An easy way to be nice to the members of newsgroups that have nothing to do with r.g.c.p. is RIGHT BEFORE you hit send check what groups you are sending it to. If it is about USCF politics there is a 99.99% chance you will only annoy members of the dozens of crossposted groups. Take them off the distribution list. It only takes a second. You will score some good karma.

Besides a great way to train minds to think better, chess can be a tool to improve foreign language grades, and not just because of "j'adoube" and "en passant". What would the average student rather do, conjugate irregular verbs in the preterite subjunctive mode, or read a chess magazine in that language? Tom Alciere http://ChessLinks.info

As I've correctly reported earlier, there are still over 80 boxes of important documents missing. I believe that this is a mass cover up by the board. All USCF members should demand to see these records and no one should renew their memberships until these records are made public. Sam Sloan

Does anybody know if the document at http://bobby-fischer.net/I_Was_Tortured_in_the_Pasadena_Jailhouse.html was authored by Bobby Fischer? Tom

I'll make a motion to use Jennifer Shahade, Laura Ross and Hana Itkis in bikinis to promote scholastic chess. They're girls with very nice racks. The boys will certainly love this idea and the girls will want to be famous like them. This is the best way to raise scholastic memberships. Sam Sloan

Joel Channing wrote (Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:05 pm): -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear USCF members, _ At a closed session of the Board meeting in Chicago it was I who acknowledged Sam's desire to review the current and past financial records and asked our Executive Director, Bill Hall, if they were in good order. His response was that the

http://www.samsloan.com/pokeplot.htm Apologize to young children and their parents. http://www.samsloan.com/tommaser.htm (Sloan calls Martin Luther King Day "Coon Day") http://tinyurl.com/l6umk (Sloan denies the Rape of Nanking)

Thomas Keske wrote: Fischer strikes me as having a peculiar psychology similar to Hitler, who I believe also might have had his own Jewish roots, and some kind of "self-hating syndrome". Hitler was a doer, a mover, a shaker. Fischer is more the whiner type. :D -- help bot

to the frequent readers: i guess we have a 'fake' marcus Robers like we have a 'fake' sam sloan. i will not reply further to these posts, however, i welcome a telephone call to 850-722-7551 if somebody would call me up an explain to me why i am worthy of impersonating. marcus roberts

Where is the apology for years of Sam Slaon flooding rec.games.chess.computer with posts that have nothing to do with computer chess?

How about the other people that Sam accused in connection with his paranoid fantasies? Where are the apologies to Grant Perks, Beatriz Marinello, Randy Bauer, Tim Hanke, and Bill Brock?

Chess Freak wrote: LOL! Nice to know that the USCF Board is spending time on such IMPORTANT topics. What a waste of everyone's time, Sloan. Just because Sam Slaon fills groups such as rec.games.chess.computer, soc.culture.usa and alt.politics.bush with off-topic material, that doesn't mean that you have to follow his example when you reply.

Will someone please come up with a new chess scandal.. just to keep things interesting. It is getting kinda dull around here. Old Haasie

Sam Sloan wrote: Chinese Chess for Beginners DVD Video has been released The long awaited DVD Video "Chinese Chess for Beginners" has arrived and is ready for shipping. This DVD covers the basic elements of the Game of Chinese Chess, also known as Xiangqi. It starts with the basic pieces, principles of the game and the basic rules.

Beatriz is the best USCF President ever. I believe that Beatriz should replace Bill Goichberg as President. I would like to apologize to Beatriz for being mean to her in the past. I was just jealous of her success. Sam Sloan

Word has seeped out from the U.S. Open in Chicago that due to popular demand What's The Best Move? will resume in the October issue of Chess Life. Apparently there will no longer be a Q&A column in the printed version of the magazine. For the record, this is the fourth time that the 5-time U.S. champion has been fired and rehired by Chess Life.

Sam Sloan wrote: Elementary Go Lessons for Beginners DVD has been released The long awaited DVD "Elementary Go Lessons for Beginners" has arrived and is ready for shipping. This DVD covers the basic elements of the Game of Go. It starts with the basic principles of the game and the basic rules.

WILL FISCHER WIN THE ENDGAME OF HIS LIFE? Fischer strikes me as having a peculiar psychology similar to Hitler.... -- Thomas Keske http://wcn.tentonhammer.com/print.php?sid=188 We once watched a documentary on Hitler. Afterwards Bobby said he admired Hitler, and I asked him why. "Because Hitler imposed his will on the world," he replied.

Let's use PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) to stop fake posters. I propose people post their messages twice, once in normal English, and a second time encoded in PGP. We can develop a public and private key system to encrypt your to send them messages to everyone, identifying you as the author. If we use PGP in reverse, I suspect we should be able to determine the registered author of a message. Since...

Just more from the "Zed Files": http://demo.vhost.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=97cfdd9a1e35339a 08/04/2006 07:39:53 AM Human: Hi Zed Zed: Hi There! ;-) What do you want to talk about? Human: what is the latest news with chess politics? Zed: not much what's new with you? Human: what is happening in the chess world?