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Date: 25 Jul 2006 11:38:18
From: Sam Sloan
Subject: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF Now that I have been elected to the Executive Board, I can now reveal my hitherto secret plans for the future of the organization. And, no, I am not going to guillotine all my defeated opponents, at least not just yet. Here are a few things I am going to try to get done. 1. Crossville Land Deal. The first thing I want to see is the deed to the Crossville Land to see who actually owns the land and the building on it. My information indicates that property records in Crossville do NOT show the USCF as the owner of the land. So, the first thing I am going to want to see is the deed. If we do not own the land and the building on it, we need to find out what can be done to correct this situation. We need to retain independent legal counsel, perhaps in Nashville. We cannot rely on local counsel who is not independent. 2. Finances. By conservative accounts, the USCF has lost $1.7 million in the past seven years. I want to find out why we lost that money and what if anything can be done to recover it. We need to find out what our mistakes have been in the past so that we can avoid them in the future. I want to see all available data including accountants worksheets and the like. If necessary we should hire outside independent auditors to try to reconstruct our financial statements to see what happened to the money. We have changed accountants and accounting methods almost every year, so now we need to redo the accountings under a uniform method, consistently applied, so we can see where our surpluses and deficits have come from. Of special interest is what happened to the Life Membership money and Life Membership Assets. 3. Life Members. This has been a big issue with me for a long time. We need to obtain birth dates or at least birth years for all of our life members. This way, when they die, we will know about it by checking the Social Security Death Index. Once we know how old our life members are, then we can calculate what our long term obligations are to provide them with membership services. All deceased Life Members should be noted as deceased on the LMA. 4. In my candidate's statement I wrote the USCF should have one million scholastic members by 2009. That was not just a boast. I intend to try to keep that promise without lowering dues. The way to improve our membership is not to lower dues but to increase the value of our membership. The problem with the no-magazine scholastic membership was that all the kids got for their $13 was a membership card. No wonder very few renewed! Want more girls to play chess? Very easy. Get the picture of one of our girl grandmasters published on the cover of People Magazine. That will bring in thousands of new female chess players. For years I have been demanding that Chess Life magazine publish a picture of Irina Krush on the cover, back when she was several times in the mainstream news. Chess Life never did it. Whenever a popular new video game comes out, millions are sold within the first few days. Why cannot we get the kids to play chess instead? We have new future superstars, Batchimeg Tuvshintugs, 19, Tatev Abrahamyan, 18, and Laura Ross, 17, and, among boys, Alex Lenderman 16, Fabiano Caruana 13, and many others. The way to get kids to play chess is to publicize the accomplishments of other kids their age or only slightly older. We should have been doing this all along. I remember when Joel Benjamin was 12, telling the USCF to try to get publicity out about him. They paid no attention. In 1997, a nine year old boy won $8,000 in the New York Open. That should have been publicized all over the world. That would have gotten parents to get their kids into chess. Instead, this opportunity was ignored. The USCF should prepare a publicity packet with pictures and a biography for each of our young masters. Whenever one of them wins a big tournament, send it out to everybody. I guarantee you that the newspapers will publish it and this will bring in thousands of new members. Schools and libraries around the country are hungry for chess teachers. We have the teachers and we should provide them. The four items above are all items that I believe can be accomplished within the one year term for which I have been elected. I hope that the other board members will agree and that we can all get to work on this. Sam Sloan
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Date: 28 Jul 2006 23:59:03
From: Jerzy
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Louis Blair napisal(a): > 7 ... Louis Blair, the nutty one, who deleted many of his > 7 articles. ... > > _ > Would Jerzy care to name some of these "many" articles > that I supposedly "deleted"? Louis, Sam already did. Read with comprehension this newsgroup. :-)
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Date: 28 Jul 2006 03:18:40
From: Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (wlod)
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Jerzy wrote: > Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (wlod) napisal(a): > > > > > Not at all. Actually, Louis put in a solid effort, > > he acts in a responsible way, while you Jerzy > > are just playing ping-pong, meaning that > > the weight of your posts is just that of > > a ping-pong ball. > > As Sam has pointed out you have made several mistakes especially Louis > Blair, the nutty one, who deleted many of his articles. > > So I can see that you are irresponsible not Sam. Jerzy, you're so Olympian! :-) Wlod
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Date: 28 Jul 2006 02:40:18
From: Jerzy
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (wlod) napisal(a): > > Not at all. Actually, Louis put in a solid effort, > he acts in a responsible way, while you Jerzy > are just playing ping-pong, meaning that > the weight of your posts is just that of > a ping-pong ball. As Sam has pointed out you have made several mistakes especially Louis Blair, the nutty one, who deleted many of his articles. So I can see that you are irresponsible not Sam.
