Chess Forum / General Topics / July 2007

Anybody who is wondering how Susan Polgar achieved such a sweeping
election victory has not seen her blogspot. Not only was Susan elected
but all of those elected were candidates she supported on her
blogspot.

I was not going to say this but I had better say it now since I have
been told that I will likely be kicked off the USCF Forum when I am no
longer a candidate.
I have excellent contacts and sources of information in Hungary, where

Goodall wasn't even a legitimate candidate. Sloan finished dead last
of the ones who tried to get elected.
CH

Here is a very nice analysis of the game:
http://tinyurl.com/ynt2dm
Comments?

Based on the returns so far, I believe it is very likely that Polgar,
Bauer and Truong will be elected, along with Jim Berry. There is still
a slight chance that Steve Jones will prevail as a result of huge
support in California, but this seems unlikely.

[quote="gregory"]The problem is that the FOC was trying to formally
sanction a moderator after he pulled the post after the FOC formally
voted to restore it. This was political pay-back time by the FOC in
order to stop a moderator to from moderating the forums and stopping

[quote="Charles Aronowitz"]To Sam Sloan:  I've never heard of anyone
in Canada objecting to my tournaments being USCF-rated.  Here's a
project for you.  If you could find a way to convince the various
major organizations to harmonize their rating systems so that one

tanstaafl wrote:
Weekly World News Killed By Aliens, Zombie Elvis, Declining
Circulation
This was one of the headlines I saw this morning. The caption below a

Do you realize that now that the date to count the votes has arrived
and the election is over except for the counting of votes, there still
has been no release of financial information, none whatever, expect
for my reporting the unaudited figure of a loss of $57,915, and no

Problems with Payment of Prizes at the US Championships
Phil Innes, who is notoriously anti-USCF and wants to put us out of
business, has scooped the board by posting on rgcp that the prizes
still have not been paid for the US Woman's Championship, even though

This week's newsletter from Chessville leads with the debacle of the Woman's
US Championship brilliancy prize, it says;
Chessville readers might recall that Janet Newton, through the website
Goddesschess, donated a $300 Brilliancy Prize to the just concluded 2007 US

Note: This post contains information posted on the web by
magazines and newspapers and thus likely to go away soon,
So I reproduced the text here as an archive and added a tag
to the subject line to make it easy to find.

[quote="rfeditor"][quote="Brian Lafferty"][quote="mnibb"][quote="Brian
Lafferty"]USCF counsel gave an opinion to the EB that the USCF was
bound by a contract with Ms. Polgar which Polgar/Truong threatened to
sue to enforce.  An opinion of counsel was obtained regarding a

I've been told that is common to allow players in a tournament to skip
a round and take a half-point bye. Anyone know about this?
ray@iinet.com.au
www.iinet.com.au/~ray

And, of course, our fine legal mind chooses to ignore the fact that
Mr. Terrie provided plenty of basis for his opinion... That fine legal
mind stated this:
Brian Lafferty wrote: