

1. Make yourself available to your lawyer, Jeremy Brown of Proskauer
Rose and

2. Hand over that laptop to the USCF's Internet lawyer, Karl
Kronenberger

We are not interested in hearing from you that there is nothing on the
laptop. That laptop does not belong to you. It belongs to the USCF.
So, return it.

Do not give that laptop to Bill Hall. He will probably just trash it
and then blame everything on you. We know from experience that Bill
Hall lies constantly. His reputation is the same as yours, zero.

Sam Sloan