"Rob" wrote in message
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I think we already know what that feeling is. Therer is almost a total
disconnect between the players and the organization the is charged
with representing chess in the USA as the "official" FIDE
representative organization in the USA. I think if there was an
alternative to the USCF , they would cut off the lights in Crossville.
Rob


They have enough bucks to go another few years, if there is no competition.
Will there be? They have destroyed their own power base and write publicly
without contradiction that chess players exist to support them, rather than
them, it. This is the interior cadre of thought, which you now miss, having
been banned from the special group of friends, for raising the subject of
decency and of the plight of children!

Interesting, no? But not to any thinking or monied persons who currently
'reserve their judgement'

They can't even pay the women for a bril prize without faking it!@

The level of misrepresentation is disgusting at every stage of its
presentation. USCF is seriously in debt, have not released the current
financials until the voting is in, though the numbers have been known for a
week, and this is not even the major part of it!

No person currently on its board has any sway with the chess community or
can manage to propose any programs which will effect to its benefit.

"Dead" Garry Kasparov wrote me.

Phil Innes

On Jul 23, 2:53 pm, "Chess One" wrote:

My advice would be to first send a review copy to
IM Innes, to see if there are any analytical errors;
only after this pre-screening process should a
(possibly revised) copy be sent to 2300+ Taylor
Kingston for his review.

Why bother?


You and I obviously have a different experience of
Larry Evans' work.


Twas old Edward Winter who, with pen in hand and
spell check handy, took rail against, the work and
spells, of GM Larry Dandy.

Not long before he did find some date, that was a
bit amiss, old Eddie Winter went huffing and puffing,
his lance a lift'!

Tilting hard again' the strong headwind of Evans'
mean and nasty pen, old man Winter did strike, and
strike again, and again.

The dates he said were off by ten, the spelling off
by letters! Old man Winter ranted, again and again,
and Mister Evans got ruffled feathers.



Both you and I could say what the 2300+ reviewer will say
without him having to tediously actually read the book.


Who are you kidding? WE all know that the real
reason guys like you two request "review copies" is
to save the $8 plus postage!


One is not expected
to take such things too seriously, where he is, as we understand from his
publisher, who doesn't take copyright entirely seriously - it the attitude
of one's approach to these matters which is paramount, doncha know?

MIRROR, MIRROR,

On the cafe wall
Who is the fairest [reviewer]
of them all?

Thou art, O Kingstonite,
But for Ker-ist's sake!

Read the friggin thing all the way through this time


Toe the line, boy! Your master gave orders that
a reviewer ought not be held accountable to check
every game (after duly getting in his usual ad hom
chops, of course!).



and don't get
distracted by women's shoes, or some other doo-dad thing - they're killin us
out there!


One so-called review by GM Tony Miles made short
shrift of a book by Ray Keene, *glancing through* to
find claims which he took offhand to be complete lies.
The end result is that a reviewer has difficulty taking
such "work" seriously, and so, just as you say, he
does not read the whole shebang before writing up
a review.


This way, there will be no
need for any arguments regarding whether the
author, the proofreader, or a random reviewer is
responsible for any errors which might creep in.

Um.

Of course, going by the title, it will probably
focus mainly on politics and personal quibbling
amongst chess people, not analysis.

O cool! Having read a snippet of Arnold already, I think he really shoves it
to 'em, and maybe at last we'll all see what the real talent thinks of the
circus masters?


Real chess talent, do you mean? I don't see AD as any
great chess-organization maestro, but what do I know.


I would like to say that the point regarding Bobby
Fischer seems very odd; how is it that his supposed
poverty was the responsibility of the corrupt USCF
politicos and not,

This is 'a point?'


It is if you would read it first, before attempting to
pass judgment. In fact, I think we already covered
just that, have you forgotten already?


Or is this a bit of pre-Kingstonite thrown in to freeze
thinking, as such?


The freezer seems to be your own attitude, which
LEAPS to predetermined conclusions before even
knowing what they are conclusions about. LOL!


say, having a single mother or of
him being in school, or just him not really being a
professional chess player yet? It smacks of oppor-
tunism, of getting in a cheap shot at the target as
opposed to any rational commentary on BF's life.

