Good question. Jerry Hanken (and no doubt others) claimed that AF4C would come back with big bucks and start sponsoring the US Championship again, provided only that Sam Sloan be defeated for re- election. Let's see if that really happens. Sam Sloan

Dear ECF, My name is Rob Mitchell. I am an associate editor for the online chess magazine, Chessville.com. We have undertaken with great pains and effort to contact the most worthy and sportsman like of all chess playing organizations to take part in a chessic contest of immeasurable importance. (sounds good anyway, right :-) ) I feel certain that you are familiar with the online e mail chess...

Dear USCF Board I hope your Mexican visit goes well. I hope is that the USCF will see some improvements now there has been some changes made in leadership at the board level. SInce you have a keen eye for promotion, I would like to run this by you: Look Rob, you have to throw down the gauntlet to these sorts of people. We, Chessville, home of real opinions of We the Chess People,...

From the USCF Issues Forum this morning: "Andy, both Susan and I were very active here at one point until some people decided to drop in. She was trying to help because she truly believes in interacting with chess players of all levels. She has done this long before this forum. All she requested is for people to be respectful and civil. Thanks to a few, there goes that. She only asked to...

Post 67316 Sent at: Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:21 pm From: lblair To: samsloan PROPOSED LEVEL ONE SANCTION FOC continues to believe that a level one sanction is appropriate as a result of your post:

An ethics question. Is there a conflict of interest in two board members setting up what are essentially competing forums with the USCF and its forums to which the board members owe a fiduciary duty of loyalty? In fact, the color and format of the Polgar/Truong forum is strikingly similar to the USCF forums. Most of the discussion forums on their site parallel the forums on this site. In as...

This is a great idea. I wish I had thought of it. I wish somebody had thought of it. However, I am a bit nervous about posting in the Internet the names and ratings of very young children. For example, should we post a list of the 100 top rated girls under 8 ? I think we should seek some advice on this touchy question before going forward. Sam Sloan

A large number of my postings have been deleted and I have never been told what was wrong with them other than a vague general statement that they "violated the AUG". You are well known for your attacks on other posters. Now, you take offense at the mild statement "thus far" and you demand an official retraction. If they applied the same standard to you as they do to me you would have been...

We need a prompt system with as little bureaucracy as possible. Once a system is in place and the trouble makers are properly sanctioned including permanent banning, there will be no problem with the forum. 99% of the problems are caused by less than 10 people. Best wishes, Susan Polgar www.SusanPolgar.com www.SusanPolgar.blogspot.com www.SusanPolgarFoundation.org

You seem to be referring to me. It is true that I have published five chess books, the Troitzky book, the Kasparyan book, the Whitaker book, the Weaver Adams book and recently the Benko book and none of them are being sold by USCF Sales. Plus I have a book on Chinese chess, which is by far my most popular book. However, I would be happy to have USCF Sales carry my books. The USCF President...

The shocking news from the new BINFOS is that Bill Hall plans to eliminate most of the powers of the Forum Oversight Committee or FOC and Susan Polgar wants to ban entirely about ten miscreants who are known to criticize her. Presently, there are three moderators to the forum but only two are active after one killed himself and the two active forum moderators were selected because they are the...

I am asking for a Challenge between Frits8 vs Master Level, Can Fritz 8 beat Master Level of GetClub Chess? What do Taylor Kingston Say. Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html Now All will cry by the strength of GetClub Chess, Ha Ha Ha.... GetClub Chess will beat all Players whether Strong or weak. Ha Ha

Till now GetClub Chess only avoid double pawn formation and isolated pawns. Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html What type of Pawn structures are good and what type of pawn structure are bad? 1. If Pawns are on same rows not protecting each other {in front of King}. (Is it good) King has no place to move???

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