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Here are some of the posts Polgar has pulled recently from her blog.
-------------------------------------- Anonymous said... I tend to agree with Goichberg about the very negative campaign being run by Susan and Paul Truong, and I've never been comfortable with the whole slate concept. However, to be quite honest, I ascribe the negativism mainly to Paul T. I think Susan has not been well-advised in regard to campaign tactics by Mr Truong, and that if she were running her campaign without him, it would have been quite different. Also, I think Sloan makes a lot of people a bit crazy, and Susan succumbs to this more than she should. So my intention is to vote for Susan, and hope that once she is on the board her good points will come to the fore. I'll definitely not vote for Paul Truong, and I'd like to see his role diminished. I'll also vote for three out Goichberg's top five picks. I actually don't think Sloan is anywhere near as bad as people make out. He persists on putting the spotlight on financial misdeeds and disorganization at the USCF, but his information isn't as accurate as it should be, and he lacks common sense and good judgement. Combined with some unsavoury stuff in his personal life, that has made him everybody's target. But to a large extent he has brought his situation upon himself, and his style is just too divisive. He ends up being a big distraction. So, I won't be voting for him, although there is perverse streak in me which would be entertained by seeing him and Susan on the same board. Sunday, May 06, 2007 6:30:00 PM ----------------------------------------- Anonymous said... Susan, why do you constantly pull posts that criticize Paul Truong but that support you?. Your association with him is going to cost you dearly in the long run. For your sake, I hope you don't marry him. ------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous said... Susan, should you be elected to the EB, you will not be able to simply delete criticism as you do here. How will you handle legitimate criticism in the USCF forums if elected? In the past few hours, posts from people saying that they will vote for you but not Truong have been repeatedly pulled. Where do you stand on the issue of the free and open exchange of ideas in our democracy, even ideas we don't like? Sunday, May 06, 2007 8:03:00 PM ---------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous said... Susan, when are you going to come clean about your attempt to smear Joe Lux with an anonymous claim of impropriety 30 years ago? Be honest. Be professional. Admit what the US chess community knows you did and explain why we should still consider voting for you. Saturday, May 05, 2007 7:27:00 PM ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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I am not a naïf who believes that Truong and Polgar have no, er,
skeletons in their closets. Out of the crooked timber of yadda yadda yadda. But our honorable attorney should clarify his stance towards a Board member who claims to have had "not entirely Platonic" relationships with a minor, and who claims to have had fiduciary obligations towards that minor, and who made both claims in the course of his Board service. Possibly this conduct might even be slightly worse than Polgar's deleting comments from her own forum? **** Links to the following texts cited may be found at http://tinyurl.com/2z7hnp **** STATEMENT A On July 27, 2006, Susan Polgar wrote: BEGIN STMT A, part 1 (blog post) QTN If you are just as outraged as I am about the recent USCF Executive Board Election, you can do something about it! You can call or write to your state delegates and let them know the truth about Mr. Sam Sloan. If your state delegates do not attend the US Open then anyone can be nominated to be a delegate. The most important thing is vote. In order for Mr. Sloan to take office, he has to be certified by the delegates of the USCF. I strongly believe that a sexual predator (by his own admission) and a convicted felon should not be allowed to serve on the Executive Board of a non-profit organization with tens and thousands of young members. Mr. Sloan lied about his criminal record. He told the members of the USCF that he has no criminal record while the chess community clearly knows that he spent a considerable amount of time in jail. Mr. Sloan also publicly admitted that he had inappropriate sexual relations with minors. He also publicly admitted to other illegal and criminal conducts. He lied about me. He lied and attacked people who are associated with me and the Susan Polgar Foundation. He lied and attacked other members, sponsors, supporters and partners of the USCF. He spares no one. I know first hand what Mr. Sloan is capable of. I will post the letter I wrote on the official USCF forum in the comment section of this post. Please feel free to look at it. As a group, we must protect the young members of this federation. We must protect all members. We must