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December 5th 06, 09:10 PM
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Sam Sloan censured by Executive Board
Duncan Oxley wrote: The following motion by Joel Channing has passed by a vote of 3-0 with Channing, Goichberg and Hough in favor and Sloan, Marinello, Schultz and Tanner abstaining. Bill Goichberg --- November 29, 2006: I move that the Executive Board of the USCF censure Sam Sloan for his failures to adhere to the Standards of Conduct as highlighted and noted in the attached emails. ( NOTE: I added a * to each of the highlighted lines in case your news reader does not show it --Duncan) Joel Channing Violations of (1c), (2e), (3), (3b) & (3d) From: Sam Sloan ] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:59 AM To: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Subject: Letter Agreement with the Seattle Chess Foundation Letter Agreement with the Seattle Chess Foundation *I wish that everybody here would get my email address straight. *My email address for all official USCF Business including the business of *the Executive Board is *Let us try that again. My address is *Let us try that again. My address is *Now that I have explained this three more times, I hope that you will *remember it this time. This is not the first time that you have made this *mistake. Let us try to make it the last. I do have an old address, which is . That address is still working and I use it for newsgroup postings, but I rarely check it, because I receive more than one thousand spam emails per day at that address. However, I did happen to check it this morning, for the first time in more than a week, and I discovered an email from Bill Hall containing as attachments the June 2006 contract with AF4C and the May 18, 2000 Letter Agreement with Seattle Chess Foundation. *I cannot understand why Bill Hall did not send those important documents to my actual working address, which is *Is this part of the conspiracy? *Kindly tell Bill Hall that my address is *Should I say it again? Try to remember this and repeat after me. Sam Sloan's address is [b] *Now, turning to the actual document dated May 18, 2000, in no way could *this be considered to be a legally enforceable contract. It is simply a *letter, endorsed by George DeFeis. It states that Seattle Chess Foundation *promises to incorporate by June 15, 2000, so it was not even a corporation at the time of this letter. In addition, I have no way of *knowing whether the American Foundation for Chess is the same legal entity as the Seattle Chess Foundation. *However, assuming for the sake of argument that it is a legal contract, the *key paragraph is the following: *"The format of the SCF/USCF Championships will be set by SCF after prior *consultation with USCF, but shall be in a manner generally consistent with *past US Championships and with other events of this caliber or type. SCF *contemplates that for the year 2000 US Championships the format will be *either a 10 player or 12 player round robin event for each of the overall *or women fs categories." *It also states that after 2005 the SCF agrees to pay to the USCF an annual *fee of $10,000. *On page 5 of this document are hand written entries: "$100,000 prize fund". "$100K was the agreed upon prize fund". *So, the purported agreement between Bill Goichberg and AF4C (which the board has never voted on or even known about before it *was posted on the USCF website) fails to adhere to this agreement in at least the following respects. *1. It fails to guarantee a $100,000 prize fund or indeed any prize fund at *all. It seems obvious that AF4C plans to run an El Cheapo event this year *with many or most of the games played online and a nominal prize fund. 2. The format of a knock-out event involving two-game matches is not "a manner generally consistent with past US Championships and with other events of this caliber or type". No US Championship or any other event of this caliber or type has ever been conducted in this format. 3. The AF4C has not paid nor has it promised to pay the annual agreed upon fee of $10,000. I would be interested in knowing whether the AF4C ever paid the required annual fees for the years 2000-2005. If they have not paid, they should now pay the back money they owe us, before there are any further discussions. 4. The agreement states that the SCF will be holding the US Woman's Championship, but this year AF4C states that it will not be holding the US Woman's Championship. I am extremely disappointed in Bill Goichberg for directing that this announcement of the US Championship be posted on the uschess.org website, without addressing these concerns and without even informing the rest of the board or consulting with the board or taking a vote by the board on these issues prior to making the announcement. Sam Sloan Violations of (1), (1c), (3) & (3b). From: Sam Sloan ] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 5:47 AM To: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Cc: Subject: US Championship At 01:02 PM 10/11/2006 EDT, wrote: In a message dated 10/11/2006 10:48:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Chessdon writes: Dear EB: I hereby submit the following motion to you for email vote. I discussed this with Bill Goichberg and he favors it. I have also talked to Erik Anderson and he likes it as well. Moved: The winner of the 2007 US Championship would defend his titled title in a match against the winner of the 2008 US Championship Tournament. The process of a defending champion would continue through time. I vote yes. Don Schultz I vote yes. Also, I like the concept of the champion holding the title, which can only be taken away from him in a match of substantial length. Bill Goichberg *As usual, you have not thought clearly about this and considered the *consquences. If this motion passes, that will mean that there will no longer be a tournament for the US Championship, thus ending a tradition that began in 1940. Instead, there will merely be a series of qualifying tournaments the ultimate winner of which will get to play a match for the US Champuionship. *Who will pay for this? Surely not the AF4C, who only wants the prestigue associaed with the US Championship, not just some *preliminary event. Don likes the old FIDE System, where there were first zonal tournaments, then the interzonal, then candidates matches and finally a match for the World Championship. However, that system worked because they did not have to pay the players. Almost all of the top players were from the Soviet Union. Players like Botvinnik, Keres, Geller, Petrosian and Smyslov were supported by the state and played free of charge. