I just got back from the World Open in Philadelphia. On July 6, 2008,
yesterday, just before leaving the playing site, I met the Great Ed
Trice. This meeting was made possible by Dan Heisman, whose name is
often mentioned in connection with Ed Trice and the "My 61 Memorable
Games" Hoax.

I then introduced Ed Trice to Jerry Hanken, who promised to interview
him.

Ed Trice was walking around the World Open wearing a "My 61 Memorable
Games" t-shirt.

I did not have much time to speak to Ed Trice because my last game had
just finished and I was rushing to catch the last bus back to New
York. Last year and the year before, it happened that I had to stay
another night in Philadelphia after the World Open because all the
buses to New York were full, this being the conclusion of July 4th
weekend. Therefore I was rushing to get to the bus station so that
this would not happen again, especially since I had my wife and six-
year-old daughter with me. (Fortunately, I made it. I caught one of
the last Chinese buses to New York and by chance I got a seat next to
Grandmaster Leonid Yudasin, who analyzed and commented on my pet
Damiano's Defense on the bus trip back to New York.)

Ed Trice said that he was the last American to be in contact with
Bobby Fischer before Fischer died and that he had arranged a 15
million dollar match between Fischer and Karpov just before Fischer
died. Ed Trice also said that Susan Polgar had agreed to take
Fischer's place in the match in case Fischer walked out after the
match had started. (I did not think to ask, but I assume that Susan
wanted part of that $15 million.)

Ed Trice had many uncomplimentary things to say about Ed Labate.

Ed Trice said a lot of other things too. However, I was rushing to
catch the bus and did not write them down.

Sam Sloan

Ed Trice said that he had traveled to Iceland with Frank Camaratta.
They did not get to meet Fischer on that trip. However, Ed Trice had
made two other trips to Iceland alone and on the third trip he got to
meet Fischer.

To learn more about Ed Trice, read his biography on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Trice

However, be forewarned that many of the claims made in that biography
seem doubtful or are unverifiable.

Sam Sloan

Edward Labate will soon own that t-shirt when he wins his $21.2
million lawsuit against Trice. Trice has been served and his days are
numbered.

Trice seems to have given up on Gothic Chess as a going concern and
now works for "Four Incorporated":
http://www.linkedin.com/in/edtrice
I can't find any sign of this company online, could he mean "Fantastic
Four Incorporated"? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Fantastic_Four_Incorporated)

Are you sure you met the famous Ed Trice and not his dunder-headed
1342 rated cousin?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...id=1593 69879

Here are the USCF member details for the cousin of Edward A Trice, who
is also, rather confusingly, also called Edward A Trice:
http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmtHst.php?12495284

I must inform the chessgames.com guys about this mistake, as one of
the 1342 rated Ed Trice's games has mistakenly been included in the
page for the famous Ed Trice:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1493593

And, to add to the confusion, the famous Ed Trice has commented on
this game as if it's his own. My god, if Ed Trice can't tell himself
apart from his cousin, what chance do we have?

On Jul 7, 10:10 am, wrote:
Are you sure you met the famous Ed Trice and not his dunder-headed
1342 rated cousin?http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...=160430300&old...

Here are the USCF member details for the cousin of Edward A Trice, who
is also, rather confusingly, also called Edward A Trice:http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmtHst.php?12495284

I must inform the chessgames.com guys about this mistake, as one of
the 1342 rated Ed Trice's games has mistakenly been included in the
page for the famous Ed Trice:http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1493593

And, to add to the confusion, the famous Ed Trice has commented on
this game as if it's his own. My god, if Ed Trice can't tell himself
apart from his cousin, what chance do we have?

Good catch. The comments by Ed Trice on chessgames.com prove that the
Ed Trice who is rated 1342 by the USCF is the same person as the Ed
Trice who claims to be a master with a 2227 rating.

http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmtHst.php?12495284

The game shown is also clearly a game by a 1342 strength player.

Somebody should inform Wikipedia about this. I am banned from
Wikipedia in retaliation for filing the Sloan vs. Truong "Fake Sam
Sloan" lawsuit in federal court.

Sam Sloan

I am banned from
Wikipedia in retaliation for filing the Sloan vs. Truong "Fake Sam
Sloan" lawsuit in federal court.

Sam Sloan

My condolences; however, congratulations for your great performance
at the World Open: +2 -6 in the U2000, several did worse.

On Jul 7, 9:10*am, wrote:
Are you sure you met the famous Ed Trice and not his dunder-headed
1342 rated cousin?http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...=160430300&old...

Here are the USCF member details for the cousin of Edward A Trice, who
is also, rather confusingly, also called Edward A Trice:http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmtHst.php?12495284

I must inform the chessgames.com guys about this mistake, as one of
the 1342 rated Ed Trice's games has mistakenly been included in the
page for the famous Ed Trice:http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1493593

And, to add to the confusion, the famous Ed Trice has commented on
this game as if it's his own. My god, if Ed Trice can't tell himself
apart from his cousin, what chance do we have?