protect the integrity of the United States Chess Federation. Together, we can stop this monster! Please contact your state delegates and let them know what you think. Thank you! Posted by Picasa posted by SusanPolgar at 7/27/2006 10:09:00 PM END STMT A, part 1 (blog post) QTN BEGIN STMT A, part 2 (blog comment) QTN 25 Comments: SusanPolgar said... I would like to make a few points about Mr. Sloan in response to Mr. Sloan's comments. This is what Mr. Sloan stated: Quote from Mr Sam Sloan: ....it is significant that in 1986 I gave Susan Polgar an expensive computer and I lived in her apartment in Budapest for several months when Susan was 16 years old and her sisters Sophia and Judit were 10 and 9. In the 20 years that have since passed, Susan Polgar has never made any such claim. Frankly, as a result of living with them, I know a lot of family secrets of the Polgar Family, which would be highly embarrassing to Susan if I revealed them, but I will not go that route. First of all, my family has hosted countless chess players and personalities from around the world in our apartment in Budapest over the years. This is a very common occurrence in the European culture. At that time, Mr. Sloan seemed to be normal. Secondly, Mr. Sloan stayed at my family's apartment for a very short period of time and not several months as he claimed. In addition, Mr. Sloan was never my manager as he falsely stated. Thirdly, during his stay, he made a number of completely inappropriate solicitation to me, a minor at that time, and he was promptly and firmly told no. To his credit, he did not try it again. But he tried with others. Since that time, I tried to be polite to Mr. Sloan in public but I tried to avoid him as much as I could. I am not surprised about the inappropriate sexual conducts that he claimed in the past. He believes that it is OK. Over the years, his behavior and conduct became much worst. I believe that he is capable of anything and I hope that the USCF delegates can understand this very serious situation. By me speaking up, he already started to imply about trying to embarrass me with my family secret. There are no secrets unless he plans to fabricate them. He is using this tactic to try to avoid the real issues about him. This is why I am very adamant about my position. As I stated before, the Susan Polgar Foundation cannot accept Mr. Sloan or work with someone like Mr. Sloan. The mission of the Susan Polgar Foundation is to promote chess for young people, especially girls, with integrity and high morals. Mr. Sloan is a danger to himself, the USCF and young members of this federation. I believe that this federation MUST protect our young members. Mr. Sloan's conduct is not appropriate for a national organization with tens and thousands of young people. I hope that you can understand my position. This is not a situation that any woman want to be in. I did not bring this out before because Mr. Sloan was not an elected official of the USCF. Now that he is, I must speak up to protect other young players. Thank you for your understanding. Best wishes, Susan Polgar www.SusanPolgar.blogspot.com www.SusanPolgarFoundation.org www.SusanPolgar.com END STMT A, part 2 (blog comment) QTN ******* STATEMENT B In BINFO 200603590, dated September 26, 2006, Sam Sloan wrote: BEGIN STMT B QTN BINFO 200603590 Date 2006-09-25 From samsloan Status Standard Release Release Date 2006-10-03 Subject Resolution of the Executive Board -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Chessoffice@xxxxxxx Subject: Resolution of the Executive Board From: Sam Sloan samsloan@xxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:47:41 -0400 Cc: Joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Beatchess@xxxxxxx, Rtannerae@xxxxxxx, randallhough@xxxxxxxxx, samsloan@xxxxxxxxxxxx, CHESSJOEL@xxxxxxx, bhall@xxxxxxxxxxx, Chessdon@xxxxxxx, pknight@xxxxxxxxxxx, queencapa@xxxxxxx , USCF BINFO System, Chessoffice@xxxxxxx Delivered-to: USCF BINFO Systemxxxxxxxxx Delivered-to: USCF BINFO System In-reply-to: 3.0.6.32.20060925110012.01f13280@xxxxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At 11:00 AM 9/25/2006 -0400, Chessoffice@xxxxxxx wrote:I move in open session that the Board approve the following resolutionwritten by our attorney, Mike Matsler. I vote yes. Bill GoichbergI am deeply discouraged and disappointed that Bill, acting like a bull in a china shop, has brought this into the public forum by making a public motion and posting it to USCF BINFO System, as a result of which this matter will disseminated and the entire world will know about it in due course.The fact is that my relationship with Zsuzsa Polgar (who now calls herself Susan) was not entirely Platonic. I have been discrete and have not revealed to anyone other than a few close friends the true nature of our prior relationship, until now. Now, Bill's public motion effectively forces me to reveal what really happened those many years ago. This will do no good either to me, Zsuzsa, Bill or the USCF, but it appears that now I will have no