Beatriz Marinello has gone to Chile for a month

I have just received the shocking news that USCF President, Beatriz
Marinello has gone to Chile for a month. She is apparently sick and in
the hospital.

I wish her a speedy recovery.

The question is who is going to be running the USCF while she is gone.

Beatriz is a native of Chile.

Sam Sloan

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 04:43:22 GMT, "The Masked Bishop"
wrote:

Um, not to sound, well, provincial, but who the hell goes to Chile for
medical care?

This is the question of the hour and frankly I fear the worst.

What we are left with is the most deeply divided and dysfunctional
board in the history of the USCF.

Here is the breakdown, as I see it.

The marriage between Beatriz and Hanke is over. This arrangement which
gave Hanke the power to run the federation is gone. One reason for the
split is the insistence by Hanke that the USCF withdraw from FIDE.
Beatriz and Schultz are both big FIDE people and will never agree for
the USCF to withdraw. They would like a bigger role in FIDE for the
USCF, not a smaller one.

Another divisive factor is that Hanke wants to stop the publication of
Chess Life magazine. No other board member agrees with that.

One immediate fatality has been the Woman's Chess Olympics Training
Squad. With Hanke trying to stop the USCF from even sending a team to
the Olympiad, the training squad is now in hiatis.

With Beatriz at least temporarily out of the picture, here is what we
are left with:

Schultz is allied with Brady. Brady has not attended a board meeting
in some time and has effectively given his proxy to Schultz.

Camaratta is a strong but independent member of the board.

Shutt has never been interested in anything other than scholastic
chess, but wiil probably vote with Camaratta.

Hanke has finally been recognized to be the cook and nut that he
really is and is out of the picture, but he would have the swing vote
in any Camaratta and Shutt vs. Schultz and Brady showdown.

With the board now a rudderless ship, that leaves Goichberg in charge,
as he is the Acting Executive Director. I believe that Goichberg will
occupy that position for a long time, possibly for years. There is
simply nobody to replace him. I doubt that he will quit and there will
not be the votes to remove him. I see this as a good thing. I would
like for Goichberg to remain as permanent executive director. However,
there is a lot of opposition to this.

I see resignations coming. I can think of three board members who are
probably close to resigning. The one board member who I am 100%
certain will not resign is Frank Camaratta. The result of Dubeck
sending out a letter demanding that Camaratta resign is that Camaratta
absolutely will not resign.

Sam Sloan

Sorry for the error. Hanke is a kook, not a cook.

Sam Sloan

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:35:20 GMT, (Sam Sloan)
wrote:

Hanke has finally been recognized to be the cook and nut that he
really is

What a very bad mess...
We certainly do not need this.

"Sam Sloan" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 04:43:22 GMT, "The Masked Bishop"
wrote:

Um, not to sound, well, provincial, but who the hell goes to Chile for
medical care?

This is the question of the hour and frankly I fear the worst.

What we are left with is the most deeply divided and dysfunctional
board in the history of the USCF.

Here is the breakdown, as I see it.

The marriage between Beatriz and Hanke is over. This arrangement which
gave Hanke the power to run the federation is gone. One reason for the
split is the insistence by Hanke that the USCF withdraw from FIDE.
Beatriz and Schultz are both big FIDE people and will never agree for
the USCF to withdraw. They would like a bigger role in FIDE for the
USCF, not a smaller one.

Another divisive factor is that Hanke wants to stop the publication of
Chess Life magazine. No other board member agrees with that.

One immediate fatality has been the Woman's Chess Olympics Training
Squad. With Hanke trying to stop the USCF from even sending a team to
the Olympiad, the training squad is now in hiatis.

With Beatriz at least temporarily out of the picture, here is what we
are left with:

Schultz is allied with Brady. Brady has not attended a board meeting
in some time and has effectively given his proxy to Schultz.

Camaratta is a strong but independent member of the board.

Shutt has never been interested in anything other than scholastic
chess, but wiil probably vote with Camaratta.

Hanke has finally been recognized to be the cook and nut that he
really is and is out of the picture, but he would have the swing vote
in any Camaratta and Shutt vs. Schultz and Brady showdown.