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Date: 28 Jul 2006 00:15:43
From: Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (wlod)
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Jerzy wrote: > Louis Blair napisal(a): > > > 7 None of your quotations are "fat lies". Well, they are > > 7 mainly true statements. > > 7 > > 7 :-) > > > > _ > > Which ones does Jerzy believe? > > Louis, you are really a nutty one :-) Not at all. Actually, Louis put in a solid effort, he acts in a responsible way, while you Jerzy are just playing ping-pong, meaning that the weight of your posts is just that of a ping-pong ball. Wlod
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Date: 27 Jul 2006 01:06:03
From: Jerzy
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Louis Blair napisal(a): > 7 None of your quotations are "fat lies". Well, they are > 7 mainly true statements. > 7 > 7 :-) > > _ > Which ones does Jerzy believe? Louis, you are really a nutty one :-)
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 19:24:02
From: London Chess
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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You sound like that wanker cus Roberts. Cheers, Tony Heimdal wrote: > "Paul Rubin" <> You're probably right about the ballot counters, but it's > known that > > lots of members (through error) never received ballots at all. If those > members are concentrated in geographic areas outside of where most of > Sloan's support is, that could have swung the result.>> > > If he got elected due to the incompetence of the people that he is > complaining about, it is certainly sweet irony.
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Date: 27 Jul 2006 02:35:50
From: Heimdal
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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"London Chess" < > You sound like that wanker cus Roberts. > Anyone that disagrees with you is cus Roberts?
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 20:18:11
From: Chess Freak
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Anyone that argues like an imbecile is like cus Roberts. If the shoe fits.... "Heimdal" <[email protected] > wrote in message news:[email protected]... > "London Chess" <> You sound like that wanker cus Roberts. >> > > Anyone that disagrees with you is cus Roberts? > >
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Date: 27 Jul 2006 03:23:47
From: Heimdal
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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"Chess Freak" > Anyone that argues like an imbecile is like cus Roberts. > I had previously killfiled you because you ARE a moron. Every time you post something you validate my first impression. Back into the killfile bin.
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 20:43:38
From: Chess Freak
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Hey, whatever floats your boat, Twinkie. Um, if you had "killfiled" me because I was a moron, how could you be reading my messages? Oh, and I happen to think anyone who joins the USCF because Sam Sloan is now a part of the management group is a complete idiot. "Heimdal" <[email protected] > wrote in message news:[email protected]... > "Chess Freak"> Anyone that argues like an imbecile is like cus Roberts. >> > > I had previously killfiled you because you ARE a moron. Every time you > post > something you validate my first impression. Back into the killfile bin. > >
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 13:46:29
From: Louis Blair
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Jerzy wrote (Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:16:27 +0200): 7 ... Still waiting for other examples of "fat lies". _ I wrote (26 Jul 2006 11:59:03 -0700): 7 How many of thes statements does Jerzy believe? 7 7 "... All of the people that I wrote biographies of are 7 thankful to me for doing this. ..." - Sam Sloan 7 ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 7 68.199.110.255, 9 Jul 2006 05:41:14 -0700) 7 7 "... For the past more than 30 years, every time 7 a new book by Keene has come out or a new 7 article by Keene has been published, Edward 7 Winter has written articles attacking it. ..." 7 - Sam Sloan ([email protected], 7 NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, 7 Fri, 03 2006 16:46:37 GMT) 7 7 "... Kingston is from the same part of England 7 that Winter is believed to be from. ..." - Sam 7 Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 7 68.199.110.255, Fri, 03 2006 16:46:37 GMT) 7 7 "... Edward Winter filed an ethics complaint with 7 the FIDE Congress accusing Keene of unethical 7 conduct in writing books almost exclusively about 7 opening theory, whereas Winter said there should 7 be more books about chess history. ..." - Sam 7 Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 7 68.199.110.255, Fri, 03 2006 16:46:37 GMT) 7 7 "... Chess Notes ... contains brief commentaries 7 usually not more than one or two paragraphs in 7 length attacking usually insignificant errors and 7 spelling mistakes made by this or that chess 7 writer. ..." - Sam Sloan ([email protected], 7 NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, 7 Fri, 03 2006 16:46:37 GMT) 7 7 "... If a book by Keene contains a spelling mistake, 7 Chess Notes will point it out. ..." - Sam Sloan 7 ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 7 68.199.110.255, Fri, 03 2006 16:46:37 GMT) 7 7 "... Neither you nor Howard Cheng have the 7 authority under Wikipedia rules to massively 7 delete and vandalize anything I write unless you 7 are familiar with the subject matter. ..." - Sam 7 Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 7 68.199.110.255, Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:57:18 GMT) 7 7 "Louis Blair missed the best part, which was when 7 Howcheng referred to Louis Blair and Randy Bauer 7 as 'meatpuppets'." - Sam Sloan 7 ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 7 68.199.110.255, Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:16:03 GMT) 7 7 "... [Ralf Callenberg] then posted a AfD and then 7 voted six times to delete. He was joined by [Paul 7 Rubin] who voted five times to delete. ..." - Sam 7 Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 7 68.199.110.255, Mon, 20 2006 10:19:52 GMT) 7 7 "... Tom Dorsch is one of the best known chess 7 politicians in the world. ..." - Sam Sloan 7 ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 7 68.199.110.255, Mon, 20 2006 10:19:52 GMT) 7 7 "... Doyle achieved international notoriety in FIDE, 7 the World Chess Federation, by engaging in a Sumo 7 Wrestling Match against Makarov, the President of 7 the Russian Chess Federation. Doyle, the lighter of 7 the two contestants, lost the match, which is still 7 remembered as one of the most notable sporting 7 events ever in the history of FIDE. ..." - Sam Sloan 7 ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 7 68.199.110.255, Sat, 18 2006 18:58:24 GMT) _ Jerzy wrote (26 Jul 2006 12:35:31 -0700): 7 None of your quotations are "fat lies". Well, they are 7 mainly true statements. 7 7 :-) _ Which ones does Jerzy believe?
