On 4 Dec 2003 09:45:32 -0800, (Bruce
Leverett) wrote:

In one of the predecessors to this thread I asked:
BTW wasn't Eade "fired" (an oversimplification) over drug testing?
Wasn't Tanner more or less his replacement?

This message from Seirawan more or less answers my question. Yes,
drug testing was a major factor in Eade's resignation having been
accepted. It's not easy for me, reading only RGCP, to figure out who
the major players are and why the major decisions get made. But I
suspected that Seirawan was pulling the strings, and I am glad that
this has been clarified, even though I regret that all this dirty
laundry had to be hung out for such a large audience (and that I may
have had a hand in provoking it).

I do not think there is anything sinister about a major donor like
Seirawan controlling the selection of FIDE representatives. It's
unthinkable that if someone is funding the U.S. Championship, and
probably providing the lion's share for the Olympiad teams, he
wouldn't have a major role in our relations with FIDE.

You have it completely wrong. Yasser Seirawan does not attand USCF
delegate's meetings nor does he attend executive board meetings. I
have never heard his name even mentioned as exapressing an opinion
about USCF politics. Yasser had nothing to do with the decision either
to hire or to fire Jim Eade.

On the other hand, Jim Eade has been attacking Yasser publicly for
years. For example, just prior to the Istanbul Olympiad, Jim Eade
published "An Open Letter to Yasser Seirawan."

Jim Eade also berates Yasser saying that he did not attand the
meetings. However, I was in Istanbul and I attended ALL of the
meetings. More than that, I was in Istanbul for the entire length of
the 14 day Olympiad. I was the first one in the door at 6:30 AM on
Opening Day and I was the last one out the door at 2:30 AM after the
conclusion of the last day. Jim Eade by contrast came late and left
early.

Everything Yasser says in his article is correct and accurate and
everything Jim Eade writes is wrong and distorted.

Sam Sloan