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Date: 22 Apr 2008 08:00:57
From: samsloan
Subject: Vietnam to host World Youth Chess Championship Oct 20-30, 2008
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Vietnam to host World Youth Chess Championship Oct 20-30, 2008
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/reports/2008/04/779550/
I am very interested in this. I would like to visit Vietnam and I am
considering giving chess lessons to my 6-year-old daughter just so
that she can play.
I have a few questions:
I need to know the hotel rates the players and their parents will be
charged. In recent years there have been scandals about this,
especially in France, where chess organizers have raised the hotel
rates and required players to stay in hotels selected by them at
exorbitant rates to make back the money it costs to run the event
So we need to know what rates are being charged and are they
reasonable.
Also, Beatriz Marinello, USCF Scholastic Council Member, informs me
that my 6-year-old daughter will have to reach at least 1200 strength
before she will be allowed to play. There is absolutely no chance,
none whatever, that my daughter will make 1200 any time soon. Is there
any way around this?
Sam Sloan
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Date: 23 Apr 2008 06:27:35
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Vietnam to host World Youth Chess Championship Oct 20-30, 2008
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Eric Johnson, [email protected] wrote:
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> No.
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> Well, sort of. She could change federations.
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> ECJ
>
In my case, that would not be a problem. My baby has two passports.
She is also Japanese. Her registered home town is Hiroshima, where my
wife comes from.
My wife's father is an A-Bomb survivor. He was 13. His teacher sent
him on an errand that morning. When the A-Bomb dropped, he was in
Hiroshima, but on the outskirts of town. The A-Bomb dropped right on
his school and incinerated his school teacher and all the other kids
in his class. Only he survived.
This, of course, had nothing to do with my uncle, Alden Jacobson, who
only dropped the A-Bomb on Nagasaki.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 22 Apr 2008 11:36:04
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Vietnam to host World Youth Chess Championship Oct 20-30, 2008
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Mike Nolan has answered this important question over on the USCF
Issues Forum as follows:
by nolan on Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:05 pm #99355
Jerry Nash handles these issues, I don't know if he has been advised
of the hotel rates yet.
I think the last few years (since France) FIDE has required that all
attendees, including parents, stay in the official hotels, that
payment for those rooms be made in advance, and that payment come from
the national federation, meaning those funds have to be channeled
through the USCF office.
Since the USCF winds up paying for the coaches for the World Youth
Championships and the number of coaches is related to the total size
of the USCF delegation present, it is not in the USCF's interests to
send players who are not strong enough to properly represent the USCF
at the event.
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Date: 22 Apr 2008 19:37:55
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_R.?=
Subject: Re: Vietnam to host World Youth Chess Championship Oct 20-30, 2008
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"samsloan" <[email protected] > schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[email protected]...
> Vietnam to host World Youth Chess Championship Oct 20-30, 2008
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> http://english.vietnamnet.vn/reports/2008/04/779550/
>
> I am very interested in this. I would like to visit Vietnam and I am
> considering giving chess lessons to my 6-year-old daughter just so
> that she can play.
That's a remarkable coincidence. I have a 4-year-old daughter and
have already entered her in the U8 section.
I think a child should be at least 5 before you begin with regular
lessons and my daughter will be 5 next month. There is plenty of time to
teach her Chess and to develop an opening repertoire: The tournament
isn't til October and most of these kids come from primitive places
and don't even know where the South Bronx is, so we'll be able
to beat them easily.
The reason a child has to be at least 5 before you begin
teaching her is that smaller children don't respond in a useful
manner to infusions of hot oil - they simply get scared and run
away and scream until the neighbors call the Child Protection
Agency. However, when they are 5 you can start them
on Sesame Oil and Soy Sauce and gradually introduce Hot Sauce.
And remember that most children have several orifices. If your patience
has been exhausted by explaining once too often that the
Queen cannot jump like the horse, you can try spicy Sesame Oil in
the left ear.
I myself am the World Chaturangam Champion (see note below).
Chaturangam is well known to be a game much more difficult
and far more interesting than Chess. Therefore, there is no doubt
that my daughter has inherited sufficient talent to win this
tournament easily.