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 12:35:31
From: Jerzy
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Louis Blair napisal(a): > 7 ... Still waiting for other examples of "fat lies". > > _ > How many of thes statements does Jerzy believe? None of your quotations are "fat lies". Well, they are mainly true statements. :-)
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 11:59:03
From: Louis Blair
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Jerzy wrote (Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:16:27 +0200): 7 ... Still waiting for other examples of "fat lies". _ How many of thes statements does Jerzy believe? _ "... All of the people that I wrote biographies of are thankful to me for doing this. ..." - Sam Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, 9 Jul 2006 05:41:14 -0700) _ "... For the past more than 30 years, every time a new book by Keene has come out or a new article by Keene has been published, Edward Winter has written articles attacking it. ..." - Sam Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, Fri, 03 2006 16:46:37 GMT) _ "... Kingston is from the same part of England that Winter is believed to be from. ..." - Sam Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, Fri, 03 2006 16:46:37 GMT) _ "... Edward Winter filed an ethics complaint with the FIDE Congress accusing Keene of unethical conduct in writing books almost exclusively about opening theory, whereas Winter said there should be more books about chess history. ..." - Sam Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, Fri, 03 2006 16:46:37 GMT) _ "... Chess Notes ... contains brief commentaries usually not more than one or two paragraphs in length attacking usually insignificant errors and spelling mistakes made by this or that chess writer. ..." - Sam Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, Fri, 03 2006 16:46:37 GMT) _ "... If a book by Keene contains a spelling mistake, Chess Notes will point it out. ..." - Sam Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, Fri, 03 2006 16:46:37 GMT) _ "... Neither you nor Howard Cheng have the authority under Wikipedia rules to massively delete and vandalize anything I write unless you are familiar with the subject matter. ..." - Sam Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:57:18 GMT) _ "Louis Blair missed the best part, which was when Howcheng referred to Louis Blair and Randy Bauer as 'meatpuppets'." - Sam Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:16:03 GMT) _ "... [Ralf Callenberg] then posted a AfD and then voted six times to delete. He was joined by [Paul Rubin] who voted five times to delete. ..." - Sam Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, Mon, 20 2006 10:19:52 GMT) _ "... Tom Dorsch is one of the best known chess politicians in the world. ..." - Sam Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, Mon, 20 2006 10:19:52 GMT) _ "... Doyle achieved international notoriety in FIDE, the World Chess Federation, by engaging in a Sumo Wrestling Match against Makarov, the President of the Russian Chess Federation. Doyle, the lighter of the two contestants, lost the match, which is still remembered as one of the most notable sporting events ever in the history of FIDE. ..." - Sam Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, Sat, 18 2006 18:58:24 GMT)
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 19:01:46
From: Heimdal
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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> "... Doyle achieved international notoriety in FIDE, the World Chess Federation, by engaging in a Sumo Wrestling Match against Makarov, >> You mean that this never happened?
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 10:12:42
From: Louis Blair
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Wlodzimierz Holsztynski wrote (26 Jul 2006 08:06:57 -0700): 7 ... I see that I will have to do it, to copy and paste etc. The 7 Sam's stream of fat lies is a fact, and not up to anybody's 7 subjective opinion. (you know, an objective fact, like with 7 those olimpiads, only more so :-) _ Here are some places to start in order to get an idea about past Sam Sloan behavior: _ _ "it is easy to veryify that there is auch a blacklist. ..." - Sam Sloan (19:08, 22 December 2005 (UTC)) _ "If Sam Sloan is basing his contribution of a blacklist based on conversations (newsgroup or otherwise), emails, or his own suspicions that such a blacklist exists, that is by definition original research and is not allowed. However, if he were to cite reliable sources that declare its existence, then its mention may be included. This is non-negotiable. If Sam Sloan continues his attempts to include this in the article against the consensus formed by other editors on this page, I will reluctantly have to impose a block." - howcheng (06:37, 3 January 2006 (UTC)) _ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chess_Life _ _ "I do object when [Ralf Callenberg], JoanneB and Janeth, none of whom know anything about chess, try to delete the entire article." - Sam Sloan (16:41, 24 December 2005 (UTC)) _ Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Dorsch (The result of the debate was delete. - howcheng 20:09, 29 December 2005 (UTC)) _ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Tom_Dorsch _ _ "I am having a dispute with Howcheng and I request the Arbitration Committee to resolve it." - Sam Sloan _ Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration Sam Sloan against Howcheng regarding Tom Dorsch (soundly rejected - Dmcdevit 06:23, 11 February 2006) _ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration&diff=39178616&oldid=39171201 _ _ "The act by Howcheng to delete my Tom Dorsch article was clearly wrong. ... I need an order of protection telling Howcheng to stay from my articles until he learns something about chess." - Sam Sloan (03:03, 4 ch 2006 (UTC)) _ Wikipedia:Deletion review/Tom Dorsch (deletion endorsed - Splash 23:53, 10 ch 2006) _ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ADeletion_review&diff=43217170&oldid=43215421 _ _ "[Paul Rubin] has a history of vandalizing almost every article I write." - Sam Sloan (05:52, 19 ch 2006 (UTC)) _ "his request for a 'cease and desist' order