Chess Forum / General Topics / December 2004

For Sale:
Boxwood and Ebony, Staunton Chess Set, 3.75" King, 1.563"
diameter base, weight 53 oz., in solid walnut box. This is
not an "ebonized" set. The black pieces are ebony wood. Has

$60,000 for the Crossville Architect ?!
The revelation has just come out that the USCF has signed a contract
to pay $60,000 to an architect in Crossville to design a new building
the USCF is supposed to be building there.

Larry Parr has posted elsewhere his vision of a Broadway Musical based
on the move to Crossville.
I think this idea has actual merit. Beatriz would be prefect as the
much maligned and misundestood Eva Peron type character as played by

I have just posted a photo I took of Elizabeth Shaughnessy at the 2000
World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul.
http://www.samsloan.com/shaughnessy.htm
Sam Sloan

Looking for a copy of My 60 Memorable Games. My son has asked for a copy of
this book for Christmas.  I understand it is out of print and I have been
searching on the Internet.  I'm unsure what edition, but maybe the 1969
edition?  I know he does not want the Bratsford(sp?) edition.

Turns out the August 2003 crisis was not a crisis
Everyone has heard the story: Beatriz Marinello was elected USCF
President on August 11, 2003 in Los Angeles. Immediately after she
took office, she found out that the USCF had no money in the bank,

 In a message dated 12/17/04 12:36:05 AM Eastern Standard Time,
ChessSafari@aol.com writes:

The 6 game match Hikaru Nakamura vs. Sergey Karjakin took place in Mexico
9th-14th December.

Nakamura - Karjakin 1-0

Is this some sort of joke, or are these people serious?
http://www.schemingmind.com/journalarticle.aspx?article_id=13

Nakamura smashed Karjakin in the 6-game match in Mexico, winning by a score
of 4.5-1.5.  Karjakin played the endgame of the fifth game poorly, perhaps
throwing away a draw.  The sixth (and unnecessary) game was the usual messy
affair, with Nakamura coming through on the ...

I just saw the announcement on Channel 5. The lead story on the 10
o'clock news tonight will be that the Morrow High School in Brooklyn
won the natinal high school championship where 1200 kids competed and
they were greeted by the President.

All I see here is a rantings of a lunatic.  If this is what Chess people are
about...I am taking up checkers!!!  Seriously, rantings such as this just be
redicule to anyone who professes a passion for Chess.  Let someone else
express an opinion.  I have always found that the ...

I'm an amatuer chess player, and I visit this newsgroup occasionally, to see
what's going on.  Normally, there are several interesting topics being
discussed.  However, for the past couple of months, it seems like the only
person posting is Sam Sloan (whoever he is).

Beatriz Marinello and the Reign of Terror
In August, 2003, when Beatriz Marinello became USCF president, the
first thing she did was fire 17 staff members.
In the next few weeks, she plans to fire 21 more, leaving only four

According to TWIC Bobby Fischer has been granted a residence permit to move to
Iceland.http://www.visir.is/?PageID=34...Here Fischer appeared on Icelandic TV