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Chess Forum / General Topics / February 2008Susan Polgar National Invitational For Girls
Susan Polgar National Invitational For Girls I just saw it for the first time today on the Susan Polgar website. Perhaps it has been there all along and I did not notice it, but I believe that it is new. Susan Polgar is calling the tournament in her name the Susan Polgar National Invitational For Girls Take a look at http://www.susanpolgar.com/indexone.html It says 07.29.2007 Susan Polgar National Invitational For Girls The rules and conditions page is blank. Perhaps that is an error, or perhaps she is changing the rules. http://www.susanpolgar.com/rulesinvitegirls2007.pdf Susan has been told time and again that she cannot use the word National in any of her events unless it is authorized by the office. There is a specific reason for this. The USCF has a National High School Championship, a National Junior High School Championship, a National Elementary Championship and so on. Those events are the official US Championships. Neither the Polgar nor the Denker is the official US Championship. The Polgar tournament is intended to be the girls equivalent of the Denker tournament. The official name of the Denker tournament is the Denker Tournament of High School Champions. The Denker is not an invitational tournament. Anyone can qualify to it by winning the high school championship of a state. The Polgar tournament is similarly the Polgar Tournament of Champions. Why is Polgar always pushing the envelope? She knows the rules. She knows that she cannot use the word National without permission of the office, which will not be granted in this case. Why does she insist on exceeding the limits under which the tournament in her name was set up, by adding the words National and Invitational when the actual authorized name of her tournament was good enough? In view of Susan's flagrant disobedience of the rules, I think that the name of the Polgar tournament will have to be changed. Sam Sloan How about: Susan Polgar North American Invitational Tournament for Girls. Then you can include Canada and Mexico. Then you can call it: Susan Polgar InternationaI Invitational Tournament for Girls. If the word National is the stickler then so be it. Just drop it and put a better name for a tournament the young girls in this country or continent deserve. Whatever the problem it is the pettiest little thing I have ever seen to fight over. EZoto One could imagine the laughter in Russia over names like the "World Open." > How about: Susan Polgar North American Invitational Tournament for > Girls. Then you can include Canada and Mexico. Then you can call it: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > continent deserve. Whatever the problem it is the pettiest little > thing I have ever seen to fight over. I'm sorry I lied. The event was approved by the board. MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING OF THE UNITED STATES CHESS FEDERATION ON AUGUST 7, 2003 ... 03-34 (McCrary): The Polgar National Championship for Girls is a sanctioned USCF event. PASSED 4-0. >I'm sorry I lied. The event was approved by the board. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >03-34 (McCrary): The Polgar National Championship for Girls is a >sanctioned USCF event. PASSED 4-0. The above message was from the Fake Sam Sloan I have never had the address of samsloan@usa.com The Real Sam Sloan At 05:19 PM 6/2/2007 -0400, Chessoffice@aol.com wrote: >The contract Susan refers to is probably an extension of national tournament status through 2009. I don't remember what else is in the contract, probably not much. I doubt that it requires the event to be held at the US Open, though I hope it does. I did not negotiate this contract, only signed it after others had agreed to the details on behalf of USCF. Here is what Susan writes on her Blog: At Friday, June 01, 2007 11:22:00 AM, SusanPolgar said... No, it does not. The contract basically allows me to do as I wish since this is an event that I founded, funded and ran from the beginning. The role of the USCF is to sanction it and promote it. Anything outside of this is a clear violation of the legal agreement. Best wishes, Susan Polgar www.PolgarChess.com So, Susan says that she has the right to do anything she wants with this tournament. There is an implied threat to sue if the USCF does not let her do that. Also, the USCF is required to "sanction and promote it". Putting in a TLA in Chess Life, as has already been done, would seem to fulfill the requirement to sanction and promote it. Nobody is objecting if Susan moves "her" tournament to Lubbock, Texas. The question is: Will she try to sue if the USCF substitutes another girls tournament at the US Open, such as the "Irina Krush Tournament of Champions". She probably would like to sue, but I doubt that any attorney would take her case. I think that as an urgent matter Bill Goichberg should send his minions down to the Crossville Landfill (or is it the New Windsor Landfill) and try to dig out that contract to see what it says. Of course, we could always ask Susan for a copy of the contract, but in the past such requests have never been granted. Sam Sloan MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING OF THE UNITED STATES CHESS FEDERATION ON AUGUST 7, 2003 ... 03-34 (McCrary): The Polgar National Championship for Girls is a sanctioned USCF event. PASSED 4-0. The board authorized a "Polgar National Championship for Girls". However, that event has never been held. The tournament Susan is advertising is called the "Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls". There is obviously a big difference between a national championship, in which anybody can play, and a national invitational, which is restricted to a chosen few. Also, the "Rules & Conditions" page on Susan's website is still blank. http://www.susanpolgar.com/rulesinvitegirls2007.pdf It has been blank for several days. Thus, we still do not know what Susan plans to do or what she has on her mind. There is no record of the board ever authorizing a tournament called the "Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls". Sam Sloan [quote="rfeditor"]Oh, and the link http://www.susanpolgar.com/rulesinvitegirls2007.pdf has had the details of the Polgar tournament for some time now (from internal evidence, since March). It is currently displaying in another tab in front of me. Perhaps it would help if you found someone who new how to use a computer. Though I doubt it.[/quote] I see. So, it turns out that her "Rules & Conditions" page cannot be viewed on Mozilla Firefox but it can be viewed on Internet Explorer. Obviously, Hillary is using Explorer whereas I use Firefox. Would any of you techies out there care to explain why a PDF file would appear on Explorer but not on Firefox? Is this part of the conspiracy? Sam Sloan |
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