The USCF has had big losses in the six figures every year that we have been in Crossville. It is just the bogus accounting such as counting the receipt of $100,000 annually in "imaginary money" and claiming that our land and building is worth $881,000 when in reality it is probably not worth more than $200,000 that keeps the financial statements from not appearing to be a total disaster. Sam...

Somewhere I've seen a PDF summarizing the results of endgame tablebases, but now I can't find it. Does anyone know where I can get the summary? -- Replace you know what by j to email

On Apr 13, 12:23*pm, samsloan wrote: 2007 Volunteer Expense Report Thanks so much to John Hillary for providing the link. The report is on page 7 of the 2007 Delegates Call, which is available at: http://main.uschess.org/docs/gov/reports/2007_Delegates_Call_inside.pdf Here it is:

The only direct indication of what happens to man between his death and the Judgment Day is given in Luke 16:19-31: "There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Moreover the dogs...

Hi, Scid 3.7.2 is released at http://scid.sourceforge.net/ The changes since 3.7.1 : - Fixes: * Small bug when closing ECO graph window (missing cleanup) * add missing global shortcuts * Bug when changing board pieces while the board was flipped

My statement is accurate. I wrote that I asked for less than anybody else asked for. Since Goichberg did not ask for any reimbursement, his request was not less than mine. Also, to compare me to Goichberg is not appropriate. Goichberg organizes the World Open with $400,000 in prizes. I derived no income from chess. I am a true volunteer, as opposed to Goichberg who is able to use his position on...

The LMA agreed to loan money to operations THIS TIME with the understanding that if operations defaults and does not repay the funds on schedule, there would be no more "loans". Amazingly, for the first time ever in USCF recorded history, the loan was repaid. Of course, by this time the bequest of $350,000 had been received so there were ample funds to repay the loan. However, at the present...

There is a new development in the Parker case in Philadelphia, which is that Bill Goichberg and the USCF have just filed opposition to my motion to transfer to Texas. This is surprising because Goichberg and the USCF have been dismissed as defendants. They argue that my motion should be struck because I lack standing. However, Goichberg and the USCF have less standing than I do, because they...

Allen Priest writes the following on the USCF Issues Forum: by Allen on Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:54 am #136717 samsloan wrote:On the 2007-2008 financial statements it shows membership revenue as $1,757,853. In reality, the USCF received about $100,000 less, or about $1,657,853.

by Allen on Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:49 pm #137001 samsloan wrote: Allen wrote: samsloan wrote:On the 2007-2008 financial statements it shows membership revenue as $1,757,853. In reality, the USCF received about $100,000 less, or

On 5 apr, 12:05, wrote: April 4 Theses centrifuge proof PGN of Best Chess Ship. 200 games by 4 minutes with 2 plus seconds. PARTICLE 2 GAME 101 IPPOLIT 0.065 vs Rybka 3 Chess

On Apr 6, 9:23*pm, samsloan wrote: Parker is not dead. A person with a similar name froze to death in an unheated homeless shelter on December 22. However, the clerks in the US Courthouse know that he is alive because he came to court to file something in February. The clerks know him well as he often comes to the courthouse to file his cases. My motion to...

I recently entered the following position: Ke8 Qf8 Qg8 Qg7 Qg6 Qh7 Rf7 Rg5 Bh6 Bh5 Sd5 Sh8 Pe7 Pf6 Pf5 Pg4 - Kc8 Obviously, drawn with White to move. Fritz 8 threw a #1483 on 34 halfmoves depth. Hash collision? Is the effect reproducible on other engines? -- Hauke Reddmann :-EX8 Nur Schufte schuften - Genie genießt.

Comrades, Allowing delights unmeasured I confirm that tenure for Best Chess Ship passes with renewal for her true and ever home, Mother Russia.This good ship IPPOLIT now pulls 50 ELO beyond now second-rated Rybka 3 Chess (CCRL: 3175). Contrarily by prior code hoards, IPPOLIT complies free source, via innovated chesslanguage Ø, in workers publicdomain. Features (part):

Misrepresentations in Goichberg's Campaign Statement The April Chess Life has just arrived and the campaign statement of USCF President Bill Goichberg is on page 35. After recounting his long record as a tournament player and organizer, only in the final sentence does Goichberg say what he has actually accomplished. He states: “While Office and Manager and executive Director, USCF improved from...

Since Bill Goichberg's statement that the Federation didn't start to lose money until the last year (fy 99) that you were both on the Board didn't jive with my memory, and since you also have a different recollection, I went back to check the audited financials. Here is what I discovered: 1996-1997 (fy 97) Increase or (Decrease) in Net USCF Assets: (117,542). Gain or (Loss) resulting from LMA...

Comrades, Whom is Rybka 3 best? Chess, Human, Dynamic? Yakov

now that we know that 1.d4? is losing to 1..g5!! the magnificent Borg defence a new line has been found to improve at least a little on white's dim chances 1.d4? g5!! 2.Bxg5? Bg7! 3.c4 ! and now after eg. c5 the line has transposed to the Myers gambit 1.c4 g5? so better after 1.d4 g5 is 2.Nc3, but after 2..h6!! 3.e4

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The reason I did not and could not have brought up the issues that John Hillery says that I should have brought up is that in order to win I had to show that the move to Crossville was not merely a bad business decision but that it was illegal and a violation of the USCF's own by-laws. I believe that I did show that. Under state law a not-for-profit membership corporation cannot just sell its...