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, the players started demanding to be paid, and the Interzonal System collapsed. In 1987, after no country in the world had submitted a bid to hold the Interzonal, I submitted a bid to hold the event in the US Virgin Islands and paid the required fee. Since the local country gets to designate two of its own players to play in the Interzonal, I designated Anand and Zsuzsa Polgar as my representatives. In response to my bid, Dr. Lim Kok Ann, General Secretary of FIDE, responded that the Hungarians were objecting to allowing Zsuzsa Polgar to play in the Interzonal. Also, the regulations state that the two players must be from the host country. Anand and Zsuzsa Polgar were not from the host country. I replied that unless Zsuzsa Polgar and Anand were allowed to play, I was not willing to organize the event. Incidentally, Anand was at the time just a little known young grandmaster, but I realized that he was a future world champion, years before anybody else did. The matter ended there. Dr. Lim refused to agree to allow Anand and Polgar to play in the Interzonal and I would not organize the event otherwise. The result was that the interzonal was never held. Not only did I not hold the Interzonal, but nobody did. Since then, there has never been another Interzonal. Now, the current situation is that Don Schultz has made a motion and Bill Goichberg has vote yes. With only two more votes, it will have been decided that there will never again be a tournament for the US Championship, without even consulting the delegates or the membership. *Frankly, I think that you guys are really stupid. Sam Sloan From USCF Forum posting: Violations of (1c) and (3b). Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:28 am Post subject: Bigger Scandal: Some Insider Candidates Did Not Pay Files -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Even Bigger Scandal: Some Insider Candidates Did Not Pay Filing Fees *Looking at the list of Candidates for the 2005 elections, it seems that several approved candidates did not pay the required $250 *filing fee. The following candidates DID pay the $250 fee: Joel Channing Greg Shahade William Goichberg Sam Sloan Randy Bauer Elizabeth Shaughnessy However, the following candidates appear not to have paid the required $250 fee: Robert Tanner George John Steve Shutt Of particular interest to me is the case of George John. I have long suspected that George John does not exist. By that I mean that although I have met several times a person who calls himself George John, I suspect that this is not his real name. Therefore, I have searched for payments of exactly $250.00 by anybody, thinking that in this way I might be able to find out the real name of George John. Looking for payments of exactly $250, I find that this amount was paid by St. Benilde Chess on January 28, 2005. I suspect that this was the payment for Steve Shutt. I find a payment in the amount of $250 by Vela Middle School on 12/1/04. I suspect that this was unrelated to the election. There are no other payments of $250 by anybody during the relevant time period. *Therefore, at least one and possibly as many as three candidates did not pay the required $250 filing fee, one of whom was elected. Kindly investigate this. This is bull ****. Goichberg just hates me for no reason. He's a racist pig. Sam Sloan 
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December 5th 06, 10:03 PM
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Sam Sloan censured by Executive Board
Why bother to CENSURE Sloan? Bill Clinton get introble, and he laughed
about it. Sloan, right now, is laughing. Every time you CENSURE Sloan, you give him more votes in the next election. The best way to embarass Sloan is to examine his past. Marcus Roberts samsloan wrote: Duncan Oxley wrote: The following motion by Joel Channing has passed by a vote of 3-0 with Channing, Goichberg and Hough in favor and Sloan, Marinello, Schultz and Tanner abstaining. Bill Goichberg --- November 29, 2006: I move that the Executive Board of the USCF censure Sam Sloan for his failures to adhere to the Standards of Conduct as highlighted and noted in the attached emails. ( NOTE: I added a * to each of the highlighted lines in case your news reader does not show it --Duncan) Joel Channing Violations of (1c), (2e), (3), (3b) & (3d) From: Sam Sloan ] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:59 AM To: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Subject: Letter Agreement with the Seattle Chess Foundation Letter Agreement with the Seattle Chess Foundation *I wish that everybody here would get my email address straight. *My email address for all official USCF Business including the business of *the Executive Board is *Let us try that again. My address is *Let us try that again. My address is *Now that I have explained this three more times, I hope that you will *remember it this time. This is not the first time that you have made this *mistake. Let us try to make it the last. I do have an old address, which is . That address is still working and I use it for newsgroup postings, but I rarely check it, because I receive more than one thousand spam emails per day at that address. However, I did happen to check it this morning, for the first time in more than a week, and I discovered an email from Bill Hall containing as attachments the June 2006 contract with AF4C and the May 18, 2000 Letter Agreement with Seattle Chess Foundation. *I cannot understand why Bill Hall did not send those important documents to my actual working address, which is *Is this part of the conspiracy? *Kindly tell Bill Hall that my address is *Should I say it again? Try to remember this and repeat after me. Sam Sloan's address is [b] *Now, turning to the actual document dated May 18, 2000, in no way could *this be considered to be a legally enforceable contract. It is simply a *letter, endorsed by George DeFeis. It states that Seattle Chess Foundation *promises to incorporate by June 15, 2000, so it was not even a corporation at the time of this letter. In addition, I have no way of *knowing whether the American Foundation for Chess is the same legal entity as the Seattle Chess Foundation. *However, assuming for the sake of argument that it is a legal contract, the *key paragraph is the following: *"The format of the SCF/USCF Championships will be set by SCF after prior *consultation with USCF, but shall be in a manner generally consistent with *past US Championships and with other events of this caliber or type. SCF *contemplates that for the year 2000 US Championships the format will be *either a 10 player or 12 player round robin event for each of the overall *or women fs categories." *It also states that after 2005 the SCF agrees to pay to the USCF an annual *fee of $10,000. *On page 5 of this document are hand written entries: "$100,000 prize fund". "$100K was the agreed upon prize fund". *So, the purported agreement between Bill Goichberg and AF4C (which the board has never voted on or even known about before it *was posted on the USCF website) fails to adhere to this agreement in at least the following respects. *1. It fails to guarantee a $100,000 prize fund or indeed any prize fund at *all. It seems obvious that AF4C plans to run an El Cheapo event this year *with many or most of the games played online and a nominal prize fund. 2. The format of a knock-out event involving two-game matches is not "a manner generally consistent with past US Championships and with other events of this caliber or type". No US Championship or any other event of this caliber or type has ever been conducted in this format. 