"Sam Sloan" wrote ... I had a lot of problems making my go shows. Two top Go personalities got in an argument about it, one apparently claiming that I should not be allowed to make it. Why cannot amateurs make such films ? Only profis are allowed to make it ? ;-)

Sam Sloan wrote: So please watch the show and report back here what you think. Or, you could save yourself the trouble of watching, and do what Sam does: form an opinion without knowing anything of what you're talking about.

Why rebuild New Orleans? All of southern Louisiana is sinking into the gulf at a rate of 21 square miles per year. Global warming will speed up the process. We're into a decade of high hurricane activity so New Orleans is likely to get hit again and again. It won't be long before major businesses seek higher ground in Baton Rouge, Memphis or elsewhere. Mother Nature will take New Orleans in...

BEATRIZ'S ODE TO BEATRIZ In Beatriz Marinello's Ode to Beatriz on how she saved the USCF in the September 2005 Chess Life (pages 6-7) she conspicuously omits Stan Booz (on whom she has lavished praise in this forum) when giving "a special thank you to my close advisors, former USCF Presidents Dr. Leroy Dubeck, Steve Doyle and Dr. Timothy Redman." ON TO KINGSTON AND BOOZ

I have just finished posting in the Wikipedia Encyclopedia biographies of several notable chess personalities. Beatriz Marinello will be especially happy to learn that I have posted a biography of her at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatriz_Marinello Elizabeth Shaughnessy will be happy as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Shaughnessy Here are some more chess biographies I have just...

I guess we can assume the "State Championship" is off. See http://www.louisianachess.com/index.htm. kiddon

How much aid to New Orleans has arrived from France? Meanwhile, I hear rumors that Columbia is sending a boatload of cocaine to the ghetto to replace lost staches. Mexico, of course is sending replacement Mexicans. Old Haasie

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/jkbrooks/pictures/New%20Orleans.pdf Eerie.

One of the really bad effects of the disaster in New Orleans is that there are probably a lot of ICC disconnects by New Orleans players that will never be resumed. Old Haasie

Strange, the National Master forgot his traditional crosspost: http://tinyurl.com/apuvq

Anyone hear that stuttering jackass on NBC tonight? Was he high or is he just THAT stupid??

STATUS AND MONEY TRUMP RACE I wrote that in a vast majority of instances, the issue of interracial marriage for parents is class and moolah. Here is a review by Roger Ebert of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. His point is not the same as the point in the movie. He notes that Hollywood pulls out of the bag all of its tricks to make the marriage acceptable to the audience, i.e. Poitier is rich,...

I have posted the September 1, 2005 USCF membership numbers at: http://detroitchess.com/USCFmem2.htm Yes, I finally changed the name of the thread. Peter C. Nixon http://detroitchess.com/

From the minutes of the PSCF Annual Meeting, July 16, 2005, in State College: "Although not an elected position, Pennswoodpusher editor Neil Brennen has indicated that he would like to step down from that post in the next year or so. President Martinak encouraged anyone interested in the position to contact the PSCF."

You have work to do: defending lies, defending homophobia. I know you can do it!!

Suppose you live in Detroit, Houston, Miami, or some other metro area of that size. Under a Mensa model adapted for chess, those metros would be in line for about $4000 to $5000 of annual funding for chess production. What would be bad about that? Why does almost everyone oppose that kind of scheme? Why would it be worse than our traditional system? Under the Mensa scheme, a given Metro...

Bill Brock keeps writing on top of my chess biographies, to keep others from reading this. Here they are again. I ask Bill Brock, my long time antagonist, to start his own headers, and not to write on top on mine. I have just finished posting in the Wikipedia Encyclopedia biographies of several notable chess personalities. Beatriz Marinello will be especially happy to learn that I have posted a...

Hurricane Katrina is headed towards New Orleans with category 4-5 winds. That's enough to knock over Jude Acers' chess table. Old Haasie

Bond's first mission In middle of eighties I visited London in purpose to see Museums, Zoo garden, and some other places. On some tube station I saw strong chess player who played against travelers. He won blitz games several tourists. I was interested to play. First game I won. Second game was draw and that master told me to come another day to chess club, but I have never went on it. About...

Bill Brocks obsession with Sam Sloan as a former master Bill Brock has asked the same question about 50 times in the past few days: On 29 Aug 2005 10:00:16 -0700, " wrote: What was your highest published FIDE rating?