Then why are were paying Shahade $75K a year? How come Parr and Innes
are so quiet about this? Perhaps they agree with the decision of
Schultz and company?

The USCF needs to spend more on their website. Chess Life is not the
place to dump money into. Why not make Chess Life an ezine. I think
they would do much better. Also, to raise some capital they could
sponsor it with google adsense. The USCF needs to take the Internet
seriously or they will not survive.

**** all of them. They want to live that way, there's not much anyone can
do about it short of a mutiny in the rank-and-file.

USCF isn't even the center of chess in the US anymore (that's ICC). USCF
won't even upgrade its tournaments so that they have the same anti-cheating
measures as the SAT or Bar Exam.

The best way to deal with USCF would be to set up a rival organization on a
national scale, but such a venture would lose money for five years as it
paid out hefty prize money to attract the top talent.

NOTE: the "ray gordon" below is not me.

"Ray Gordon" wrote in message
oups.com...
Then why are were paying Shahade $75K a year? How come Parr and Innes
are so quiet about this? Perhaps they agree with the decision of
Schultz and company?

and the US certainly isn't considered the centre of chess anywhere else in
the world....my experience of yanks OTB has been of a bunch of whinging
****in girls, so I'm not surprised their admin. is just the same

"Ray Gordon" wrote in message
...
**** all of them. They want to live that way, there's not much anyone can
do about it short of a mutiny in the rank-and-file.

USCF isn't even the center of chess in the US anymore (that's ICC). USCF
won't even upgrade its tournaments so that they have the same
anti-cheating measures as the SAT or Bar Exam.

The best way to deal with USCF would be to set up a rival organization on
a national scale, but such a venture would lose money for five years as it
paid out hefty prize money to attract the top talent.

NOTE: the "ray gordon" below is not me.

"Ray Gordon" wrote in message
oups.com...
Then why are were paying Shahade $75K a year? How come Parr and Innes
are so quiet about this? Perhaps they agree with the decision of
Schultz and company?

Let's move to Lebanon. They treat people nicer there.