3. The AF4C has not paid nor has it promised to pay the annual agreed upon fee of $10,000. I would be interested in knowing whether the AF4C ever paid the required annual fees for the years 2000-2005. If they have not paid, they should now pay the back money they owe us, before there are any further discussions. 4. The agreement states that the SCF will be holding the US Woman's Championship, but this year AF4C states that it will not be holding the US Woman's Championship. I am extremely disappointed in Bill Goichberg for directing that this announcement of the US Championship be posted on the uschess.org website, without addressing these concerns and without even informing the rest of the board or consulting with the board or taking a vote by the board on these issues prior to making the announcement. Sam Sloan Violations of (1), (1c), (3) & (3b). From: Sam Sloan ] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 5:47 AM To: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Cc: Subject: US Championship At 01:02 PM 10/11/2006 EDT, wrote: In a message dated 10/11/2006 10:48:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Chessdon writes: Dear EB: I hereby submit the following motion to you for email vote. I discussed this with Bill Goichberg and he favors it. I have also talked to Erik Anderson and he likes it as well. Moved: The winner of the 2007 US Championship would defend his titled title in a match against the winner of the 2008 US Championship Tournament. The process of a defending champion would continue through time. I vote yes. Don Schultz I vote yes. Also, I like the concept of the champion holding the title, which can only be taken away from him in a match of substantial length. Bill Goichberg *As usual, you have not thought clearly about this and considered the *consquences. If this motion passes, that will mean that there will no longer be a tournament for the US Championship, thus ending a tradition that began in 1940. Instead, there will merely be a series of qualifying tournaments the ultimate winner of which will get to play a match for the US Champuionship. *Who will pay for this? Surely not the AF4C, who only wants the prestigue associaed with the US Championship, not just some *preliminary event. Don likes the old FIDE System, where there were first zonal tournaments, then the interzonal, then candidates matches and finally a match for the World Championship. However, that system worked because they did not have to pay the players. Almost all of the top players were from the Soviet Union. Players like Botvinnik, Keres, Geller, Petrosian and Smyslov were supported by the state and played free of charge. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, the players started demanding to be paid, and the Interzonal System collapsed. In 1987, after no country in the world had submitted a bid to hold the Interzonal, I submitted a bid to hold the event in the US Virgin Islands and paid the required fee. Since the local country gets to designate two of its own players to play in the Interzonal, I designated Anand and Zsuzsa Polgar as my representatives. In response to my bid, Dr. Lim Kok Ann, General Secretary of FIDE, responded that the Hungarians were objecting to allowing Zsuzsa Polgar to play in the Interzonal. Also, the regulations state that the two players must be from the host country. Anand and Zsuzsa Polgar were not from the host country. I replied that unless Zsuzsa Polgar and Anand were allowed to play, I was not willing to organize the event. Incidentally, Anand was at the time just a little known young grandmaster, but I realized that he was a future world champion, years before anybody else did. The matter ended there. Dr. Lim refused to agree to allow Anand and Polgar to play in the Interzonal and I would not organize the event otherwise. The result was that the interzonal was never held. Not only did I not hold the Interzonal, but nobody did. Since then, there has never been another Interzonal. Now, the current situation is that Don Schultz has made a motion and Bill Goichberg has vote yes. With only two more votes, it will have been decided that there will never again be a tournament for the US Championship, without even consulting the delegates or the membership. *Frankly, I think that you guys are really stupid. Sam Sloan From USCF Forum posting: Violations of (1c) and (3b). Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:28 am Post subject: Bigger Scandal: Some Insider Candidates Did Not Pay Files -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Even Bigger Scandal: Some Insider Candidates Did Not Pay Filing Fees *Looking at the list of Candidates for the 2005 elections, it seems that several approved candidates did not pay the required $250 *filing fee. The following candidates DID pay the $250 fee: Joel Channing Greg Shahade William Goichberg Sam Sloan Randy Bauer Elizabeth Shaughnessy However, the following candidates appear not to have paid the required $250 fee: Robert Tanner George John Steve Shutt Of particular interest to me is the case of George John. I have long suspected that George John does not exist. By that I mean that although I have met several times a person who calls himself George John, I suspect that this is not his real name. Therefore, I have searched for payments of exactly $250.00 by anybody, thinking that in this way I might be able to find out the real name of George John. Looking for payments of exactly $250, I find that this amount was paid by St. Benilde Chess on January 28, 2005. I suspect that this was the payment for Steve Shutt. I find a payment in the amount of $250 by Vela Middle School on 12/1/04. I suspect that this was unrelated to the election. There are no other payments of $250 by anybody during the relevant time period. *Therefore, at least one and possibly as many as three candidates did not pay the required $250 filing fee, one of whom was elected. Kindly investigate this. This is bull ****. Goichberg just hates me for no reason. He's a racist pig. Sam Sloan
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December 5th 06, 11:20 PM
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Sam Sloan censured by Executive Board
Awesome. About time they did something official to that asshat Sloan.
