I agree that Goichberg should resign but I am sure that he will not do
so. However, my reasons for believing that Goichberg should resign are
entirely different than those suggested by Bill Brock.

In the first place, this entire situation was created by Goichberg.
After the votes were counted and I was declared to have been elected
to the board Goichberg started a series of desperate measures either
to prevent me from taking office or to have me immediately thrown off
the board.

This include writing find letters to the USCF's attorney Michael
Matsler, asking for advice on how to stop Sam Sloan from taking the
office to which I had been elected. The USCF paid legal fees of nearly
$5,000 to Mr. Matsler for responding to these five letters (about
$1000 per letter) and I believe that Bill Goichberg should reimburse
the USCF for this amount.

This entire controversy about my prior relationship with Miss Polgar
started because Bill Goichberg and Joel Channing repeatedly, over and
over again, demanded to know the details about my relationship with
her. I had never even revealed that I ever had a relationship with
her, much what the nature of the relationship was. I do not play "kiss
and tell". I still have not responded to questions about this. If you
could see the Confidential BINFOS (which fortunately remain
confidential) you could see how frequently Channing and Goichberg
(especially Channing) pressed me for information about this. As I
said, they were acting like a "bull in a china shop" because they did
not know what they were getting into.

This alone is enough reason for throwing Joel Channing and Bill
Goichberg off the board. What ever my relastionship was with Miss
Polgar twenty years ago (and I am not admitting that there even was
such a relationship) it was none of the business of Joel Channing and
Bill Goichberg and it was reprehensible of them to make a big public
issue over it.

Now that I was on the board and their efforts to stop taking office
had failed, Bill Goichberg started taking desperate efforts to make
sure that I would not be re-elected. I agree that he has every right
under freedom of speech to campaign against me. He does not have the
right to use the financial resources of the USCF or his position as
president of the USCF to stop me from being re-elected.

Among the things he did to insure that I not be re-elected we

1. Instructing the Chess Life editor not to publish my name in Chess
Life (other than listing me as a member of the board). There were four
times during my one year on the board that a Chess Life columnist or
news reporter included my name in a story or article submitted for
publication. Each time, my name was removed from the article by the
editor.

2. Giving a tremendous amount of publicity to Susan Polgar including
publishing free ads and pictures of her in every issue of Chess Life
when she had done absolute nothing noteworthy or news worthy during
that entire year. For example, she was given a cover photo in Chess
Life claiming that she had won the "Woman's World Cup" when all she
had actually done was win an unofficial exhibition event not rated or
recognized by either FIDE or the USCF in which all of her opponents
were weak players, whereas the real official Woman's World Cup was won
by Grandmaster Xu Yu Hua of China (who had not competed in the
exhibition event that Susan Polgar had won).

3. Appointing as moderators and "Forum Oversight Committee" members to
the USCF Forums vehemently anti-Sam Sloan and pro-Polgar moderators
including Herbert Rodney Vaughn and Gregory Alexander. These
moderators proceeded to repeatedly suspend Sam Sloan and anybody who
supported Sam Sloan or even agreed with Sam Sloan on one issue had
their postings pulled and they were suspended from posting.

4. Anybody who asked an embarrassing of Paul Truong or Susan Polgar
had their postings pulled. Anybody who questioned or disputed the
statements by Paul Truong and Susan Polgar had their posting deleted
and found themselves suspended. For example, posters were not allowed
to ask them whether they were married to each other or not, they were
not allowed to ask Truong what companies he had ever worked for, what
jobs he had ever held, nor could he be asked to name the "billion
dollar companies" that he claimed to have rescued or saved, nor could
he be asked to identify the 11 national chess championships that he
claimed to have won. In short, Truong was not allowed to be asked to
verify any of the outrageous claims that he was making about himself
or Susan Polgar. Susan Polgar was not allowed to be asked to identify
the four "World Chess Championships" that she claimed to have won. In
short, under the Goichberg Rules, the voting public was not allowed to
know that almost everything that Polgar and Truong said about
themselves during their election campaign was a lie.

Had the voting public been allowed to know that Polgar and Truong were
lying, Truong would never have been elected (since he just barely
squeaked in anyway) and the election of Polgar would have been a lot
closer.

It is ironic that after Bill Goichberg did all this to insure that
Polgar and Truong be elected so as to stop Sam Sloan from being re-
elected, Polgar and Truong started attacking Goichberg in the final
states of the election campaign in response to which Goichberg mailed
17,000 postcards to USCF members which primarily attacked me but was
also critical of Polgar and Truong.

What has happened is that Goichberg has created this monster and now
the monster is about to devour him. Goichberg is being attacked from
all sides, especially from the Trollgar side that he had helped elect.
I am not aware of anybody who supports Goichberg any more. The recent
surprising call by Bill Brock for Goichberg's resignation is just one
example of this.

Sam Sloan

On Mar 12, 11:19*am, samsloan wrote:
I agree that Goichberg should resign but I am sure that he will not do
so. However, my reasons for believing that Goichberg should resign are
entirely different than those suggested by Bill Brock.

