SECTION "D" DOES NOT EXIST!

By Larry Parr

Honest John Fernandez has ceased denying there is such a thing as the FIDE
drug code. That was his first line of defense.

His second line of defense -- until I can get the entire code posted
here -- is that there is something called "Section D."

UNTRUE. There is no Section "D" in the current FIDE drug code. It
DOES NOT EXIST. Repeat: IT DOES NOT EXIST!

Yet Honest John Fernandez still alleges that only Section "D" events are
meant when Article 3.1 refers to "ANY competitor" in "ANY FIDE Competiton"
being tested. The truth is there is nothing in the code that "limits" testing
to the many dozens of events that once existed in Section "D."

ANY means ANY.

PLEASE REMEMBER: Just a short time ago, Honest John told us that testing
would only be in a half dozen or so tournaments.

Hah.

Honest John, the man who tells us he opposes drug testing except that he
favors it until WADA changes its code (which won't happen, he says, though "we
can try") has simply lied once more to everyone on rgcp.

Once again, there is NO SECTION "D" in this code. It is a myth. A BIG LIE.

Article 3.4 reads: "At all other events (Except where doping control
is carried out under the rules of another sporting body) the NCF conducting the
controls or in whose territory an event is held shall be responsible for
conducting doping control and shall inform and report the results to the FIDE
Medical Commission."

The national chess federation is "responsible" for conducting such drug
testing and is "responsible" for informing FIDE. There are no options here
mentioned such as "responsible unless the NCF does not wish to test or inform
FIDE."

The writ claimed in the code is to test every tournament on earth. Only
FIDE's weakness and resistance prevents it, unless you believe in the tooth
fairy or the good will of bureaucrats anxious to extend their power.

Yet John "take my urine, please" Fernandez tells us with a straight face
that he is against drug testing -- agin' it. He isn't looking for a FIDE
appointment on its Medical Commission unless something "cooler" comes along.
Etc. etc.

He's a doozy.

THE HONORABLE MEN OF FIDE

By Larry Parr

While awaiting a response from Honest John and Jim Eade (who has bid us
goodbye -- perhaps) another example of how FIDE can be trusted can be found in
"Rigging Ratings" describing how Susan Polgar was cheated out of 100 ratings
points by the honorable men of FIDE at the Dubai Olympiad in 1986.

http://www.worldchessnetwork.com in a weekly column Evans On Chess posted each
Monday.

Larry Parr wrote:

While awaiting a response from Honest John

I zip out tomorrow for the rapid event in Warsaw. See you guys Monday.

John Fernandez

HOW OUR "TEAM" WORKED AGAINST DRUG TESTING

By Larry Parr

While awaiting a response from Honest John....I zip out tomorrow for the
rapid event in Warsaw. See you guys Monday. - John Fernandez on 12/15/03

The exchange below between Jim Eade and John Fernandez gives a fair
idea of how hard our "team" worked against drug testing:

Writes Mr. Eade, "Later on, the delegate from Barbados and I spoke at
quite some length. He couldn't believe that we would seriously try to
jeopardize the funding they were getting."

"Thank you. That is the biggest point," Mr. Fernandez, who claims he is
against drug testing except he is for it until WADA changes its code for chess,
except that won't happen though "We can try."

First, no one says players in the Barbados cannot be tested for
drugs, if they so wish, though it is true Mr. Eade was talking with a fellow
chess politician rather than a player.

Secondly, how revealing all around. Mr. Fernandez claimed that the
Barbados received $30,000 because its federation required drug testing or, more
accurately, did not reject it. And for this amount, part of a pittance of $2.2
million for the entire world, Honest John favors funding a permanent medical
bureaucracy that will have the power to destroy the careers of players and
possibly badly injure chess promotion in the USA.

The members of our FIDE "team" were serving their careers in FIDE
rather than the interests of American chess when refusing even to communicate
the contents of ADM-64 to the nations of FIDE. They cannot even bring
themselves now to discuss the actual FIDE regulations which are too dreadful to
contemplate.

HONEST JOHN RETURNS

By Larry Parr

Sam Sloan and I appear to disagree -- at least in terms of emphasis.

Tim Redman wrote several years ago about what he called "the 40
Oligarchs," a group of people who played musical chairs when running the
Federation. He was right.