real choice but to tell the whole story. Sam Sloan END STMT B QTN ******* STATEMENT C In "Response to Ethics Complaint by Herbert Rodney Vaughn," dated January 5, 2007, Sam Sloan wrote: BEGIN STMT C QTN Response to Ethics Complaint by Herbert Rodney Vaughn Herbert Rodney Vaughn has filed a 400 page ethics complaint against me. I think the length of the complaint speaks for itself. For reasons unknown to me, Mr. Vaughn has been obsessed with me for some time. He has been attacking me on the USCF Forum at http://www.uschess.org/forums under the fake name of tanstaafl for the last one year, with around one thousand personal attacks on me. He has also filled up Susan Polgar's Blog at http://www.susanpolgar.blogspot.com with attacks on me. He got himself certified as a delegate from Ohio (improperly in my opinion) and tied up the delegate's meetings in Chicago held on August 12-13, 2006 with attacks on me. I have no idea why he does this. I had never met the man prior to the meetings in Chicago and I have never in my life had any dealings with him. The ethics complaint by Herbert Rodney Vaughn is entirely frivolous and can be refuted without much difficulty. Fortunately, the Ethics Committee has made my job easier by already dismissing 11 of the sixteen counts of his complaint, even before it got to me. I will now deal with the remaining five. The counts over which the Ethics Committee accepted jurisdiction were 1A, 3, 4, 5, and 13. Here are my responses: [RESPONSES TO COUNTS 1A, 3, 4, AND 5 OMITTED--WHB 1/20/2007] Count 13 Personal Attacks on Susan Polgar in the BINFO System, Standards It is unfortunate that Mr. Vaughn has made an issue over this, following the fact that Mr. Bill Goichberg previously made an issue over this, because neither of them are aware of what they are getting into or that they are acting like a Bull in a China Shop. I was for practical purposes the boyfriend of Zsuzsa Polgar, to the extent that she had a boyfriend, for six months in 1986. I traveled with her, played in chess tournaments with her and stayed in her home in Budapest during this period. This relationship started in April, 1986 and extended through October, 1986. There was never a break in relations. What ended this aspect of our relationship was that my brother, Creighton, started litigation with my mother, which left us stranded in Rio Gallegos Argentina after the conclusion of the World Under-16 Chess Championship, in which Sophia and Judit Polgar had played. Because my mother and I temporarily could not leave Argentina, we had to say goodbye to the Polgars and, although she wrote me a few letters, my relationship with Zsuzsa never resumed after that. Our relationship started immediately on or after her 17th birthday. The dates are important but are easy to remember and verify because of the many chess tournaments in which we played together during those months. Our relationship started right after the 1986 New York Open, which was held March 30 to April 7, 1986. The relationship started due to a coincidence caused by a flight delay. The 1986 New York Open was the first time that Laszlo Polgar, Susan's father, had ever reached America. Previously, Mr. Polgar had not been able to obtain a US visa, for the same reasons that most Hungarians were not able to get a visa, which was that they feared that he would overstay. When the US Embassy was finally convinced that Mr. Polgar really was a legitimate tourist, they gave him a visa. Prior to that time, Susan had visited the United States accompanied only by her mother. I had first met Susan at an invitational Goichberg tournament at the Manhattan Chess Club in November, 1985. She lost to Mark Ginzberg in a Lucena position on the first day that I met her. The next time I came to see her, she lost a long game to Yehuda Gruenfeld. As a result, Susan disliked me at first, because every time I came to see her, she lost her chess game. Her mother, Klara, however, liked me. We next met at the 1986 National Open in Las Vegas. I told them that I worked in computers. Klara told me that her husband was very interested in computers and would be very anxious to meet me when he was finally able to come to the US. That turned out to be the 1986 New York Open. Laszlo Polgar told me there that he was very interested in buying what he called the "Rare Computer". I told him not to waste his money on unusual off-brands. He should buy IBM PC compatibles or else Apple MacIntosh. Nevertheless, Laszlo doggedly insisted that he must have the Rare Computer and nothing else. I had never heard of the Rare Computer, but after several days of discussions about this, Laszlo Polgar refused to budge. He absolutely must have the Rare Computer. I was later to learn that this is a characteristic of Laszlo Polgar. He will not listen to reason. Once he makes up his mind about something, he will never change it. Finally, out of frustration, trying to deal with this bull dog of a man, I just decided to buy him a computer with my own money. I called a computer company in