Duncan Oxley wrote: The following motion by Joel Channing has passed by a vote of 3-0 with Channing, Goichberg and Hough in favor and Sloan, Marinello, Schultz and Tanner abstaining. Bill Goichberg --- November 29, 2006: I move that the Executive Board of the USCF censure Sam Sloan for his failures to adhere to the Standards of Conduct as highlighted and noted in the attached emails.
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December 6th 06, 01:33 AM
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Sam Sloan censured by Executive Board
CLEANING THE AUGEAN STABLES
Okay, then, where is the motion thanking Sam Sloan for exposing a cheat among the members of the Executive Board, who has since resigned? Why aren't Joel Channing, Bill Goichberg and Randy Hough THANKING Sam for uncovering one of their members (and friends, to be sure) who misused his position as a TD so egregiously? What Sam did was precisely this: he discovered a deeply untrustworthy member of the Executive Board who had been a serial cheat -- planning carefully his ploys -- over several years. If that effort does not merit a big THANK YOU, then nothing does from this Board. It is evidently the case that cleaning out the Augean stables is not something that the EB horses much appreciate. wrote: Why bother to CENSURE Sloan? Bill Clinton get introble, and he laughed about it. Sloan, right now, is laughing. Every time you CENSURE Sloan, you give him more votes in the next election. The best way to embarass Sloan is to examine his past. Marcus Roberts samsloan wrote: Duncan Oxley wrote: The following motion by Joel Channing has passed by a vote of 3-0 with Channing, Goichberg and Hough in favor and Sloan, Marinello, Schultz and Tanner abstaining. Bill Goichberg --- November 29, 2006: I move that the Executive Board of the USCF censure Sam Sloan for his failures to adhere to the Standards of Conduct as highlighted and noted in the attached emails. ( NOTE: I added a * to each of the highlighted lines in case your news reader does not show it --Duncan) Joel Channing Violations of (1c), (2e), (3), (3b) & (3d) From: Sam Sloan ] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:59 AM To: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Subject: Letter Agreement with the Seattle Chess Foundation Letter Agreement with the Seattle Chess Foundation *I wish that everybody here would get my email address straight. *My email address for all official USCF Business including the business of *the Executive Board is *Let us try that again. My address is *Let us try that again. My address is *Now that I have explained this three more times, I hope that you will *remember it this time. This is not the first time that you have made this *mistake. Let us try to make it the last. I do have an old address, which is . That address is still working and I use it for newsgroup postings, but I rarely check it, because I receive more than one thousand spam emails per day at that address. However, I did happen to check it this morning, for the first time in more than a week, and I discovered an email from Bill Hall containing as attachments the June 2006 contract with AF4C and the May 18, 2000 Letter Agreement with Seattle Chess Foundation. *I cannot understand why Bill Hall did not send those important documents to my actual working address, which is *Is this part of the conspiracy? *Kindly tell Bill Hall that my address is *Should I say it again? Try to remember this and repeat after me. Sam Sloan's address is [b] *Now, turning to the actual document dated May 18, 2000, in no way could *this be considered to be a legally enforceable contract. It is simply a *letter, endorsed by George DeFeis. It states that Seattle Chess Foundation *promises to incorporate by June 15, 2000, so it was not even a corporation at the time of this letter. In addition, I have no way of *knowing whether the American Foundation for Chess is the same legal entity as the Seattle Chess Foundation. *However, assuming for the sake of argument that it is a legal contract, the *key paragraph is the following: *"The format of the SCF/USCF Championships will be set by SCF after prior *consultation with USCF, but shall be in a manner generally consistent with *past US Championships and with other events of this caliber or type. SCF *contemplates that for the year 2000 US Championships the format will be *either a 10 player or 12 player round robin event for each of the overall *or women fs categories." *It also states that after 2005 the SCF agrees to pay to the USCF an annual *fee of $10,000. *On page 5 of this document are hand written entries: "$100,000 prize fund". "$100K was the agreed upon prize fund". *So, the purported agreement between Bill Goichberg and AF4C (which the board has never voted on or even known about before it *was posted on the USCF website) fails to adhere to this agreement in at least the following respects. *1. It fails to guarantee a $100,000 prize fund or indeed any prize fund at *all. It seems obvious that AF4C plans to run an El Cheapo event this year *with many or most of the games played online and a nominal prize fund. 2. The format of a knock-out event involving two-game matches is not "a manner generally consistent with past US Championships and with other events of this caliber or type". No US Championship or any other event of this caliber or type has ever been conducted in this format. 3. The AF4C has not paid nor has it promised to pay the annual agreed upon fee of $10,000. I would be interested in knowing whether the AF4C ever paid the required annual fees for the years 2000-2005. If they have not paid, they should now pay the back money they owe us, before there are any further discussions. 