In article , Miriling says... Former USCF president John McCrary, in his Chess History (Episode 10) in the October issue of Chess Life (page 7), writes that "Kenneth Harkness, the Business Manager of the USCF, developed a rating system that was adopted by the USCF in 1949." Harkness, writing in the Official Chess Handbook (published in 1956),...

Needless to add, Mr. Fernandez still insists he was right all along. I'm clearly the champion. John Fernandez

I just put up a Lithograph from the 1978 World Open, up for bidding: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3546492323 John Fernandez

At 08:38 PM 9/18/2003 -0000, levzil wrote: Let me respond to Sam Sloan. First things first. (1) I WAS NOT BANNED FOR PLAYING THE ZILBERMINTS GAMBIT. It was because of some perceived BS on the part of a few individuals. I was banned from the Friday Rapids, without so much as a hearing to defend myself. By the way, Friday Rapids is dwindling. Leif Pressman said they

$31.00 a year. I have spoken.

No offense but.......... don't give up your day job. KidDon _____________________________ (ModernCaveman21) wrote in message ... Not a full one, but the first paragraph was cool: Sung to a Prince song (Guess which one): I was dumping when I played this, forgive me if it drops a pawn

Good issue. 1. One of the better covers of recent vintage. 2. Hilbert is great! More,More, More... 3. Even Larry Eavans is better than usual 4. Liked the article on the MetroWest Chess Club. Apparently Kurzdorfer still was the editor; Regardless, was a definite up-tick from recent issues most of which have been rank.

After reading the minutes of the August 11, 2003 open session of the USCF Executive Board, one quickly realizes that the EB liaison positions to the various committees and other entities are unevenly distributed. Tim Hanke has the most number of liaison positions: 12 Beatriz Marinello, the president, has 8. Messrs. Shutt, Brady, Camaratta and Schultz have four apiece. It is questionable whether...

Common guys WHY can't we see the GP contract. WHY would a contract be signed that is so bad that the membership can not be allowed to see it? I feel like a coyote caught in a trap trying to gnaw my leg off to find a reason to rejoin USCF. Help me out here guys.

It's time. Beatriz and Tim are doing their thing to save our beloved USCF, so the least we can do is to "back them 100%" by having our own online membership drive! Let's get all the frequent poster non-members to join. This includes Draney, KG, and who else? Is Spam Scone a member? If you are a non-member, let us know why so that we may hound you endlessly until you succumb and join.

The problem with Games Parlor is it has zero impact on USCF membership and does nothing for USCF's profile because every player there is already a member. True? The numbers (that I've seen) are too low, so there's no way to make up for the fact that people only go there to play games (or maybe only chess), and that they are USCF members already. I'm not sure about the financial side, but I'd...

Took a little digging, but I went to USCF's website, clicked on govnernace and brought up the transcripts of the motion passed in June of 2001 by the Redman Board because of DeFeis' signing of the first GP contract. For those whose memories of this warm and fuzzy time have faded, DeFeis signed the contract without showing the final draft to the Board. When people found out what was in the...

The USCF has great name recognition but obviously the B&E Biz is too expensive to run in-house - why not outsource the whole operation and support to India, Mexico, etc.? -Scott

Last week I sent my open letter to the editors of www.worldchessrating.ru as regards the abnormal situation: the bloated personality cult of Garry Kasparov. The readers will understand everything from this letter that I translated for them from Russian into English. What they will not understand is that so far I have not received any reply from the editors, Kasparov’s friends and colleagues. No...

I went to my local Barnes and Nobles bookstore and found that the new kasparov book (My Great Predecessors VOL. 1) cost $35.00 on the cover. So I decided to search the Internet to find better prices. I then went to chesscafe.com and found it selling for 33.95 . I visited Amazon and found the book selling at $24.50 . Finally I went chessusa.com and found the same book selling for 29.75 . Now all...

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 at 14:21:48 -0400, "StanB" scribbled: -A lot of the rest is probably for consulting work provided by -volunteers and employees or members of their family. Sounds like pork. What's the difference between this and pork? Also, "consulting work provided by volunteers" is a contradic- tion. Volunteers can, at the most, be paid one dollar, as was the case with some famous...

Heil Dubya! When I was in the sixth grade, I had a teacher, Mrs. Wilson, who used to tell us how wonderful it was to live in the United States. Her favorite reason was that, while people had to carry identification at all times in other countries, we could walk the streets with no identification at all and, as long as we were peaceful, we were safe from governmental interference. Oh, well,...

Well, the Server Director from Gameparlor posts here often, so I'm sure Mr. Truong will be happy to answer. "Bruce Draney" wrote in message ... As we see the finances beginning to unravel at USCF, many are left wondering why the Executive Director in the months leading up to the worst August possibly in USCF history decided to sign a three...

Attention Hal Bogner. Attention Petrel. Now is the time to mobilize our official contract leakers of the past in order to leak the embarrassing new GP contract that apparently is so bad that no one is allowed to show anyone how bad it is. Back in 2000, when Tim Redman clammed up like a gagged man with already puckered lips, Bogner and Petrel rode over the hill on their shining white steeds,...

There has been some question about what was in it, the negotiations between USCF and Gamesparlor, for Al Lawrence. Maybe this is the answer? www.chesshall.org It seems that US ChessLive has merged with the Chess Hall of Fame to provide the online playing service. I don't see any difference in the services offered, and cannot tell how this may help or hurt USCF.--Bill Wong