I just happened to look up Tom Dorsch and noticed that he has a rating floor of 2200, although his rating has never been higher than 2260. http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?10496730 About half of the time, he has been bouncing off of the floor. Without the floor, his rating might have dropperd as low as 2100. An inordinate number of Chess Politicians have floors much higher than her...

I'm an asshole and I'm gay. I found out that I am when I dream about Sloan and Parr every night. I also like to post nasty stuff on Wikepedia. I want you all to know that I'm in love with Sam Sloan. I want to come out of the closet now. Please support me. Neil the Historian

I really cannot understand what went wrong. I played such a good opening. Soon I was a rook up. Yet I lost. Can somebody please tell me where I made my mistake? Sam Sloan

Evidently the USCF now has some money for the first time in years. Maybe now we can take another look at the Mensa model for chess whereby there would be a systematic sharing of the national dues (about $10 per adult member; $5 per full youth) with metropolitan scaled umbrella organizations (the Metro District orgs) that would operate some reasonable chess events and activities. The idea is to...

1. The cost of erecting the building in Crossville will be a MINIMUM of $561.000. The money was loaned from a local bank and the architect is getting al least $43.000. 2. Even though the land is "appraised" at $269.000, should the USCF ever decide to move out of Crossville and sell the building, the land has to be offered first to the city of Crossville for $1. Questions:

Sloan says that Marinello is still signing contracts. When does the new Board take over, and when do they kick her out?

It scares me to see USCF de-evoloving, back to some invertebrate species. It seems as though rudderless oversight has given way to active denial of problems. Was it my imagination, or did the latest CL come out with the "letters" section obviously removed? Why in the name of all that is aboveboard, would management allow CL, at this point in time, to remove the one vehicle members have to...

Dear All, The Auditor's report has been posted in the USCF website. I am pleased to report that our hard work has been paying off by producing a very substantial profit for a second consecutive year. In Phoenix next week, we will be addressing details on this tremendous success. This report will be distributed at the Delegates' meeting and also post it in the USCF's website for our members...

Nothing says funny quite like splicing together a bunch of G.W. sound-bites and making your own State of the Union Address. I'm sure Mike Goodall will swear this is how it *should've* went. http://www.stupidity.org/video/67

Now that I have a TV for the first time in years and I turned it on and what did I see but a chess game being played!!! They were interviewing Medina Parrilla who just got back from a good finish in the World Under-14 Championship for Girls in France. Actually, the announcer did not play the best. Here is the game: White Medina Parrilla Black: New York One Announcer 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Bc5 3. Qh5...

Chess player Susan Polgar is queen of her game By Mark Schwed Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Monday, August 01, 2005 It sounds like something out of a Frankenstein movie.

I have taken the liberty, blah, blah.. Seriously, I have something positive to add here! Rob, and anyone else interested in a great movie to use as an inspiration for a chess movie, buy "This Old Cub." Wasn't it Roone Arldedge (sp.- sorry?) who found that the human interest side of sport was what people really cared about? I am of course talking about how the US covers the Olympics - which is...

http://www.iol.ie/~afifi/Articles/prostitute.htm While Islam is a broad tent, it's not clear to me which imam would approve of this filth from "Ismail" Sloan's site: http://www.shamema.com/pokepoll.htm

Sam Sloan wrote: To This is to inform you that ishius.com that was recently registered with your Domain Name Registratiion Service is my domain name and was stolen from me in June, 2001 by one Chad Wright, who stole my name by pretending to be me. I am the President of Ishi Press. ishius.com was established as the Domain Name for our San Jose, California Branch...

"you are wrong about staunton playing von der lasa in berlin in 1844. i know its in the oxford companion so its not your fault at all-but this reference was a blunder by whyld which he later admitted in person to prof nathan divinsky to have been completely wrong! staunton did not go to berlin in 1844 and he played no games in that year against von der lasa. if someone ever produces a new...

By the way, I got the race for USCF Executive Board mentioned on page 16 of the Village Voice for July 27-August 2, 2005, under the heading "Fringe Candidates". That is more publicity for the USCF than anybody else got. Sam Sloan

Here is a posting from two years ago I just came across. Boy, what a blunder this was! --- On February 6, 2003 in , Sam Sloan wrote: I support Beatriz Marinello for election. She is the only candidate (other than myself of course) who has something very concrete she can bring to the

For anyone interested in a new variant of chess playable online here's the link http://www.theapplegallery.com/Chess/Game_Colour_1.htm (html and java applet version) There's a single player version available at the moment and multiplayer games are scheduled in a few weeks time.

Here`s the full story by Aviv Friedman http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/archives/shame_thievery_and_anarchy.htm

Take the poll, which misspells two names and omits the names of at least three other CCJ editors: http://www.calchess.org/modules.php?name=Surveys&op=results&pollID=7&mode=&order=&thold= -- Frisco Del Rosario A First Book of Morphy -- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1412039061