Re: Stan Vaughan is Back

"samsloan" <> The American Chess Association represents the United States as
the

founded in 1857 when it sponsored the First American Chess Congress. The
purpose of the ACA is to extend the role of chess in American Society.
Current membership as of 2007 is approximately 71,000 members. Membership is
$1 for life. The ACA publishes a monthly magazine, American Chess Monthly
which can be subscribed to separately. >

Do they rate and sponsor tournaments? It sounds like a real alternative to
the USCF (United Scumbags Chess Federation)

Now, take another look (if you looked before).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Chess_Association

It has been reverted again. It now show the official Stan Vaughan
version, which states:

American Chess Association

The American Chess Association represents the United States as the
official governing body within the World Chess Federation, Inc. It was
founded in 1857 when it sponsored the First American Chess Congress.
The purpose of the ACA is to extend the role of chess in American
Society. Current membership as of 2007 is approximately 71,000
members. Membership is $1 for life. The ACA publishes a monthly
magazine, American Chess Monthly which can be subscribed to
separately. ACA contact info is amchess@cox.net. The ACA has not had a
website since 2000 at which time its webmaster Ron Dale died, just
previous to the 2000 ACA California Open.

[quote="seki"]From an email from Stan Vaughn:

A US Championship Qualifier!

The American Chess Association's 150th anniversary U.S. Chess Open

Championship (Ron Dale/Ron Pease/Frank Metz Memorial) begins Saturday
September 1 and continues through Monday September 3, 2007.

etc-etc-etc....

Can Richard Petersen be far behind?[/quote]

I guess that not many have realized the danger of this situation.

Stan Vaughan (note correct spelling) has a history of organizing
tournaments that have the same name as real tournaments, thereby
hoping to trick players into entering his tournaments.

For example, when FIDE held the World Championship in Las Vegas in
1999, Stan Vaughan organized his own "World Championship" and
threatened to sue the hotels and the newspapers if they publicized the
FIDE World Championship. Because of his threats of a lawsuit, the
Bellagio Hotel, where the FIDE World Championship was scheduled to be
held, pulled out and would not allow the FIDE event to be held there.

Similarly, Stan Vaughan has held his own US Open Championship, Nevada
State Championship, National Elementary Championship and so on.
Usually, players know about and avoid these events but he always
catches a few unwarys who enter his events thinking that they are the
real event.

Stan Vaughan has also filed several lawsuits against the USCF, all of
which he eventually lost but not after costing the USCF a lot of legal
fees.

He has also manipulated the rating system. At one time half of the top
rated scholastic players in the country got their ratings through Stan
Vaughan tournaments. You can see one example of this on my website at
http://www.samsloan.com/weeraman.htm

Now, Stan Vaughan is back. He is running the "American Chess
Championship" claiming as he always does that this is the same event
that was won by Paul Morphy in 1857.

He claims that his "US Open Chess Championship" is a "qualifier" to
the US Championship, which is, of course, a fraud.

Sam Sloan