Should Bill Hall be fired over the latest Beatriz Marinello affair? It has come out in the last 48 hours that USCF Executive Director Bill Hall paid money to Board Member-at-Large Beatriz Marinello to attend the coming FIDE Congress in Turin, Italy. Beatriz herself let this slip out in an Internet posting on Monday, May 22, 2006, when she wrote: "I am willing to dedicate time, money and energy...

Hugh Myers did it! There is a person who keeps attacking me, every day, day after day, in every forum of which he is a member with a repetitiveness exceeded only by Bill Brock. He keeps calling me a liar at every opportunity and is causing a lot of problems for me and other members of these forums. Mr. Jomp has called me a liar 42 times in the last 21 days, or an average of twice a day, on rgcp...

I have been reading the contributions of Mr Louis Blair. He sounds like a recurring decimal asking the same questions again and again. Then when he gets the answers he pretends he hasn't had them and asks for them yet again. Is he short of conversation or he just likes the look of his own words, phrased and rephrased? I came to this discussion group to talk about the future of our game and other...

I thought others might find this service useful. http://chess.meetup.com/ Good Playing! Let me know what you think of the site. Rob

WHAT WOULD PARR DO? It would be interesting to see what Larry Parr, former CL editor and a good one, would have to say about this exchange. I know that he is confident that Evans would do well if a scientific survey were to be conducted, and that scrapping his column is a mistake. But I would not guess he'd support the general principle of making editorial decisions about the content of CL by...

I thought that would grab your attention. Actually, I just located a newspaper clipping from the New York Times which has the game where I defeated Michael Shahade in the 1969 US Amateur Championship. The clipping is at http://www.samsloan.com/shahade-sloan.pdf This was before Greg and Jennifer Shahade were even born, so do not

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BILL BROCK'S TRUE CONFESSIONS Let's discuss what Bill Brock (politikalhack) wrote. On March 4, 2006, Mr. Brock posted a response to Phil Innes in what may be termed his True Confessions letter, though in the absence of proof, we do not hold Mr. Brock to the import of what he pounded out so furiously on his keyboard any more than we hold Sam Sloan to the import of what he posted.

Hi, I saw the movie, The Da Vinci Code, yesterday. It was an interesting moving about a guy who does a treasure hunt by solving codes and clues along the way. He said in the movie that symbols have different meanings. I was wondering if there are any secret coded messages on a chessboard. Maybe a longtime the inventors of chess used the pieces as symbols to meet something. They all...

Marinello has won the battle. Shultz and company once again surrender to this dyke. She's now the new nominated President of DCA (Dyke Chess Association).

Well, FIDE did recieve my fax. They are ignoring me. I was told to contact Leong, who is ignoring me. Nobody can play in the world chess championship in 2006 for no real legal reason. I am going to hurt FIDE, and I am going to hurt chess. FIDE will not let us play chess, and not respond to questions about our application for admission. WE WILL SUE FIDE!! FIDE is not there to help small nations....

I am fairly new to this forum but I have been catching up on the various controversies which abound. I was very surprised by Taylor Kingston accusing GM Keene of dishonest statements. As a matter of record here - and I have read through everything I can find here in the past threads - it seems to me that GM Keene has been very clear at every stage and backed up his assertions with solid...

I post this from Kirsan's web site, and I ask the reader, do you believe that this is true? In word and deed A list of FIDE achievements of the decade 1996-2006 "The past decade was undoubtedly the decade of chess unity within FIDE. Immediately after his first election in 1996, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov promised to stop all the fights within FIDE and he succeeded. A new spirit of democracy has been...

I refuse to take drug tests I guess I will be the first conscious objector. When St Kitts and Nevis enters the world chess championship, I promise never to submit to, undertake, or agree to take any drug test for FIDE. I promise to R.C.P.G. never to pull out my dick in a crisis. I guess this will cause a problem. Oh well. Marcus Roberts

It has been confirmed that Marinello has been added to Ilyumzhinov's team. She'll serve as the head whore for Azmaiparashvili.

Poor Liarry Parr. Here he comes to this forum trying to paint Sloan as the victim by our excessive government and smear campaigns by his politcal enemies. And then comes along the likes of The Historian, among others, who present actual, irrefutable evidence demonstrating that Liarry wasn't telling the whole truth. The guy just can't catch a break. "The Historian" wrote...

I have notified Dr. Tim Redman (USA) and FIDE of my decision. I know that this is a little tacky, but legally it is the strongest argument. Dear Dr. Redman: My position as a FIDE Delegate as that I am immune from drug tests as a FIDE Delegate. Since I can't play in the world chess championship until I am a FIDE Delegate, this problem may or may not emerge this year. My admission could be...

I have notified Dr. Tim Redman (USA) and FIDE of my decision. I know that this is a little tacky, but legally it is the strongest argument. Dear Dr. Redman: My position as a FIDE Delegate as that I am immune from drug tests as a FIDE Delegate. Since I can't play in the world chess championship until I am a FIDE Delegate, this problem may or may not emerge this year. My admission could be...

I have notified Dr. Tim Redman (USA) and FIDE of my decision. I know that this is a little tacky, but legally it is the strongest argument. Dear Dr. Redman: My position as a FIDE Delegate as that I am immune from drug tests as a FIDE Delegate. Since I can't play in the world chess championship until I am a FIDE Delegate, this problem may or may not emerge this year. My admission could be...

I am very interested in the outcome of the FIDE Presidential election. It seems to me that Bessel Kok is probably the more suitable candidate but that Kirsan is likely to win. I have been following the controversy about Beatriz Marinello, have also looked at David Levy's letter on Chessbase about democracy in chess as well as have seen what Boris Kutin did as president of the European chess...