With the board now a rudderless ship, that leaves Goichberg in charge,
as he is the Acting Executive Director. I believe that Goichberg will
occupy that position for a long time, possibly for years. There is
simply nobody to replace him. I doubt that he will quit and there will
not be the votes to remove him. I see this as a good thing. I would
like for Goichberg to remain as permanent executive director. However,
there is a lot of opposition to this.

I see resignations coming. I can think of three board members who are
probably close to resigning. The one board member who I am 100%
certain will not resign is Frank Camaratta. The result of Dubeck
sending out a letter demanding that Camaratta resign is that Camaratta
absolutely will not resign.

Sam Sloan

On 11 Dec 2003 13:05:12 GMT, (Chessdon) wrote:

Please go to my website for a full reply to all the points brought up by Sam
Sloan in his posting on Beatriz Marinello's illness.
the site address is www.chessdon.com and go to Executive Board button for my
reply.


I appreciate Don Schultz for his immediate response. Don has been
forthright about his own medical problems and frankly at our age
almost everybody starts to have medical problem.

It is, however, shocking that such a young and beautiful woman as
Beatriz Marinello should have a serious illness.

I saw Beatriz at the Kasparov Fritz chess match on November 18 and she
seemed to be in the best of health.

According to Don's website, Beatriz has been diagnosed with
Glomerulonephritis.

This is a kidney disease. It affects women more often than men. I have
found a page about it at
http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseas...ular/index.htm

We should all pray and hope for her speedy recovery.

This has already opened the door to attacks on Don. Bruce Draney has
just fired the first salvo in attacking Don Schultz over this.

Sam Sloan

(Sam Sloan) wrote in message
We should all pray and hope for her speedy recovery.

This has already opened the door to attacks on Don. Bruce Draney has
just fired the first salvo in attacking Don Schultz over this.

Sam Sloan

Excuse me? I didn't attack Don at all. I just asked him if he needed
to specify Beatriz' medical issues on his website? I also asked him
several serious and reasonable questions.

I'm not sure if he'll answer me or not as he may be mad at me for some
salvos I fired at him over other issues in the past month.

I reiterate my hope that Beatriz will be okay.

Best Regards,

Bruce

It is, however, shocking that such a young and beautiful woman as
Beatriz Marinello should have a serious illness.

Illness cares not about beauty...


We should all pray and hope for her speedy recovery.

Agreed (this may be a first...)

John

Complete rubbish from Sloan as usual. He has no idea what is going on, so he
launches a lot of malicious gossip to make himself seem like an insider.

Unfortunately, his detailed and confident inaccuracies probably give some
people the impression he has a clue.

Tim Hanke

"Sam Sloan" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 04:43:22 GMT, "The Masked Bishop"
wrote:

Um, not to sound, well, provincial, but who the hell goes to Chile for
medical care?

This is the question of the hour and frankly I fear the worst.

What we are left with is the most deeply divided and dysfunctional
board in the history of the USCF.

Here is the breakdown, as I see it.

The marriage between Beatriz and Hanke is over. This arrangement which
gave Hanke the power to run the federation is gone. One reason for the
split is the insistence by Hanke that the USCF withdraw from FIDE.
Beatriz and Schultz are both big FIDE people and will never agree for
the USCF to withdraw. They would like a bigger role in FIDE for the
USCF, not a smaller one.

Another divisive factor is that Hanke wants to stop the publication of
Chess Life magazine. No other board member agrees with that.

One immediate fatality has been the Woman's Chess Olympics Training
Squad. With Hanke trying to stop the USCF from even sending a team to
the Olympiad, the training squad is now in hiatis.

With Beatriz at least temporarily out of the picture, here is what we
are left with:

Schultz is allied with Brady. Brady has not attended a board meeting
in some time and has effectively given his proxy to Schultz.

Camaratta is a strong but independent member of the board.

Shutt has never been interested in anything other than scholastic
chess, but wiil probably vote with Camaratta.