4. The agreement states that the SCF will be holding the US Woman's Championship, but this year AF4C states that it will not be holding the US Woman's Championship. I am extremely disappointed in Bill Goichberg for directing that this announcement of the US Championship be posted on the uschess.org website, without addressing these concerns and without even informing the rest of the board or consulting with the board or taking a vote by the board on these issues prior to making the announcement. Sam Sloan Violations of (1), (1c), (3) & (3b). From: Sam Sloan ] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 5:47 AM To: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Cc: Subject: US Championship At 01:02 PM 10/11/2006 EDT, wrote: In a message dated 10/11/2006 10:48:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Chessdon writes: Dear EB: I hereby submit the following motion to you for email vote. I discussed this with Bill Goichberg and he favors it. I have also talked to Erik Anderson and he likes it as well. Moved: The winner of the 2007 US Championship would defend his titled title in a match against the winner of the 2008 US Championship Tournament. The process of a defending champion would continue through time. I vote yes. Don Schultz I vote yes. Also, I like the concept of the champion holding the title, which can only be taken away from him in a match of substantial length. Bill Goichberg *As usual, you have not thought clearly about this and considered the *consquences. If this motion passes, that will mean that there will no longer be a tournament for the US Championship, thus ending a tradition that began in 1940. Instead, there will merely be a series of qualifying tournaments the ultimate winner of which will get to play a match for the US Champuionship. *Who will pay for this? Surely not the AF4C, who only wants the prestigue associaed with the US Championship, not just some *preliminary event. Don likes the old FIDE System, where there were first zonal tournaments, then the interzonal, then candidates matches and finally a match for the World Championship. However, that system worked because they did not have to pay the players. Almost all of the top players were from the Soviet Union. Players like Botvinnik, Keres, Geller, Petrosian and Smyslov were supported by the state and played free of charge. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, the players started demanding to be paid, and the Interzonal System collapsed. In 1987, after no country in the world had submitted a bid to hold the Interzonal, I submitted a bid to hold the event in the US Virgin Islands and paid the required fee. Since the local country gets to designate two of its own players to play in the Interzonal, I designated Anand and Zsuzsa Polgar as my representatives. In response to my bid, Dr. Lim Kok Ann, General Secretary of FIDE, responded that the Hungarians were objecting to allowing Zsuzsa Polgar to play in the Interzonal. Also, the regulations state that the two players must be from the host country. Anand and Zsuzsa Polgar were not from the host country. I replied that unless Zsuzsa Polgar and Anand were allowed to play, I was not willing to organize the event. Incidentally, Anand was at the time just a little known young grandmaster, but I realized that he was a future world champion, years before anybody else did. The matter ended there. Dr. Lim refused to agree to allow Anand and Polgar to play in the Interzonal and I would not organize the event otherwise. The result was that the interzonal was never held. Not only did I not hold the Interzonal, but nobody did. Since then, there has never been another Interzonal. Now, the current situation is that Don Schultz has made a motion and Bill Goichberg has vote yes. With only two more votes, it will have been decided that there will never again be a tournament for the US Championship, without even consulting the delegates or the membership. *Frankly, I think that you guys are really stupid. Sam Sloan From USCF Forum posting: Violations of (1c) and (3b). Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:28 am Post subject: Bigger Scandal: Some Insider Candidates Did Not Pay Files -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Even Bigger Scandal: Some Insider Candidates Did Not Pay Filing Fees *Looking at the list of Candidates for the 2005 elections, it seems that several approved candidates did not pay the required $250 *filing fee. The following candidates DID pay the $250 fee: Joel Channing Greg Shahade William Goichberg Sam Sloan Randy Bauer Elizabeth Shaughnessy However, the following candidates appear not to have paid the required $250 fee: Robert Tanner George John Steve Shutt Of particular interest to me is the case of George John. I have long suspected that George John does not exist. By that I mean that although I have met several times a person who calls himself George John, I suspect that this is not his real name. Therefore, I have searched for payments of exactly $250.00 by anybody, thinking that in this way I might be able to find out the real name of George John. Looking for payments of exactly $250, I find that this amount was paid by St. Benilde Chess on January 28, 2005. I suspect that this was the payment for Steve Shutt. I find a payment in the amount of $250 by Vela Middle School on 12/1/04. I suspect that this was unrelated to the election. There are no other payments of $250 by anybody during the relevant time period. *Therefore, at least one and possibly as many as three candidates did not pay the required $250 filing fee, one of whom was elected. Kindly investigate this. This is bull ****. Goichberg just hates me for no reason. He's a racist pig. Sam Sloan
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December 6th 06, 03:32 AM
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Sam Sloan censured by Executive Board
"Chess Nuggets" wrote in message ps.com... Awesome. About time they did something official to that asshat Sloan. Duncan Oxley wrote: The following motion by Joel Channing has passed by a vote of 3-0 with Channing, Goichberg and Hough in favor and Sloan, Marinello, Schultz and Tanner abstaining. Bill Goichberg --- November 29, 2006: I move that the Executive Board of the USCF censure Sam Sloan for his failures to adhere to the Standards of Conduct as highlighted and noted in the attached emails. Which emails? Does anyone have copies?
