Can anybody answer this question? I'm the most well known person in chess. Perhaps people are jealous of my success? Sam Sloan USCF Executive Board Member

I recently purchased a Rybka 2.2 plus Chess Openings download from Convekta. BIG MISTAKE. The interface is complex beyond comprehension. Assorted boxes and windows appear with no rhyme or reason and I never know if closing one will "wreck" the setup. Supposedly there is an openings training mode but I have no idea how to access or otherwise take advantage of it. Even tasks as simple as...

This is the current nickname list of players: adp chess one GrantPerks Inconnux Mike Murray Nemmers Randy395919 VinnyJH

Even when they suspended me from the USCF forum, all they can talk about is me. I told you I'm the most famous person in chess. They can't live without me. Sam Sloan USCF Most Famous Executive Board Member

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

Chess coach pleads guilty to sex charges FORT COLLINS - A former chess coach accused of sexually assaulting three of his students pleaded guilty to two charges today and avoided any prison time. Robert Snyder, 52, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault on a child and one count of unlawful sexual contact during a hearing in District Court. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Snyder...

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...