One-Member-One-Vote promoted for over a decade by The Friends of the
USCF is beginning to make itself felt by breaking the grip of the unholy 40.

Down below, Sam talks about a whole new group running the USCF. While
some new faces have arrived, it is equally true that several of the old faces
remain, especially in the area of committee assignments.

As for Sam's comments on FIDE, they are obviously right. A truly
scabrous group has been running FIDE for over 20 years and in the process has
managed to drive chess down, down, down. There was a period during the mid and
late 1980s when Campomanes noted with some truth that the buffoonery and the
brigandage were making lots of news, bringing in money to the game. But the
sheer lawlessness of the process eventually, as it must in every human
endeavour, sapped life from FIDE and from much of the international chess
scene. Today, the title has lost 75 percent of its value from its peak in the
early 1990s. If one counts the Fischer-Spassky rematch, then the title has lost
over 80 percent of its value.

One notes the return of Honest John Fernandez, who is in the same form
as when he left for Warsaw a week ago. He speaks of people creating "wild
fantasy situations" without mentioning any. If he is prepared to return to a
discussion of FIDE's drug regulations, then let the good times roll.

When Mr. Fernandez left, he had told the whopping lie, rancid even by
his honest standards, that the Code limited testing to tournaments in Section
"D." I noted that the code has no Section "D" and there is absolutely no
reference to a Section "D" in the drug code.

Once again, Article 3.1 provides for testing of "any competitor" in
"any FIDE competitions." No exceptions are mentioned. None. Article 3.4
provides for testing in "all other events," and notes that national federations
"shall be responsible" (not requested to do so, but held responsible) to send
in test results to the FIDE Medical Commission. Your medical records will be
in the hands of the likes of Honest "Toti" Abundo, the permanent secretary of
the Medical Commission.

I have neglected sending a copy of the code to someone who has
offered to try and web it. I'll try to get to that after Christmas. It is
important to get up the code so that everyone may see that Honest John's claim
of a Section "D" in the code or reference to a Section "D" in the code was
another of his stunning lies.

The kid will write ANYTHING.

THE EADIAN EQUATION

By Larry Parr

Once again, Jim Eade equates the USCF with FIDE. Both have corrupt
inner circles; both have quite a few well-meaning types. Period.

I disagree. The USCF does not have a corrupt inner circle. The group now
ruling the USCF has been in power only for four months since August and has no
connection with the previous group. That previous group was in power since
Framingham 2001 and had no connection with the group before them, which was the
Redman Gang. Going back over the past 47 years that I have been a USCF member,
no group has remained in power for long. There has always been a rapid
turnover.

FIDE on the other hand does have problem people who seem never to leave. One
example is Makropoulos whom we cannot seem to get rid of. He has been at or
near the top of the FIDE pyramid since at least 1980 and squashes all
opposition. His latest move is to move FIDE to Greece where he will have even
more control. The group which controls FIDE has been more or less the same for
the past 20 years since 1982, with the exception of the relatively recent
arrival of Ilyumzhinov who came in 1995. -- Sam Sloan

I don't have a problem with this as an argument for getting out of FIDE. I do
have a problem when people need to create wild fantasy situations that are
patently absurd to get the point across -- isn't what FIDE's leadership has
done ENOUGH? -- John Fernandez

Larry Parr wrote:

One notes the return of Honest John Fernandez, who is in the same form
as when he left for Warsaw a week ago.

I hope that's a good thing.

He speaks of people creating "wild
fantasy situations" without mentioning any.

You mean the situation where the USCF just goes off, creates a new
organization, and everyone runs to join? That's clearly a wild fantasy
situation. Same with FIDE people drug testing American Kindergarteners.

John Fernandez

Subject: Honest John's Big Lie
From: (Parrthenon)
Date: 12/15/2003 11:18 AM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id:

SECTION "D" DOES NOT EXIST!

By Larry Parr

Honest John Fernandez has ceased denying there is such a thing as the
FIDE
drug code. That was his first line of defense.

His second line of defense -- until I can get the entire code posted
here -- is that there is something called "Section D."

UNTRUE. There is no Section "D" in the current FIDE drug code. It
DOES NOT EXIST. Repeat: IT DOES NOT EXIST!

