The Executive Board has voted 4-1-1 to lift the posting rights suspension of Sam Sloan, effective immediately and to rescind the suspension of Beatriz Marinello. (Marinello abstained, Sloan voted against the motion.) My understanding is that this also wipes the slate clean in terms of past infractions on both Sloan and Marinello. I will update this note with the exact text of the motion when I...

This dictator Mike Nolan is out to get me. He unfairly suspended me from the USCF Nolanland forum. I can't appeal to anyone because he's a dictator. Fire Mike Nolan and vote for me for 4 more years! Sam Sloan USCF Executive Board Member

FIDE regrets to announce the death of Grandmaster David Bronstein in Minsk, Belarus on 5 December 2006. David Ionovich Bronstein was born 19 February 1924 in Bila Tserkva, near Kyiv, Ukraine. The Champion of Ukraine (1939), of Moscow (1946), of USSR (1948 and 1949). The winner of the first Interzonal tournament (1948) and the first Candidates Tournament in Budapest (1950)

Chess coach pleads guilty to sex charges FORT COLLINS - A former chess coach accused of sexually assaulting three of his students pleaded guilty to two charges today and avoided any prison time. Robert Snyder, 52, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault on a child and one count of unlawful sexual contact during a hearing in District Court. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Snyder...

I wrote to Duncan Oxley and he'll defend me. Sevan Muradian should be banned and not me. I'm innocent of all charges. Don Schultz is out to get me so his friends can get elected. I don't know why Mike Nolan and Bill Hall are against me. I'm sure that they're consipiring to get me off the board. Hal Bogner will help me get rid of ICC too. They got rid of him so it's pay back time. Sam Sloan USCF...

NOTIFICATION OF DISCIPLINARY ACTION Date: January 5, 2006 To: Sam Sloan Your post to the USCF Forums on January 2nd in the USCF Issues Forum was in violation of the Acceptable Usage Guidelines for the USCF Forum because it referenced a confidential matter that you had knowledge of only as a member of the Executive Board.

Even when they suspended me from the USCF forum, all they can talk about is me. I told you I'm the most famous person in chess. They can't live without me. Sam Sloan USCF Most Famous Executive Board Member

I played a cute chess game in a tournament at the Marshall Chess Club last week, and here it is:

Jennifer Shahade aka the Chess Bitch got her job as a payoff from Don Schultz to her brother Greg Shahade. How many other people were interviewed for the position of web editor? Was the position ever announced? Was it ever advertised? I'm positive it didn't. It's clear that this was an illegal political move by Don Schultz, Joel Channing and Bill Goichberg. Sam Sloan USCF Executive Board Member

Chess256 is an attractive way of evading opening monotony, while keeping pieces (other than pawns) on their regular (and also best) squares. Randomization of the pawn positions occur on the second and third row. It works very well. All 256 positions are sound. http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/randompawn.htm Mats

On Sunday, Jan. 7, 2007, the Exposition Park Chess Club http://chess.expoparkla.com/] hosted its monthly free, open, unrated chess tournament at the Exposition Park Library http://www.lapl.org/branches/06.html] in Los Angeles. The tournament consisted of two quads and one Swiss System section of six players. The tournament, therefore, attracted a total of 14 competitors. The names of...

Former World Champion Tigran Petrosian said that he learned to calculate by reading chess books, and by trying to manage without a chess board between the diagrams. My free blindfold chess program for DOS is ideal for this type of training. It will also work under all Windows versions. If you own PocketDOS it will run on your palmtop device. It works finely on my Casio BE-300. You input moves at...

I have put in a game I played recently where I was sure I had a won endgame but only drew it. What I want to do is click through the game to the ending then set engine vs engine and see if Fritz can win the ending against Fritz. How do I do that?

wrote: On USCF Forums, Bill Goichberg just posted the following regarding the suspension of Beatriz Marinello from posting: DECISION MADE BY MIKE NOLAN, SERVING AS A MODERATOR OF THE USCF FORUM; BILL HALL, USCF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR; AND BILL GOICHBERG, PRESIDENT OF THE USCF

DECISION MADE BY MIKE NOLAN, SERVING AS A MODERATOR OF THE USCF FORUM; BILL HALL, USCF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR; AND BILL GOICHBERG, PRESIDENT OF THE USCF NOTIFICATION OF DISCIPLINARY ACTION Date: January 8, 2006

while reviewing some ancient messages, i have found some beauties; here is a topical one about the recently deceased david bronstein On another topic, I've heard that the radio match is postponed/cancelled. Pity, because there is a beautiful anecdote in Bronstein's "Sorcerer's Apprentice" on how he only learned to drink Scotch because of such a match. I trust all is going...

wrote: Ok who wants to spill all dirt available on Tanner? Let's hear it all. Everyone knows Tanner screwed Beatriz Marinello during a national scholastic event a while back. They were caught in bed together. She got a bid after that as a thank you. Sam Sloan

I click on 'Game' then 'New Game' and it brings up the board with white at the top and black at the bottom. So I have to click 'view' then click 'flip board'. Every smegging time - any ideas how to set it to white at the bottom?

I see that chessville also features a chess based puzzle which will now become a movie - see the article by Robert Tuohey at http://www.chessville.com:80/misc/History/PastPawns/NinthGateProblem.htm where the 7th card is discussed. The movie was directed by Roman Polanski, and starring Johnny Depp He asks a question about the position that is shown "If this position is original with the...

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