What is not reasonable is you coming in as a new moderator and on the first day turning everything upside down by ruling that URLs to websites cannot be posted. This forum has been in existence for about three years and has had many moderators, but before this nobody had ever suggested such a rule. Now, when postings by a widely divergent number of posters who do not have a history of agreeing...

A BEAUTIFUL MIND But of course, I could never be world champion; this is partly because chess is not important enough to waste a valuable mind on. It's just a game; a complete waste of time. Life is short. That's why I have given up chess altogether. -- Help Bot Greg Kennedy -- our embittered Indiana factory worker and excuse-maker -- implies that he has "a valuable mind."

False Claims by Polgar Polgar propaganda constantly claims that Polgar is a "Four Times Woman's World Champion". This is not true. She only won the Woman's World Championship one time. That was in 1996. Now that she has been elected, this allegation appears on the USCF website. It will be interesting to see if this appears in Chess Life, where everybody will know that it is false.

Nomorechess was asking me to improve the Tactics for many days. I was not understanding how to do that. But today an apple dropped and the GetClub Chess Tactics was improved. So the game will now make better moves than earlier as it will look for tactics much deeper than earlier. Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html And let me know how good tactics GetClub Chess is playing against...

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A RIDICULOUS DECISION After having examined the verdict of the so-called FIDE Ethics Committee (an oxymoron) Larry Evans and I have concluded that it's okay to call someone a cheat but not a dunderhead. wrote: According to the FIDE ethics comission http://www.fide.com/news/download/Judgement02-07.pdf

Very interesting development. Even I have one: FIDE ID 2030390 But not everybody has one. How is it determined who has one and who does not have one? Sam Sloan

Duncan Oxley has died Duncan Oxley, a well known chess tournament and Internet personality has died in Marina, California. I am shocked to hear of his death especially since he called me on Wednesday, August 29, 2007, and we had a telephone conversation lasting over an hour on a wide variety of topics. He told me that he was seriously ill. He had a disease of the large

Sam Sloan is either innocent or merely pedantic - here below is his own sense of Fide's truth-speaking - personally I think he is an innocent, since the SU managed Fide was rather too gritty to view at the time, and he shares his inattention with many people. //Phil Innes These were official FIDE World Championships. You may argue that these titles may not be as prestigious as the...

What board did that? Certainly not the board I was on. I would have strongly opposed this and remembered it. I have attended both of the meetings of the new board. There was never any vote saying that college chess should be lumped together with scholastic chess. We have about 40,000 scholastic members. He have about 500 college age members. When kids go to college they have more important...

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Very interesting development. Even I have one: FIDE ID 2030390 But not everybody has one. How is it determined who has one and who does not have one? Sam Sloan

In response to criticisms on the USCF Forums regarding the fact that Susan Polgar refused to defend her Woman's World Championship title in 1998-1999, Susan has just today posted on her blog that she has a "Good Relationship" with Xie Jun now. http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2007/09/chess-nostalgia.html I would like to hear Xie Jun say that. I would also like to hear the guy Susan slandered...

This material hardly needs introduction, but this is the newsgroup from which Rob Mitchell is banned, and a further illustration of its 'thinking':- --- Sam Sloan wrote: The above discussion is at http://www.chessdiscussion.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=25 Take a look at it. Already Susan is attacking the other five board

Taken from the new discussions site set up by Polgar and Truong: by Paul Serrano on Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:45 pm Susan, let me toss this out (since you're in a position to put a bug in somebody's ear). Back in the '80s the USCF had a recognition program for which just about everybody could qualify. They offered members a certificate, suitable for framing, which proclaimed the number of rated...

Now that you have addresses that question kindly address my question. You have as one of your first acts as moderator deleted an entire lengthy thread that was started by me and had more than 20 replies. You have made obvious your dislike for me over the past months. How can you claim to act impartially in your new position as moderator?

The "Tim Sawmiller Rule" provides that URLs and other links to websites are not allowed. However, the "Louis Blair Rule" provides that one must provide "Substantial Proof" for any statement one makes. That "substantial proof" will usually be a link or a URL to a website which supposedly contains this proof. These two rules are contradictory, meaning that nobody can post anything to the USCF...

Dear Mr. Rich Jackson, I am not involved in your case. I do not know you. I have never knowingly met you. I know nothing about you. I certainly have nothing against you. However, the evidence presented against you was overwhelming. You held a scholastic chess tournament in Connecticut around two years ago. You collected money from the kids and their parents, including entry fees and membership...

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An online dictionary gives one definition of a forum as follows: "A medium for open discussion or voicing of ideas, such as ... a website." However, the powers that be regarding the USCF Issues Forum seem to have a different understanding of what the word "forum" means. They seem to think that if, for example, Joel Channing expresses an opinion, we should reply with: