On May 5, 6:28 am, samsloan wrote:
If you want to see something truly amazing and astounding, play the
following youtube videos about Claudia Munoz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Lbo...?v=ZaBJZ7vwEjo

http://womancandidatemaster.blogspot.com/

Claudia Munoz is a 10-year-old Mexican girl who was born in Texas and
who lives in Acuna, Mexico. She is a dual national who chooses to
represent the United States where she has won national championships.
She will represent the United States in the forthcoming Pan American
Championships. She hopes to be able to represent the United States in
the World Youth Championships in Vietnam in October, 2008.

She has been awarded the Woman Candidate Master title by FIDE.

Just play her videos and you will see why this is so Amazing.

Again and again, she says that it is God and Jesus that enables her to
accomplish these things.

Sam Sloan

These are truly wonderful videos and I hope everybody sees them. When
I was on the board I kept suggesting that the USCF make videos like
this, and Jennifer was interested in doing this, but Goichberg and
Channing kept shooting this idea down. Anything that was my idea, they
were against.

However, I have questions about this video.

Claudia Munoz is rated 1268.

http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmtHst.php?13481236

This is OK for a ten year old but not enough to get her on the top-50
Under-10 list.

She would make the top-50 Under-13 girls list once she has 24 rated
games. She only has 20 rated games now.

She has been awarded the title of Woman Candidate Master by FIDE. Is
it really a good idea for FIDE to be awarding titles like this to 1200
players?

She says that it is because of God and Jesus that she is able to
accomplish this. What will happen when she starts playing against
serious opponents such as those rated 1400? Will she feel that God has
renounced her? Will she be like Job, crying to her tormentors?

Sam Sloan