Chess Forum / General Topics / December 2008

A question for Phil the Flak----what happened to chessdiscussion.com?
Are they destroying evidence?

If Rob plans to run on the Polgar Slate, there is one big is-sue:

How can we expect faithful Federation stewardship from one allied to
an EB member currently making a mockery of her own stewardship
obligation by trying to destroy the Federation financially?

We expect "honest and truthful" explanations from such a candidate.
And they better be good.

On Dec 15, 4:39 pm, onech...@comcast.net wrote:

It is true that Rob got his moniker "The Robber" from a botched deal
with Ed Trice, when they both accused the other one of trying to
swindle each other out of $35,000 for promoting a $14 million dollar
Gothic Chess Match that Bobby Fischer was supposedly going to play.

However, the name "The Robber" has stuck and has become widely
accepted and will probably remain with him for the rest of his life
because of other things he did, such as changing or overwriting the
titles to threads in this group to prevent others from finding or
reading them, for flooding my private email group fide-chess with
unwanted videos when he had been suspended and later banned from my
group, for accusing me and others of being a "coward" for refusing to
play him when he is an 800 strength chess player and nobody wants to
waste time playing with beginners, and so on.

Rob "The Robber" first got involved with chess in 2005 when the USCF
moved to Tennessee and, since he lives in Nashville, he applied for
the job of Scholastic Director.

He reached the inteview stag, but he was turned down for that
position.

He then applied for the job of Executive Director.

This time, he did not reach the interview stage. Since his background
is that he is an insurance salesman, he seemed to have no qualficatins
for the job.

It was then that he went on a rampage, bombarding all the chess
discussion groups with a lot of nonsense, so he became known as "Rob
the Robber".

If will be really funny if he runs for USCF Executive Board, and even
funnier if he wins.

Sam Sloan

Hey, BB!  What has happened to chessdiscussion.com? As chief Trolgar
flack, you must have an inside scoop to share with us.  ;-)

We know why you will not discuss it here. You will not discuss it here
because we have proof that you are guilty.

On the Internet a letter is posted on your stationary and your
letterhead with your office address on it which states that you are in
contact with Bobby Fischer who has agreed to play a chess match that
you will videotape. The letter demands payment of $35,000 in advance
for arranging this chess match and videotaping.

Here is an exact quote from your letter:

http://www.gothicchess.com/images/blog/CMM_rev_3.jpg

7. CMM will be paid a one-time $35,000 stipend as an initial infusion
of capital to be used for the general operational budget of the
current project.

8. CMM, in good faith, will be responsible for obtaining initial
player contracts and maintaining player participation but will not be
held liable if the participants, for whatever reason, failed to agree
of perform. The players who have initially agreed to participate are
Mr. Robert James Fischer and Mr. Anatoly Karpov. In case of default by
the above named participant, alternate players will be sought by CMM
and agreed upon by GCF.

What is your excuse or explanation for this?

Sam Sloan

you can see, he has arrived, and now you know the answer.

Brian Lafferty correctly points out that Rob the Robber has yet to
specifically deny that he is running for the board.

Instead, Rob the Robber keeps asking, " Who told you I was running?"

Personally, I think that he would make a fine addition to the Susan
Polgar slate.

"Vote for Rob the Robber. He and Sue will do you too!"