In the first place, this entire situation was created by Goichberg.
After the votes were counted and I was declared to have been elected
to the board Goichberg started a series of desperate measures either
to prevent me from taking office or to have me immediately thrown off
the board.

This include writing find letters to the USCF's attorney Michael
Matsler, asking for advice on how to stop Sam Sloan from taking the
office to which I had been elected. The USCF paid legal fees of nearly
$5,000 to Mr. Matsler for responding to these five letters (about
$1000 per letter) and I believe that Bill Goichberg should reimburse
the USCF for this amount.

This entire controversy about my prior relationship with Miss Polgar
started because Bill Goichberg and Joel Channing repeatedly, over and
over again, demanded to know the details about my relationship with
her. I had never even revealed that I ever had a relationship with
her, much what the nature of the relationship was. I do not play "kiss
and tell". I still have not responded to questions about this. If you
could see the Confidential BINFOS (which fortunately remain
confidential) you could see how frequently Channing and Goichberg
(especially Channing) pressed me for information about this. As I
said, they were acting like a "bull in a china shop" because they did
not know what they were getting into.

This alone is enough reason for throwing Joel Channing and Bill
Goichberg off the board. What ever my relastionship was with Miss
Polgar twenty years ago (and I am not admitting that there even was
such a relationship) it was none of the business of Joel Channing and
Bill Goichberg and it was reprehensible of them to make a big public
issue over it.

Now that I was on the board and their efforts to stop taking office
had failed, Bill Goichberg started taking desperate efforts to make
sure that I would not be re-elected. I agree that he has every right
under freedom of speech to campaign against me. He does not have the
right to use the financial resources of the USCF or his position as
president of the USCF to stop me from being re-elected.

Among the things he did to insure that I not be re-elected we

1. Instructing the Chess Life editor not to publish my name in Chess
Life (other than listing me as a member of the board). There were four
times during my one year on the board that a Chess Life columnist or
news reporter included my name in a story or article submitted for
publication. Each time, my name was removed from the article by the
editor.

2. Giving a tremendous amount of publicity to Susan Polgar including
publishing free ads and pictures of her in every issue of Chess Life
when she had done absolute nothing noteworthy or news worthy during
that entire year. For example, she was given a cover photo in Chess
Life claiming that she had won the "Woman's World Cup" when all she
had actually done was win an unofficial exhibition event not rated or
recognized by either FIDE or the USCF in which all of her opponents
were weak players, whereas the real official Woman's World Cup was won
by Grandmaster Xu Yu Hua of China (who had not competed in the
exhibition event that Susan Polgar had won).

3. Appointing as moderators and "Forum Oversight Committee" members to
the USCF Forums vehemently anti-Sam Sloan and pro-Polgar moderators
including Herbert Rodney Vaughn and Gregory Alexander. These
moderators proceeded to repeatedly suspend Sam Sloan and anybody who
supported Sam Sloan or even agreed with Sam Sloan on one issue had
their postings pulled and they were suspended from posting.

4. Anybody who asked an embarrassing of Paul Truong or Susan Polgar
had their postings pulled. Anybody who questioned or disputed the
statements by Paul Truong and Susan Polgar had their posting deleted
and found themselves suspended. For example, posters were not allowed
to ask them whether they were married to each other or not, they were
not allowed to ask Truong what companies he had ever worked for, what
jobs he had ever held, nor could he be asked to name the "billion
dollar companies" that he claimed to have rescued or saved, nor could
he be asked to identify the 11 national chess championships that he
claimed to have won. In short, Truong was not allowed to be asked to
verify any of the outrageous claims that he was making about himself
or Susan Polgar. Susan Polgar was not allowed to be asked to identify
the four "World Chess Championships" that she claimed to have won. In
short, under the Goichberg Rules, the voting public was not allowed to
know that almost everything that Polgar and Truong said about
themselves during their election campaign was a lie.

Had the voting public been allowed to know that Polgar and Truong were
lying, Truong would never have been elected (since he just barely
squeaked in anyway) and the election of Polgar would have been a lot
closer.

It is ironic that after Bill Goichberg did all this to insure that
Polgar and Truong be elected so as to stop Sam Sloan from being re-
elected, Polgar and Truong started attacking Goichberg in the final
states of the election campaign in response to which Goichberg mailed
17,000 postcards to USCF members which primarily attacked me but was
also critical of Polgar and Truong.

What has happened is that Goichberg has created this monster and now
the monster is about to devour him. Goichberg is being attacked from
all sides, especially from the Trollgar side that he had helped elect.
I am not aware of anybody who supports Goichberg any more. The recent
surprising call by Bill Brock for Goichberg's resignation is just one
example of this.

Sam Sloan

Sam Sloan

St Kitts and Nevis is on Goichberg at the US State Department. Not
that they will listen to a man who just
became a diplomat becasue State Department wanted me arrested, but you
are correct
in that the USCF Presdient is under fire, from all sides. Even the IOC
president has his cannon
turned toward Goicbherg.

Goichberg should call the Delegates into Emergecny session, and
resign.

Marcus Roberts