When will RGCP heal itself? When will it be rid of the crazy people who haunt this place? Old Haasie

Gerald Ford, The Greatest President Who Ever Lived I have been watching with a combination of amusement and disgust the gaudy display that his been going on during the past few days, where speaker after speaker has described Gerald Ford in the most laudatory terms imaginable. One would imagine that Gerald Ford was the greatest president who ever lived, and possibly the greatest man in the...

I read an article in Chess Life discussed how all the russian players that immigrated to the US during the 70s and 80s changed tournaments and how they play chess to make a living. I think that this sounds really interesting and the benefits are wonderful. I would just have to play a tournament each weekend with either a 2-day or 3-day schedule and then I also get Monday through Thursday off. ...

My new book on Thomas Jefferson just came out. It just got listed this morning on Amazon. The address is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0923891803/slavesofthomasje Sam Sloan

Marcus Roberts told me that he will sponsor the 2007 US Championship in Wyoming. He will offer $1 million prize funds. The winner would get $250,000! We no longer need the AF4C and Erik Anderson. Sam Sloan

December 31, 2006 Feuding parents move battle off chess boards By Daryl James Tribune Gilbert's chess community will have a chance to shine this Saturday when schoolchildren from across the state gather at Greenfield Junior High School for grade-level championships. The state tournament will be the latest of many chess extravaganzas in Gilbert since the U.S. Chess

To the By-Laws Committee: Here is the email from Grant Perks to Patricia Knight which was deemed to be sufficient by Pat Knight to appoint Herbert Vaughn, Bill Brock, Paul Truong and Jeff Smith as alternate delegates from the State of Ohio. I believe that this email was insufficient for this purpose and that they were not validly appointed for a variety of reasons, including the fact that the...

Last year, Susan Polgar complained on her Blog that there were too many players in the US Championship and that the prizes were too small. If you search, you can still find her complaints unless she has deleted them. Now, by contrast, she has come out against "chess politicians" who attack "sponsors". Here is a quote from Susan Polgar's current Blog on the 2007 US

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Why does this small little clique of people govern the funds of so many? OMOV, the preomov, it doesn't matter. WHY IS MIKE NOLAN always showing up in the background with any sort of USCF complaint. Why is MIKE NOLAN keeping me off the USCF web site. I can't direct a chess tournament, and nobody will tell me why. Marcus Roberts

That's a complete fabrication of what happened, Sam. Don, Beatriz, Tim and I were there on Monday, we all went out to dinner at a local Italian restaurant. (Al Lawrence was at that dinner, too.) Paul and Susan didn't get there until some time around noon on Tuesday. Mike Nolan

READ HOW BESSEL KOK AND KIRSAN HAVE MADE FRIEDS. YOU CAN'T HAVE A GM RUN FIDE. THEY HAVE LITTLE BUSINESS SENSE. ANOTHER GM MAKES NO SENSE AS A CANDIDATE FOR FIDE PRESIDENT. www.fide.com

Possible Chicago Bid to Hold the 2007 US Championship In the first place, I have the contract that was signed in 2000 with Erik Anderson. It is sitting right here on my desk. The reason I have it is that I demanded to see it the first thing I did when I got on the board in August, 2006. They told me that it had been lost but finally in late-September (after I kept making a big stink about it,...

Help us! send an e-mail to Ask them why can't we play in the World Chess Championship. Tell them I told you to raise hell. Check out Singapore http://www.singaporechess.org.sg/ Send them an e-mail. Raise hell. Tell them every nation can play in the

December 31, 2006 Feuding parents move battle off chess boards By Daryl James Tribune Gilbert's chess community will have a chance to shine this Saturday when schoolchildren from across the state gather at Greenfield Junior High School for grade-level championships. The state tournament will be the latest of many chess extravaganzas in Gilbert since the U.S. Chess

It's after midnight and no proposal from the AF4C. That means that they're out and I will entertain bids from interested parties. We don't need any stinking AF4C or Erik Anderson. Larry Cohen is my answer. Sam Sloan

nolan 10339324 Joined: 20 Dec 2003 Posts: 4015 PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:18 pm Post subject: Reply with quote I think that thread got deleted because the Moderator who did it didn't know how to just move a thread to the hidden areas. (I was on the road returning from PA at the time.)

At 10:52 PM 12/29/2006 -0800, Ben Finegold wrote: Hi everyone. I am quite opinionated about this issue, but, since I will not (did not) qualify to play in 2007, I would hope the players who did already qualify and want to play have more say than I do. Suffice to say, if I was eligible to play in 2007 (let's assume I qualified somehow) then I would still not play if any games are...

Actually, the current board is one of the best, if not the best, in the recent history of the USCF. It's because I'm on it. In this board, there are no factions. In every previous board for a number of years there was a gang-of-four which took over and ran the USCF to the exclusion of the other three board members. However, no such gang exists on the current board. It was thought that Joel...

Susan Poglar, a role model just as dangerous as Sam Sloan Susan Polgar is not a business woman. Susan Polgar is not a successful woman. Susan Polgar is a chess player who wants to be in a CLIQUE. The problem with Polgar is that according to Tim Redman, TOO OFF ALL OF HER CLOTHES to take a FIDE DRUG TEST. Susan wants to have children STRIP NAKED for drug tests, and I will make sure that her...