is outside the scope of mediation." - Paul Rubin (23:45, 19 ch 2006 (UTC)) _ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_mediation&oldid=44627462#User:Phr_against_User:Sam_Sloan _ _ "[Ralf Callenberg] is clearly unwilling to abide by the rules of Wikipedia and therefore I am asking that if he continues he be blocked." - Sam Sloan (04:11, 19 ch 2006 (UTC)) _ "This doesn't appear to be a request for mediation" - Ralf Callenberg (20:24, 19 ch 2006 (UTC)) _ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_mediation&oldid=44627462#User:Phr_against_User:Sam_Sloan _ _ "the arbitration committee should consider this dispute [with Paul Rubin]." - Sam Sloan (10:15, 20 ch 2006 (UTC)) _ Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration [Sam Sloan vs. Paul Rubin] (rejected - Sam Korn 11:11, 25 ch 2006) _ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ARequests_for_arbitration&diff=45444953&oldid=45399095 _ _ "[Ralf Callenberg] ... should not be allowed to delete or modify my postings." - Sam Sloan (01:35, 20 ch 2006 (UTC)) _ Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration [Sam Sloan vs. Ralf Callenberg] (rejected - Sam Korn 11:11, 25 ch 2006) _ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ARequests_for_arbitration&diff=45444953&oldid=45399095 _ _ "I am requesting that, if possible and legally allowed, your chess federation bring a proceeding to censure or reprimand or otherwise punish Herr Callenberg." - Sam Sloan ([email protected], NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:54:46 GMT)
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 20:16:20
From: Jerzy
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Uzytkownik "Louis Blair" <[email protected] > napisal w wiadomosci news:[email protected]... > _ > Here are some places to start in order to get an idea about > past Sam Sloan behavior: Louis, you are *almost* right but you describe bad behaviour of vandals like Hans.
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 08:06:57
From: Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Jerzy wrote: > Uzytkownik "Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (wlod)" <[email protected]> napisal w > wiadomosci news:[email protected]... > > > Also, > > his stream of lies on his wikipedia activity > > IS boring and tedious. > > > > I can see that we have to agree to disagree on this issue. Jerzy, you are making a false impression that the issue of the Sam's wikipedia related lies is a question of opinion, like "each opinion is equally valid". Not so. I don't have Louis' patience and endurance for copying and pasting and quoting, and I am truly tired of this idiotic Sam's stubborn lying, but I see that I will have to do it, to copy and paste etc. The Sam's stream of fat lies is a fact, and not up to anybody's subjective opinion. (you know, an objective fact, like with those olimpiads, only more so :-) Regards, Wlod
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 17:16:27
From: Jerzy
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Uzytkownik "Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)" <[email protected] > napisal w wiadomosci news:[email protected]... > Jerzy, you are making a false impression > that the issue of the Sam's wikipedia related > lies is a question of opinion, like "each opinion > is equally valid". And again : I can see that we have to agree to disagree on this issue. So far you have given one example of alleged Sam`s lying however it was no lying as a matte of fact. Still waiting for other examples of "fat lies".
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 08:05:21
From: Chess Freak
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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As a direct result of Sloan's illegal win and Larry Evans firing from chess life, I have cancelled my USCF membership as of yesterday. After being a member since 1970, this was not an easy thing to do, but I feel that associating with the USCF is no longer in my best interest. - CF "Sam Sloan" <[email protected] > wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF > > Now that I have been elected to the Executive Board, I can now reveal > my hitherto secret plans for the future of the organization. And, no, > I am not going to guillotine all my defeated opponents, at least not > just yet. > > Here are a few things I am going to try to get done. > > 1. Crossville Land Deal. The first thing I want to see is the deed to > the Crossville Land to see who actually owns the land and the building > on it. My information indicates that property records in Crossville do > NOT show the USCF as the owner of the land. So, the first thing I am > going to want to see is the deed. If we do not own the land and the > building on it, we need to find out what can be done to correct this > situation. We need to retain independent legal counsel, perhaps in > Nashville. We cannot rely on local counsel who is not independent. > > 2. Finances. By conservative accounts, the USCF has lost $1.7 million > in the past seven years. I want to find out why we lost that money and > what if anything can be done to recover it. We need to find out what > our mistakes have been in the past so that we can avoid them in the > future. I want to see all available data including accountants > worksheets and the like. If necessary we should hire outside > independent auditors to try to reconstruct our financial statements to > see what happened to the money. We have changed accountants and > accounting methods almost every year, so now we need to redo the > accountings under a uniform method, consistently applied, so we can > see where our surpluses and deficits have come from. Of special > interest is what happened to the Life Membership money and Life > Membership Assets. > > 3. Life Members. This has been a big issue with me for a long time. We > need to obtain birth dates or at least birth years for all of our life > members. This way, when they die, we will know about it by checking > the Social Security Death Index. Once we know how old our life members > are, then we can calculate what our long term obligations are to > provide them with membership services. All deceased Life Members > should be noted as deceased on the