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None of these that were active were disclosed in Truong's bankruptcy
filing in 2007.
Florida Profit Corporation     
PALM COAST MANAGEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, INC.

Poor Mr Brian Lafferty .. too late in life he discovered that if
you lie down with a dog you wake up with its fleas, and if you
wrassle to a pig, you get dirty while the pig gets only happy.
It is just as someone remarked on chessdiscussion would come out

TRANSPARENCY
Brian Lafferty is running on a platform of transparency.  That's easy
to say. Many "reform" candidates were elected and then became part of
the old boy network.

I, Randy Kehrt[*], a life member of the USCF, hereby nominate Brian
Lafferty to serve on the Executive Board. We badly need dedicated
people with his skills to rescue the USCF from its predicament.
I cannot recommend too highly the well thought out presentation at

This question arose the other day in conversation with some historians
of the second world war.  The survival rate for Jews in Latvia was
quite low, yet Tal and at least two members of his family (mother and
elder brother) survived.

Brian Lafferty has declared himself to be a candidate for election to
the USCF Executive Board. Candidate Brian Lafferty no longer practices
law but he once worked as a parking tickets judge in New York City. In
the last year, I have heard Mr. Lafferty express a lot of off-the-wall

There is an article about the latest USCF vs. Polgar case in today's
New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/crosswords/chess/04fight.html

The following was just placed on the USCF Forum Announcements with no
prior notice of "charges" pending or an opportunity to be heard as to
each proposed post alleged to violate the AUG.  I will attempt to obtain
the complete texts of all the below cited posts and place them here ...

Somebody asked Susan an embarrassing question in her "Open Forum"
today.
Let's see how many nanoseconds it lasts.
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2009/01/saturday-open-forum.html

Will he run for the USCF EB while suing the USCF in the Southern
District of New York?  I hope not.  Sam, please drop/discontinue the
USCF in your federal action.  As long as your appeal is pending the case
is still alive and you have a conflict to address as a candidate.

Drubbing the Dragon
GM Nakamura (2699) - GM Lie (2539) [A36]
Aker Chess Challenge, 02.01.2009
1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 Nc6 5.a3 d6 6.b4 cxb4 7.axb4 Nxb4

to (sic) sweet wrote here earlier today:
If lier writes 'I am definitely not planning to do' which is very
clear enough, he plans not to but with reluctance, gets persuaded.
CHOOSE YOUR SIDES, THERE WAS ONLY ONE CHANCE

I ran into a new cheat technique today, while playing a casual game on
playchess (using Fritz 10 interface).
Maybe somebody can tell me how it works or what exactly my opponent
did.

[quote="Randy Bauer"]Geez, we're having trouble getting above the "Sam
Sloan line" as it is - do you really want to make it more difficult to
get more candidates than "open seats including Sam plus one" to run?
Randy Bauer [/quote]