Tim Hanke Chess Trivia Game

Several posters have suggested that I am slandering Tim Hanke by
saying that he intends to use his position on the USCF Executive Board
to force the USCF to sell his game in the catalog, even though the
game has not yet been produced and nobody knows whether there will be
a market for it.

Here are some quotes by Tim Hanke on this subject. Nobody paid much
attention, because nobody thought that Hanke would be elected. Let the
readers decide: Was Hanke joking or not?


Subject: Chesstours' True Identity Revealed
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.politics
Date: 2003-04-30 06:46:30 PST

I will force USCF to produce my chess trivia game at membership
expense, and feature it on the cover of their next catalog.

Tim Hanke

From: Tim Hanke )
Subject: The Summer of Love Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.politics
Date: 2003-06-06 07:48:39 PST

If I win a Board seat, the "Campaign of Love" will become the "Summer
of Love." In the first 100 Days of my regime I plan to --

1. Fill the USCF catalog with products from the "House of Hanke,"
especially my excellent chess trivia game, but also whatever chess
products I can buy cheaply in India and sell through USCF at 500%
markup for my personal profit.

On May 30, 2003, Tim Hanke wrote:

If I get elected to the Board, can I sell my chess trivia game in the
front pages of the USCF catalog? Tim Hanke -- I am a candidate for the
U.S. Chess Federation Executive Board in the 2003 election. Please
visit my website at http://www.timothyhanke.net.

Date: 2003-05-02 08:12:55 PST

If USCF wants some sharp layout and design and editing for their
publications, they could do worse than come to me. Why should Glenn be
the only one slurping at the trough? I have expenses too, you know.
Like this chess trivia game I am trying to get published.

Tim Hanke
--
I am a candidate for the U.S. Chess Federation Executive Board in the
2003 election. Please visit my website at http://www.timothyhanke.net.


Subject: My chess trivia game
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.politics
Date: 2003-02-25 16:57:19 PST

I would rather suppose something that works. Let's suppose my game
retails for $25 and I cut the USCF in for 25%. The USCF makes $6.25 on
every game, not bad considering they have no money tied up in
inventory.

Tim Hanke

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.politics
Date: 2003-03-18 19:17:24 PST

Maybe USCF will respond to my emails about my chess trivia game if I
tell them it is a homosexual chess trivia game produced by USCF staff
using company resources on their lunch hour. Couldn't hurt; might
help. Tim Hanke -- I am a candidate for the U.S. Chess Federation
Executive Board in the 2003 election. Please visit my website at
http://www.timothyhanke.net.

Subject: My story and I'm sticking to it
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.politics
Date: 2003-02-25 11:48:39 PST

I have emailed the office twice with questions about whom to talk to
regarding my chess trivia game, to see if USCF wants to include it in
their catalog as a drop-ship item (i.e. USCF would not have to spend
cash on inventory, just forward the orders to the factory in Michigan
in exchange for a cut of the sales price), but so far, no responses
whatever. :-(

Tim Hanke

Jezum Crow,

Let it go already! The readers already decided.

Loki

"Sam Sloan" wrote in message
...
Tim Hanke Chess Trivia Game

Several posters have suggested that I am slandering Tim Hanke by
saying that he intends to use his position on the USCF Executive Board
to force the USCF to sell his game in the catalog, even though the
game has not yet been produced and nobody knows whether there will be
a market for it.

Here are some quotes by Tim Hanke on this subject. Nobody paid much
attention, because nobody thought that Hanke would be elected. Let the
readers decide: Was Hanke joking or not?


Subject: Chesstours' True Identity Revealed
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.politics
Date: 2003-04-30 06:46:30 PST

I will force USCF to produce my chess trivia game at membership
expense, and feature it on the cover of their next catalog.

Tim Hanke

From: Tim Hanke )
Subject: The Summer of Love Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.politics
Date: 2003-06-06 07:48:39 PST

If I win a Board seat, the "Campaign of Love" will become the "Summer
of Love." In the first 100 Days of my regime I plan to --

1. Fill the USCF catalog with products from the "House of Hanke,"
especially my excellent chess trivia game, but also whatever chess
products I can buy cheaply in India and sell through USCF at 500%
markup for my personal profit.

On May 30, 2003, Tim Hanke wrote:

If I get elected to the Board, can I sell my chess trivia game in the
front pages of the USCF catalog? Tim Hanke -- I am a candidate for the
U.S. Chess Federation Executive Board in the 2003 election. Please
visit my website at http://www.timothyhanke.net.

Date: 2003-05-02 08:12:55 PST

If USCF wants some sharp layout and design and editing for their
publications, they could do worse than come to me. Why should Glenn be
the only one slurping at the trough? I have expenses too, you know.
Like this chess trivia game I am trying to get published.

Tim Hanke
--
I am a candidate for the U.S. Chess Federation Executive Board in the
2003 election. Please visit my website at http://www.timothyhanke.net.


Subject: My chess trivia game
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.politics
Date: 2003-02-25 16:57:19 PST

I would rather suppose something that works. Let's suppose my game
retails for $25 and I cut the USCF in for 25%. The USCF makes $6.25 on
every game, not bad considering they have no money tied up in
inventory.

