The more I look, the more and more mistakes I find on the USCF website - http://www.uschess.org How long has the first name of Chouchanik Airapetian, the Armenian-born player who has been in the USA since August 1994, been listed as Choucanian in the Players' Gallery of Selected Players from the Top 100 US Women? I realize that the website is a very low priority for the federation when facing...

Searching for Bobby Fischer I just replayed the movie "Searching for Booby Fischer" on video. Of course, I had seen the movie before, but this time I saw a few things I had not seen previously. I think that we as chess players can learn a lot from this movie. It is a masterpiece in the way that it takes a subject most people would find to be deadly boring and turns it into an exciting drama....

Richard, What is the current status of your recently filed lawsuit against the USCF? Have you withdrawn your suit or offered to settle out of court? What are you asking for in your suit? A couple months ago, you posted rumors that USCF did not have liability insurance in effect because the Board had not paid the premium. Can you comment on this at all? About a month ago, Stan Booz was...

$50.00 entry fee, $175.00 to first. Hold them in small spaces. G/30, three rounds.

At 08:24 PM 9/30/2003 -0000, greghevia wrote: Here is a good history for those interested. The timeline says that 65,000 have died in 20 years during Sri Lanka's civil war. I do not know precisely how many of those are Tiger victims. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/526407.stm In November, 1989, I went to Sri Lanka to try to collect my wife, Dayawathie Rankoth, from Kandy. I had...

Hello, I was under the impression that the USCF Board was to decide this weekend who would win the B&E bid. I have seen nothing on the website or in the newsgroups. Was this discussed at the meeting, and has a decision been made? BPF

It's now been over a month since the Thursday night massacre that released 17 employees in New Windsor and led to the appointment of Whatever His Title is Grant Perks to run the office. Is Grant still in New Windsor, is he back in Ohio, or is he commuting back and forth? If Grant is not staying full time in New Windsor, is the office being supervised by someone else? If he is staying in New...

Has the Continental Chess Association, Bill Goichberg's organization, let its USCF affiliate membership expire? According to USCF records - msa.usachess.org - the CCA (USCF Affiliate A5002630) had an expiration date of April 30, 2003. The business office in New Windsor has either failed to process the CCA's affiliate renewal or the CCA has failed to renew its affiliate membership. George...

Don't tell RHaas, but: 1. Between the already posted 9/3 membership numbers and January, 2004, we are likely to gain @ 3,000 - 5,000 scholastic members; and 2. The National K-12 is expected to break attendance records (over 2100), but the record will stand for only one year before the event returns to Central Florida. We're still in deep sh**, but could that be a glimmer of light at the

Check out the Wednesday, Oct. 1, sports section at http://www.yaledailynews.com for a story about how intramural chess gains steam at Yale University. George Mirijanian

Now that the USCF Executive Board has voted not to begin negotiations to have its book and equipment business outsourced until the conclusion of its 2003/2004 Christmas holiday season, the question remains as to when this "holiday season" ends and how the federation plans to promote it. What are its plans for the holiday catalog? An insert, as usual, in Chess Life? When? December issue (due out...

At 08:24 PM 9/30/2003 -0000, greghevia wrote: Here is a good history for those interested. The timeline says that 65,000 have died in 20 years during Sri Lanka's civil war. I do not know precisely how many of those are Tiger victims. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/526407.stm In November, 1989, I went to Sri Lanka to try to collect my wife, Dayawathie Rankoth, from Kandy. I had...

The FBI isn't supposed to be leading its "predators" because the idea is that they are supposed to be SURE that it's the guy's idea, not the agent's. They have crossed the line. The mother never should have contacted the police based on what Sherzer did until that point (all she had to do was talk to him directly), and what the agent did after that point (all he had to do was keep things...

Assuming that the entire expense of doing B&E is passed off to Pein or whomever, this will finally provide the answer to the question that has been unanswered for many years and that is how much do the rest of USCF operations cost when there is no B&E to stock, pay for, advertise, promote, answer calls and fill orders for? How many employees will USCF need without a B&E business? How...

Thank heavens that Frank Brady is now USCF Secretary. I just looked at the USCF website and there are already minutes for the August Board meetings up. I fully expect Mr. Brady to get the meetings for this past weekend's meetings up promptly as well. Contrast that with the pathetic record of the McCrary Board, where Mr. Smith often took 6 months or longer to post even minimal minutes of Board...

I would like to invite all of you to visit and participate in a new chess forum The Chess Exchange This forum is dedicated to helping chess players with product information, chess tips, news and discussion. Topics include: Chess Help Exchange Chess Software Exchange Technology Exchange Idea Exchange

Check out the story by staff writer Fred Brown in the Sunday (Sept. 28) edition of the Knoxville (Tenn.) News - knoxnews.com - which starts as follows: "CROSSVILLE - If everything goes according to plan, a quiet community of roughly 10,000 people on the bucolic Cumberland Plateau will become the chess capital of America." The writer is calling it the "Sabine-Alexander gambit." George Mirijanian

I think the USCF should give free adult memberships (w/ chess life) to all tournament directors that run 10 or more tournaments each year. I believe that TDs in general are the backbone on US chess since they organize and run tournaments. Also the tournament rating fees provide a large chunk of the USCF revenue. Therefore, we should reward our TDs for their hardwork by giving them free...

"Among the items found in the hotel room and introduced as evidence Friday... two sex toys -- "tools for degrading and humiliating this ninth-grader," Assistant U.S. Attorney Maria Murphy called them in her opening statement. Stabler acknowledged that while playing the part of the girl, he broached the idea of Sherzer buying the sex toys for the hypothetical encounter."

Interesting list of the items found in Sherzer's Hotel Room. One of the notebooks was supposedly written by Scherzer in "Hungarian" (the language is known as Magyar) The black Doctor's kit bag is a nice touch... -------------------------------------------------------------------