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If the board must -- for whatever reasons -- be run by
committee, then let it be made up of people who laugh
at the very idea of trying to utilize USCF monies to pay
their way; people like, say, Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.
Buffett and Gates don't play Chess - they play Bridge.
Buffett is competent, Gates a hopeless loser, as one
would expect. They hire world class partners to take
up some of the slack. (You can watch them play online
on OKBridge.)
These two have actually done something like you suggest:
They have started a thing called 'Bridge in Schools', which
is, needless to say, doomed to fail. But for 1 Mega$ they
got quite a bit of publicity. See the report in the widely
respected Journal 'USA Today':
http://www.usatoday.com/news/educati...-schools_x.htm
However, they were not naive enough to hand this money
over to the ACBL (analogue of the USCF).
Occasionally wealthy amateurs show up wanting to do
something for Chess - though rich chess players
are much rarer than rich bridge players, usually aged
ladies. But it is inconceivable that a sane person would
give a dime to the USCF in its present state. An organization
that will let somebody like Sloan anywhere near the
cash drawer has years of work to do before it can
repair its reputation, even with the help of a renowned
publicity expert like Truong. Take one look at a picture
of Bill Hall and you get an inkling of the the size of the problem.
http://www.chessdon.com/photo.10.jpg
He's the one on the lower left.
("What's that? you want to transfer a million or two from
the Life Member's account to make *one payment* on
my new submarine-equipped 150-foot yacht? Forget it.
I haven't got the TIME to swindle a paltry one or two
million dollars from those losers. Inform our Swindles
Division that they have much bigger fish to fry." --BG)
It seems to me that there is quite a bit of /personal/
enmity or jealously between Mr. Sloan and his targets.
Maybe this isn't really about the problems within the
USCF; maybe it is really about /personal/ agendas.
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