Hanke has finally been recognized to be the cook and nut that he
really is and is out of the picture, but he would have the swing vote
in any Camaratta and Shutt vs. Schultz and Brady showdown.

With the board now a rudderless ship, that leaves Goichberg in charge,
as he is the Acting Executive Director. I believe that Goichberg will
occupy that position for a long time, possibly for years. There is
simply nobody to replace him. I doubt that he will quit and there will
not be the votes to remove him. I see this as a good thing. I would
like for Goichberg to remain as permanent executive director. However,
there is a lot of opposition to this.

I see resignations coming. I can think of three board members who are
probably close to resigning. The one board member who I am 100%
certain will not resign is Frank Camaratta. The result of Dubeck
sending out a letter demanding that Camaratta resign is that Camaratta
absolutely will not resign.

Sam Sloan

"Tim Hanke" writes:

Complete rubbish from Sloan as usual. He has no idea what is going on, so he
launches a lot of malicious gossip to make himself seem like an insider.

Yeah, but if there were 2 or 3 more vacancies, he'd probably have a better
shot of winning a seat on the Board.

With just one vacancy, the Board is technically not REQUIRED to hold a
special election to fill that seat, a measure that was added to the Bylaws
last August mostly as a cost saving procedure.

However, since we have to hold a SOMOV election this coming year anyway,
with a ballot in Chess Life in June, there would be little, if any, added
cost to solicit nominations for a one-year term on the Board and hold
that election in conjunction with the SOMOV election, on the same ballot.

The Bylaws amendment I referred to above also grants the Board the
authority to hold a special Board election on a shortened calendar,
with fewer pages of Chess Life devoted to election coverage.

However, such a decision, even with a shortened calendar, would need
to be made fairly soon, probably by the middle of January.

Thus, as it isn't really a financial issue, if the Board chooses not to
hold a special election it can only be seen as a political decision, one
that would seem to flaunt the OMOV movement that many feel put Tim and
Beatriz on the Board in the first place.
--
Mike Nolan

Sam has a witches brew of facts, assumptions, and conjecture. For the most
part he is wrong. He has a couple of immaterial items correct. The problem
is that his source is out of the loop now.

StanB


"Sam Sloan" wrote in message
...

What we are left with is the most deeply divided and dysfunctional
board in the history of the USCF.

Here is the breakdown, as I see it.

The marriage between Beatriz and Hanke is over. This arrangement which
gave Hanke the power to run the federation is gone. One reason for the
split is the insistence by Hanke that the USCF withdraw from FIDE.
Beatriz and Schultz are both big FIDE people and will never agree for
the USCF to withdraw. They would like a bigger role in FIDE for the
USCF, not a smaller one.

Another divisive factor is that Hanke wants to stop the publication of
Chess Life magazine. No other board member agrees with that.

One immediate fatality has been the Woman's Chess Olympics Training
Squad. With Hanke trying to stop the USCF from even sending a team to
the Olympiad, the training squad is now in hiatis.

With Beatriz at least temporarily out of the picture, here is what we
are left with:

Schultz is allied with Brady. Brady has not attended a board meeting
in some time and has effectively given his proxy to Schultz.

Camaratta is a strong but independent member of the board.

Shutt has never been interested in anything other than scholastic
chess, but wiil probably vote with Camaratta.

Hanke has finally been recognized to be the cook and nut that he
really is and is out of the picture, but he would have the swing vote
in any Camaratta and Shutt vs. Schultz and Brady showdown.

With the board now a rudderless ship, that leaves Goichberg in charge,
as he is the Acting Executive Director. I believe that Goichberg will
occupy that position for a long time, possibly for years. There is
simply nobody to replace him. I doubt that he will quit and there will
not be the votes to remove him. I see this as a good thing. I would
like for Goichberg to remain as permanent executive director. However,
there is a lot of opposition to this.

I see resignations coming. I can think of three board members who are
probably close to resigning. The one board member who I am 100%
certain will not resign is Frank Camaratta. The result of Dubeck
sending out a letter demanding that Camaratta resign is that Camaratta
absolutely will not resign.

Sam Sloan