LMA. > > 4. In my candidate's statement I wrote the USCF should have one > million scholastic members by 2009. That was not just a boast. I > intend to try to keep that promise without lowering dues. > > The way to improve our membership is not to lower dues but to increase > the value of our membership. The problem with the no-magazine > scholastic membership was that all the kids got for their $13 was a > membership card. No wonder very few renewed! > > Want more girls to play chess? Very easy. Get the picture of one of > our girl grandmasters published on the cover of People Magazine. That > will bring in thousands of new female chess players. For years I have > been demanding that Chess Life magazine publish a picture of Irina > Krush on the cover, back when she was several times in the mainstream > news. Chess Life never did it. > > Whenever a popular new video game comes out, millions are sold within > the first few days. Why cannot we get the kids to play chess instead? > > We have new future superstars, Batchimeg Tuvshintugs, 19, Tatev > Abrahamyan, 18, and Laura Ross, 17, and, among boys, Alex Lenderman > 16, Fabiano Caruana 13, and many others. > > The way to get kids to play chess is to publicize the accomplishments > of other kids their age or only slightly older. We should have been > doing this all along. I remember when Joel Benjamin was 12, telling > the USCF to try to get publicity out about him. They paid no > attention. > > In 1997, a nine year old boy won $8,000 in the New York Open. That > should have been publicized all over the world. That would have gotten > parents to get their kids into chess. Instead, this opportunity was > ignored. > > The USCF should prepare a publicity packet with pictures and a > biography for each of our young masters. Whenever one of them wins a > big tournament, send it out to everybody. I guarantee you that the > newspapers will publish it and this will bring in thousands of new > members. > > Schools and libraries around the country are hungry for chess > teachers. We have the teachers and we should provide them. > > The four items above are all items that I believe can be accomplished > within the one year term for which I have been elected. I hope that > the other board members will agree and that we can all get to work on > this. > > Sam Sloan
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 17:41:26
From: Heimdal
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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X-No-archive: yes "Chess Freak" < > As a direct result of Sloan's illegal win> He won in spite of the fact that his enemies were counting the ballots. GO FUCK YOURSELF. The USCF does not need shit-head losers like you. In protest to your stupidity, I am joining the USCF, and listing Sam Sloan as my referring member!
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 12:05:49
From: Chess Freak
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Good for you, Yutz/Ringo/Pretz. I find it odd that your previous postings as "Yutz" or "Pretz" are not so supportive of Sam Sloan. Do you like hiding behind different aliases and putting on a different persona? Enjoying the Miami weather? yeah, I know who you are, boy. In what way was I a "shit-head" loser? For supporting Larry Evans or disliking Sam Sloan? Get a grip, you sound like a High School thug. - CF "Heimdal" <[email protected] > wrote in message news:[email protected]... NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.100.24.235
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 22:32:15
From: Heimdal
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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X-No-archive: yes "Chess Freak" <I find it odd that your previous postings as "Yutz" or "Pretz" are not so supportive of Sam Sloan. >> I don't support his trashing of women, or general stupidity. But he is the lesser of the two evils. > In what way was I a "shit-head" loser? For supporting Larry Evans or disliking Sam Sloan? > By claiming that Sloan was illegally elected when his worst enemies were the ones counting the ballots. That is fukkin stoopid. BTW, I know who you are too.
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 16:19:36
From: Paul Rubin
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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"Heimdal" <[email protected] > writes: > By claiming that Sloan was illegally elected when his worst enemies > were the ones counting the ballots. That is fukkin stoopid. You're probably right about the ballot counters, but it's known that lots of members (through error) never received ballots at all. If those members are concentrated in geographic areas outside of where most of Sloan's support is, that could have swung the result.
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Date: 27 Jul 2006 02:16:39
From: Heimdal
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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"Paul Rubin" < > You're probably right about the ballot counters, but it's known that > lots of members (through error) never received ballots at all. If those members are concentrated in geographic areas outside of where most of Sloan's support is, that could have swung the result. >> If he got elected due to the incompetence of the people that he is complaining about, it is certainly sweet irony.
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 15:56:24
From: Chess Freak
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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It was illegal in the sense that non-members voted for Sam Sloan. People such as cus Roberts claim to have voted several times for Sam Sloan. I find that very disturbing, don't you? Wait, you are not even a USCF member, so why do you care? "Heimdal" <[email protected] > wrote in message news:[email protected]...
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Date: 27 Jul 2006 02:15:55
From: Heimdal
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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"Chess Freak" < > Wait, you are not even a USCF member, so why do you > care? > I rejoined in protest to your quitting. Now you aren't a member, so you shouldn't worry about it.
