Polgar Letter to the Board

Originally Posted by SusanPolgar

February 18. 2006

TO: Bill Hall, USCF Executive Director
Bill Goichberg, Don Schultz, Robert Tanner, Joel
Channing, Beatriz Marinello, members of the USCF Executive Board

Copy: Members of the USCF Scholastic Council
Jerry Nash, USCF Scholastic Director

Susan Polgar All-America Girl's Team

On behalf of the Susan Polgar Foundation, I would like to propose a co-
creation of a Susan Polgar All-America Girl's Team with the United
States Chess Federation starting in 2007. My foundation will award
each winner a special "Susan Polgar All-America Girl's Team" jacket
and plaque as well as other valuable chess products.

In addition, each winner will receive an invitation to attend a very
special week long intensive all-girl's training program (and / or 2-3
day special sessions at various times throughout the year) which will
be sponsored by my foundation. This would be similar to the program I
created for the 2004 US Women's Olympiad team which brought
unprecedented historic results.

They will be joined by other most talented young female players in
this nation. They will be taught by me personally as well as some of
the most experienced chess trainers in the United States. I hope that
this program will help produce a number of world-class female chess
players in the future, something that this country sorely needs.

Thank you for your support and cooperation with this very important
project.

Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
Winner of 4 Women's World Championships
and 10 Olympiad Medals (5 Gold, 4 Silver, 1 Bronze)
www.SusanPolgarFoundation.org

Below are the criteria for the Susan Polgar All-America Girl's Team:

Trophies Plus All-America Chess Team Requirement

Age Minimum Peak Rating

8 & Under 1600
9 1700
10 1800
11 1925
12 2050
13 2150
14 2200
15 2250
16 2300
17 2350
18 2400

Susan Polgar All-America Girl's Chess Team Requirement

Age Minimum Peak Rating

8 & Under 1500
9 1600
10 1700
11 1825
12 1950
13 2050
14 2100
15 2150
16 2200
17 2250
18 2300

Here is the letter that started a big controversy in much the same way
as the controversy to move the Denker got started.

The letter looks innocent enough. She wrote, "The program would cost
the USCF $0 in out of pocket expense". However, it turned out that
Susan wanted one year of free ads in Chess Life which, she wrote,
would not cost the USCF a penny.

Within four days she started attacking the board for not immediately
approving her proposal. She eventually got the free ads but she still
has not started her end of the bargain, which included jackets,
plaques and chess lessons from Susan.

Instead, all those free ads for which she paid nothing and did nothing
have propelled her to run for the board against those "Destructive
Chess Politicians" who gave her all that free stuff.

Is there not something wrong with this?

Sam Sloan

Originally Posted by Mulfish

Which part of the phrase "out of pocket" do you not
understand?

Free advertising space in Chess Life is not free to the USCF. Susan
got 2 1/2 pages of free publicity in Chess Life for doing absolutely
nothing at all.

You should be able to see a pattern he The USCF has long had an
"All-American Team". So, Susan wants to start a "Susan Polgar All-
American Team". Similarly, for the last two decades the USCF has a
"Denker Tournament of High School Champions". So, seeing the success
of this program, she starts a "Susan Polgar Tournament of High School
Champions".

By the way, how many have noticed that her campaign for election tends
to imitate my themes, often copying my campaign blurbs?

Don't you think that Susan Polgar should develop her own programs,
rather than copying or trying to steal the already successful USCF
programs?

Sam Sloan

I forgot to mention the "Susan Polgar World Open Championship for
Girls" and the "Susan Polgar National Open Championship for Girls".
Both of these are trading off the name of the real World Open Chess
Championship and the real National Open Chess Championship.

Why does Susan always insist on naming everything after herself,
Donald Trump-style? Nowhere else in the world has any chess organizer
gone around naming chess tournaments after herself.

Sam Sloan

samsloan wrote:

have propelled her to run for the board against those "Destructive
Chess Politicians" who gave her all that free stuff.

But sam, you ARE a "Destructive Chess Politician!"

Your crossposting the above to soc.culture.magyar proves it.
Off-topic crossposts are very destructive, and you don't care
who you inconvenience.

On Jun 25, 7:40 am, samsloan wrote:

Why does Susan always insist on naming everything after herself,
Donald Trump-style? Nowhere else in the world has any chess organizer
gone around naming chess tournaments after herself.


You answered it yourself: Polgar realizes that her name is a commodity
to be traded upon. In essence, you are blasting her for trying to make
a living from chess. Are you now the Avery Brundage of chess as well?

It's very similar to your blasting of the Texas Tech scholarships,
stating "no one wants to go there." Besides the fact that that isn't
true (there may only be a certain minority who want to go there now,
but "no one"?), she is trying to build a strong chess team (at least
that is how I see it) by offering the scholarships. And there again,
the name is something to trade on.

And while I have nothing against Redman or Sherman, wouldn't a strong
team of home-grown players be welcome in comparison to the GM-laden
teams, some of which are there apparently just for money and not the
education? I'm not arguing for or against importing players... but the
day a home-grown team beats such a team...... hell, you could make a
movie about it. "Coach Carter," meet "Coach Polgar."

How many basketball players would never have considered going to Texas
Tech before a coach with a chessic name went there?

Sorry, Sam. This is just more Polgar-hatred and bashing.

The letter looks innocent enough. She wrote, "The program would cost
the USCF $0 in out of pocket expense". However, it turned out that
Susan wanted one year of free ads in Chess Life which, she wrote,
would not cost the USCF a penny.

**Wrong! Is there need to take this further, since anyone at all, except Sam
Sloan, could read that 'out of pocket expense' means no cash outlay.

Within four days she started attacking the board for not immediately
approving her proposal.

**A Sloan-phemism: ATTACK: to make an inquiry; to not agree 100% with
[especially himself]; also deployed as a noun; a question.

She eventually got the free ads

**Wrong! They were not free, they were exchanges of services without a
cash-transaction.

but she still
has not started her end of the bargain, which included jackets,
plaques and chess lessons from Susan.

**Was there a stipulated time-line and extent for what she should provide?
What did USCF actually agree to?

Instead, all those free ads for which she paid nothing and did nothing
have propelled her to run for the board against those "Destructive
Chess Politicians" who gave her all that free stuff.

Is there not something wrong with this?

**Yes, I mention at least two of them above. The first is irremedial since
it is not really a question at that all - it is a bent understanding, and as
usual no answer will be taken note of by the questioner.

**The second is possible to correct, and by any board member who wants to
regulate USCF contracting issues - though those are hard people to find!
Even 11 months after being elected, I don't even see anything tabled for
discussion, nevermind assented to as worth action.

**So much easier to continue to blame other people in good old McCarthy
style, based on either complete stupidity or deliberated falsification, than
to have one's own precious activities come under any scrutiny!

Phil Innes
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Sam Sloan

Here is Polgar's next posting, although nobody on the board had yet
responded.

Please tell me why you think she was not already attacking:

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:47 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
Mike,

I do not have a problem with board members analyzing it. I encourage
them to study it. They can call me if they wish. However, I do have a
problem with board members pushing their own personal and political
agenda publicly or misleading the members.

My letter stated very clearly that the Susan Polgar Foundation will
cover the costs. In no place I mentioned involving the USCF
financially. I want to do this with the USCF to reach out to the most
girls possible and to help the federation. If they have a question,
ask me. Don't pose the questions publicly without having the courtesy
to inform me FIRST. Did they expect me to have psychic power to know
their questions? At least give me the courtesy to respond to the
inquiries. I did not even see the questions until someone alerted me.
This is not a professional way of handling important matters.

I never talked about dumbing down any girl. The idea is to help raise
the girl's playing level so they can compete equally in open events
with their male counterpart in the near future. Not everything has to
be political. The program offered is as is, no more, no less.

Why does this program have to be debated by board members in this
forum before it's done while a secret deal was signed with the KCF in
2004 while the USCF had a legal contract with the SPF without any
public discussion or awareness? Isn't that a double standard?

Then there is the issue of getting more sponsorship. I need time to go
out and raise more money to perhaps cover housing and food expenses
for these players. I ran my girl's event last month and got 40
sponsors. The participants paid $28 advanced entry fees and received a
$65 goodie bag. I need to maintain the same level of professionalism
to attract serious sponsors. This is about the girls. This is not
about chess politicians.

Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
www.SusanPolgarFoundation.org
www.SusanPolgar.com
www.SusanPolgar.blogspot.com

On Jun 25, 7:22 am, samsloan wrote:

Is there not something wrong with this?

Sam Sloan

I want to SCREAM this QUESTION?

Why can't any natioal or citizen of St Kitts and Nevis play in the
World Chess Championship? Is there something wrong with this? How much
discrimination do you expect me to take, before I do something about
it?

