A long time ago I had all these ideas for making it a better, stronger organization, and bringing a world title to America. Want to know what a rather wealthy patron of the game said to me as I was taking dollars from his drunk ass? "No one is impressed." When people don't consider new ideas, and they go down with the old, they DESERVE their lot in life.

Monday, June 02, 2003 Failure of the USCF Executive Board and Operations to address the following significant problems, each of which has clear financial importance, has caused us to resign from the FC. Leroy Dubeck, Jim Pechac, Helen Warren. 1. The significant delay by USCF Operations in presentation and release of final financial information for fiscal year end 2002,

I've read and only begun to understand some of the history of Reds, Blacks and even Greens. How about a color for the new Board? We have remnance of Red, and will have for quite some time. We have some Yellow (Yellow is the colour of the Sun and is often associated with happiness and childhood (scholastic chess?). Go into any toy store and you'll see yellow everywhere. Think of The...

If you guys keep referring to women as "hot chicks", you will continue to exacerbate the problem of the paucity of women in chess. Bill Smythe I'm slamming Smythe on other threads, so I feel compelled to point out that he is exactly right on this one. James Eade Remove the Sheesh to respond. Don't worry. Talk happy.

Hey, guys, don't worry about the good old USCF. Last year McCrary said we were only $4 away. Now that we've lost another $300,000 odd, or about $3 per member, we're only $7 away. Everything will be fine and dandy after the adult dues go up to $56. PhilDPage

"RSHaas" wrote in message ... Where shall we meet to seriously plan the design and formation of the next national chess federation? Seriously, folks... we should start now. (RSHaas) We can meet here. Question #1: should the next national chess federation be a not-for-profit or for-profit?

Teimour Radjabov vs. Sam Sloan (Damiano Defense) I would pay to see that! Only I'd probably distract the players as I would not be able to stop laughing! -Scott

From: "Matt Nemmers" Date: 20/07/03 23:56 GMT Daylight Time Message-id: f6FSa.109584$H17.33950@sccrnsc02 (And no, pity-votes and jokes don't count. And if you were drunk when you voted for him, that doesn't count either.) Would anyone who *seriously* voted for Sloan thinking he was a *serious* candidate like to hang a big matzah-ball out there and admit it on...

In a recent tournament, where it explicitly stipulated that Digital Clocks must be set for Time Delay, there arose a couple of disputes involving clocks that did not have Time Delay correctly set. The cases involved clocks that were lent to them by 3rd parties, so it was impossible to assign culpability for incorrectly setting the clock to either of the players who were contesting the games. In...

http://www.nhpr.org/view_content/5042/ The story claims that 19 year old New Hampshire chessplayer Braden Bournival is making a lot of money sending out spam emails and selling penis enlargement pills. It also claims that he is associated with a Rhode Island man named Davis Wolfgang Hawke, who is described as a "chess champion" and "the founder and leader of neo-Nazi group called the Knights of...

Radjabov is amazing! He wiped Kasparov off the board and now Anand! What a great way to start his chess career! http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1091 -Scott

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Hi guys, Been drinking heavily and playing ICC. My trial account was rated 1523 based on 47 games, mostly 4 4. I played 4 blitz games at each 0.02 BAL. It usually took about 40 minutes to play these games, since after every second game I had to pee. So a purist will say that by the time I played the forth game at each particular blood alcohol level it was really lower by about 0.007 given...

Subject: U.S. Open player count On 6 August 2003 Bruce Draney replied in Message-id: How does this compare to St. Paul, Framingham and Cherry Hill totals before the shortened schedules begin? How many players are pre-registered for the shortened schedules? Also, what is the late/on site entry fee for the tournament?

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Say it ain't so, Gary! Here's what a CHAMPION does: 1. He doesn't whine. 2. He doesn't yank out the rulebook. 3. He plays the hand he's dealt.

Many of you remember Ken Horne from Nevada who was a champion of prison chess. Ken put forward the following ADM in 1999 shortly before he died in a plane crash. Ken's idea makes such good sense that of course it was WITHDRAWN because we didn't do it that way in the past. Yikes. ADM 00-16/DM 99-60/ADM 99-52 ( Ken Horne, NV): It is moved that the next revised copy of the Rulebook be published...

I wonder what they would say if chess pieces could talk. I believe that it would sound like a dysfunctional family because it is the queen that is wearing the pants in that household; not the king. I think the Bishops would act really arrogant because they can attack long range and they like stuck up pieces anyway. I picture Rooks to talk slow and sluggish but with old age wisdom. Who knows...

RSHaas wrote: There is a Zero sitting in the back of an Atlanta museum on Peachtree Street. The Japs developed quite a good fighter, the Reppu, to attack B-29's but their entry came too late in the war. (RSHaas) Yeah. By the end of the war, the Japanese had developed a fighter with better performance than the American P-51, but they were hampered by fuel shortages which left...

With the death of Bob Hope this week, one should be reminded of the fact that Bobby Fischer made a special guest appearance on one of Hope's TV specials in the fall of 1972. I remember reading somewhere that Hope stated that Fischer was the worst person he ever had to do deal with on his TV show. Brad Darrach, who wrote Bobby Fischer vs. the Rest of the World, doesn't go into detail about...