Wikipedia now has the correction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ed_Trice

On Jul 7, 12:06 pm, Jürgen R. wrote:
I am banned from
Wikipedia in retaliation for filing the Sloan vs. Truong "Fake Sam
Sloan" lawsuit in federal court.

Sam Sloan

My condolences; however, congratulations for your great performance
at the World Open: +2 -6 in the U2000, several did worse.

I must admit that I played horribly at this World Open. I have an
excuse. I had not played since the August 2007 US Open in Cherry Hill.
Perhaps this explains why on the first day of play in which I had to
play five games at game in 45, I made terrible blunders in four of the
games. In each game I had winning or nearly winning positions at the
time I made the blunder.

Next time, I should warm up by playing in some blitz or minor
tournaments before entering the World Open.

I played myself into form to some extent. I entered the Game in 10
tournament and actually gained rating points. Also in the main event
I won two of my last three games.

I expect that my rating will hit my floor of 1900 for the first time
in my life, after this 3-6 exceptionally poor performance when all of
my opponents were rated lower than me.

The only interesting point was that I played three of our top
scholastic players. I played Benjamin Moon who is our number 12 rated
player age 10, Christopher Wu, who is our number 4 rated player aged 9
and Miles Hinson who is not on the top lists apparently due to an
oversight because he is a 1829 rated player and he seems to be 11 or
12 years old.

The only even mildly interesting game was against Christopher Wu.
There are five players named Christopher Wu in the USCF rating lists.
This is the one from New Jersey.

I played my extremely solid Damiano's Defense, which goes 1. e4 e5 2.
Nf3 f6!!! Naturally, after 3. Nxe5 Black just plays 3. ... fxe5 and
Black is a knight ahead.

However, my 9-year-old opponent played what I call the Damiano's
Defense Declined by playing 3. Bc4. Since he is just a kid I wonder if
he even knew about 3. Nxe5.

He was using a Monroi. Steve Immitt asked whether this game was being
broadcast on the Internet. Does anybody know the answer to this
question?

On the bus back to New York, Grandmaster Yudasin demonstrated why he
is a much stronger player than I am by pointing out an easy win that
both of us had missed over the board. Remember that Yudasin was
commenting blindfolded while riding on a Chinese bus on an opening he
had never seen before, since Yudasin obviously does not spend much
time studying the Damiano's Defense.

I am wondering how many readers here can point out what Yudasin saw
but both players in the game missed. HINT: It involves a knight
sacrifice.

Anyway, the game developed into something similar to a Philador's
Defense. In the Philador's Defense, Black gets a cramped and
unpleasant position and he just hangs on and waits and hopes that
White does something foolish.

That is what I did and that is what finally happened. I found a nice
little combination at the end which my opponent did not see coming.
Even if he had seen it, I would have had an equal and playable game.

Sam Sloan


[Event "World Open, Under 2000"]
[Site "Philadelphia PA"]
[Date "2008.07.06"]
[Round "09"]
[White "Wu,Christopher"]
[Black "Sloan,Sam"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C40"]
[WhiteElo "1780"]
[BlackElo "1923"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6 3.Bc4 Ne7 4.Nc3 c6 5.d4 d6 6.Be3 Bg4 7.d5
cxd5 8.Nxd5 Nbc6 9.O-O f5 10.h3 Bh5 11.Nxe7 Bxe7 12.Bd5
fxe4 13.Bxe4 O-O 14.Qd2 Qd7 15.Nh2 Rad8 16.c4 Kh8 17.Kh1
Qe6 18.b3 Qf6 19.a4 a6 20.a5 Rd7 21.Rab1 Qh4 22.Bd5 Bd8
23.b4 Bf7 24.Nf3 Qh5 25.Ng1 Bxd5 26.Qxd5 Qg6 27.Ne2 Ne7
28.Qd2 d5 29.Bc5 d4 30.f4 d3 31.Nc3 e4 32.Rbe1 Rg8 33.Nxe4
Nf5 34.Rf3 Bh4 35.Bf2 Bxf2 36.Rxf2 Re8 37.Nc5 Ng3+ 38.Kg1
Ne2+ 39.Rfxe2 Rxe2 40.Rxe2 dxe2 41.Nxd7 Qb1+ 42.Kf2 Qf1+ 0-1

[Event "World Open, Under 2000"]
[Site "Philadelphia PA"]
[Date "2008.07.04"]
[Round "02"]
[White "Sloan,Sam"]
[Black "Nath,Sathish R"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "1923"]
[BlackElo "1846"]

