Like everyone else, I have no idea who Sam Sloan is, why he posts here, what his aims are, or if he is impersonating the REAL Sam Sloan. The world awaits clarification.

i would use scid with craft as engine. i can't set up scid to say to crafty to use the TBs. can you help me. thanks. Pier

Now the GetClub Chess has been improved a lot and I feel everyone is satisfied with it's game play. Is there still anything left out that you do not like playing at GetClub Chess. Here are the Basic improvements made at http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html 1. Game speed improved

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Now that I'm a board member, I can afford to spend big bucks staying at the Sheraton Four Points. I went to the nicest restaurants and ordered the biggest steak on the menu. I would like to thank the USCF members for paying all my expenses. It's great being a board member! Please re-elect me for another 4 years. I can get used to this luxury. Sam Sloan

The staff in Crossville refused to host the next EB meeting. They don't want me to go there. I'm sure this is because of Bill Hall. He should be fired for this. Sam Sloan

I favor having the May 13-14 board meeting in Crossville and Nashville. Five board members expressed preference for this, except for one who said that he could not attend on Mother's Day, so it was decided that the meeting would be concluded on the previous day. However, for some unknown reason, Bill Goichberg would not agree. Goichberg implied that if the meeting was held there he would...

My girlfriend has been posting on my behalf. She's hot, she's good and she's cheap. My wife won't do anything unless I pay her a lot of money. What a bitch! Sam Sloan

On ICC one can have a library of 100 games, which are permanently saved, until you delete them. This is different from your history, where the oldest game gets overwritten each time you play a new game. Is there a similar facility on FICS? If so, what is the command called? I tried 'lib', 'liblist' and 'library' but had no luck. -- Dave (from the UK)

I'm a little confused. Do i have to have the MP version of Zap chess, or does this engine automatically run in Multi processor mode, on my dual core system? I also use 64 bit windows, I assume i must have the x64bit version?

I'm thinking of building a library of some worthwhile patterns using Fritz8 position setup. I'd like to have those positions printed out. Is there any way to arrange multiple positions on the same page? Currently I can only print one small diagram at a time. None of the menu supplied functions seem to do the trick. Anyone has any ideas?

Just thought that you guys would like to read my latest post. Hope you like it. http://growwithchess.com/2007/02/chess-metaphor-for-life.html

Balance Sheet bottom line as of December 31, 2006 Net Loss: $344,225. Total Capital: ($474,640) Sending you the trial balance by email. Maybe now we can talk about something that's a lot more important than what Mr. Sloan has on his website.

Hello. I have some chess books to read, and I need a chess program to use where I can set up the pieces and follow along. Obviously I need coordinates, and I'd like it to have a selection of pieces. Is there a favorite program for a task such as this? Can most computer front ends do this?

The USCF lost $344,225 in 2006. This is far less than the $2,000,000 other boards have lost. This is why you must re-elect Don Schultz and me and elect Mike Goodall and Joe Lux. The USCF is better off in our hands. This is my response to the report on the web from the committee who went to Crossville. I've received reports from the meeting in CA and it seems that these issues will be addressed...

Hi, I put russian translation back into Scid in my latest release of Scid here : http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/ I've used iso8859-5 encoding, which I suppose is good for Cyrillic characters but I'm unable to check if it's ok by myself. So if anybody could try it and provide me some feedback at , and even help fixing it, this would

Hi, I am doing a small research project related to chess. I was looking for lots of chess games to use. They don't have to be from top players (though that would definitely be a plus). I need tons of games, though. Maybe 10,000, maybe more. Does such a database exist? Is it free? Any links would be much appreciated. Also, are there any freeware chess board libraries for Windows? I tried...

Hi, I'm collecting as much chess matches played (by humans) as possible. Now I have around 400MB of pgn-files and I would like to remove the inevitable duplicates. Does anyone know a tool for unix (linux/macos x/bsd/aix/etc.) doing so? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +31-6-41278122, PGP-key: 1F28D8AE, www.vanheusden.com