A former employee of the USCF apparently has MANY checks signed by former ED Frank Niro which s/he is refusing to return to the USCF because of a salary dispute with New Windsor. These checks were to be used to pay the prizes at this year's US Open, but financial reverses made those payments impossible at this time.

On 06 Sep 2003 at 21:34:59 GMT, Bill Goichberg scribbled: -I would keep a 5-round Swiss with 5 players as a Swiss and let -players face each other twice if necessary, which is perfectly -legal under the circumstances. The general concept behind this has a name. It's called the Italian Pairing System. See Martin E. Morrison's TOURNAMENT DIREC- TION GUIDE AND MANUAL, July 1971, page 8.7. ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, September 5, 2003 PRESS RELEASE 30 of 2003 CONTACT: Grant Perks, 845-562-8350, ext. 138 VOLUNTEER COMINGS & GOINGS Leading chess organizer Bill Goichberg, head of the Continental Chess Association (CCA), will join the USCF national office in New Windsor, N.Y.

Many people feel that scholastic memberships are successful primarily because of the lower dues charged to them. While this is a factor, I think this answer is far too simplistic. Youth dues have been around for some time, yet the scholastic success is fairly recent. Certainly dues are a factor, but there are other considerations which are very important. If we better understand...

Astronomers at the MacDonald Observatory, have announced the discovery of still another planet, which they have named Planet Sloan, in honor of our truth challenged poster to this newsgroup, one S. Sloan. On Planet Sloan, people often spend their entire day either attacking other people's credibility so that people will not realize they have none of their own. On Planet Sloan, the truth always...

I think that it should be remembered who the members are - They are the ones paying the dues. They have joined your club to enjoy the offered benefits offered of by the club and the discounts on the events that are being offered there. If your members receive 'value for money spent', then they will renew their membership dues, but only if the management and Governors of your club appreciates...

I think Ft. Worth, Texas would be a good spot for a future EB meeting. That's where American Mensa is HQ'd. Invite Mensa biggies over for a pow-wow and an exchange of ideas. Visit Mensa HQ and see what they do. Examine Mensa top to bottom and see what might be borrowed from Mensa in a possible adaptation for chess. Any objections, guys? Hey, a little exchange of ideas won't hurt.

Why not do your own research/homework? Maybe you would actually learn something about chess. I will say one thing - Mr. Samford was a Birmingham player who gave a lot of money to develop chess. SBD

In my opinion our former VP of Finance, now turned Member at Large, has to make a tough choice before the USCF catalog goes out to the members. Frank's chess set company should have all of its ads immediately pulled, if he chooses to remain on the Board. The bylaws seem very clear to almost everyone but Frank's closest supporters that a Board member may not profit personally from...

In article , King Leopold says... Because they DON"T HAVE $500.00 Sam. THEY'RE BROKE! Remember, Sam doesn't believe that! Kevin L. Bachler

Is Peter Leko still dead? "Sam Sloan" wrote in message ... I just received a report that Frank Niro is back in the USCF office in New Windsor and apparently wants his job back. What does anybody think about this?

Maybe an NTD or someone involved in the rulebook can help me here. Someone argued to me that 27A1 means that its perfectly acceptable to pair players more than once (against each other) in a swiss. I looked up some of his crosstables on the msn site and lo and behold this guy ran a 5 round swiss with 5 players. What an abomination that was to look at.

So runs the headline in this morning's Birmingham news. James Rachels died of cancer. Some statements and quotes from the article: 1. "Dr Rachels' book, "The Elements of Moral Philosophy" has sold more copies than any ethics text in America." 2. Dr. Rachels was the first moral philosopher to publish an article in the New England Journal of Medicine.

If anyone tries to assign me a "minimum rating" at a big tournament, I want my USCF rating changed to reflect that.

Since a good discussion has been generated about how USCF can be successful in the future, there seems to be some degree of agreement among some anyway, that USCF is damaged goods to some people. How could USCF begin to build trust among vendors, organizers, directors and members? This is a very difficult, but very important thing for USCF to do, before it can put the last 7 years behind it,...

"sandirhodes" wrote in message ... Read the article again. It seems to me that Mr. Charles was becoming increasingly agitated with Mr. Evans, who was constantly asking him about his position and why he was making certain moves. I read it as though Mr. Charles was responding with disgust. Like "Leave me alone!" ...

As both Glenn Peterson and Kalev Pehme point out, we are paying $24,000 a year for color separations, and we could save this entire sum by spending a few hundred dollars for the Adobe Acrobat software I'm sure that your observations on the pub dept are in general spirit correct. However, Acrobat printing, rather than full-sep printing has been in use. You can occasionally spot this on...

I can explain the illegal election: The bylaws specify that only Resident members may vote or serve on the board. It is the law that bylaws be followed. Members who were not Resident members voted and were re-elected to the board.

FROM WWW.KOSTENIUK.COM By Larry Parr The current article in Evans On Chess entitled "Model Turns Heads at World Open" at http://www.worldchessnetwork.com cites her draw with Ilya Smirin and a link to her website with the following news: 28.08.2003 16:32:27 - Finally the great day has arrived and the movie in which Alexandra has played has come out! The Official Premiere took place in Moscow

This thread has been too quiet too long. DRUGS AND CHESS!!!! I happened to be hanging around in the hotel lobby where I was staying while playing this weekend at the VA Closed. (nice turnout, especially considering the site was not at a hotel, it was a 3 day event, and was held on Fri. - Sun, and with a very late round final round on Sunday) In the Sept. 1 issue of Business Week, there was a...