Tim Hanke

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.politics
Date: 2003-03-18 19:17:24 PST

Maybe USCF will respond to my emails about my chess trivia game if I
tell them it is a homosexual chess trivia game produced by USCF staff
using company resources on their lunch hour. Couldn't hurt; might
help. Tim Hanke -- I am a candidate for the U.S. Chess Federation
Executive Board in the 2003 election. Please visit my website at
http://www.timothyhanke.net.

Subject: My story and I'm sticking to it
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.politics
Date: 2003-02-25 11:48:39 PST

I have emailed the office twice with questions about whom to talk to
regarding my chess trivia game, to see if USCF wants to include it in
their catalog as a drop-ship item (i.e. USCF would not have to spend
cash on inventory, just forward the orders to the factory in Michigan
in exchange for a cut of the sales price), but so far, no responses
whatever. :-(

Tim Hanke

"Sam Sloan" wrote:
.... Let the readers decide: Was Hanke joking or not? ....

Oh come on, Sam. If it wasn't already clear that he was joking, it
certainly is now, as a result of your direct quotes.

Bill Smythe

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:03:29 -0500, "Bill Smythe"
wrote:

"Sam Sloan" wrote:
.... Let the readers decide: Was Hanke joking or not? ....

Oh come on, Sam. If it wasn't already clear that he was joking, it
certainly is now, as a result of your direct quotes.

Bill Smythe

I certainly thought he was joking, before the election.

However, now that he has been elected, and he says the same things, if
it is a joke, it is not funny any more.

Sam Sloan

I will force USCF to produce my chess trivia game at membership
expense, and feature it on the cover of their next catalog.

Tim Hanke

In the first 100 Days of my regime I plan to --

1. Fill the USCF catalog with products from the "House of Hanke,"

Give Tim credit.
His posts read like Jonathan Swift, just mashing the incumbents for their
ethical chasms.

Rp

"Sam Sloan" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:03:29 -0500, "Bill Smythe"
wrote:

"Sam Sloan" wrote:
.... Let the readers decide: Was Hanke joking or not? ....

Oh come on, Sam. If it wasn't already clear that he was joking, it
certainly is now, as a result of your direct quotes.

Bill Smythe

I certainly thought he was joking, before the election.

However, now that he has been elected, and he says the same things, if
it is a joke, it is not funny any more.

Sam Sloan

Come on Sam, *smile* be happy

Wait, Hanke gets a new job as the head of chess in the USA and your still a
peon Taxi driver in New York, who is mocked, ridiculed and spit-on by
everybody....

I feel your pain Sammy !

Sorry,

But I am just coming in on this:

Is Tim suggesting that Frank Camaratto did this with is House of Staunton
chess stuff ??

Or is it common knowledge that this happened ?

"ASCACHESS" wrote in message
...
I will force USCF to produce my chess trivia game at membership
expense, and feature it on the cover of their next catalog.

Tim Hanke

In the first 100 Days of my regime I plan to --

1. Fill the USCF catalog with products from the "House of Hanke,"

Give Tim credit.
His posts read like Jonathan Swift, just mashing the incumbents for their
ethical chasms.

Rp

Subject: Tim Hanke Chess Trivia Game

On 19 July 2003 (Sam Sloan) wrote in
Message-id:

Tim Hanke Chess Trivia Game

Several posters have suggested that I am slandering Tim Hanke by
saying that he intends to use his position on the USCF Executive Board
to force the USCF to sell his game in the catalog, even though the
game has not yet been produced and nobody knows whether there will be
a market for it.

-snip-

Sam Sloan


With all this talk about Tim Hanke's chess trivia game, has anybody seen or
read the book "Chess Trivia," co-authored by Peter Hotton and Herbert A..
Kenny. The book was published in July 1988 by Quinlan Press in Boston, right
before the U.S. Open at the Lafayette Hotel in Beantown. The book contains more
than 1,500 chess trivia questions (with answers) that would be a challenge to
any serious chess lover. Among those who helped co-authors Hotton and Kenny
with a lot of trivia material was Boston Globe chess columnist Harold Dondis,
of U.S. Chess Trust fame, who is still an active player at age 80. Two other
people who helped were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Heaney of Lamar, Missouri, who
provided innumerable chess clippings.

George Mirijanian

Subject: Tim Hanke Chess Trivia Game
From: "Gunny Bunny"
Date: 7/19/2003 10:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: gers.com

Sorry,

But I am just coming in on this:

Is Tim suggesting that Frank Camaratto did this with is House of Staunton
chess stuff ??

Or is it common knowledge that this happened ?

HOS stuff is everywhere in the catalog.

John Fernandez

"John Fernandez" wrote in message
...
Subject: Tim Hanke Chess Trivia Game
From: "Gunny Bunny"
Date: 7/19/2003 10:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: gers.com

Sorry,

But I am just coming in on this:

Is Tim suggesting that Frank Camaratto did this with is House of Staunton
chess stuff ??

Or is it common knowledge that this happened ?

HOS stuff is everywhere in the catalog.

John Fernandez

I know that, the question is did FC abuse his authority by getting free
stuff from the USCF to fund the HOS ?