Bill Goichberg goes shopping and buys a Chess Federation by Andrew Zito or CRISIS IN THE USCF: REVIEW OF THE JULY 2005 USCF Vote This most recent vote to elect new members of the USCF Executive Board exemplifies systemic weaknesses of the USCF leadership. The latest board elected to lead the United States Chess Federation is unrepresentative of the USCF membership. The final vote tally...

Bill Goichberg and Conflict of Interest Mr. Goichberg continues to attack me, President Beatrice Marinello, all four members of the US Chess Success team, the Co-chair of the Finance Committee, and anyone else who he thinks is obstructing his path to the Presidency of the USCF. It is clear to me that if Mr. Goichberg and his endorsed slate of candidates (Joel Channing, Robert Tanner and Greg...

Each candidate has his/her campaign statement. One guy says job one is the website, another is freaked out by COI issues, and there is the usual crew of kiddie herders. I didn't see anything from any candidate (or current Board) that could be taken as a commitment to grow adult membership by even a modest 3-5%. What would it take to grow the adult numbers by just 3-5%? Ideas please. Old Haasie

Here you can read about 2 nd ACP-FIDE meeting : http://www.chess-players.org/eng/news/viewarticle.html?id=407 FIDE office, Athens, 12-13.07.2005 report by Joel Lautier and Bartlomiej Macieja I. Duration: 6 hours

Dear Group, I desperatly need high resolution photographs of Boris Gulko and Susan Polgar. Please contact me if you can help. Thanks, Rob Mitchell

1) Next board's officers: President: Goichberg Vice President: Schultz VP of Finances: Channing Secretary: Tanner 2) Chess Life will be outsourced. 3) The Executive offices of the USCF will be moving a different

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MAKE THOUSANDS!!! I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it: I don't care about the useless pre-fabricated crap this message usually says. All I say is, it works. Continue pre-fab crap. WELL GUESS WHAT!!! Within five days, I started getting money in the mail!! I was shocked!! I figured it would end soon, but the money just kept

Senior master Eugene Meyer was on CNN today . No. Not about chess. About the law. Meyer is president of the Federalist Society whose mission is to respect the Constitution by interpreting it back in 1787. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts is a member of this society and

The Chess Masterminds website is now up and activated. Please come and check it out and post comments in the forum. www.chessmasterminds.com Rob

I don't notice the final national vote totals anywhere, so here they are. Will post a regional breakdown at www.checkmate.us as soon as I can. Bill Goichberg 3941 Greg Shahade 3694 Joel Channing 3358 Robert Tanner 3179 Elizabeth Shaughnessy 1638 Randy Bauer 1591

Update: an extension has been purchased through end of the month. Phil "Rob" wrote in message ... Correction:

On 24 Jul 2005 18:03:35 -0700, "Matt Nemmers" wrote: We may meet in person Repa. And if we do i'll be waiting for you with my service revolver. Did you forget that i'm in the navy? Revolver ??

Goichberg Slate is sweeping election Although only 25% of the ballots have been counted, the Goichberg slate consisting of Goichberg, Channing, Shahade and Tanner are leading in the USCF Election by a margin of more than two-to-one. They are so far ahead in the race that it will be virtually impossible for any of the other candidates to catch them. For example, although Steve Shutt lives in...

Pete Casso's postings have titles but no messages. If he has nothing to say, why does he bother posting? David Ames

Now that Goichberg is back on the Board and likely to become the next president, what's next for good old Chess HQ? My guess would be that da Goich will engineer a move back to the NY/NJ area sooner or later. I'd also guess USCF dues might go down a tad. Goichberg recently wrote that he thought they were a bit to high, enough to have negatively impacted adult membership the past few...

1. Dumb ****? 2. Dick head? 3. Asshole? 4. Fatso? 5. All of the above

NARCISSUS Given the likelihood that this is Parr praising himself, perhaps "cynic" (a.k.a. "jr") should have instead chosen the pseudonym Narcissus. Taylor Kingston There is no likelihood at all -- a possibility Taylor Kingston leaves open in his carefully worded, dishonest locution -- that this writer is Mr. Cynic. None. I am prepared to take a lie-detector test on this question: "Have...