Marcus Roberts
Permanent Delegate of St Kitts and Nevs to FIDE

I see that our inside reporter has become bored with the topic 'Polgar
letter to the Bored', and even his own 'questions'. But, hey, almost a week
has passed, and new, more alluring questions have been raised!

Next Week's Predicted Questions [with 'advanced' answers]

Q1) Where does Susan Polgar keep her emeralds that she bought from her USCF
funds?
A1) In a special pouch behind Paul Truong's Jacky Chan Hypnotic Ninja Tie
Which MAKES You Sign Anything.

Q2) Where is the private and secret Polgar Lear Jet parked, in (a) NY City,
and (b) Texas
A2a) In a special 'barn' behind the Polgar Center, ostensibly built to house
Gata's Camel*.
A2b) In a special 'barn' behind the New Polgar Wing at Lubbock University,
actually built to house Gata's Camel. [This is a scandal because, how many
barns does a camel need?]

Q3) Who is learning to ride Gata's Camel so that he can train future GM's
for the forthcoming TV Series, BLITZ-RIDE!!
A3) Paul 'Gringo' Truong who naturally, is wearing a Jacky Chan Ninja Cowboy
Cravat.

Q4) Why is Gata not allowed to bond with his new camel, and why has it been
moved 2,500 miles from where he lives?
Q5) The Camel does not understand English so good, and it was thought that
Texans speak it better than New Yorkers, so...

Q6) Somewhere in a rented wharehouse in Crossville, TN are vital documents
relating to the past, which will !!!SHOCK!!! the chess world, and they are
rumored to be about, you know who...
A7) I know that's not a question, but neither are the rest, exactly.

Q7) What is Sam Sloan's real name, and why isn't that on the ballot
A7) 2 Answers are accepteble: (a) Legal-smeagal! or (b) Ask Which-Mitch**?

Q8) What is Q8?
A8) It is a small country somewhere on the other side of the Arabian
peninsula, and the name of a TV series by Spike Milligan.

Q9) Did you really think there would be /only/ 9 new 'questions' for an
entire week?
A9) Correct Answer is, see 10.

Q10) If any of the above 'questions' are answered, what happens next?
A10) This is a multiple choice answer, from:
(a) USCF instantly shuts up shop and moves off-shore to St. Kitts and Nevis
where after much grovelling to St. Marcus, he accommodates them in an old
fish-factory, henceforth to be named ChessHut
(b) Even less than zero sponsors show up at USCF, in fact, seriously artic
sub-zero conditions set in in Al Gore's own state, causing liberals to
really panic and maybe actually do something about global-warming
(c) absolutely nothing happens whatever the answer to the 'questions' are,
as usual.

Cordially submitted,

Phil Innes
The Hippocampus, Vermont

*The Great Leader recently gave Gata Kamsky a camel while he was in
Kalmykia. [not a joke]
** Which-Mitch who is also known as The Man in White, as well as Blair-Bane!


"Chess One" wrote in message
news:U5Pfi.3232$bj5.587@trndny07...
The letter looks innocent enough. She wrote, "The program would cost
the USCF $0 in out of pocket expense". However, it turned out that
Susan wanted one year of free ads in Chess Life which, she wrote,
would not cost the USCF a penny.

**Wrong! Is there need to take this further, since anyone at all, except
Sam Sloan, could read that 'out of pocket expense' means no cash outlay.

Within four days she started attacking the board for not immediately
approving her proposal.

**A Sloan-phemism: ATTACK: to make an inquiry; to not agree 100% with
[especially himself]; also deployed as a noun; a question.

She eventually got the free ads

**Wrong! They were not free, they were exchanges of services without a
cash-transaction.

but she still
has not started her end of the bargain, which included jackets,
plaques and chess lessons from Susan.

**Was there a stipulated time-line and extent for what she should provide?
What did USCF actually agree to?

Instead, all those free ads for which she paid nothing and did nothing
have propelled her to run for the board against those "Destructive
Chess Politicians" who gave her all that free stuff.

Is there not something wrong with this?

**Yes, I mention at least two of them above. The first is irremedial since
it is not really a question at that all - it is a bent understanding, and
as usual no answer will be taken note of by the questioner.

**The second is possible to correct, and by any board member who wants to
regulate USCF contracting issues - though those are hard people to find!
Even 11 months after being elected, I don't even see anything tabled for
discussion, nevermind assented to as worth action.

**So much easier to continue to blame other people in good old McCarthy
style, based on either complete stupidity or deliberated falsification,
than to have one's own precious activities come under any scrutiny!

Phil Innes
----------

Sam Sloan