I have noticed a strong trend towards attacking Joel Channing on chessdiscussion.com This is significant because chessdiscussion.com is heavily moderated and nothing can appear there without permission of Polgar and truong. For example, a lot of the financial decisions made by Joel Channing have been criticized there. Today an attack by "Tennessee Vols" appeared on the site. This is because...

More Mishandling of Life Membership Assets Grant Perks puts his finger on the problem but misses the solution. The problem is not the board and not the failure to pass a balanced budget. We always pass a balanced budget. If the Executive Director presents an unbalanced budget including a lot of money for his friends, we simply write in a bunch of nice looking numbers and presto- chango the...

I initially missed the article that appeared in the New York Times two days ago, but this is a truly great development: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/us/20chess.html What needs to be noted (and what nobody else has commented on thus far) is that this program comes from Erik Anderson and his American Foundation for Chess. It also should be recalled that a certain person was attacking Mr.

On Mar 21, 7:00 pm, (Sam Sloan) wrote: Citibank Cheats Grandmaster Benko out of $70,000 Bear Stearns just recently "went under", as they say, so PB might want to act fast, before Citibank too, bites the dust. I noticed that Mr. Sloan -- as is his longstanding habit -- targeted somebody with money (Citi), as

I think you recognize and agree that during my one year on the board I consistently advocated a big cut in expenses. In particular, I advocated very specific cuts that would have reduced expenses by $80,000 without any reduction in services to the membership. Unfortunately, at that time the board was deadlocked. I could only get two-and a half to three votes to cut expenses. With a...

Louis Henry Watson was a rapidly rising star in the World of Bridge. At the age of only 29, he had won virtually every major title that existed, playing with partners that included Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schenken and Sam Fry. Watson was ranked the number four bridge player in the world. On Valentine's Day, February 14, 1936, in what seemed to be perfect health, after a luncheon, Watson became ill...

On Mar 20, 7:09 pm, Tim wrote: On Mar 20, 7:35 pm, samsloan wrote: On Mar 20, 6:10 pm, wrote: On Feb 28, 6:58 am, Hank Youngerman wrote: Regarding republishing of books, I don't know what the market is in

On Mar 13, 3:16 pm, Larry Tapper wrote: On Mar 13, 1:50 am, "David Kane" wrote: wrote in message ... Quick! What was No. 46 on the 1978 annual rating

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After creating "GetClub Chess" I think I should design something more interesting. Can the Chess Players give me some thing they would like to play at GetClub. View the new GetClub Site: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html What is your dream game which you would like to play.

I have two books in front of me: "The Outline of Contract Bridge" by Louis H. Watson author of Watson on the Play of the Hand published in 1934 and "Watson's Classic Book on the Play of the Hand at Bridge" new edition enlarged and modernized by Sam Fry, Jr.published in 1959

I was talking about new Games and Help Bot suggested me that why not have a board 100x100 size. That is too Big. We see people have mastered Chess so deep that they have just memorized first 10 Moves. But the beauty of Chess lies in its complexities. Here is a new GRAND CHESS I propose.

On Mar 14, 12:18 pm, SBD wrote: On Mar 14, 10:06 am, wrote: "Seeming to reply to Evans in his foreword to 'Paul Keres: The Quest for Perfection' (ICE, 1997), Nunn says 'Attempts to analyze the games themselves for evidence of Keres' suicidal efforts ... appear to be misguided' and notes that Vishy Anand, in his 1995 title match with ...

I agree that Goichberg should resign but I am sure that he will not do so. However, my reasons for believing that Goichberg should resign are entirely different than those suggested by Bill Brock. In the first place, this entire situation was created by Goichberg. After the votes were counted and I was declared to have been elected to the board on July 20, 2006, Goichberg started a series of...

I previously made an offer that Goichberg, Channing, Polgar and Truong all resign and then run for re-election against me and anybody else who wants to run. My offer was rejected out-of-hand with the statement that Goichberg will NEVER resign. My point is that if Goichberg, Channing, Polgar and Truong believe that the membership still supports them, they should not have any fear of running for...

This discussion has been going on for 9 years. It started in 1999. However, discussion about these particular games has been going on ever since the day they were played in 1948. You will find this controversy mentioned in issues of Chess Review back then. I have always assumed that since you keep invoking the name of John Nunn, that there was an article by Nunn published somewhere disputing the...

by Harry Payne on Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:36 am #95137 mlanger wrote: Harry Payne wrote: Brian Mottershead wrote: mlanger wrote:

I agree that Goichberg should resign but I am sure that he will not do so. However, my reasons for believing that Goichberg should resign are entirely different than those suggested by Bill Brock. In the first place, this entire situation was created by Goichberg. After the votes were counted and I was declared to have been elected to the board Goichberg started a series of desperate measures...

Here is what Taylor Kingston wrote on June 5, 2005: "Still, on the subject of playing strength, I have never claimed to be any great player, but I think with a peak Elo of 2300+, and a top ranking of, as I recall, #46 in the country, I was a tad better than 'weak.'" In the 1972 US Championship, a rating of 2390 was high enough to get you invited to the championship.

I am convinced that as long as Bill Hall is Executive Director we will continue to lose money. Bill Hall is terrible. He has no idea how to run an business. He should have been fired years ago. Even Frank Niro would be better than Bill Hall. What we should do is bring back Al Lawrence. Al Lawrence was at the US Amateur Team East two weeks ago. I heard that he is no longer working for the World...