Go to USCF site for this response and a lot more.

I invite questions from everyone but to be sure of getting them
answered they must be asked at the USCF web site. I simply don't have
time to continually jump back and forth between the sites.

Don Schultz

"chessdon" writes:
I invite questions from everyone but to be sure of getting them
answered they must be asked at the USCF web site. I simply don't have
time to continually jump back and forth between the sites.

Then post the answers in the same place where the questions are
posted. Don't jump back and forth. The questions were posted here.
They should be answered here instead of jumping to the USCF site.

If the questions don't get answered here, then they will keep getting
asked here. Get used to it.

Maybe the better question would be why the USCF doesn't have a policy
of posting all positions with job requirements and salary ranges. Your
answer on the specific jobs shows how these individuals were/might be
hired, but doesn't give us any reason to believe that someone
better/cheaper might not have come forward if the jobs were posted
openly.

Just as in the awarding of contracts, it seems to me to be better
(especially for a non-profit) to openly announce what it is looking for
and then analyze all the bids. It might well be that you can still get
the best person/contract by only dealing with those who have already
made some connection (in order to know of the job/contract's
existence), but it certainly avoids a perceived conflict of interest
and would appear to be in the USCF's best interest if everybody can
find out about such jobs/contracts.

martinak

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Martinak asked a great question. Schultz is ducking. Why weren't these
positions openly announced for all instead of friends and family
members of EB members? This sounds like a big political payoff. It's
total BS that Shahade is highly qualified. What is her qualification?
She has zero experience. She was never an editor. She was never in
business. She has never been involved in building serious chess
websites or chess contents. Don't bull **** the chess community. We are
smarter than you think. This is simply a political payoff. Otherwise,
why weren't these positions announced in Chess Life or uschess.org?

On 06 Feb 2006 11:50:19 -0800, Paul Rubin
wrote:

"chessdon" writes:
I invite questions from everyone but to be sure of getting them
answered they must be asked at the USCF web site. I simply don't have
time to continually jump back and forth between the sites.

Then post the answers in the same place where the questions are
posted. Don't jump back and forth. The questions were posted here.
They should be answered here instead of jumping to the USCF site.

If the questions don't get answered here, then they will keep getting
asked here. Get used to it.


Exactly.

This underscores the official USCF moderated site's (or ANY moderated
site's) lack of value for vital, but controversial, issues of this
nature. A moderated site is great for non-threatening topics --
somebody else filters out all the spammers and outright crocks. BUT,
one always has this nagging doubt that some posts may be omitted or
edited (i.e., spun) in the interest of "fairness" or because the
poster "just didn't understand" the issues.

I've been wondering if the source of all the fake Sloan and Ray Gordon
posts could be someone motivated to drive most of us to the official
moderated site.

Mike Murray wrote:
On 06 Feb 2006 11:50:19 -0800, Paul Rubin
wrote:

"chessdon" writes:
I invite questions from everyone but to be sure of getting them
answered they must be asked at the USCF web site. I simply don't have
time to continually jump back and forth between the sites.

Then post the answers in the same place where the questions are
posted. Don't jump back and forth. The questions were posted here.
They should be answered here instead of jumping to the USCF site.

If the questions don't get answered here, then they will keep getting
asked here. Get used to it.


Exactly.

This underscores the official USCF moderated site's (or ANY moderated
site's) lack of value for vital, but controversial, issues of this
nature. A moderated site is great for non-threatening topics --
somebody else filters out all the spammers and outright crocks. BUT,
one always has this nagging doubt that some posts may be omitted or
edited (i.e., spun) in the interest of "fairness" or because the
poster "just didn't understand" the issues.

I've been wondering if the source of all the fake Sloan and Ray Gordon
posts could be someone motivated to drive most of us to the official
moderated site.

Mike,

It is interesting to note that the fake Sam Sloan, Ray Gordon, and
Andrew Zito posts all come from an AOL NNTP-Posting-Host and
posting-account with the following similar headers:
User-Agent: G2/0.2
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 9.0; Windows
NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)
X-HTTP-Via: HTTP/1.1 (Velocity/1.3.32 [uScMs f p eN:t cCMp s ]),
HTTP/1.1 Turboweb [rtc-txxxx 8.3.5], HTTP/1.0
cache-rtc-aa02.proxy.aol.com[xxxxxxxx] (Traffic-Server/5.4.2 [uScM])

Regards,
Wayne Praeder

Paul Rubin wrote:
"chessdon" writes:
I invite questions from everyone but to be sure of getting them
answered they must be asked at the USCF web site. I simply don't have
time to continually jump back and forth between the sites.

Then post the answers in the same place where the questions are
posted. Don't jump back and forth. The questions were posted here.
They should be answered here instead of jumping to the USCF site.

If the questions don't get answered here, then they will keep getting
asked here. Get used to it.

That is true, but hopefully people who actually care about the answers
rather than playing "gotcha" will gravitate to the USCF Forum where
civil discussions can take place.

What civil discussion? The same *******s are rewarding their friends
and supporters with USCF money while this federation goes to ****.

Answer the damn questions. Why weren't these positions opened to the
public? Why must Schultz and company hide the truth? What professional
experience does Shahade have? As far as the chess world knows, she has
absolutely no experience in being an editor, website designer or chess
content developer. She's not even in the top 200 players in the US. So
writing a book about chess bitches qualifies her for this highly paid
insider position?

What civil discussion? The same *******s are rewarding their friends
and supporters with USCF money while this federation goes to ****.

Answer the damn questions. Why weren't these positions opened to the
public? Why must Schultz and company hide the truth? What professional
experience does Shahade have? As far as the chess world knows, she has
absolutely no experience in being an editor, website designer or chess
content developer. She's not even in the top 200 players in the US. So
writing a book about chess bitches qualifies her for this highly paid
insider position?

"Andrew Zito" writes:
What professional experience does Shahade have? As far as the chess
world knows, she has absolutely no experience in being an editor,
website designer or chess content developer. She's not even in the
top 200 players in the US. So writing a book about chess bitches
qualifies her for this highly paid insider position?

She's been US women's champion twice which means she's had lots of
travel etc. in the chess scene, and knows all the top players. She
has a track record as a writer (that book you mentioned) and a
comparative literature degree. She's a sharp cookie and I think
she'll do a good job on the web site. In fact I think she's a better
appointment than I'd have expected the USCF fuddy duddies to come up
with. But, like some other people here, I'd like to know a little
more about the hiring process.

What is her professional experience? So according to you, high rated
players would be great chess teachers too? And high rated players would
have wonderful personalities as well?

Hiring process? Just support Schultz and company and you'll be
rewarded. That's how it works. The position is a political payoff. It's
so obvious.