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On Jun 6, 12:00 pm, Jürgen R. wrote:

Don't forget, not only did Mr. Sloan win the
last rgc grudge match,

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Right - I saw those games, and I didn't think
I was watching any GM's. In fact, 1700 would
a be generous estimate.

You are way, way off in another galaxy.

Here is a link to an actual cross-table, from here
on planet Earth:

http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain....69701-10152763

If you Andromedans are so very good at chess,
then why don't you challenge us Earthlings to a
match and *prove* it?

That cross-table is from a grudge match in
Earth year 2005; was there a more recent one?

As you can see, the two players performed in
the reverse of how their respective ratings would
have predicted. But combined, they averaged in
the very top of "Class A". Remember, you can't
just dismiss Mr. Sloan as a putz based on the
fact that he plays stupid openings; lots of good
players have played stupid openings, they just
didn't make a career out of it like Mr. Sloan has.


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When playing Sloan, particularly after he has been traveling,
you need to be prepared for the fact that he farts and snorts
continually and that he exudes an awful smell, having slept
on benches at bus stations for several days and not
having had the opportunity to change his clothes.

Also he is prone to bring along a child of one
of his recent mailorder brides that is not yet house-broken.
The bride, you ask? No, the child, poor unfortunate worm.

This is worth about 500 rating points.

they just
didn't make a career out of it like Mr. Sloan has.

Career? You call that a career? So far as I can tell
Sloan has failed at everything he ever tried, flunked out
of college, lost his NYC taxi driver's license, let his
Asian mailorder brides ditch him, got barred by the
SEC, came in 9th amondg 10 in a USCF election,
etc etc endlessly.

As far as I know, I have never met nor seen Jürgen R.

I am wondering who this person is and why he keeps saying these things
about me.

Sam Sloan

Jürgen R. wrote:

When playing Sloan, particularly after he has been traveling,
you need to be prepared for the fact that he farts and snorts
continually and that he exudes an awful smell, having slept
on benches at bus stations for several days and not
having had the opportunity to change his clothes.

Also he is prone to bring along a child of one
of his recent mailorder brides that is not yet house-broken.
The bride, you ask? No, the child, poor unfortunate worm.

This is worth about 500 rating points.

That gives me an idea...

Suppose I traveled to Mr. Sloan's house, offered to
look after his child while he cleaned up, and then
played him a marathon match while paying someone
to babysit his kids. Theoretically at least, this should
result in the transfer of four or five hundred rating points
from him to me, making me very nearly a GM. It goes
without saying that afterward, I could never play rated
chess again, but I suppose one must make sacrifices,
for the sake of true greatness... .


-- help bot

Jürgen R. wrote:

they just
didn't make a career out of it like Mr. Sloan has.

Career? You call that a career? So far as I can tell
Sloan has failed at everything he ever tried, flunked out
of college, lost his NYC taxi driver's license, let his
Asian mailorder brides ditch him, got barred by the
SEC, came in 9th amondg 10 in a USCF election,
etc etc endlessly.

You seem to have forgotten that Mr. Sloan:

1) singlehandedly defeated the U.S. Supreme Court;
2) earned the title of foreign master of Chinese Chess;
3) got elected to the USCF Executive Board;
4) has written and/or published dozens of books;
5) convincingly won the rgc grudge match;
6) is so famous that even Bill Goichberg hates him.


--help bot

The Bilguer Handbuch is available now:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891404

There is also one on ebay.com

Sam Sloan


On May 31, 10:09 pm, samsloan wrote:
I am in the process of reprinting "Manual of the Game of Chess by P.R.
von Bilguer", 1880 Edition, better known by its German title, Handbuch
des Schachspiels von P. R. von Bilguer.

This book is extremely rare. I happened to come across a copy in good
condition. I have been unable to find another one, and I have searched
everywhere.

This book is the equivalent of Modern Chess Openings, but for the 19th
Century. Like Modern Chess Openings, it is packed with long columns
and lines of analysis. It is in German but that should not prove a
problem because, like Chess Informant, it is multi-lingual. All you
need to do is remember that D = Queen, S = Knight, T = Rook and L =
Bishop.

The fact that it is 128 years old is the main reason I am reprinting
it. It contains opening traps and tricks which are no longer played
and are no longer to be found in any openings book.

The book is 6 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches and 720 pages. Every page is jam-
packed with chess analysis. I did not even know that so much analysis
had been done back in 1880.

Paul Rudolf von Bilguer (1815- 1840) was considered to be one of the
strongest chess players in the world, but he died at an early age. The
work continued without him and new editions kept coming out 90 years
after his death.

My reprint of the 1880 edition should be out within ten days. When it
comes out it will be available at:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891404

Sam Sloan