Yet Honest John Fernandez still alleges that only Section "D" events
are
meant when Article 3.1 refers to "ANY competitor" in "ANY FIDE Competiton"
being tested. The truth is there is nothing in the code that "limits" testing
to the many dozens of events that once existed in Section "D."

Sigh. Poor, stupid Larry.

Section D IS FIDE Competitions. The words "FIDE Competitions" by definition
limits it to section D of the FIDE handbook, which deals with... FIDE
Competitions! Ta-da.

John Fernandez

Larry Parr wrote:

Writes Mr. Eade, "Later on, the delegate from Barbados and I spoke
at
quite some length. He couldn't believe that we would seriously try to
jeopardize the funding they were getting."

And still Parr offers the belief that Barbados would happily get out of FIDE
and give up their money for... some reason?

Oh, and Parr utterly fails to provide an alternative source of funding.

First, no one says players in the Barbados cannot be tested for
drugs

I'll quote the President of the Barbados Chess Federation on this subject:

"To be affiliated to our Olympic Committee means we have to respect
their constitution which conforms to the requirements of the IOC.
Currently there is a National body being set up by the Government to
implement a National Drug Policy, which we have signed to retain our
recognition as a Sport in Barbados and access to state funding.

Fortunately to date none of our players or competitions have been tested
but this does not mean that in the future we may not be tested.

What we have done is embarked on an educational programme to sensitize
our top players to the IOC Drug Testing procedure and the FIDE
requirements.

We are also about to embark on a constitutional review and this will be
one area we will have to address."

if they so wish, though it is true Mr. Eade was talking with a fellow
chess politician rather than a player.

And again, you claim that "they" is FIDE, which is just a complete lie, and Mr.
Herbert clearly explains this.

Secondly, how revealing all around. Mr. Fernandez claimed that the
Barbados received $30,000

It receives $21,000 annually.

because its federation required drug testing or, more
accurately, did not reject it.

No, I've never made this claim. My research has nothing to do with "what drug
testing has done for Federations". It's "What NOC recognition has done for
Federations". In fact, I've been very specific to point out that many
federations enjoy significant financial support without any anti-doping
structures.

And for this amount, part of a pittance of $2.2
million for the entire world, Honest John favors funding a permanent medical
bureaucracy

No, I don't "favor" it, I just think that the financial support of at least
$2.2 Million annually, in addition to other such big payments like the one-time
$4.5M payment to the Turkish Federation for Istanbul 2000, and the inclusion of
chess as a medal sport in some continental IOC medal events is worth the
negatives of the current drug testing climate.

that will have the power to destroy the careers of players and
possibly badly injure chess promotion in the USA.

How does this affect the USA? I've already shown that the organization which
does anti-doping in the USA is USADA, which only takes orders from USOC, which
as YOU argue, won't recognize us. But they'd come after us and pay for drug
tests in chess?

John Fernandez

eepmeep (John Fernandez) wrote in message ...

Sigh. Poor, stupid Larry.

Section D IS FIDE Competitions. The words "FIDE Competitions" by definition
limits it to section D of the FIDE handbook, which deals with... FIDE
Competitions! Ta-da.

John Fernandez

Congrats! Your stylistic flourish tops even the verbally gifted Bill
Clinton. What he should have said was, "It depends upon what the
meaning of 'is' is. Ta-da."

Danny Purvis

On 23 Dec 2003 15:24:13 GMT, (Parrthenon) wrote:

HONEST JOHN RETURNS

By Larry Parr

Sam Sloan and I appear to disagree -- at least in terms of emphasis.

Tim Redman wrote several years ago about what he called "the 40
Oligarchs," a group of people who played musical chairs when running the
Federation. He was right.

One-Member-One-Vote promoted for over a decade by The Friends of the
USCF is beginning to make itself felt by breaking the grip of the unholy 40.

Down below, Sam talks about a whole new group running the USCF. While
some new faces have arrived, it is equally true that several of the old faces
remain, especially in the area of committee assignments.

Larry Parr does not get it. Committee Assignments are meaningless.
Although I have been one of the biggest supporters of OMOV, it so far
has been disasterous. Beatriz would probably have been elected under
the old system, but Hanke never would have been, and Hanke is
Hell-bent on the destruction of the USCF as we know it.

Sam Sloan