So what can we agree on with an eye towards cleaning up the mess, as far as the USCF Skimming Scandal is concerned? 1) No employee was forced to wear a bag over his head while naked and kneeling on the office floor. 2) Our leashes were made of 100% Corinthian leather 3) The cubicle locks (jail cells) don't work and we can't force the employees to stay under house arrest 4) A tight knit group of...

Among the items on this weekend's (May 21-23) USCF Executive Board meeting in New Windsor, N.Y., is a "meeting with the Realtor, and inspection of possible new headquarters." That is scheduled for Saturday, May 22, 1:30 to 3 p.m. What is the scuttlebutt on this agenda item? Sloan, where are you? George Mirijanian

That Ken Sloan would not respond to my response to him re product sourcing? (more to start a new thread than to bust his gonads, although IMO they do need some busting).

If what is being written about here is true, and even if the USCF's story of mismanagement is to be believed, it would appear that a class-action lawsuit is not beyond the realm of possibility. ANY USCF member ruled to have standing can initiate the process. -- Everything you need to know about women. FREE! http://www.cybersheet.com/library.html

Skimming- The Likelihood of Massive USCF Fraud Most of you should have noticed by now that I posted an internal USCF document regarding the USCF catalogue's remainder sales. To my knowledge, this is the first time in USCF's history that we had any documentation on their actual cost of goods on a per item basis. I published this document because it begins to answer questions which have plagued...

There it was. Right in the spreadsheet, Item P982, US Chess Pencils, Cost per Unit $.20. USCF's cost for pencils was $.20 cents. Having purchased thousands of pencils myself over the years, that seemed just a bit high. So there I was in my google search. It was desperately hard. I typed in "pencils" and up sprang, "Personalized Pencils www.penimpressions.com As low as 0.09 cents each Save...

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From Chess Life, May, 2004, page 20: "The erotic possibilities of chess are unrealized today, because women rarely play the game any more in any great numbers." (The Wisdom of Kalev Pehme is an ongoing series of verbatim quotes, posted here and e-mailed to all USCF officials and board members, until such a time as someone has the sanity to fire him.) --TMB

I've sent in several tournaments to be rated and notice that the USCF seems to be either taking their sweet time in getting them rated or are so backed up that they can't seem to keep up. For example: http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?040303155 I sent this tournament in on March 9th. They say it was received almost three weeks later, entered a MONTH later, and rated a week after...

Looking through an old issue of Chess Review (November 1968), it states that the Soviets stopped their players playing at Vinkovci (which Fischer won) "for political reasons". Anybody know what the reasons were? Thanks.

Chess made the front page of the Sunday Chicago Tribune yesterday. Apparently, the University of Chicago Chess Club is not happy about the recruiting tactics being used by UMBC and UTD. Vince Hart

Today I and several other people received the following email from Severine Wamala, a leading New England organizer. Tim Hanke This is a complaint to USCF/GOICHBERG as well as a caution to all chess organizers. Player allowed to play in 2004 Foxwoods open under a false name.

Remember ChesterNumetz. Here he is again. Note what has really happened here. Don Schultz was in shock when he was told that the unit price to produce the Jim Mitch collection was $30 per book and Don thought it was more like $3. After all, Don publishes his own book and knows what publishing cost. So, who made the profit on this one? A net cost of $16.50 seems unbelievably high and USCF itself...

From Chess Life, May, 2004, page 21: "Now, from New York to Moscow and to Jakarta, it is often said that women are not constitutionally capable to play at the very highest levels of the game. Chess is now a male-dominated game with no eroticism to it at all." (The Wisdom of Kalev Pehme is an ongoing series of verbatim quotes, posted here and e-mailed to all USCF officials and board...

Time for the USCF numbers.

Yes, I'm the chess cheater and I never play fair. Only losers and pussies play fair, real geniuses cheat !

By now we've all seen the video of the UFO's spotted by the Mexican air force last March. Rumor has it the USCF has taken a great interest in them. The EB evidently thinks they'd make wonderful kiddie trophies and would bring much needed publicity to chess. The hard part will be coaxing one to land on the roof at Chess HQ and then to capture it. With limited resources and an already strained...

The candidates running for the USCF Executive Board had their statements published in the May 2004 issue of Chess Life. Here is a little more background material on the candidates, with emphasis on their USCF-rated over-the-board play: CANDIDATES - No. of tournaments played since Jan. 1, 1991 in parentheses Randy Bauer (Iowa), rated 2304, has not played since September 1997, (54) David Huff...

I cannot find a FIDE rating for Saudin Robovic His USCF rating is 2449 http://www.64.com/uscf/ratings/12688370 He is an International Master. His nickname is Robocop, after the TV character.

Given that the May cover story of Chess Life continues our current editor's fascination with stultifying mathematical analyses of arcane chess trivia, and that such a topic, as well as the truly ugly cover that heralds it, will not move an inch off the newsstands, can we now DROP the pretense that "Chess Life" has any value as a retail periodical, and save some major money in the process? Just a...