Gregory wrote:
On Jul 10, 3:00 pm, Brian Lafferty wrote:
Gregory wrote:
Note: Sam's wild lies have nothing to do with reality, but he thinks
that it is pay-back time. I am highlighting a serious breach of ethics
from David Quinn, his supporter and friend on the FOC. David leaked
the FOC deliberations and materials to Hal, as well as Sam, and it
caused an enourmous amount of harm to the moderation volunteers. See
http://www.chessdiscussion.com/phpBB...php?f=4&t=1299
Regarding Sam's BS-- I will qoute my own post from the USCF forum
here.
Prior to being nominated as volunteer of the month, I did not help
Susan as a paid contractor nor as a volunteer. I volunteered to assist
her last October when she told me that she wanted to create a new
chess based forum. She nominated me due to being one of the most
active (if not the most active volunteer) in the college chess world.
During the election season; I was the most active moderator in the
USCF forums, and several times also volunteered to program software
for the USCF forums. I intended to create forums with chess based
viewers and a web applet-based chess server for the USCF, but decided
against it after my volunteer stint as I do not feel that the
President or ED supported us. I believe that I am close to working out
an applet based chess server for chessdiscussion, and it is too bad
that the political environment of the USCF scares me away from
volunteering to implement a web based chess server here.
For over 5 years, I have been actively organizing online chess events
for the college community, and also programmed and maintain the
college chess site athttp://www.collegechess.org. As a volunteer, I
work underneath Jim Stallings as a College Chess Associate Chair. I
have put in hundreds, if not thousands of hours as a volunteer in the
college chess world. I have not received any compensation other than a
one time payment of around $200 to cover a tiny fraction of hosting
costs that I have directly incurred.
I also volunteer to teach chess to elementary schools and have done so
actively for the last 5 years. I also volunteer to assist the
Univesity of Washington Chess Club, and for several years I spent
about 5 hours per-week as the faculty advisor. I have received no
financial compensation my volunteer work.
You can label me as being partisan all that you want-- but trying to
infer that I only received this award without merit as a hand me down
from Susan is offensive. I have worked very hard and have been very
dedicated to promote the game that we all share.
Regards,
G
Could you provide links to cross tables for several of the college
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Crosstables are at www.collegechess.org.

I was there before I posted the question to you. I see no cross tables
to any tournaments directed by you. Do you have a direct link to any
crosstable for a tournament in which you served as TD? Thanks.

Chess One wrote:
"samsloan" wrote in message
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On Jul 11, 5:32 am, Gregory wrote:
On Jul 10, 3:00 pm, Brian Lafferty wrote:


Could you provide links to cross tables for several of the college
events that you directed? Thanks.- Hide quoted text -
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Crosstables are atwww.collegechess.org.
Where? I do not see any crosstables of tournaments you directed.

I found em in 20 seconds.

Give us the link to the crosstable(s) listing Gregory Alexander as the TD.


If you are referring to the US Intercollegiate Championship, there is
no indication that you had anything to do with it.

Laugh - what is this, an abuse the help thread?

Sam Sloan ignores 5 years of commitment to chess in the USA, and further
commitments, both as performed and as offered to USCF - and Sam Sloan's idea
is to then abuse that person's record in public, because he 'doesn't see'.

Sam Sloan sees what he wants, methinks, and he only sees Susan Polgar, so if
Gregory Alexander had /not/ worked for Susan Polgar before the award, Sam
Sloan must now find something else to cavil about.

Phil Innes



Sam Sloan

On Jul 10, 5:23 pm, Javert wrote:
On Jul 10, 4:00 pm, "Chess One" wrote:



"SBD" wrote in message

...

On Jul 10, 12:52 pm, "Chess One" wrote:

USCF records show that Gregory Alexander does not have a USCF rating
and has never directed a USCF tournament.

Don't records show that the top TD in the USA doesn't have a USCF rating?
[ROFL]

Of course, she has connections, instead.

She's a damn good, proven TD as well.

But unrated? That is the point. Unrated for how many years?

Phil Innes

I had thought you were just an amusing doofus and pr flack, quite
possibly putting us on with over the top prose and illogical
circumlocutions.
Now I see that you are just a plain old bad person.

YES! YES! YES!

Another person sees the light!

On Jul 11, 9:17 am, "Chess One" wrote:

Sam Sloan ignores 5 years of commitment to chess in the USA, and further
commitments, both as performed and as offered to USCF - and Sam Sloan's idea
is to then abuse that person's record in public, because he 'doesn't see'.

Sam Sloan sees what he wants, methinks, and he only sees Susan Polgar, so if
Gregory Alexander had /not/ worked for Susan Polgar before the award, Sam
Sloan must now find something else to cavil about.