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December 6th 06, 12:50 PM
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Sam Sloan censured by Executive Board
"Ange1o DePa1ma" wrote in message ... I move that the Executive Board of the USCF censure Sam Sloan for his failures to adhere to the Standards of Conduct as highlighted and noted in the attached emails. Which emails? Does anyone have copies? ---- Angelo, here is a collation, reposted here from elsewhere, but in their entirety without edit or comment from me. I also asked elsewhere which specific Conduct is cited as failing to adhere to the Standards 'as highlighted'. There has been no reply - Phil Innes ---- The following motion by Joel Channing has passed by a vote of 3-0 with Channing, Goichberg and Hough in favor and Sloan, Marinello, Schultz and Tanner abstaining. Bill Goichberg November 29, 2006: I move that the Executive Board of the USCF censure Sam Sloan for his failures to adhere to the Standards of Conduct as highlighted and noted in the attached emails. Joel Channing Violations of (1c), (2e), (3), (3b) & (3d) From: Sam Sloan ] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:59 AM To: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Subject: Letter Agreement with the Seattle Chess Foundation Letter Agreement with the Seattle Chess Foundation I wish that everybody here would get my email address straight. My email address for all official USCF Business including the business of the Executive Board is Let us try that again. My address is Let us try that again. My address is Now that I have explained this three more times, I hope that you will remember it this time. This is not the first time that you have made this mistake. Let us try to make it the last. I do have an old address, which is . That address is still working and I use it for newsgroup postings, but I rarely check it, because I receive more than one thousand spam emails per day at that address. However, I did happen to check it this morning, for the first time in more than a week, and I discovered an email from Bill Hall containing as attachments the June 2006 contract with AF4C and the May 18, 2000 Letter Agreement with Seattle Chess Foundation. I cannot understand why Bill Hall did not send those important documents to my actual working address, which is Is this part of the conspiracy? Kindly tell Bill Hall that my address is Should I say it again? Try to remember this and repeat after me. Sam Sloan's address is [b] Now, turning to the actual document dated May 18, 2000, in no way could this be considered to be a legally enforceable contract. It is simply a letter, endorsed by George DeFeis. It states that Seattle Chess Foundation promises to incorporate by June 15, 2000, so it was not even a corporation at the time of this letter. In addition, I have no way of knowing whether the American Foundation for Chess is the same legal entity as the Seattle Chess Foundation. However, assuming for the sake of argument that it is a legal contract, the key paragraph is the following: "The format of the SCF/USCF Championships will be set by SCF after prior consultation with USCF, but shall be in a manner generally consistent with past US Championships and with other events of this caliber or type. SCF contemplates that for the year 2000 US Championships the format will be either a 10 player or 12 player round robin event for each of the overall or women fs categories." It also states that after 2005 the SCF agrees to pay to the USCF an annual fee of $10,000. On page 5 of this document are hand written entries: "$100,000 prize fund". "$100K was the agreed upon prize fund". So, the purported agreement between Bill Goichberg and AF4C (which the board has never voted on or even known about before it was posted on the USCF website) fails to adhere to this agreement in at least the following respects. 1. It fails to guarantee a $100,000 prize fund or indeed any prize fund at all. It seems obvious that AF4C plans to run an El Cheapo event this year with many or most of the games played online and a nominal prize fund. 2. The format of a knock-out event involving two-game matches is not "a manner generally consistent with past US Championships and with other events of this caliber or type". No US Championship or any other event of this caliber or type has ever been conducted in this format. 3. The AF4C has not paid nor has it promised to pay the annual agreed upon fee of $10,000. I would be interested in knowing whether the AF4C ever paid the required annual fees for the years 2000-2005. If they have not paid, they should now pay the back money they owe us, before there are any further discussions. 4. The agreement states that the SCF will be holding the US Woman's Championship, but this year AF4C states that it will not be holding the US Woman's Championship. I am extremely disappointed in Bill Goichberg for directing that this announcement of the US Championship be posted on the uschess.org website, without addressing these concerns and without even informing the rest of the board or consulting with the board or taking a vote by the board on these issues prior to making the announcement. Sam Sloan Violations of (1), (1c), (3) & (3b). From: Sam Sloan ] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 5:47 AM To: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Cc: Subject: US Championship At 01:02 PM 10/11/2006 EDT, wrote: In a message dated 10/11/2006 10:48:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Chessdon writes: Dear EB: I hereby submit the following motion to you for email vote. I discussed this with Bill Goichberg and he favors it. I have also talked to Erik Anderson and he likes it as well. Moved: The winner of the 2007 US Championship would defend his titled title in a match against the winner of the 2008 US Championship Tournament. The process of a defending champion would continue through time. I vote yes. Don Schultz I vote yes. Also, I like the concept of the champion holding the title, which can only be taken away from him in a match of substantial length. Bill Goichberg As usual, you have not thought clearly about this and considered the consquences. If this motion passes, that will mean that there will no longer be a tournament for the US Championship, thus ending a tradition that began in 1940. Instead, there will merely be a series of qualifying tournaments the ultimate winner of which will get to play a match for the US Champuionship. Who will pay for this? Surely not the AF4C, who only wants the prestigue associaed with the US Championship, not just some preliminary event. Don likes the old FIDE System, where there were first zonal tournaments, then the interzonal, then candidates matches and finally a match for the World Championship. However, that system worked because they did not have to pay the players. Almost all of the top players were from the Soviet Union. Players like Botvinnik, Keres, Geller, Petrosian and Smyslov were supported by the state and played free of charge. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, the players started demanding to be paid, and the Interzonal System collapsed. In 1987, after no country in the world had submitted a bid to hold the Interzonal, I submitted a bid to hold the event in the US Virgin Islands and paid the required fee. Since the local country gets to designate two of its own players to play in the Interzonal, I designated Anand and Zsuzsa Polgar as my representatives. In response to my bid, Dr. Lim Kok Ann, General Secretary of FIDE, responded that the Hungarians were objecting to allowing Zsuzsa Polgar to play in the Interzonal. Also, the regulations state that the two players must be from the host country. Anand and Zsuzsa Polgar were not from the host country. I replied that unless Zsuzsa Polgar and Anand were allowed to play, I was not willing to organize the event. Incidentally, Anand was at the time just a little known young grandmaster, but I realized that he was a future world champion, years before anybody else did. The matter ended there. Dr. Lim refused to agree to allow Anand and Polgar to play in the Interzonal and I would not organize the event otherwise. The result was that the interzonal was never held. Not only did I not hold the Interzonal, but nobody did. Since then, there has never been another Interzonal. Now, the current situation is that Don Schultz has made a motion and Bill Goichberg has vote yes. With only two more votes, it will have been decided that there will never again be a tournament for the US Championship, without even consulting the delegates or the membership. Frankly, I think that you guys are really stupid. Sam Sloan From USCF Forum posting: Violations of (1c) and (3b). Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:28 am Post subject: Bigger Scandal: Some Insider Candidates Did Not Pay Files -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Even Bigger Scandal: Some Insider Candidates Did Not Pay Filing Fees Looking at the list of Candidates for the 2005 elections, it seems that several approved candidates did not pay the required $250 filing fee. The following candidates DID pay the $250 fee: Joel Channing Greg Shahade William Goichberg Sam Sloan Randy Bauer Elizabeth Shaughnessy However, the following candidates appear not to have paid the required $250 fee: Robert Tanner George John Steve Shutt Of particular interest to me is the case of George John. I have long suspected that George John does not exist. By that I mean that although I have met several times a person who calls himself George John, I suspect that this is not his real name. Therefore, I have searched for payments of exactly $250.00 by anybody, thinking that in this way I might be able to find out the real name of George John. Looking for payments of exactly $250, I find that this amount was paid by St. Benilde Chess on January 28, 2005. I suspect that this was the payment for Steve Shutt. I find a payment in the amount of $250 by Vela Middle School on 12/1/04. I suspect that this was unrelated to the election. There are no other payments of $250 by anybody during the relevant time period. Therefore, at least one and possibly as many as three candidates did not pay the required $250 filing fee, one of whom was elected. Kindly investigate this.
