On Apr 30, 8:01 am, "
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On Apr 29, 9:26 pm, wrote:
Brian Lafferty wrote:
samsloan wrote:
It is to be recalled that it is actually Susan who brought her
children into this debate by repeatedly claiming that her children
were being threatened. She stated making this claim back around
November 2006.
Meanwhile, her eldest son, Tom, reached his peak rating at about that
time.
http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmtHst.php?13060416
Her younger son has actually been dropping in rating. Apparently he is
the one who complained that he is being forced to play chess.
http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?13546228
It also appears that Truong finished 10th in the open adult four round
event with one win and three half point byes. How does one get all
those 1/2 byes?
He obviously played one game as a house man. If you had any experience
directing or playing in chess tournaments ... well, you wouldn't be
such an easy target.- Hide quoted text -
Although I think Brian is barking up the wrong tree here, I have never
heard of a house player rated 2300 in a small tournament, being paired
against someone who was either unrated or had a provisional rating
10XX. If Paul wanted money, he obviously could have finished at worst
2d by just playing the games. It wasn't quite a standard house player
arrangement, however, though he did function as one. It looks more
like a withdrawal and the TD just filling in half point byes instead
of full point byes in the reporting list, perhaps in a decision that
this would be fairer for the tiebreak points of the person he played.
I think it is important to focus on the real issue, an actual case of
abusive impersonation; this tournament is not at all relevant.
Jerry Spinrad
Jerry, I've played as a house player in tournaments I've directed.
They've been scholastic events in which I've outrated opponents by
several hundred points. This is a non-issue. I expect Judge Lafferty
to try to dredge up an overdue library book for his next 'expose' on
Paul Truong. Although if the book were "How to Steal Someone's
Identity" that might be relevant....