Anyone have any idea what is going on with Chess in Canada? I happened to find these articles on the Chess Federation of Canada: http://members5.boardhost.com/ChessTalk/msg/1208372663.html http://www.chess.ca/Gls/07-08GL7.pdf Talk of restructuring, and potentially going under, borrowing money from FIDE in order to stay afloat and make their payments to continue to be a member?

Although this post is completely off-topic, I have to admit that I found it interesting. Jerry Spinrad On Apr 19, 9:55*am, (Sam Sloan) wrote: The President's Daughter by Nan Britton The President's Daughter is the heart warming story of an innocent young girl who became pregnant and gave birth to a child whose father

Truong "responds" to questions from a USCF member. Please note that Mr. Truong's claims of confidentiality are frivolous. by PaulTruong on Sat Apr 19, 2008 6:27 pm artichoke wrote: Paul, I think your comments are not specific enough to translate into action. So could you clarify:

Zebediah returned after 6 month and played with Master Level. He win the game against Master level in just 34 moves. Looks like he will again snatch the Crown from Help Bot. Zebediah is the Top player at GetClub in terms of Tactics. Chrisf is Second Best player. He too may win the Master Level.

I have two questions: 1. Should someone who was president of the Sexual Freedom League (SFL), have any executive role in chess? This organization is supposed to support society getting rid of traditional social norms. I have been informed that chess doesn't want to have anything to do with poker, because of the children it is trying tor each, and there are vices. So, if that is the case, then...

From chessdiscussion: by PaulTruong on Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:12 pm It's good that people are paying attention to it now. It's too bad that the USCF leadership does not because if they did, they would have asked for help long ago. Even after getting this kind of horrendous numbers, no one asked for help. You know what this reminds me of? I read sometime ago that there were instances where young...

Bill Brock states on the New York Times Gambit Blog, "Mr. Channing had a vision, and a sense of the concrete steps USCF needed to take". I would like Mr. Brock to tell us what his vision was and what those steps were, because I never heard Mr. Channing state those things. In his nearly three years on the board, Mr. Channing never made a motion that failed to pass. The board repeatedly deferred to...

From chessdiscussion: by jlemoine on Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:06 am One last point about the USCF Finances - and this one needs to be said. During the Crossville meeting which I directly observed, Susan and Paul had very little to say about the subject in the open sessions. Had they placed an economic development program for the USCF on the table there - and forced the rest of the Board to go on...

Sam, are you representing GM Benko in this matter, or does he have other counsel? On Apr 18, 8:20*am, (Sam Sloan) wrote: SURROGATES COURT: STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NEW YORK *__________________________________________x In the Matter of the Estate of

On Apr 9, 11:25 am, wrote: I just got a harassing telephone call from 202-861-0945. The woman called me and hung up. She said she was "not allowed" to call me an Ambassador. Whoever gave that instruction is spying for the Goverment of Russia. The state department is full of SPIES.

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Over on chessdiscussion.com Polgar and Truong are again writing about how the USCF would greatly benefit from their expertise. Susan Polgar wrote "Instead of allowing Paul and I to use our expertise to help the USCF". Later Truong chimes in about how the USCF could announce that Truong will "conduct a seminar on promoting chess". http://www.chessdiscussion.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1069

Chrisf is 2nd best player at GetClub Chess. He used to win in just 20-30 Moves earlier. But now as the GetClub game has been improved he now takes 50-60 Moves to win the Higher Levels. In the game below he sacrificed its Rook. and win the game. GetClub also Sacrificed its Knight but I do not understand whether the Sacrifice of Knight by Easy Level was correct or not.

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I do not hang out at most other chess discussion forums. On r.g.c, Truong seems to be defended only by Innes, Rob (though not of late - could he actually have been convinced by Guy Macon's post explaining why it is hard to fake IP addresses?), and some nasty anonymice. Polgar's site seems to carry messages only from people who believe that everything Susan Polgar says must be true, and anyone...

Dear Reader, 20 or so Questions and Answers with board member Mr. Paul Truong is now published at http://www.chessville.com/Editorials/Interviews/20Questions/Truong2.htm There are two links within this interview - one to a previous 20 questions session on Mr. Truong's background, and another to an inquiry brought about by a Larry Parr letter concerning USCF's relations with ChessCafe.

Joel Channing finally carried out his often made threat or promise to resign as follows: In a message dated 4/10/2008 6:37:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, CHESSJOEL writes: I hereby resign my position as director of the US Chess Federation. Joel Channing

NO, NOT PETER LEKO Hanken's passing was reported today by Russ Miller.

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Alexandra Kosteniuk is a Russian chess Grandmaster with a FIDE rating of 2523, presently ranked eighth in the women chess world (according to April 2008 FIDE rating list). Her most notable chess achievements include: winning the Women's European Chess Championship in 2004, winning the Russian Women's Championship with 9/11 score and a performance rating of 2691 in 2005, winning the first...