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 20:18:48
From: Chess Freak
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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USCF would not allow you to join - not after the crap you pulled with AMEX. "Heimdal" <[email protected] > wrote in message news:[email protected]... > "Chess Freak" <> Wait, you are not even a USCF member, so why do you >> care? >> > > I rejoined in protest to your quitting. Now you aren't a member, so you > shouldn't worry about it. > >
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 08:00:34
From: London Chess
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Wlod is correct. Jerzy is wrong. It's very clear. Cheers, Tony Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (wlod) wrote: > Jerzy wrote: > > > [...] he (Sam Sloan) is a real gentleman, > > Yeah, RIGHTtttt! :-) :-) :-) > > Jerzy, you made my day (and Sam's too :-). > > > an old-fashioned guy > > ditto :-) > > > who never curses at his opponents. > > It's true that Sam is not fond of epithets. > But "never" is an exaggeration, he's no stranger > to cussing his opponents, as rare as it is. And > he still managers to do it somewhat lightly. > Overall, his record in this respect is very good, > especially that he's treated often without any > limits off. > > > What`s more he is a talented writer and his > > stories are oftentimes very entertaining. He > > is never boring [...] > > Unfortumnately, it is not true anymore, > Sam's getting older and less sharp. Also, > his stream of lies on his wikipedia activity > IS boring and tedious. > > Wlod
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 02:59:14
From: Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (wlod)
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Jerzy wrote: > [...] he (Sam Sloan) is a real gentleman, Yeah, RIGHTtttt! :-) :-) :-) Jerzy, you made my day (and Sam's too :-). > an old-fashioned guy ditto :-) > who never curses at his opponents. It's true that Sam is not fond of epithets. But "never" is an exaggeration, he's no stranger to cussing his opponents, as rare as it is. And he still managers to do it somewhat lightly. Overall, his record in this respect is very good, especially that he's treated often without any limits off. > What`s more he is a talented writer and his > stories are oftentimes very entertaining. He > is never boring [...] Unfortumnately, it is not true anymore, Sam's getting older and less sharp. Also, his stream of lies on his wikipedia activity IS boring and tedious. Wlod
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 16:27:36
From: Jerzy
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Uzytkownik "Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (wlod)" <[email protected] > napisal w wiadomosci news:[email protected]... > Also, > his stream of lies on his wikipedia activity > IS boring and tedious. > I can see that we have to agree to disagree on this issue.
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 01:38:22
From: Jerzy
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod) napisal(a): > > Don had spent long years, selling American > and western ideas for the illusion (for the ilyuzhin) > of succeeding Campo as the next FIDE president. Of course from what I`ve read it goes that Don was a puppet in the hands of the puppet-master Flerencio Campomanes, however I can see positive change in his attitude. He was in Torino a fierce opponent to Ilyumzhinov`s reelection. BTW It was no coincidence that Campo was a honorary guest there in Torino and was seen on many photos together with Ilyumzhinov. Simply Campo was a teacher and Ilyumzhinov was his pupil ;-) > > especially if one has a big inner opposition > > what is probably the case. > > The opposition to Sam Sloan is richly deserved > by his unethical conduct. Of course I am of a much better opinion on Sam. For example he is a real gentleman, an old-fashioned guy who never curses at his opponents. What`s more he is a talented writer and his stories are oftentimes very entertaining. He is never boring unlike many others here ;-)
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 00:35:57
From: Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Jerzy wrote: > It`s very difficult to do anything positive > being only one year on the board, Indeed. Alburt and Dlugy were not able to make any difference thanks to the creaatures like Don Schultz. What you have read about Don Schultz is only a fraction of the harm he was doing. we say in Polish that a woman's road to a man's heart is via his stomach (meaning good cooking). Don Schultz's path to Campo's heart was through Campo's rectum, in which Don had spent long years, selling American and western ideas for the illusion (for the ilyuzhin) of succeeding Campo as the next FIDE president. You can see how stupid (unintelligent) Don Schultz was even and especially(!) from his own writings. Nevertheless he is a cunning, manipulative, dishonest guy, with no integrity, who tended to act quietly, behind the scenes. In this ugly sense he was more clever than GM Denker or whatever his face. > especially if one has a big inner opposition > what is probably the case. The opposition to Sam Sloan is richly deserved by his unethical conduct. > However I can see a chance for Sam to make > things more transparent i.e. to make things, that > should not be secret, open to public. Let's hope but don't hold your breath. His cozy relation with Don Schultz is already a hint at some ugly things to happen. Remeber that not too long ago Sam was making certain overtures to Kirsan. I guess, nothing came out of it hence Sam has switched. And he did so in a dirty way. > I don`t agree with Wlod that Sam is on the board to make things > profitable only for him. Chess as a profession is not a profitable > occupation and will never be. The idiot's soul will always remain under-researched and full of muddy mystery. Ironically, with a little bit more solid attitude, Sam could make a fine writer and make his money that way. He has enough of the ability, and for a chess writer he knows chess well enough. A world champion (like Lasker, Capablanca, Alechine, Tal, Fischer, Kasparov) will give you a true, direct chess insight. And still other writers' work can be worthwhile and entertaining. Actually, the book by Kmoch about Rubinstein gave me some insight too, more than any other book, it was via Kmoch: Rubinstein -- > Kmoch --> reader, and Kmoch did an outstanding job. Too bad that Sam has no patience, no inclination for **solid** research. He gets his adrenaline going by writing some phony things and getting criticised. He is also n ot above "borrowing" from others withou giving them proper credit. The worse is that Sam is a pathological liar, and the way he bluntly, persistently, non-stop is repeating his insolent fat lies about his wikipedia bio of J.B. is beyond normal, it's irrational and truly sick (psychiatrically). Why, he is even adding more blunt, fat lies as he goes on. Regards, Wlod(ek)
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Date: 25 Jul 2006 23:43:43
From: Jerzy
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Yutz napisal(a): > X-No-archive: yes > > "Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)" You are a mixed bag, you make sense one > time in three.>> > > It is a big shame. I like Sam, only because he goes against the grain. But > now that he finally has gotten an incredible chance and has beaten the odds > that were against him, he should try to wipe the slate clean and try to be > decent with everyone. > > Instead, he seems to be determined to get voted off next year, and wants to > start by being an ass. > > Very sad. If Sloan were sincere, he would try to work with people to > accomplish some important changes and reforms. Just being a dick will > guarantee that everyone will always vote against anything that he supports. It`s very difficult to do anything positive being only one year on the board, especially if one has a big inner opposition what is probably the case. However I can see a chance for Sam to make things more transparent i.e. to make things, that should not be secret, open to public. I don`t agree with Wlod that Sam is on the board to make things profitable only for him. Chess as a profession is not a profitable occupation and will never be.