1.g4 e5 2.Bg2 c6 3.d3 d5 4.h3 Bd6 5.Nc3 Ne7 6.e4 Be6 7.Nf3
h6 8.O-O Ng6 9.Re1 Nd7 10.a3 Qc7 11.exd5 cxd5 12.Nb5 Qb6
13.Nxd6+ Qxd6 14.b4 f6 15.Qe2 O-O 16.Nd4 Rae8 17.Nf5 Bxf5
18.gxf5 Nf4 19.Bxf4 exf4 20.Qxe8 Rxe8 21.Rxe8+ Kh7 22.Rae1
Ne5 23.d4 Qd7 24.Ra8 Qxf5 25.dxe5 fxe5 26.Bxd5 Qxh3 27.Be4+
g6 28.f3 Qg3+ 29.Kf1 Qh3+ 30.Ke2 Qg2+ 31.Kd1 Qf2 32.Rb8
Qd4+ 33.Bd3 h5 34.Rxb7+ Kh6 35.Re7 Qa1+ 36.Kd2 Qxa3
37.R1xe5 Qxb4+ 38.Ke2 1-0

"samsloan" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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On Jul 7, 12:06 pm, Jürgen R. wrote:
I am banned from
Wikipedia in retaliation for filing the Sloan vs. Truong "Fake Sam
Sloan" lawsuit in federal court.

Sam Sloan

My condolences; however, congratulations for your great performance
at the World Open: +2 -6 in the U2000, several did worse.

I must admit that I played horribly at this World Open. I have an
excuse.

Real men don't make excuses. 181st out of 231 - reminds me of
the last USCF election: Sloan, you were born to fail.

[bla bla]

Sam Sloan

From Ed Trice: “OK Ed, let's hear your explanation. I'm sure someone
who always tells the truth has a very good explanation.”

My explanation Trice??? You can’t read…you’re an IDIOT.

Jon DSouzaEva is an Englishman with a BCF grading of 173, pretty close
to yours at the direction your rating’s taking, Mr. 1352!!

Look it up yourself.
http://grading.bcfservices.org.uk/ge...Eva&inactive=1

List of players by name

Ref Name Sex Age Club(s) Category Grade Last Year Cat Rapid Last Year
264249K
D'Souza-Eva, Daniel M 8 Oxford High School A 27 15
110291G
D'Souza-Eva, Jon M Cowley C 173 173 E 158 158

2 Record(s) Found
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So ‘I’ wrote to Edward and should sign ‘Edward’??? So it should look
like this to make any sense???

“
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:08 PM
To: Edward Labate
Subject: Trice arrested!

Hi Edward,

I can't make head or tail of this one:
http://tinyurl.com/4u4ne9

It's definitely "our" Ed Trice. If I read it correctly, he was
arrested for harassment of some kind, appealed, and was found not
guilty.

Best wishes,

Edward”

Please note:

To: Edward
Hi Edward
Best Wishes, Edward!!

Nice work COLOMBO!! Yep, makes a lot sense Trice.

Here’s the original email that I simply copied and pasted, and removed
Jon’s name from the public posting:

“
From: Jon D'Souza-Eva ]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:08 PM
To: Edward Labate
Subject: Trice arrested!

Hi Edward,

I can't make head or tail of this one:
http://tinyurl.com/4u4ne9

It's definitely "our" Ed Trice. If I read it correctly, he was
arrested for harassment of some kind, appealed, and was found not
guilty.

Best wishes,

Jon”
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No you moron, all I did was copy and paste an email Jon DSouzaEva sent
to me without commentary. Your inability to comprehend appears to be
worse than your inability to play chess, Mr. 1352!!

Regarding coming to your website to post, I’ve already seen you
embellish, edit and remove other posts…remember Greg Strong!!! You’d
have me confessing to poisoning Bobby Fischer if I ever came near your
post. I’ll just wait for the depositions, discoveries and your
witness stand performances. I’m a patience man, especially when the
payoff is your total demise!!

You and I both know along with Frank Camaratta, Dan Heisman, Bruce
Towell, Cathy Purdy and various others that you were the ASSHOLE
behind the ‘My 61 Memorable Games’ Scam.

Here you are, you know the whole truth and yet, you are astoundingly
relentless on your bull ****!! You are the lowest of lows, the
slimest life force I’ve ever had the misfortune of dealing with.

Don’t you have a lawsuit to answer?? And Trice, I won’t settle out of
court. I want to bury you once and for all…and a settlement will
allow you to return one day.

Edward Labate

P.S. NICE PICTURE Mr. GQ … ‘Can you say Discipline?’


From: ]
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 1:23 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Labate Lies, He Is "JonDSouzaEva" on ChessGames.com

http://z13.invisionfree.com/Gothic_C...?showtopic=434

Sorry to email this again to the 112 people on my email distribution
list about Ed Labate. But here he is online "forgetting" that he
logged in as "Ed Labate", and he signed his name "Jon".

OK Ed, let's hear your explanation. I'm sure someone who always tells
the truth has a very good explanation