On Apr 9, 7:26 pm, Brian Lafferty wrote:

Poor Susie. I feel her pain. The truth hurts.

I haven't been following the issue well enough to have any idea if the
danger is of Polgar and Truong doing that to the USCF, or of Hanken
doing that to the USCF.

I suppose if the Chinese had an up-and-coming chess Grandmaster that
we had to find some child prodigy to beat for World Champion, then the
USCF would have so many members it would feel confident this could not
happen to it.

Failing that, presumably if Chess were replaced with my pet project
modification of it:

http://www.quadibloc.com/chess/ch0202.htm

this would do away with opening theory, and (as advertised for
Seirawan Chess) "make chess fun again", and so the problem would be
solved.

Yeah, right.

It is _not_ going to be as simple as that. But that there is a
relation between shrinking pies and infighting is a reasonable enough
conclusion as well.

John Savard