The following was posted by Susan Polgar on her chessdiscussion.com group at http://www.chessdiscussion.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1267 It contains a clear legal threat to file a lawsuit: "At this moment, the USCF has to deal with 2 frivolous lawsuits and 3 potential legal problems from the former employees, Chess Cafe and my own attorneys. All board members and the USCF ED received a...

The Chessville website, which calls itself the most popular chess website, has an article this week which states that Chess Life magazine will go under. This article was apparently written by Phil Innes. The article reflects many claims to be found on Susan Polgar's http://www.chessdiscussion.com website. Innes is known to be in close contact with Susan Polgar. See, for example, the Susan Polgar...

I just saw the movie "Knights of the South Bronx" on video. It is a great movie and good for chess. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471768/ But, is it true? It claims that an inner city team from a public school in the South Bronx won the national scholastic championship in Dallas. Did this really happen?

Petition to Recall Bill Goichberg from the USCF Executive Board To the USCF Delegates and Alternates: Nobody campaigned harder than I did to make Bill Goichberg the USCF President. Goichberg wanted to be USCF President for many decades and I felt that he deserved the chance. However, now, Bill Goichberg has been USCF President for three years. Every year of those three years, the USCF has...

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In this game Master Level lost its pawn 2 times. After analysing a lot with my small brains (1100 rated) I could not see how those pawns can be saved. What do (2100+ rated) players say? Can those two pawns be saved from the Zebediah's Jaws? First Pawn was taken by Queen at 20th move.

In the last few years, a number of major companies have folded, reorganized their business, or changed their business models. With the skyrocketing fuel prices, increasing unemployment rate, and price crashing in real estate, it is increasingly more difficult for companies to sustain the same level of business. This is why I urged the USCF in the past few years to change the status quo to become...

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I read on internet Rybka is 3100 rated. And Fritz is 2900 Rated is it true? When they say Rybka is 3100 Rated How much time they give it for each Move. As I played Rybka (5 sec / move) against Normal Level (100 sec / move) and found both play equally well. So when Rybka is playing at 5 sec / move is it playing with 3100

Today again GetClub Chess was further improved and it will play Twice Better. This time a bug was removed. 1 week back GetClub was 16 times weaker than Normal Level. Now GetClub Chess is just 8 times weaker than Rybka. So The move Rybka takes 5 seconds to think, GetClub will take 5*8 = 40 Seconds. So in 40 seconds GetClub will play same move that Rybka thinks in 5

On Jun 18, 12:09 am, wrote: This is not exactly the same. A tire that loses air continuously will eventually go flat even if air is occasionally pumped into it. These good well meaning folks have wasted $2,000,000 in the LMA and sold the building which we owned to trade it in on a new building with a mortgage. All this just to have a little operating cash. The...

On Jun 18, 12:09 am, wrote: This is not exactly the same. A tire that loses air continuously will eventually go flat even if air is occasionally pumped into it. These good well meaning folks have wasted $2,000,000 in the LMA and sold the building which we owned to trade it in on a new building with a mortgage. All this just to have a little operating cash.

Here is a game where Master Level has 2 Rooks left with 6 pawns and Help Bot has Rook and Knight and 7 Pawns. So Help Bot had Knight+Pawn vs Rook. So Master Level was at advantage at Rook is equal to Knight + 2 Pawns while Help bot had only 1 extra pawn. But Help Bot advanced its pawns and killed many pawns of GetClub.

Susan posted the following comments on her "Saturday Open Forum": http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/06/saturday-open-forum.html Blogger SusanPolgar said... The future of chess is very bright. Chess is booming but I do not see that for the USCF. I still do get invitations to strong events but I will only play

Pathetic Turnout at US Junior and Cadet Championships Normally, the US Junior Championship and the US Cadet Championship are two of the most prestigious tournaments held in the US, because that is where we see our future grandmasters. However, this year is different. Almost none of the top players are playing. In order to fill up the list of players, even some players not in the top-50 lists...

How would the Online Chess Life work? Bill Goichberg continues aggressively to push his “New Plan” to turn Chess Life into an online publication, but he has failed to explain how this would work. The current Chess Life of 80 pages, if converted to PDF Format, would be a 86 megabyte download. 86 megabytes is a big download, even for those of us with cable

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Under the motion passed by the board and submitted to the delegates for their ratification and approval, Chess Life 4 Kids magazine will be abolished. Instead there will be a bulletin sent every four months. The Motion by Bill Goichberg states: "USCF shall originate a bulletin published every four months for Scholastic members, at a cost of about $1 per year."

The USCF is a lot more than just a rating service and a magazine. For example, we send teams to the World Chess Olympiad every two years, we send players to qualification tournaments for the World Chess Championship, we represent the United States of America in FIDE, the World Chess Federation, we give stay-at-home jobs to friends of board members, we sponsor chess junkets such as flying 20...

"Madness! Madness! ", spoken by Major Clipton, saying the final words in the movie "Bridge on the River Kwai": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/quotes Only a few months ago, the newly elected members of the USCF Executive Board were congratulating themselves on what a highly qualified and experienced team they were, who would be able to lead the USCF to great glories.