Texas, ordered a $2000 computer with my credit card, and they agreed to ship it to the address of the Polgars in Hungary. Laszlo Polgar was very happy, because he is always willing to take anything offered for free. After the New York Open, Susan told me that they were scheduled to fly to Los Angeles, where Hal Bogner had scheduled for Susan to give a simultaneous exhibition. I agreed to meet them when they came back and to help them get to the airport, as I had a car. When they returned a week later I was shocked to learn that they had never made it to Los Angeles. Just after I had last spoken to them at the New York Penta Hotel, they had been approached by a man named Shiloh Quinn, who had told them that he would bring them millions of dollars in sponsorship money if they would accompany him to Montreal. As a result, they had called Hal Bogner and told him to cancel the simultaneous exhibition, because they could not come to Los Angeles. In Montreal, Shiloh Quinn has gotten them to agree to give him Sophia Polgar, who was 11 years old at the time. Actually, Shiloh Quinn had wanted Zsuzsa. However, they were not willing to give up Zsuzsa, but they were willing to give up Sophia, so they had left Sophia with Shiloh Quinn, and had returned to New York without her. Laszlo Polgar said that this was OK, because Shiloh Quinn had a Hungarian wife. At JFK Airport, they were scheduled to take different flights back to Budapest. The reason for this was that Jose Cuxchi, the organizer of the New York Open, had given Zsuzsa Polgar, her mother, Klara, and the two sisters, Sophia and Judit, free tickets from Budapest to New York on Iberia Airlines, with a stop-over in Madrid, Spain. However, he had not given a free ticket to Laszlo Polgar. Therefore, Laszlo Polgar had bought his own ticket on Malev, the Hungarian Airline. However, Laszlo Polgar had never been to Spain before and he wanted to go there. Therefore, in New York, he had made a deal with the airlines to switch tickets with Zsuzsa. She would fly back directly to Budapest on Malev, and he along with Klara and Judit would fly back to Budapest in Iberia Airlines, with a stopover in Spain. This was especially convenient because the Malev flight was scheduled to leave JFK Asirport two hours before the Iberia Airlines flight, so they would be with Susan until she caught her flight. A serious problem, however, arose when the Malev flight was delayed due to mechanical problems. This meant that Laszlo, Klara and Judit Polgar had to leave on a flight before Zsuzsa left. They had no choice in the matter. The tickets were non-refundable promotional tickets provided by Jose Cuchi. They could not afford to stay behind in New York, and it was too late to change the tickets back to the way that they originally were, with Lazslo flying on Malev and Zsuzsa flying on Iberia Airlines. Therefore, when flight time came, they had no choice in the matter, but to leave. Laszlo, Klara and Judit bordered the Iberia Airlines flight to Spain, leaving Zsuzsa alone in JFK Airport with me, Sam Sloan. It so happened that this was exactly Zsuzsa's 17th birthday. Zsuzsa Polgar was born on April 19, 1969. The New York Open concluded on April 8, 1986. After that, they flew to Montreal, stayed for a week and flew back to New York. So, this was exactly Susan's 17th birthday, or else was the day after, I cannot remember which. I mention this because I have been accused of getting involved with Susan when she was 16 years old, but actually she was 17 at the time. Shortly after Laszlo, Klara and Judit had departed on Iberia Airlines, the representative of Malev Airlines came by. He said that, as the flight had been delayed, he was offering a courtesy hotel room at airline expense. I did not yet know Susan well, and she did not speak much English, so I do not believe that I even asked her. I just asked the airline representative when the flight was expected to leave. He said that it would be only a few hours longer. So, without thinking or asking Susan, I said that we would just wait in the airport, because a few hours was no big deal. What I did not yet realize was that Zsuzsa was the most protected girl in the world. She was so protected that she could not even go to the woman's restroom alone. Her mother would have to accompany her. Her parents were terrified that she would meet a boy somewhere and fall in love. As her parents did not work, Susan was the bread winner of the family, supporting the family through her chess tournament winnings. There was no way that they were going to allow her to go anywhere or to be anywhere alone. Suddenly, due to the delayed flight, for the first time in her entire life, Zsuzsa was alone with a man, namely me. Two months later, I went to Hungary. On my arrival in Budapest, I was immediately invited to stay as a guest in the Polgar home. I was shocked to learn that the computer I had purchased for them to be shipped from Texas was still in the customs warehouse in Budapest. Laszlo Polgar and I went to the customs warehouse. I