Originally posted to rgcp in August 2003; I don't pretend to know what legislation was in effect at the time of Sloan's narrative, but would suggest that it is reasonable to assume that then-current law would not have been wildly inconsistent. Does Parr wish to concede that point, or should I contact the Thai...

About time for Larry Parr to visit Sam Sloan's Pok=E9mon porn pages and offer his defense of his good friend's conduct, dontcha think?

Sorry this post is not about Larry Parr's toenails, Sam Sloan's inability to beat an 1800 player with the Damiano, or Bill Goichberg's single-handed destruction of the American way of life. It's about something of far greater importance -- my integrity as a usenet poster. I've recently been fileted and flambayed (forgive the intentional misspelling) on a bridge newsgroup for "top-posting." I've...

Lately, in case you have not noticed, Bill Brock has been posting boigraphies of me on Wikipedia. At first, he asked that my biography be deleted, claiming that I had written the biography myself. This was demonstrated not to be true. My Wikipedia biography was written by two persons who have never met me and who know of me for reasons unrelated to chess and who do not know each other either. I...

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I was browsing chess books in a store the other day, and noted two extremely misleading chess titles. By "misleading" I do not mean "lousy book", a book that fails to do what it intends to--I mean a book where there is no connection between the book and the title. The first was Eric Schiller's "Complete Defense to King Pawn Opening", by Eric Schiller, described on the cover as "the world's...

From: Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 3:28 PM To: Subject: Westerinen book? ---- Eric Schiller wrote: AS I keep saying, it was just an error. I recall being impressed by the Sc6! book, but was under some impression that it was about the Nimzowitsch,

Whats the easiest way to sort SwissSys club files back into pure alpha order by last name? I have a computer background but how to sort entries with multiple lines, variable number of lines per entry and variable lenght of lines is a mystery. Who knows the nifty trick? Email to

In the thread "Misleading Book Tiles," Larry Parr wrote: The book reviews at CensoredCafe re an Eric Schiller or a Ray Keene are mainly predestined. I am not familiar with the web-site "CensoredCafe," but having written over 100 book reviews for www.ChessCafe.com, I will hazard a guess that I am in a better position than Mr. Parr to know what goes on in that area. In my experience, his...

THE OTHER SHOE DROPS Thanks go to Wayne Praeder for bringing up correspondence with the Executive Board re a code of conduct or ethics or conflicts of interest among Board members. For myself, I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. Which is to say, rules for members of the USCF, too. Joel Channing has just made such a proposal, an idea that must be

The chess establishment better get its act together to stop cheaters at tournaments. The same rules which are used for the SATs and other exams (like the Bar Exam) need to be in place for chess. That means no cellphones, no spectators, no unsupervised bathroom breaks, etc. The "honor system" simply no longer works.

I have created a Wikipedia page about George Koltanowski. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Koltanowski A curious fact I have just discovered is that he is not listed in the Social Security Death Index. http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi The closest match is a George Colton who died in San Francisco with exactly the same dates of birth and death.

On 17 Sep 2005 07:01:40 -0700, " wrote: Question for Larry Parr: do you endorse Sloan's homophobic smear "blowbuddy"? When you want to start a new topic please do it independently in a way that does not cover up the previous subject header in groups.google.com

There are some old chess publications I would like to obtain. I always kept everything about chess, but in 1994 my brother had everything in my mother's house in Lynchburg, Virginia thrown in a garbage. Thus, I lost most of my old chess magazines and game scores. I did salvage a few items, such as the score of my game against Claude Bloodgood which I have just posted. If anybody goes to the...

Yesterday, I happened to notice that the Wikipedia biography of John W. Collins and twice been deleted. This is unusual. It had been my understanding that once a Wikipedia biography is posted, it stays up forever, unless the person is entirely non-noteworthy. So, I found a new skimpy biography that had been posted after previous deletes. I expanded it by finding his birth date which had not...

Also see Prisoner 99432 http://www.worldchessnetwork.com/English/chessNews/evans/100602.php "A weird chapter in American chess ended in 2001 when Claude Bloodgood died while serving a life sentence. Just five years earlier he was briefly rated as the nation's number two player."

irvin wrote: Since the trap was well known before both your online lesson and his video existed, there's no chance anyone is copying anyone. *Cameron voice*: "Ferris Bueller, you're my hero."

Rob wrote: The discussion of the 14th ammendment does not belong on a chess news group. Would you kindly share this with your hero, the "nearly an IM 2450"? From time to time he graces us with his understanding of the law. We all know the true purpose of that ammendment was to provide citizenship to freed slaves and has now been used as a means of subverting our immigration laws and...

Hi I am interested in more information. Where is the best spot? You can email me at any of the following addresses: Thanks, Sam ...

I just happened to notice some extremely negative remarks on Wikipedia about Eric Schiller posted by somebody who obviously does not like him. Naturally, I suspected Taylor Kingston aka Edward Winter, who is known to attack Schiller among others. So, I revised the Eric Schiller page, taking out all the negative stuff. Within minutes, this same person but them all back in. Then, checking the...