On May 21, 7:27 am, The Historian wrote:
On May 21, 6:12 am, samsloan wrote:



On May 21, 5:25 am, David Richerby
wrote:

wrote:
As you MUST know -- or so I hope -- a significant percentage of USCF
members (in my time, it was about 50 percent) do not play in a
single tournament in a year. The hardcore tournament cadre was
about eight to 10,000.

[And the rest of them are only members so they get _Chess Life_.]

Why not just sell these people a subscription to the magazine?

Dave.

--
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evil and you can't understand it!

In the 1990s, the USCF consistently had annual revenues of about $6.5
million.

In 2004, the Executive Board decided to "get rid of the books and
equipment business".

After that was done, revenues dropped to $3.2 million.

Making Chess Life subscription based only would cause the USCF to lose
at least 20,000 members (probably more) and would cost at least one
million in revenues.

It seems unlikely that the USCF will survive this.

Remember that all this is being done just to protect Goichberg's
sacred cows. Eliminate the sacred cows, and the USCF immediately
becomes profitable again.

It is not the magazine that is causing the USCF to lose money. It is
the website. Cut down on the unnecessary expenses of the website and
the USCF is profitable again.

The current threat facing the USCF membership is that the entire
organization could go under just because of protecting a few sacred
cows.

Sam Sloan

"Sacred cows?" I don't think we've herd the last of this......

During my one year on the board, I was censured and Joel Channing
filed an ethics complaint against me which he later withdrew for
raising the issues of these sacred cows.

Now that I am no longer on the board, my position is even more
tenuous. I have already been banned for one year for posting to the
USCF Issues Forum, although the ban has not been put into effect
because it is being "reviewed".

For this reason, I cannot spell out in public what those scared cows
are. However, they are obvious. Any USCF member who calls me I will be
willing to tell him. However, I will not discuss this with the non-
member anti-USCF crowd such as Phil Innes for example.

Sam Sloan