At 08:21 PM 8/19/2006 -0400, Joel Channing wrote:

Susan is our poster person for scholastic chess (which comprises about 50%
of our membership).

Dear Joel,

Kindly explain your statement above. Why is Susan "our poster person
for scholastic chess"?

Susan is obviously not suitable as a "poster person" for scholastic
chess because she is a 37 year old divorced mother of two. If you want
to bring in the kids, you need another kid, like Laura Ross for
example.

Laura Ross is a 17 year old very strong and rapidly improving chess
master. She is also very beautiful. She should be our poster person
for scholastic chess. It helps that her father just wrote an article
about chess that was published in "Scientific American".

If not Laura Ross, there are several others like Irina Krush for
example. Irina Krush is very strong, nearly as strong as Polgar, and
still improving. She is well liked, gets along with everybody, has no
known enemies and is beautiful.

The time for Susan to be a poster child for scholastic chess was
twenty years ago when I was promoting her. However, that was a
difficult job because she was a pariah in her own country of Hungary.
She was widely disliked and even hated by her own countrymen, to such
an extent that when I wrote articles that were published in the Gulf
News in her favor, some other members of the Hungarian team shouted at
me across the hotel lobby. When the proposal was made to give every
woman chess player in the world, except for Susan Polgar, 100 free
rating points, not one member of the Hungarian delegation was willing
to speak in her defense. If any chess player, other than myself, was
in her favor, they kept it secret.

Susan has a twenty year history of legal battles, lawsuits and
personal acrimony. Throughout this entire time, I have been her number
one defender and advocate. Go back and look through the history and
you will see that I am the one, often the only one, defending Zsuzsa
Polgar. Now, suddenly and without warning, she has turned to attack
the one person who has always been her defender.

Sam Sloan

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At 08:21 PM 8/19/2006 -0400, Joel Channing wrote:

Susan is our poster person for scholastic chess (which comprises about 50%
of our membership).

Dear Joel,

Kindly explain your statement above. Why is Susan "our poster person
for scholastic chess"?

Susan is obviously not suitable as a "poster person" for scholastic
chess because she is a 37 year old divorced mother of two. If you want
to bring in the kids, you need another kid, like Laura Ross for
example.

Laura Ross is a 17 year old very strong and rapidly improving chess
master. She is also very beautiful. She should be our poster person
for scholastic chess. It helps that her father just wrote an article
about chess that was published in "Scientific American".

If not Laura Ross, there are several others like Irina Krush for
example. Irina Krush is very strong, nearly as strong as Polgar, and
still improving. She is well liked, gets along with everybody, has no
known enemies and is beautiful.

I wonder when Sam Sloan will shift his focus and unfixate on Susan Polgar?

One very good reason for up and coming players NOT to be chosen for these
roles is that they can continue to spend their time playing chess.

I aslo wonder if Sam Sloan would agree to allow scholastic mentors in
particular to manage their own affairs? What is appealing to him is perhaps
not the same as a 9 year old. I should also note that this sort of message
is the sort of immature male appraoch to both women and children in chess
which puts them off!

While I passively supported Sam Sloan in the recent election, it was for the
reasons that others have stated, to achieve greater degree of transparency
in decision making and financial activites at USCF board level.

I have one other thing to note below:-

The time for Susan to be a poster child for scholastic chess was
twenty years ago when I was promoting her. However, that was a
difficult job because she was a pariah in her own country of Hungary.
She was widely disliked and even hated by her own countrymen, to such
an extent that when I wrote articles that were published in the Gulf
News in her favor, some other members of the Hungarian team shouted at
me across the hotel lobby. When the proposal was made to give every
woman chess player in the world, except for Susan Polgar, 100 free
rating points, not one member of the Hungarian delegation was willing
to speak in her defense. If any chess player, other than myself, was
in her favor, they kept it secret.

I have personally witnessed the grossest sort of anti-semitic materials
output by Hungarian agents, not 20 years ago, but currently. Some others
reading this will have witnessed the same. It is not only remarkably
offensive it is the basest sort of crude nonsense, and if not for an awful
history would be utterly laughable.

Should Mr. Sloan not have taken this into account, then he might give that
another thought, since I am also a European, and travelled broadly there,
can attest to its continued existance, and I am sure Mr. Sloan would not
wish to appear as an ugly [in the sense of lacking proper intelligence]
American, mouth wide-open, but with neither sense nor sensibility to the
matter he addresses.

Phil Innes

Vermont
22 August 2006

Susan has a twenty year history of legal battles, lawsuits and
personal acrimony. Throughout this entire time, I have been her number
one defender and advocate. Go back and look through the history and
you will see that I am the one, often the only one, defending Zsuzsa
Polgar. Now, suddenly and without warning, she has turned to attack
the one person who has always been her defender.

Sam Sloan

Typical Sloan. He makes several tasteless, sexist remarks, makes
disparaging statements about Susan Polgar, a former world champion who
has worked tirelessly to promote chess in this country, and then
basically whines about the fact that Susan dislikes him.

Talk about a case of arrested development.

Randy Bauer


Sam Sloan wrote:
At 08:21 PM 8/19/2006 -0400, Joel Channing wrote:

Susan is our poster person for scholastic chess (which comprises about 50%
of our membership).

Dear Joel,

Kindly explain your statement above. Why is Susan "our poster person
for scholastic chess"?

Susan is obviously not suitable as a "poster person" for scholastic
chess because she is a 37 year old divorced mother of two. If you want
to bring in the kids, you need another kid, like Laura Ross for
example.

Laura Ross is a 17 year old very strong and rapidly improving chess
master. She is also very beautiful. She should be our poster person
for scholastic chess. It helps that her father just wrote an article
about chess that was published in "Scientific American".

If not Laura Ross, there are several others like Irina Krush for
example. Irina Krush is very strong, nearly as strong as Polgar, and
still improving. She is well liked, gets along with everybody, has no
known enemies and is beautiful.

The time for Susan to be a poster child for scholastic chess was
twenty years ago when I was promoting her. However, that was a
difficult job because she was a pariah in her own country of Hungary.
She was widely disliked and even hated by her own countrymen, to such
an extent that when I wrote articles that were published in the Gulf
News in her favor, some other members of the Hungarian team shouted at
me across the hotel lobby. When the proposal was made to give every
woman chess player in the world, except for Susan Polgar, 100 free
rating points, not one member of the Hungarian delegation was willing
to speak in her defense. If any chess player, other than myself, was
in her favor, they kept it secret.

Susan has a twenty year history of legal battles, lawsuits and
personal acrimony. Throughout this entire time, I have been her number
one defender and advocate. Go back and look through the history and
you will see that I am the one, often the only one, defending Zsuzsa
Polgar. Now, suddenly and without warning, she has turned to attack
the one person who has always been her defender.

Sam Sloan

Sam Sloan wrote:
At 08:21 PM 8/19/2006 -0400, Joel Channing wrote:

Susan is our poster person for scholastic chess (which comprises about 50%
of our membership).

Dear Joel,

Kindly explain your statement above. Why is Susan "our poster person
for scholastic chess"?

Some people's lives and actions, such as Ms Polgar's, justify such a
statement.

OTOH, some people's lives and actions better befit a poster at the
local postal office.