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Sam Sloan censured by Executive Board
Chess One wrote: Angelo, here is a collation, reposted here from elsewhere, but in their entirety without edit or comment from me. I also asked elsewhere which specific Conduct is cited as failing to adhere to the Standards 'as highlighted'. There has been no reply - Phil Innes ---- You could try the USCF BINFO system or the USCF Forums. Of course, you must be a member of the USCF to get there. But, you aren't, are you? So why the hell are you bothering the rest of us? Get off, idiot,
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Sam Sloan censured by Executive Board
His "stupid" remark would qualify as unprofessional in a public forum (was this email part of public discussions?), but mere testiness in a private meeting among peers. Is this all there is? Could this be payback for uncovering Tanner's alleged misdeeds? I say "alleged" because while I strongly agree with Tanner's decision to quit the board, it's unclear to me that he did anything that was against the rules. Is an expert/master TD permitted to play fill-in games in the U-1200 section of tournaments he runs? I don't know. If it's a gray legal area such behavior can be viewed in one of two ways: he's skimming rating points (bad), or he's giving beginners a chance to play someone rated over 2000 (good). As for his peripatetic tournaments with Hans and Franz, I have two observiations. Where was the person who was rating these events when the reports were submitted? Didn't he or she notice anything strange? Second, it is not up to Tanner, 15 years after the fact, to prove that these guys exist. Since USCF was accusing him of malfeasance it is up to them to prove they do *not* exist. Since you can't prove a negative, and considering the time that has elapsed, this matter should have been dropped with a valuable lesson learned. Had the rating administrator 15 years ago raised a red flag it would have been reasonable to ask him to produce these characters. Not today. Angelo DePalma "Chess One" wrote in message news:q0zdh.2103$g_3.1521@trndny02... "Ange1o DePa1ma" wrote in message ... I move that the Executive Board of the USCF censure Sam Sloan for his failures to adhere to the Standards of Conduct as highlighted and noted in the attached emails. Which emails? Does anyone have copies? ---- Angelo, here is a collation, reposted here from elsewhere, but in their entirety without edit or comment from me. I also asked elsewhere which specific Conduct is cited as failing to adhere to the Standards 'as highlighted'. There has been no reply - Phil Innes ---- The following motion by Joel Channing has passed by a vote of 3-0 with Channing, Goichberg and Hough in favor and Sloan, Marinello, Schultz and Tanner abstaining. Bill Goichberg November 29, 2006: I move that the Executive Board of the USCF censure Sam Sloan for his failures to adhere to the Standards of Conduct as highlighted and noted in the attached emails. Joel Channing Violations of (1c), (2e), (3), (3b) & (3d) From: Sam Sloan ] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:59 AM To: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Subject: Letter Agreement with the Seattle Chess Foundation Letter Agreement with the Seattle Chess Foundation I wish that everybody here would get my email address straight. My email address for all official USCF Business including the business of the Executive Board is Let us try that again. My address is Let us try that again. My address is Now that I have explained this three more times, I hope that you will remember it this time. This is not the first time that you have made this mistake. Let us try to make it the last. I do have an old address, which is . That address is still working and I use it for newsgroup postings, but I rarely check it, because I receive more than one thousand spam emails per day at that address. However, I did happen to check it this morning, for the first time in more than a week, and I discovered an email from Bill Hall containing as attachments the June 2006 contract with AF4C and the May 18, 2000 Letter Agreement with Seattle Chess Foundation. I cannot understand why Bill Hall did not send those important documents to my actual working address, which is Is this part of the conspiracy? Kindly tell Bill Hall that my address is Should I say it again? Try to remember this and repeat after me. Sam Sloan's address is [b] Now, turning to the actual document dated May 18, 2000, in no way could this be considered to be a legally enforceable contract. It is simply a letter, endorsed by George DeFeis. It states that Seattle Chess Foundation promises to incorporate by June 15, 2000, so it was not even a corporation at the time of this letter. In addition, I have no way of knowing whether the American Foundation for Chess is the same legal entity as the Seattle Chess Foundation. However, assuming for the sake of argument that it is a legal contract, the key paragraph is the following: "The format of the SCF/USCF Championships will be set by SCF after prior consultation with USCF, but shall be in a manner generally consistent with past US Championships and with other events of this caliber or type. SCF contemplates that for the year 2000 US Championships the format will be either a 10 player or 12 player round robin event for each of the overall or women fs categories." It also states that after 2005 the SCF agrees to pay to the USCF an annual fee of $10,000. On page 5 of this document are hand written entries: "$100,000 prize fund". "$100K was the agreed upon prize fund". So, the purported agreement between Bill Goichberg and AF4C (which the board has never voted on or even known about before it was posted on the USCF website) fails to adhere to this agreement in at least the following respects. 