>
> I have a few questions:
>
> I need to know the hotel rates the players and their parents will be
> charged.
Rates at Palace Vung Tau Hotel are 3.2 million Dong ( about $200 )
per night for a double room.
> In recent years there have been scandals about this,
> especially in France, where chess organizers have raised the hotel
> rates and required players to stay in hotels selected by them at
> exorbitant rates to make back the money it costs to run the event
>
> So we need to know what rates are being charged and are they
> reasonable.
The rates are very reasonable and effectively keep out the riff-raff.
>
> Also, Beatriz Marinello, USCF Scholastic Council Member, informs me
> that my 6-year-old daughter will have to reach at least 1200 strength
> before she will be allowed to play. There is absolutely no chance,
> none whatever, that my daughter will make 1200 any time soon. Is there
> any way around this?
>
This problem is easily solved. I have already made my arrangements but
since I'm not in the U.S. your options are slightly different from
mine:
1. Make a sizable donation to the USCF and, at a convenient moment,
mention your little problem. Considering your past relationship with
this organization it is conceivable that the size of the donation
required might exceed your resources. In this case try #2.
2. Approach Mike Nolan discretely and ask what the price is.
Considering who you are, Nolan may not trust you to keep
quiet about this arrangement, so the price may also be higher
than it would be for normal people. In this case try #3.
3. Set up a match Sloan against Sloan, 24 games for the
championship of the South Bronx. Get one of your many
friends among the certified tournament directors to officiate
at this event and send the result to Mike Nolan.
If the USCF refuses to rate this a match, set up
a tournament to the same effect. This would, of course,
be somewhat more obviously fraudulent, but the noble purpose
certainly justifies a slight risk.
*My Chaturangam World Championship is in the
category "non-Indian Competitors", also known
as "foreign white devils".
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Date: 22 Apr 2008 09:53:03
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Vietnam to host World Youth Chess Championship Oct 20-30, 2008
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[quote="DD-OK"][quote="samsloan"]There is absolutely no chance, none
whatever, that my daughter will make 1200 any time soon. Is there any
way around this?
Sam Sloan[/quote]
Put on a wig and stoop even lower than you normally would.[/quote]
Even that would not work.
With the 8-year-old kids these days there is no guarantee that I can
beat them.
At the US Amateur Team East I was watching a 6-year-old girl playing
five minute chess with a 7-year-old boy.
I might have been able to take one or two games from them with my
opening tricks that are not in any book, but there is no assurance
that I could have won them all or even most of them.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 22 Apr 2008 08:48:49
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Vietnam to host World Youth Chess Championship Oct 20-30, 2008
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On Apr 22, 11:44 am, jupiterean <[email protected] > wrote:
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/reports/2008/04/779550/
> I'm sure Paul Truong can help you, Sam :-)))
I was thinking of that too. It is always nice to have a nice
Vietnamese man to go scout out the region first. Perhaps they will
even give him a full time occupation over there.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 22 Apr 2008 08:44:23
From: jupiterean
Subject: Re: Vietnam to host World Youth Chess Championship Oct 20-30, 2008
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On Apr 22, 11:00=A0am, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:
> Vietnam to host World Youth Chess Championship Oct 20-30, 2008
>
> http://english.vietnamnet.vn/reports/2008/04/779550/
>
> I am very interested in this. I would like to visit Vietnam and I am
> considering giving chess lessons to my 6-year-old daughter just so
> that she can play.
>
> I have a few questions:
>
> I need to know the hotel rates the players and their parents will be
> charged. In recent years there have been scandals about this,
> especially in France, where chess organizers have raised the hotel
> rates and required players to stay in hotels selected by them at
> exorbitant rates to make back the money it costs to run the event
>
> So we need to know what rates are being charged and are they
> reasonable.
>
> Also, Beatriz Marinello, USCF Scholastic Council Member, informs me
> that my 6-year-old daughter will have to reach at least 1200 strength
> before she will be allowed to play. There is absolutely no chance,
> none whatever, that my daughter will make 1200 any time soon. Is there
> any way around this?
>
> Sam Sloan
I'm sure Paul Truong can help you, Sam :-)))
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