Posted for Ray Keene //Phil Innes The Staunton Memorial 2007 Raymond Keene Howard Staunton was the Victorian polymath who became unofficial world champion in chess, as well as writing the history of the British Public School system and producing a collector's item edition of the works of Shakespeare. For the past four years a Staunton Memorial tournament has been

(reprised) Over the last several months, I have repeatedly warned this Executive Board, and I have copied you, about the dangers of USCF working with Susan Polgar and Paul Truong. These two individuals are constantly trying to rip us off, and they have often succeeded. For example, the highly unusual five-year, $30,000 contract Susan Polgar was given to write for Chess Life. There are...

Did they take away your Gay Porn collection? wrote in message ... On Aug 2, 11:42 pm, wrote: On Aug 2, 11:33 pm, wrote:

(for-immediate-release) Since Terry Vibbert has announced intention to implement webcast equipment, the delegates meeting will now be a televised event. By a previouSLY negotiated legal agreement with Frank Niro, this event now qualifies as a media promotion in connection with the USCF, and so Ms. Polgar is entitled to the $5000 honorarium. However, Susan has aGREED to waive her appearance fee...

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and without comments of a negative nature I'd be interested in finding out where the following chess personalities from here or USCF are now? Hopefully they are all still living whether political friend or foe. Steve Doyle James Eade Tom Dorsch George John Kevin Bachler

As much as I think that Sam Sloan is morally bankrupt in his personal life as the fact that he seems to create more implausible conspiracy theories then the Branch Davidians, in all honesty he did seem to serve a useful purpose on the USCF board. 1) He was not controlled by any of the self serving members of the USCF's "leadership" 2) He did bring some things that I would classify as "shady...

A recent USCF pre-election poll at the FIDE_CHESS @ yahoogroups website conducted a poll that was dead on in accuracy! link: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/FIDE_CHESS/surveys?id=2490065 The poll was: 1st Polgar 25%

An interesting development since this morning is that Paul Truong aka "ChessPromotion" has returned to the USCF Forums today. He has posted several times today, this after an absence of several months from the Forums. He and his devoted wife left the USCF Forums several months ago after they were increasingly unable to answer embarrassing questions that the regular posters kept asking. They...

An interesting development since this morning is that Paul Truong aka "ChessPromotion" has returned to the USCF Forums today. He has posted several times today, this after an absence of several months from the Forums. He and his devoted wife left the USCF Forums several months ago after they were increasingly unable to answer embarrassing questions that the regular posters kept asking. They...

I saw this movie 30 years ago and I saw it yesterday on video. I think that some changes have been made for the director's cut. I am not sure that they are for the better. In the pool scene, in the original Jacy is shocked to see all the people naked. Finally, they get her to go up on the diving board. They tease and jeer her. She is really reluctant and afraid. Finally, the camera scans down to...

Stop bothering me with these e-mails and public notices - I'm writing a very important chess history as a commisioned project on the family-Sloan and American Chess as we know it, featuring among other famous chess personalities: an early meeting by Josiah Smith-Sloan with Polgarhontas, Ralph Waldo Sloan, who had a split personality, and sometimes thought he was Johhny-Appleseedsloan, and...

POLITICAL ANALYSIS I have been on the transpacific blower and exchanging e-mails with some Federation politerati. Here is some of what I have heard: 1. A long-time California USCF observer figures that the schism among members of the oligarchy or, as he puts it, "the club," had everyone fighting so much that they failed to notice an invasion from outer

Will Joel Channing Convert to Polgarism? A lot of people are asking this question because Polgar ran a slate of four, with the obvious plan to take control of the USCF. However, she must have known from the flip-flops of Randy Bauer when he was on the board during 2004-2005 that Bauer had an independent streak in him and could not be relied upon always to follow orders. So, she must have...

George is senile and keeps on repeating the same crap. Brenan Nierman is just a wacky lunatic who wants to destroy the world and save convicted felons like Sam Sloan. What the hell is wrong with them? Are all chess players like this?

Which are the 600 morons who voted for Sam Sloan? Let's see. Laffert, Brenan, Payne, Mottorshead, Quinn, Dubeck....

Several pundits have suggested that I have been humiliated by my election loss yesterday, in which I received only 677 votes. I do not feel humiliated. I was the target of the most vicious attacks ever in the history of USCF Election politics. Even Mother Theresa could not have withstood the attacks to which I was subjected. Those attacks started more than two weeks before I even took office in...

Will Polgar Make it Through the Delegates' Meeting? The delegate's meeting and the workshops that precede the delegates' meeting will start on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. These are likely to be raucous meetings. Although it has been demonstrated by the election results that Polgar has the support of the general membership, she may not have such strong support from...

I agree with George for a change and I disagree with everybody else. I believe that Susan Polgar could and indeed almost must be made president of the USCF now, assuming that she wants the job. The first reason that Polgar should be made president rather than Goichberg is that Polgar is more beautiful than Goichberg. I am not joking. Attractiveness and presentability are...

**As usual, a few questions are necessary, before the hangin' judge puts that black thing over his head, coz as always, someone is going to pay for this! There should be a major inquiry into the question of how Gregory Alexander, who just joined the USCF for the first time in his life a few months ago and who has never played a rated game of chess in his life, **though somehow was...