Playing in what looks to be his first USCF rated event, Roger Rojas-Suarez was =1st, and declared to be Co-Champion in the Under Age 21 (Open?) Section. Interestingly, the Under Age 15 section looked to be about as strong... Event Summary Event 2005 U.S. JUNIOR OPEN (200506135141) Location MASON, OH 45034 Event Date(s) 2005-06-10 thru 2005-06-13

The event was held as a Double Round Robin Quadrangular. That might be suitable for a weeknight Action Swiss, but it seems obvious that had there been better promotion, and had the dates of the event not conflicted with the School years of many of the potentially eligible players, they would have been able to garner more than 4 Entries Event Summary Event 2005 US CADET (200506166811)

Mr. Haas takes the group to task for the lack of new controversies for him to salivate over. How about this: once again this year, as has been the case several times in recent years, the U.S. Junior and Cadet Championships were held as "stealth" events. There was no web coverage of these tournaments that I have been able to find. No games have been published. Coverage was announced for ICC but...

You can follow the games of this wholly unique event, the 1st Annual RGCP Grudge Match, on the Internet Chess Club on Sunday, June 26th! Watch the players battle it out for a $1000 cash prize! If you don't have an account or an ICC client yet, go to http://www.chessclub.com and set yourself up. It's free. To follow the all of the games of the match, use the "follow" command in your Main Console...

Mr. Sloan: I never played anyone with a 2300 elo rating in my life who wasn't a tough player, and I've played dozens of them. It doesn't really matter how you get the rating, you have to play at a certain level to get it. An argument could be made that Mr. Bauer was probably underrated, because there are not so many rating points floating around in the midwest as on the two coasts. I would...

Dear Chess Friends- The team of "Chess Chronicle" , (an online chess magazine) having an honor to present a chess magazine that will fulfill the appetite of your chess hunger. Since long time we were thinking to start this project and after so many hurdles we finally succeed. The first issue was suppose to be out on the 22nd June but due to some technical problems we couldn't able to do that...

Expanding the USCF Tournament Archives This is one of my pet projects which I hope to expand on if I am elected. In the last week, I have been having a heated argument with Randy Bauer about our relative strengths. The problem is that he played most of his chess in the 1980s and I played most of my chess in the 1960s. Not only can we not compare with each other but the USCF MSA Database does...

These is one of the earliest anon postings I found that fit the bellsouth.net profile http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.politics/msg/7ba353ea803b3249?hl=en **and other posts under the same anon ID that, repulsive as they are, are more than mere trolling** http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.sports.football.pro.miami-dolphins/msg/b3c21abfdafaf9b7?hl=en

It seems that he is demanding that all court documents be translated into English, even though he is fluent in Russian, which obviously delays his case. Hmmm... http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/05/wdlug05.xml

I was like all of you once. I once believed that knights were better than bishops. But now I think that bishops are better than knights: 1) Bishops are better than Knights in open positions. You can always open a closed position but you can never close an open position. (Open positions are ones with less pawns on the board) 2) Bishops travel faster and have more mobility.

ChessDon's alter ego Dr. Merlot: http://www.kaptainkelmoore.com/kk03/kk_cp_01.html

In all this discussion of the Grudge Match, an event passed by without comment. June 12th was the 10th anniversary of the split of rec.games.chess into four groups, RGCP being one of them. Among the first posters was none other than Larry Parr (who had objected to the split).

Copied from another message. FIRST ANNUAL RGCP GRUDGE MATCH: Sloan vs. Brock in Chicago, draw odds to Sloan MATCH TERMS (ver. 3): Venue: Offices of William H. Brock, Ltd. (address found he

As far as I know (I don't read everything in RGC*), Bill Brock and Sam Sloan have agreed to play a match of four games under the condition that Sam Sloan needs to score only two points (not 2.5) to win the match. As far as I am concerned, Sloan has already won. A convicted felon and pornographer gets attention, money, and travel. I can't see why Bill Brock chooses to mud-wrestle a pig;...

I haf been washing fevered discussion with much interested. As member of the Gay & Lesbian Chinese-American Chess Club; I dement Equal Rights for all members of USCF. I see many new divisions have been authorized by Beatriz, who is a fellow Gay & Lesbian. We Chinese and Orientals want inclusion too. No longer should we sit outside lookee in. I have sent Sam the $500. fee he advise was required...

Here is a short list of famous chess masters I beat in rated tournament games when they were kids: Sal Matera (twice) Bruce Pandolfini Paul Truong Eugene Meyer Dimitry Schneider George Kane Steve Tarin

As some of you may be aware first hand, thousands of USCF members who are eligilbe to vote in the current Executive Board election either received an invalid ballot or no ballot at all. Reportedly about 5,000 USCF voters were victims of this fiasco. The invalid or missing ballots were not just randomly distributed. Rather reportedly all voters in some geograhical areas received invalid ballots....

Now that it seems that the Grudge Match will happen, and I assume the arbiter issue will be solved in a day or so, and then the prize fund monies will then flow on to the arbiter for holding, I wanted to open this thread to the kibitzers. The challengers will be prep'ing up on their opponents games, and the rest of us can offer the RGCP brand of advice regarding idiotic openings, personal...

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Here is a recap of what have been proposed. FIRST ANNUAL RGCP GRUDGE MATCH: Sloan vs. Brock in Chicago, draw odds to Sloan MATCH TERMS: Venue: Offices of William H. Brock, Ltd. (address found he http://www.billbrock.net/contact.html)