paid some small fees and the customs people released the computer to us. We took the computer to the Polgar apartment. I spent the next two days setting up the computer, organizing it and putting files on it. It was unlike computers nowadays where everything comes pre-installed. I was working on developing a computer chess program called Rex Chess which I had entered into the World Computer Chess Championship to be played the following month in Cologne, Germany. I was shocked when, two days after the computer had arrived, Laszlo Polgar brought two men to the apartment to buy it. They said that they had wanted the "Rare Computer" and were not entirely happy with this other type of computer that Laszlo Polgar had. I then learned that the Rare Computer was a brand name of a computer, and they had ordered it from Laszlo. I have never been able to find a computer with that brand name, however. Finally, they agreed to buy the computer for $7,000. I was not happy. I had bought the computer for the three Polgar Sisters. I had imagined them to be geniuses, not the chess playing autonomons that they actually turned out to be. I had dreams of them learning computer programming and making a positive contribution to society. That is the reason I had bought them the computer. I had not realized that the plan all along had been to sell it for profit. However, it would have been pointless for me to protest. If I had stopped them from selling it while I was there, they would just wait until I was not there, and then sell it. So, I said nothing about it. After they got the $7,000 from selling the computer, they invited me to accompany them to an International Chess Tournament in Albena, Bulgaria. Zsuzsa won the tournament and I had one of the best results of my life. I then accompanied Susan and her family over the next several months to chess tournaments in Copenhagen, Denmark, San Juan, Puerto Rico and Rio Gallegos, Argentina. I personally arranged the tickets for the five of them and me to fly to Argentina. I will leave out the details, some of which are seamy, except that I will say that my remark about which Herbert Rodney Vaughn now files his ethics complaint is entirely accurate. I must add, however, that my remark was in response to a motion to censure me made by Bill Goichberg. That motion by Goichberg consisted of five parts, all of which had to do with my relationship with Susan Polgar. Bill probably did not even know that I had ever had a relationship with Susan Polgar. That is why I said that, in making his motion, Bill was acting like a bull in a China Shop. All these past twenty-one years, I have avoided publicly revealing the facts that I have just set forth above. Goichberg implied that this was a motion made by the USCF Attorney, Michael Matsler. This is misleading. After the election votes were counted and I had won the election on July 20, 2006, Bill Goichberg wrote five letters to Michael Matsler, basically asking how he could get rid of Sam Sloan, either by preventing me from taking office or by removing me from office. Bill Goichberg also wrote a strongly worded board motion attacking me over the Polgar Affair. Michael Matsler wrote back with a much milder motion than the one written by Goichberg. Even the relatively mildly worded motion by Matsler required me to respond. I was thinking of making a much stronger response, but finally I decided to make the delicately worded one-sentence response that I did, which is the subject of this ethics complaint. Obviously, you can figure out that I have just started to tell the full story about what happened between me and Susan Polgar in 1986. If Goichberg, Vaughn and Susan herself do not stop attacking me almost daily over this, I may eventually have to tell the whole story and write a book about it, but I am avoiding doing that for the time being. Thus, I have answered all five of the remaining counts of the Ethics Complaint filed by Herbert Rodney Vaughn. I believe that I have satisfactorily addressed all these issues and that indeed I have demonstrated that the ethics complaint is entirely frivolous. Again, I request that the Ethics Committee obtain a tape or a transcript of the Executive Board meeting on August 14, 2006. After reviewing that tape or transcript, you will be able to see that everything I have written on that subject is correct and accurate. I realize that Bill Goichberg and perhaps some other members of the board will try to prevent the Ethics Committee from obtaining that tape or transcript, but I feel that you should insist on obtaining it due to the circumstances of this case. In compliance with the request of the Ethics Committee, I am not responding to the other 11 counts which have already been dismissed, although otherwise I would have a lot to say about them as well. Dated: Bronx, New York January 5, 2007 Respectfully Submitted, Sam Sloan Sworn to before me this 5th Day of January, 2007 _______________________ NOTARY PUBLIC END STMT C QTN |
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