Phil Innes

Do you have any evidence, any evidence at all, that Gregory Alexander
was in any way involved with chess or with the USCF prior to mid-2006?

Can you in any way substantiate his claim that he has been a volunteer
for 5 years?

Records of the USCF show that Gregory Alexander first joined the USCF
in mid-2006. There is no record at all of his existence prior to that
date. If he was using another name (as I suspect) I would like to know
what it was.

Except for one posting in mid-2006, his first posting to this forum
was in mid-2007 and was entitled "Forum Follies".

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.g...a?dmode=source

It is well worth reading because, in it, Gregory Alexander complains
about the same things that we are complaining about now.

Sam Sloan

On Jul 11, 6:47*am, samsloan wrote:
On Jul 11, 9:17 am, "Chess One" wrote:

Sam Sloan ignores 5 years of commitment to chess in the USA, and further
commitments, both as performed and as offered to USCF - and Sam Sloan's idea
is to then abuse that person's record in public, because he 'doesn't see'.

Sam Sloan sees what he wants, methinks, and he only sees Susan Polgar, so if
Gregory Alexander had /not/ worked for Susan Polgar before the award, Sam
Sloan must now find something else to cavil about.

Phil Innes

Do you have any evidence, any evidence at all, that Gregory Alexander
was in any way involved with chess or with the USCF prior to mid-2006?

Can you in any way substantiate his claim that he has been a volunteer
for 5 years?

Records of the USCF show that Gregory Alexander first joined the USCF
in mid-2006. There is no record at all of his existence prior to that
date. If he was using another name (as I suspect) I would like to know
what it was.

Except for one posting in mid-2006, his first posting to this forum
was in mid-2007 and was entitled "Forum Follies".

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.g.../msg/8204c6671...

It is well worth reading because, in it, Gregory Alexander complains
about the same things that we are complaining about now.

Sam Sloan

Sam Sloan is fabricating as usual.

The online collegiate games that I help organize are not rated, so
USCF cross-tables won't be found. I also work with other TD's that are
helping in a volunteer role. We have a great committee and team.

I played chess actively in scholatics and in the military. I believe
that some games were NW Chess rated. However, as a young lad I figured
out that I would never be a Master level player, so I gave up
competive chess.

I help organize and promote chess as I feel that it is a great hobby
for our kids.

Gregory

"samsloan" wrote in message
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On Jul 11, 9:17 am, "Chess One" wrote:

Sam Sloan ignores 5 years of commitment to chess in the USA, and further
commitments, both as performed and as offered to USCF - and Sam Sloan's
idea
is to then abuse that person's record in public, because he 'doesn't
see'.

Sam Sloan sees what he wants, methinks, and he only sees Susan Polgar, so
if
Gregory Alexander had /not/ worked for Susan Polgar before the award, Sam
Sloan must now find something else to cavil about.

Phil Innes

Do you have any evidence, any evidence at all, that Gregory Alexander
was in any way involved with chess or with the USCF prior to mid-2006?

Yes. In fact I know the West Coast organisers of the college league too - an
Oregon academic got things going there, and Chessville reported the
initiative; eventually several East coast entities joined in.

Can you in any way substantiate his claim that he has been a volunteer
for 5 years?

A volunteer of what and to whom?

Records of the USCF show that Gregory Alexander first joined the USCF
in mid-2006. There is no record at all of his existence prior to that
date.

How would there be a record of him before he joined? And there are no
records pre-1990 in any case, since they were eliminated. The degree to
which records were actually digitised in the 1990s is as unknown as the
content of the USCF archive, which is not even indexed!

If he was using another name (as I suspect) I would like to know
what it was.

Except for one posting in mid-2006, his first posting to this forum
was in mid-2007 and was entitled "Forum Follies".

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.g...a?dmode=source

It is well worth reading because, in it, Gregory Alexander complains
about the same things that we are complaining about now.

"We"? "The same things?"

I don't think "we" are complaining about the same things at all - in fact
its hard to tell from the writing of Sam Sloan if there are any 'things',
instead there are just the international villains, Polgar and Truong, plus
the domestic one, 'Wild Bill Goichberg'.

What some people want instead is an impersonal approach to what benefits
chess players, centered on the welfare of the game and its players, and not
based on personality likes and dislikes.

What still others care about is decency in public expression. Its absolutely
not a matter of 'freedom of speech' - free from what? Freedom from decency,
openness, USCF's own mission?

Instead of freedom it is instead worth clamoring about what inhibits a real
dialog about the future of chess in this country: Inhibitions which included
virtual stalking, compulsive egoic behavior coupled with very unhealthy
fixations on others, plus the secret machinations of the good ol' boys.

