I told you that they're afraid of me. I told you that Bill Goichberg is a mouse. My lawsuit threat is mightier than their their votes. They're afraid of me. Nolan doesn't want to lose his job like Tanner. I'll always win! Sam Sloan

Chess One wrote: From the USCF Forum: "Tim Redman gets my vote for brilliant idea of the day. He has suggested that the USCF should recognize that the Forums are (now) essentially a political arena and make the job of Moderator that of the USCF's chief political officer, ie the USCF President." // Mike Nolan. Having joked this week about Pravda-in-Connecticut, at least USCF are ...

The Executive Board has voted 4-1-1 to lift the posting rights suspension of Sam Sloan, effective immediately and to rescind the suspension of Beatriz Marinello. (Marinello abstained, Sloan voted against the motion.) My understanding is that this also wipes the slate clean in terms of past infractions on both Sloan and Marinello. I will update this note with the exact text of the motion when I...

This dictator Mike Nolan is out to get me. He unfairly suspended me from the USCF Nolanland forum. I can't appeal to anyone because he's a dictator. Fire Mike Nolan and vote for me for 4 more years! Sam Sloan USCF Executive Board Member

I wrote to Duncan Oxley and he'll defend me. Sevan Muradian should be banned and not me. I'm innocent of all charges. Don Schultz is out to get me so his friends can get elected. I don't know why Mike Nolan and Bill Hall are against me. I'm sure that they're consipiring to get me off the board. Hal Bogner will help me get rid of ICC too. They got rid of him so it's pay back time. Sam Sloan USCF...

NOTIFICATION OF DISCIPLINARY ACTION Date: January 5, 2006 To: Sam Sloan Your post to the USCF Forums on January 2nd in the USCF Issues Forum was in violation of the Acceptable Usage Guidelines for the USCF Forum because it referenced a confidential matter that you had knowledge of only as a member of the Executive Board.

I played a cute chess game in a tournament at the Marshall Chess Club last week, and here it is:

Jennifer Shahade aka the Chess Bitch got her job as a payoff from Don Schultz to her brother Greg Shahade. How many other people were interviewed for the position of web editor? Was the position ever announced? Was it ever advertised? I'm positive it didn't. It's clear that this was an illegal political move by Don Schultz, Joel Channing and Bill Goichberg. Sam Sloan USCF Executive Board Member

My BlindChess program for DOS (freeware) now includes Chess256 functionality. Chess256 implies that the pawns in the initial position are randomized on the second and third rank. It's a good opportunity to study this variant. It can be used as a randomizer for the initial position. http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/blindc.htm Mats

Those of you that are involved in chess programming, please add a version of your program that employs Chess256 randomization of the pawn positions on the second and third row. This is an attractive way of evading opening monotony, while keeping pieces (other than pawns) on their regular (and also best) squares. It works very well. All 256 positions are very...

wrote: On USCF Forums, Bill Goichberg just posted the following regarding the suspension of Beatriz Marinello from posting: DECISION MADE BY MIKE NOLAN, SERVING AS A MODERATOR OF THE USCF FORUM; BILL HALL, USCF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR; AND BILL GOICHBERG, PRESIDENT OF THE USCF

DECISION MADE BY MIKE NOLAN, SERVING AS A MODERATOR OF THE USCF FORUM; BILL HALL, USCF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR; AND BILL GOICHBERG, PRESIDENT OF THE USCF NOTIFICATION OF DISCIPLINARY ACTION Date: January 8, 2006

wrote: Ok who wants to spill all dirt available on Tanner? Let's hear it all. Everyone knows Tanner screwed Beatriz Marinello during a national scholastic event a while back. They were caught in bed together. She got a bid after that as a thank you. Sam Sloan

Former World Champion Tigran Petrosian said that he learned to calculate by reading chess books, and by trying to manage without a chess board between the diagrams. My free blindfold chess program for DOS is ideal for this type of training. It will also work under all Windows versions. If you own PocketDOS it will run on your palmtop device. It works finely on my Casio BE-300. You input moves at...

I see that chessville also features a chess based puzzle which will now become a movie - see the article by Robert Tuohey at http://www.chessville.com:80/misc/History/PastPawns/NinthGateProblem.htm where the 7th card is discussed. The movie was directed by Roman Polanski, and starring Johnny Depp He asks a question about the position that is shown "If this position is original with the...

I see that www.chessville.com has featured some chess art, including a piece whose title is this thread name. The somewhat provocative series of chess paintings can be reviewed at:- http://www.chessville.com/misc/EuroGalleryLiveArt.htm Phil Innes

Hello all. I have a genuine (purchased) Fritz 8 CD, and installed it my machine. Now, every time I start the program, it prompts me for the CD, in drive. If I ignore it, it says it may not be a genuine copy, but seems to operate fine. My questions are as follows;

He fed me information for decades to attack the people he hates. He wanted to get rid of Tanner and I did it for him. Now that I'm banned from www.uschess.org/forums, he turned his back against me. He wants to win the next election and he thinks I'm a liability to him. He's kissing Polgar's ass because he thinks she can help him win. Don is wrong. I'll get much more votes than Polgar and her...

Mike Nolan, Bill Hall, Joel Channing, Don Schultz and Bill Goichberg are responsible for banning me from the USCF forum. These *******s have no right to do this. They violated my freedom of speech. I'll sue these dickheads to teach them a lesson. They said I posted confidential information. So what? If they didn't want me to post, they shouldn't have given the confidential info, should they?...

Beatriz, I respect you too, but I believe you are ABSOLUTELY WRONG in your analysis here. Board members have a DUTY to protect the confidentiality of material they receive in conjunction with their office. The USCF has been FAR TOO LAX in sanctioning Board members for the rampant violations of confidentiality that have occurred over the years I've been involved with the USCF.