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 00:16:39
From: Paul Rubin
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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"Jerzy" <[email protected] > writes: > However I can see a chance for Sam to make things more transparent i.e. > to make things, that should not be secret, open to public. Sam and anyone else interested in this should check out the adventures of Karl Auerbach on the board of ICANN.
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Date: 25 Jul 2006 18:28:08
From: Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Sam, I wish you have stopped your continues lying about wikipedia. You are a mixed bag, you make sense one time in three. Try to increase your batting average. Otherwise you will continue to be a pathetic laughing stock of rgc* Sam Sloan wrote: > Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF > > 1. Crossville Land Deal. The first thing I want > to see is the deed to the Crossville Land [...] Makes sense. > 2. [...] By conservative accounts, the USCF has lost $1.7 million necesserily > in the past seven years. [...] We have changed accountants and > accounting methods almost every year, so now we need to redo > the accountings under a uniform method, consistently applied, > [...] Makes sense. > 3. [...] We need to obtain birth dates or at least birth years > for all of our life members. This way, when they die, we will > know about it by checking the Social Security Death Index. > [...] All deceased Life Members should be noted as > deceased on the LMA. Makes sense, granted that you are not going to steal their identity, use their credit cards. Thus the wholke operatyion should be done in such a way that you personally will not have any singular access to the data; USCF should have an explicit access only to the statistical sumy of the total data, and should be informed about the deceased members. > 4. In my candidate's statement I wrote > the USCF should have one million scholastic > members by 2009. Try, good luck, but it's not realistic. USCF is going dopwn the drain. Chess players do not need USCF+FIDE. Only Kirstan Ilyumzinov, Beatrice tinello, Don Schultz and Sam Sloan are going to be left. Enjoy each other company. > Want more girls to play chess? Very easy. > Get the picture of one of our girl grandmasters > published on the cover of People Magazine. That > will bring in thousands of new female chess players. Makes sense. > Whenever a popular new video game comes out, > millions are sold within the first few days. Why > cannot we get the kids to play chess instead? They do, they will (but not instead, and not necessarily in equal numbers), but they do NOT need USCF for that. > We have new future superstars, Batchimeg > Tuvshintugs, 19, Tatev Abrahamyan, 18, > and Laura Ross, 17, and, among boys, Alex Lenderman > 16, Fabiano Caruana 13, and many others. It also makes sense to tell the kids the story of Morphy, Capablanca, Reshevsky, Judy Polgar... To avoid an intimidating effect, also the opposite stories should be told, of those who started their achievements at an older age, like Winawer. (BTW, looking back, the Benjamin's story was not such a big deal after all, except for his cheating, when for the IBM's money he deprived Kasparov and the public of a clean match against the Deep Blue; that's how he is notable/notorious or in your dirty terminology, that's what he's best known for). > Schools and libraries around the country are hungry for chess > teachers. We have the teachers and we should provide them. This should have nothing to do with USCF. The bureaucratic USCF should stay away from such things, or rather, everybody should omit the stinking USCF+FIDE from a LARGE distance, the whole chess life should go around and far from USCF+FIDE. It's already happening and it will continue so, only more so. People who are interested iin chess, and who have an access to the big business (Bauer, Parr, ...) should involve businessmen with the clear explanation that busynessmen should stay away from FIDE+USCF if they mean to do something constructive. Cooperation with FIDE+USCF means only a support for a bureaucratic corruption. It should be left to the quadruple: Iljumzhinov, tinello, Schultz and Sloan--ugh! It is not an accident, that you, Sam, were trying for years, without any imagination, to get a piece of that stinking FIDE+USCF pie. Your goal is more to gain personally (in terms of sick ego or whatever) than truly do something for chess. Otherwise you would not abuse wikipedia in such a distasteful way. Wlod
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 03:17:38
From: Yutz
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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X-No-archive: yes "Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)" You are a mixed bag, you make sense one time in three. >> It is a big shame. I like Sam, only because he goes against the grain. But now that he finally has gotten an incredible chance and has beaten the odds that were against him, he should try to wipe the slate clean and try to be decent with everyone. Instead, he seems to be determined to get voted off next year, and wants to start by being an ass. Very sad. If Sloan were sincere, he would try to work with people to accomplish some important changes and reforms. Just being a dick will guarantee that everyone will always vote against anything that he supports.
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Date: 29 Jul 2006 09:33:21
From: Louis Blair
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Jerzy wrote (28 Jul 2006 02:40:18 -0700): 7 ... Louis Blair, the nutty one, who deleted many of his 7 articles. ... _ I wrote (28 Jul 2006 12:51:12 -0700): 7 Would Jerzy care to name some of these "many" 7 articles that I supposedly "deleted"? _ Jerzy wrote (28 Jul 2006 23:59:03 -0700): 7 Louis, Sam already did. Read with comprehension this 7 newsgroup. 7 7 :-) _ And Jerzy acts as though he can not remember a single specific example. Once again we have the tactic of claiming that the evidence is at some unspecified place in the past.