The net effect of this campaign of activity is designed to ensure that USCF
will not be touched by any resulting changes resulting from a true national
dialog - a situation which benefits long-term incumbents who try to freeze
out newcomers. Exactly the situation has arisen in England where those who
elected to arrest the decline of chess there, all resigned their positions
because of the intractable organisation who, we must assume, prefer decline
as we know it, to 'risking' greater popularity.

The chess community will support viable changes to USCF's failed programs
and methods as they emerge from other quarters of the chess scene, and since
there are now so many of those, it is merely a matter of several of them
coalescing to create a real alternate basis for chess which addressed the
needs of the C21st., not the yawning void of dithering around in the
post-Fischer last quarter century.

Phil Innes

Sam Sloan

"Brian Lafferty" wrote in message
news:MGvdk.843$713.800@trnddc03...
Chess One wrote:
"SBD" wrote in message
...
On Jul 10, 12:52 pm, "Chess One" wrote:

USCF records show that Gregory Alexander does not have a USCF rating
and has never directed a USCF tournament.
Don't records show that the top TD in the USA doesn't have a USCF
rating?
[ROFL]

Of course, she has connections, instead.
She's a damn good, proven TD as well.

But unrated? That is the point. Unrated for how many years?

Phil Innes
It may be the "point" to you, but it's not the point.

Laugh!!

Sam Sloan raises the issue of Gregory Alexander not having a rating. I point
out that the chief TD at USCF doesn't have a rating either. Brian Lafferty
says that is not the point. Others chip in to say that she is still a good
TD, someone glossing the issues that Gregory Alexander could still be a good
organiser, and how come if Sam Sloan can accuse a newcomer of not deserving
USCF's award because of no-rating, its okay for the senior TD in the country
to commit the same offence but not be mentioned?

Sam Sloan pretends to be something of a revolutionary and an outsider - but
here he is, acting in exactly the same way as the Good Ol' Boys, and of Us
and Them.

Now, I suppose you could get entangled in this whole affair by that sort of
continuation about a simple and direct issue, since what is /obviously/ the
topic - a factual matter of rating raised above - is not only ignored by a
subsequent writer Brian Lafferty, but the matter is stated to be something
else! But what else? Politics again?

The way these 'investigations' go, [might as well call them accusations] is
that there is no matter of principal involved at all - there is only Who is
accused. This corporate culture of personalities has succeeded in destroying
USCF - and Sam Sloan is not fundamentally different than those he accuses to
being insiders. He would by his writing here be an insider too if he could,
and act in the very same way as the departed villains.

Phil Innes

On Jul 12, 9:16 am, "Chess One" wrote:
Sam Sloan raises the issue of Gregory Alexander not having a rating. I point
out that the chief TD at USCF doesn't have a rating either.

The USCF has a chief TD? Is this a paid position?

Gregory wrote:
On Jul 11, 6:47 am, samsloan wrote:
On Jul 11, 9:17 am, "Chess One" wrote:

Sam Sloan ignores 5 years of commitment to chess in the USA, and further
commitments, both as performed and as offered to USCF - and Sam Sloan's idea
is to then abuse that person's record in public, because he 'doesn't see'.
Sam Sloan sees what he wants, methinks, and he only sees Susan Polgar, so if
Gregory Alexander had /not/ worked for Susan Polgar before the award, Sam
Sloan must now find something else to cavil about.
Phil Innes
Do you have any evidence, any evidence at all, that Gregory Alexander
was in any way involved with chess or with the USCF prior to mid-2006?

Can you in any way substantiate his claim that he has been a volunteer
for 5 years?

Records of the USCF show that Gregory Alexander first joined the USCF
in mid-2006. There is no record at all of his existence prior to that
date. If he was using another name (as I suspect) I would like to know
what it was.

Except for one posting in mid-2006, his first posting to this forum
was in mid-2007 and was entitled "Forum Follies".

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.g.../msg/8204c6671...

It is well worth reading because, in it, Gregory Alexander complains
about the same things that we are complaining about now.

Sam Sloan

Sam Sloan is fabricating as usual.

The online collegiate games that I help organize are not rated, so
USCF cross-tables won't be found. I also work with other TD's that are
helping in a volunteer role. We have a great committee and team.

I played chess actively in scholatics and in the military. I believe
that some games were NW Chess rated. However, as a young lad I figured
out that I would never be a Master level player, so I gave up
competive chess.

I help organize and promote chess as I feel that it is a great hobby
for our kids.

Gregory


Presumably, there is a crosstable for a tournament that you acted as TD
for, USCF or not. Can you provide a link to even one such tournament
crosstable that shows you as the TD? Thanks.