Giochberg has gone completely insane. A committee should be formed to
have him committed to the lunatic asylum.

Goichberg has just announced regarding his "New Plan", "The board is
placing it on the delegates agenda".

The "New Plan" is totally nuts.

Goichberg writes in an email today, "I had estimated 50 cents cost per
issue of the bulletin, but the office now reports a cost of just 34
cents. Instead of the quarterly bulletin we now suggest bimonthly for
Regular and Youth and every four months for Scholastic."

Perhaps Mr. Goichberg is not aware that the postal rates just went up
to 42 cents. I would like to hear his explanation of how he will both
print and mail his bulletin which will consist primarily of TLAs for
his own tournaments for only 34 cents.

His "New Plan" provides that the USCF will stop selling life
memberships but will sell ten-year memberships instead.

It is the life memberships that keep the USCF for going out of
business. Every year the USCF sells 80-90 life memberships for $1000
each. Although small in comparison with the total budget, it is that
$80,000 to $90,000 extra money that keeps the USCF from going out of
business.

Also, this $1000 when invested wisely at say 5% brings in more money
than the current dues of $41 per year, so the Goichberg "New Plan" to
stop selling life memberships proves that Goichberg has gone insane
and needs to be committed to a mental institution for his own benefit
and protection.

The "New Plan" does not state what the fate of the existing life
members will be, but it seems clear that they will not get Chess Life
any more but will just get the bulletin.

It is likely that the Life Members will file suit saying that when
they bought a life membership they were promised a subscription to
Chess Life for the rest of their lives. The cost of defending this
suit might prove to be more than the savings realized by not sending
them Chess Life.

As has always been the case with Goichberg in the past, he will not
listen to anybody. A long and distinguished list of long-term USCF
veterans have written to him telling him that his "New Plan" is a very
bad idea. As has long been typical of Goichberg, he thinks that the
only good ideas are his own. He is ignoring the warnings that his "New
Plan" could completely destroy the USCF. He is proceeding forward with
it.

Sam Sloan