1. It fails to guarantee a $100,000 prize fund or indeed any prize fund at all. It seems obvious that AF4C plans to run an El Cheapo event this year with many or most of the games played online and a nominal prize fund. 2. The format of a knock-out event involving two-game matches is not "a manner generally consistent with past US Championships and with other events of this caliber or type". No US Championship or any other event of this caliber or type has ever been conducted in this format. 3. The AF4C has not paid nor has it promised to pay the annual agreed upon fee of $10,000. I would be interested in knowing whether the AF4C ever paid the required annual fees for the years 2000-2005. If they have not paid, they should now pay the back money they owe us, before there are any further discussions. 4. The agreement states that the SCF will be holding the US Woman's Championship, but this year AF4C states that it will not be holding the US Woman's Championship. I am extremely disappointed in Bill Goichberg for directing that this announcement of the US Championship be posted on the uschess.org website, without addressing these concerns and without even informing the rest of the board or consulting with the board or taking a vote by the board on these issues prior to making the announcement. Sam Sloan Violations of (1), (1c), (3) & (3b). From: Sam Sloan ] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 5:47 AM To: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Cc: Subject: US Championship At 01:02 PM 10/11/2006 EDT, wrote: In a message dated 10/11/2006 10:48:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Chessdon writes: Dear EB: I hereby submit the following motion to you for email vote. I discussed this with Bill Goichberg and he favors it. I have also talked to Erik Anderson and he likes it as well. Moved: The winner of the 2007 US Championship would defend his titled title in a match against the winner of the 2008 US Championship Tournament. The process of a defending champion would continue through time. I vote yes. Don Schultz I vote yes. Also, I like the concept of the champion holding the title, which can only be taken away from him in a match of substantial length. Bill Goichberg As usual, you have not thought clearly about this and considered the consquences. If this motion passes, that will mean that there will no longer be a tournament for the US Championship, thus ending a tradition that began in 1940. Instead, there will merely be a series of qualifying tournaments the ultimate winner of which will get to play a match for the US Champuionship. Who will pay for this? Surely not the AF4C, who only wants the prestigue associaed with the US Championship, not just some preliminary event. Don likes the old FIDE System, where there were first zonal tournaments, then the interzonal, then candidates matches and finally a match for the World Championship. However, that system worked because they did not have to pay the players. Almost all of the top players were from the Soviet Union. Players like Botvinnik, Keres, Geller, Petrosian and Smyslov were supported by the state and played free of charge. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, the players started demanding to be paid, and the Interzonal System collapsed. In 1987, after no country in the world had submitted a bid to hold the Interzonal, I submitted a bid to hold the event in the US Virgin Islands and paid the required fee. Since the local country gets to designate two of its own players to play in the Interzonal, I designated Anand and Zsuzsa Polgar as my representatives. In response to my bid, Dr. Lim Kok Ann, General Secretary of FIDE, responded that the Hungarians were objecting to allowing Zsuzsa Polgar to play in the Interzonal. Also, the regulations state that the two players must be from the host country. Anand and Zsuzsa Polgar were not from the host country. I replied that unless Zsuzsa Polgar and Anand were allowed to play, I was not willing to organize the event. Incidentally, Anand was at the time just a little known young grandmaster, but I realized that he was a future world champion, years before anybody else did. The matter ended there. Dr. Lim refused to agree to allow Anand and Polgar to play in the Interzonal and I would not organize the event otherwise. The result was that the interzonal was never held. Not only did I not hold the Interzonal, but nobody did. Since then, there has never been another Interzonal. Now, the current situation is that Don Schultz has made a motion and Bill Goichberg has vote yes. With only two more votes, it will have been decided that there will never again be a tournament for the US Championship, without even consulting the delegates or the membership. Frankly, I think that you guys are really stupid. Sam Sloan From USCF Forum posting: Violations of (1c) and (3b). Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:28 am Post subject: Bigger Scandal: Some Insider Candidates Did Not Pay Files -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Even Bigger Scandal: Some Insider Candidates Did Not Pay Filing Fees Looking at the list of Candidates for the 2005 elections, it seems that several approved candidates did not pay the required $250 filing fee. The following candidates DID pay the $250 fee: Joel Channing Greg Shahade William Goichberg Sam Sloan Randy Bauer Elizabeth Shaughnessy However, the following candidates appear not to have paid the required $250 fee: Robert Tanner George John Steve Shutt Of particular interest to me is the case of George John. I have long suspected that George John does not exist. By that I mean that although I have met several times a person who calls himself George John, I suspect that this is not his real name. Therefore, I have searched for payments of exactly $250.00 by anybody, |
