No. It is not. Members have to be allowed to ask questions, even embarrassing questions, on this forum. It is an accepted fact by everybody, with no disagreement, that two million dollars of USCF membership money has gone missing since 1999. I know nothing about the Meeting Link money or the financial situation of the 2007 US Open, but I do know that these sort of problems have come up every...

If another board member sends a BINFO marked "Confidential" and I reply to it quoting some of his words, I am obliged to mark it confidential too. On the other hand, I feel that the only "Confidential" BINFOS should be those dealing with litigation and personnel matters. Therefore, when it was reported that Susan Polgar wanted to move the Polgar Girls Tournament to Texas Tech University and...

Bill Brock wrote on the New York Times website at at http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/polgar-responds-on-her-blog/ : - Irony aside, given that Mr. Truong & Ms. Polgar ran a reformist campaign ("clean up the USCF"), isn't the timing a bit suspicious? You'd think this was a Teamsters or UMW election-I'm originally from the anthracite region, so Jock Yablonski...

Nobody is allowed to use the l-word on the USCF Issues Forum so I will clue everybody in here. I have had extensive dealings with Bill Hall and I must tell you that Bill Hall Lies All the Time. Another frequent liar (although not nearly as frequent as Bill Hall) is Bill Goichberg. Sam Sloan

This is a common trap in the Guioco Pianissimo opening - I have used it successfully; of course the first version I used was much longer, but this is the essential. I give it if black falls victim; white can also, of course, given that the symmetry of the board. The first 5 moves are the symmetrical Giuoco Pianissimo. Then 6 B-KN5 O-O? 7 N-Q5 B-K3? - black should have done P-KR3, driving back...

Capablanca vs Janokowsky St Petersburg 1914 Very nice game. Capa has a very clean game. Doubled pawn on e file? Interesting. SO doubled pawns is not always a bad thing? http://www.youtube.com/swf/cps.swf?video_id=qKNZ6Hqw0dg&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//img.youtube.com/vi/qKNZ6Hqw0dg/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskJLpwdQIwadPe7lwvBMBaSs&&rel=1&border=0

HOT NEWS: Gregory Alexander has been logging in as Bill Goichberg for at least one month This has come out in the debates now taking place on the USCF Issues Forum. Gregory Alexander has been behaving strangely all along, for example screaming shrilly when Brian Mottershead went into his newly created account after Gregory had complained about some problems with that account of which Brian...

In this game Jester win. But many times GetClub went ahead of Jester. But later the Queen & Bishop got Pinned and were killed So GetClub lost the game. The Game Played at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html White: Jester Black: Easy Level (GetClub.com) Recorded Game: http://www.getclub.com/playgame.php?id=DM11740&game=Chess

Big and very beautiful picture : http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/illuman/images/full_resolution/12_07.jpg JMR http://www.jmrw.com/Chess/Tableau_echecs/index.htm

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In this game Jester win. But many times GetClub went ahead of Jester. But later the Queen & Bishop got Pinned and were killed So GetClub lost the game. The Game Played at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html White: Jester Black: Easy Level (GetClub.com) Recorded Game: http://www.getclub.com/playgame.php?id=DM11740&game=Chess

In an article in Science, 14 September 2007 p. 1519, written by the Chinook team that weakly solved the game of checkers (draughts), it's asserted essentially that chess is harder than Go. What is meant is that the "decision complexity" of chess (and checkers) is higher than for Go (actually Go-Moku was mentioned, which is not exactly the same as Go, but I take it the analogy holds for Go),...

chess videos can even be "honoured" within youtube, as the following video :- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdMK4jkWxBI received an honour of being most discussed in the Entertainment section category of youtube for 29th October 2007! Many thanks to Carmelo Risquet for mentioning the Gunderam system in the Rest of world game against Hkruse :)

http://www.chessville.com/misc/Quotes/moreFischer.htm

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=XaODx-alm4k Derron Brown, poor chess player, beats 9 chess masters. - Rich

CHESS LIES BOBBY FISCHER: "I have nothing to do with them...I would appreciate it if all my fans canceled their subscriptions to their horrible magazine Chess Life. I call it Chess Lies and withdrew from the membership of this organization." REUBEN FINE: "The USCF is a meaningless paper organization, generally antagonistic to the needs of its masters."

Indian Grandmaster Koneru Humpy showed some great chess in recently conduced European Club Cup 2007. She played for the team Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo and scored an amazing 5.5/6 with a rating performance of 2800! ,which of course was good enough for her team to win the Womens Championships quite easily. While the Men's Championship was more tensed and finally won by Linex Magic-Merida....

Too Far ABOVE The Journalists - People ARE not "Anti-American" (Part Twenty-One) 6 January 2007 {HRI 20070106-V3.0-pi21-V4.2.2} (part issue 21 * on 26 Oct 2007) ...

From the beginning, I never thought that she would attend the board meetings. I even thought that she might not attend the August 4-5. 2007 Delegates meeting. However, she did attend that meeting and the August 6 board meeting but she said almost nothing at either meeting. Since the February Executive Board meeting will be online over the Internet, the next Executive Board meet where she will...

I did not put that particular allegation in the complaint, that a certain board member knew about, approved of and perhaps even paid for the obscene postings by the Fake Sam Sloan because I cannot prove that. I confined my complaint to things I can prove. I left out things that I possibly cannot prove. Fortunately, there are more enough things in the complaint that I can prove to give me a solid...