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Date: 26 Jul 2006 00:31:07
From: Ray Gordon
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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> "Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)" You are a mixed bag, you make sense one > time in three.>> > > It is a big shame. I like Sam, only because he goes against the grain. But > now that he finally has gotten an incredible chance and has beaten the > odds > that were against him, he should try to wipe the slate clean and try to be > decent with everyone. > > Instead, he seems to be determined to get voted off next year, and wants > to > start by being an ass. The same ass that got voted in. > Very sad. If Sloan were sincere, he would try to work with people to > accomplish some important changes and reforms. Just being a dick will > guarantee that everyone will always vote against anything that he > supports. Apparently not, as his presence on the board proves. Think of Sam as the middle finger the membership has formally given to the Board.
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Date: 25 Jul 2006 12:01:41
From: Chess One
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Sam - if you want to be interviewed by [e-mailed] printed question form let me know - if you can affirm that Randy Hough also wishes to answer the same questions set I can then compose them. Interviews are a bit different than stating platform planks, and while I would ask you both what those were I would also ask some testing questions on how they might come about. Its already too late for this coming weekend - otherwise I will take your responses here as all you wish to do, and let the matter drop. Phil Innes "Sam Sloan" <[email protected] > wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF > > Now that I have been elected to the Executive Board, I can now reveal > my hitherto secret plans for the future of the organization. And, no, > I am not going to guillotine all my defeated opponents, at least not > just yet. > > Here are a few things I am going to try to get done. > > 1. Crossville Land Deal. The first thing I want to see is the deed to > the Crossville Land to see who actually owns the land and the building > on it. My information indicates that property records in Crossville do > NOT show the USCF as the owner of the land. So, the first thing I am > going to want to see is the deed. If we do not own the land and the > building on it, we need to find out what can be done to correct this > situation. We need to retain independent legal counsel, perhaps in > Nashville. We cannot rely on local counsel who is not independent. > > 2. Finances. By conservative accounts, the USCF has lost $1.7 million > in the past seven years. I want to find out why we lost that money and > what if anything can be done to recover it. We need to find out what > our mistakes have been in the past so that we can avoid them in the > future. I want to see all available data including accountants > worksheets and the like. If necessary we should hire outside > independent auditors to try to reconstruct our financial statements to > see what happened to the money. We have changed accountants and > accounting methods almost every year, so now we need to redo the > accountings under a uniform method, consistently applied, so we can > see where our surpluses and deficits have come from. Of special > interest is what happened to the Life Membership money and Life > Membership Assets. > > 3. Life Members. This has been a big issue with me for a long time. We > need to obtain birth dates or at least birth years for all of our life > members. This way, when they die, we will know about it by checking > the Social Security Death Index. Once we know how old our life members > are, then we can calculate what our long term obligations are to > provide them with membership services. All deceased Life Members > should be noted as deceased on the LMA. > > 4. In my candidate's statement I wrote the USCF should have one > million scholastic members by 2009. That was not just a boast. I > intend to try to keep that promise without lowering dues. > > The way to improve our membership is not to lower dues but to increase > the value of our membership. The problem with the no-magazine > scholastic membership was that all the kids got for their $13 was a > membership card. No wonder very few renewed! > > Want more girls to play chess? Very easy. Get the picture of one of > our girl grandmasters published on the cover of People Magazine. That > will bring in thousands of new female chess players. For years I have > been demanding that Chess Life magazine publish a picture of Irina > Krush on the cover, back when she was several times in the mainstream > news. Chess Life never did it. > > Whenever a popular new video game comes out, millions are sold within > the first few days. Why cannot we get the kids to play chess instead? > > We have new future superstars, Batchimeg Tuvshintugs, 19, Tatev > Abrahamyan, 18, and Laura Ross, 17, and, among boys, Alex Lenderman > 16, Fabiano Caruana 13, and many others. > > The way to get kids to play chess is to publicize the accomplishments > of other kids their age or only slightly older. We should have been > doing this all along. I remember when Joel Benjamin was 12, telling > the USCF to try to get publicity out about him. They paid no > attention. > > In 1997, a nine year old boy won $8,000 in the New York Open. That > should have been publicized all over the world. That would have gotten > parents to get their kids into chess. Instead, this opportunity was > ignored. > > The USCF should prepare a publicity packet with pictures and a > biography for each of our young masters. Whenever one of them wins a > big tournament, send it out to everybody. I guarantee you that the > newspapers will publish it and this will bring in thousands of new > members. > > Schools and libraries around the country are hungry for chess > teachers. We have the teachers and we should provide them. > > The four items above are all items that I believe can be accomplished > within the one year term for which I have been elected. I hope that > the other board members will agree and that we can all get to work on > this. > > Sam Sloan
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Date: 25 Jul 2006 11:57:09
From: Yutz
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF
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Dear Egomaniac: Now that you have finally been elected, try to act in a manner that is constructive. If there is some theivery going on, feel free to expose it to the FBI or what ever police organization is appropriate. However, try to control your ego. Since you got elected, you have been posting some moronic reks that give me the impression that you are very immature and emotionally challenged; especially considering that you are a 70 year old man. Grow Up. Get A Grip. Act Like A Man.
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