Re: Susan Polgar National Invitational For Girls

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

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