You mean to say that the fatherless kid from Brooklyn who rocked the whole
world at chess, should be glossed over


Um, did you actually read what I wrote? I don't think
so. LOL!


and un-smacked, as you put it? We
all shouldn't mention it since we are all great chess players and of single
parents ourselves, and this sort of thing is so passe these days? hardly
worth a mention...


Whatever your point is, it certainly made no sense.
The only smack seems to be your kingstonite bias
which inevitably leads to attacking anything I write,
without thinking about it (this may be a good thing).


Back when I was still purchasing chess books on
occasion, it irked me that the prices were going up,
up, up, higher and higher, while at the same time the
quality of many chess books had fallen to new lows.
This Cardoza price of $10 -- $8 if ordered online -- is
a welcome improvement. In about three hours work
(giving chess lessons to Rob Mitchell) I could earn
enough to add this to my large collection.

The price of things is utterly common, Sir, the worth of things is rara
avis.


Blah blah blah blah! Your mind is a veritable
ashtray full of wisdom.


Has his majesty considered that there may be things in His vast collection
which he has not yet completely mastered?


Ask him. You'll probably need a bullhorn, 'cause
he is so high up.

Me, I just finished a game at RedHot where I was
trying out a new opening, and one move out of book
I am busted cold. But in games where the book is
long gone from the rear-view mirror, I put up quite a
tussle before going down -- usually.


Of course, this will inhibit any 'lording over' Rob Mitchell, who, BTW, is a
chess player who makes his own mistakes, which is a good sign!


The thing is to learn from them, and not keep on
repeating the same ones, over and over. In this
regard, RM seems to be in dire straights... .


-- help bot

JACKET BLURB

After reading this book, and learning what REALLY goes on,
you'll never look at chess the same way again!


samsloan wrote:
On Jul 22, 4:00 pm, " wrote:

was then no question that the USCF was run by crooks and

I am sure glad that things are not like that any more!

Sam

THIS CRAZY WORLD OF CHESS

"Hang on tight, you're in for a wild romp through the back door of
chess."
-- from GM Evans' introduction.

www.cardozapub.com

wrote:
JACKET BLURB

After reading this book, and learning what REALLY goes on,
you'll never look at chess the same way again!


samsloan wrote:
On Jul 22, 4:00 pm, " wrote:

was then no question that the USCF was run by crooks and

I am sure glad that things are not like that any more!

Sam

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:20:18 -0700, "
wrote:

GM LARRY EVANS' NEXT BOOK....

"The Crazy World Of Chess" (296 pages) will be published this August.
It can be pre-ordered from Amazon for $9.95.

I have just seen the proofs and the book is a humdinger.

The final chapter pays tribute to the late Arnold Denker, who had a
low opinion of chess politicians. An excerpt:

Never one to mince words, Arnie always fought for the players
against the chess bureaucrats. 'Because I had just retired as a
successful
businessman people wanted me to inspect the US chess federation books.
There was then no question that the USCF was run by crooks and
thieves...
they simply stole with phony contracts, took money for years of
service
and the like...all the time while leaving players destitute. Even
Fischer was
playing for peanuts while living in near poverty in New York.'

Denker's second book, The Bobby Fischer I Knew And Other Stories
(1995)
is a sheer classic by a superb raconteur about the many colorful
characters
he met through chess. "How fortunate for us that he and his
collaborator
have the rare gift to tell it like it was," I noted in the foreword.

"He was a hail-fellow-well-met kind of guy," said his coauthor Larry
Parr. "Arnie loved everything he did, right down to crossing streets
by
running through traffic with a saint's faith that he would make it to
the other side."

At last he crossed to the other side. Hail and farewell, Arnie.

My copy of the book just arrived in the mail today from Amazon.

I had ordered it pre-publication.

Sam Sloan

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:00:20 GMT, (Sam Sloan)
wrote:


My copy of the book just arrived in the mail today from Amazon.

I had ordered it pre-publication.

Sam Sloan

Amazon send me an e-mail saying mine had shipped.