PAUL TRUONG: Happy To Be A USCF Member BY RANDALL HOUGH Assistant Editor, Chess Life Paul Truong is a survivor. And although he would like to say that his love for chess helped to sustain him during two hellish weeks in early 1979 aboard a crowded, leaky, wooden refugee boat -- it would be untrue.

Here are some chess puzzles taken from Nimzo-Indian 4.e3 c5 miniatures (ECO E41). It's White to move and win except where noted. a) http://www.wtharvey.com/e41ab.png Rusakov vs Siwienkow, corr., 1991 4rr1k/pp3pp1/1q1p1n2/6N1/2P2Pb1/2Q5/PB4PP/1B3R1K w - - 0 1 b) http://www.wtharvey.com/e41ae.png Marcelo Tempone vs Facundo Quiroga, Buenos Aires,...

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Susan Polgar's Blogspot is filled with postings that are quite funny when you think about it, because most of the posters wax on about how much they support Polgar and how strongly they stand behind her. (Of course, It is widely suspected that most of the postings to Polgar's blog are written by Troung, in view of Susan's limited knowledge of English, but that is another subject.) What is funny...

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MY CHESS PICKS Here are my picks for the Executive Board in the current election: 1. Sam Sloan (by about 70 political lengths); 2. Paul Truong; 3. Mike Goodall;

Many people think that Polgar just started attacking the board when I got on it and that the attacks will stop if I am defeated. This article was just the latest in a long string of attacks by Susan Polgar on the Executive Board or on individual board members going back to 2003. She has constantly railed against "dirty chess politicians". Do not think that you will be immune from these attacks....

Very well put. The real question is whether her campaign theme, that only Team Polgar can save us all from these terrible, horrible people, will win her votes or cost her votes. The Polgar blogspot reminds one of the fictional cartoon Team Rocket. Team Rocket has a slogan, which they always recite, just as our George here recites much the same thing:

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I apologize to all of you, and to my friend from the past, W.J.H., for messing up his last name, I feel so embarrassed. I've written: "IM Ed Furmanek solved, together with a coauthor, Mumford Conjecture in algebra, independently and only slighly after W. Habbush (who got a complete result)." The correct spelling of W.J.H.'s name is:

Susan did not win any scholastic world championships. She probably was the best player in the world for her age, but she refused to play in women's and girls tournaments and Hungary insisted on sending a boy to boy's tournaments, so she was denied opportunities to compete. Sam Sloan

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I am a relative newbie, and trying to figuree the best way to wrap my brain around this game. i have books, programs, and I play online whenever I can, making sure to somehow play at least one game a day. I don't know a lot of standard openings, and I am prone to game-losing blunders. I know the rules, and principles of strateg, e.g., pawn structure, forks, etc. I have a real hard time...

Once these candidates matches are over I cannot see this WCC tournament in Mexico crown a legit champion. Candidates matches as can be seen clearly here produce the legitimate world champion. I wish the tournament in Mexico could be turned into a candidates tournament. EZoto

I run chess tournaments for kids and was wondering if anyone knows where I could find a move counter. Every once in a while two kids are playing and it looks like the game will not end. No progress has been made for a few moves and I am not sure if they will be able to finish the game on their own. I would like to pop a small unit in front of them and set it to a certain number of moves. Every...

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Hoainhan "Paul" Truong is running as a candidate for election to the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation. He has made all kinds of fantastic claims about himself and his business background. He claims that he has been hired by billion dollar companies to save them, and he has done so. However, he has never provided any verifiable information about these claims, such as the names...

Susan Polgar has black hair. She dyes it blond. This of course pertains directly to my article here a few days ago about why Cavegirl Blonds have More Fun. Did anybody here know that her hair is really black? Does anybody care? Is this a valid campaign issue?

On Jun 10, 7:36 am, "Chess One" wrote: Talking of Hair: A much complained of factor is that Susan Polgar will not allow negative criticism of herself at her blog site/forum. I need make no commentary on what follows, except to point out that these 3 messages appear there, and readers should assess the quality of comment for themselves /Phil Innes ------------ ...

This is a song to be played on a steel guitar to the music of I can't remember which song. It goes like this: Everybody Wants Lux Everybody Wants Lux Everybody Wants Lux but Susan It is a fact that every campaign letter or endorsement letter that has gone out thus far has endorsed Joe Lux for the USCF Executive Board.