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Author: Gani
Date: Jul 13, 2008 22:04

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  Failure to Disclose Expenses of Board Members         


Author: samsloan
Date: Jul 13, 2008 08:40

Failure to Disclose Expenses of Board Members

The USCF By-Laws clearly state that all payments to board members must
be disclosed in the delegates call and on the website. This provision
is found in section 42 page 39 of the current Delegates Call.

It is not on the website, or at least I cannot find it, but page 7 of
the Delegates Call shows the following VOLUNTEER EXPENSE REPORT paid
during the fiscal year ending May 31, 2008.

Don Schultz $65.00
Randall Hough $1717.81
Susan Polgar $930.91
Joel Channing $620.79

Please note that no expenses were claimed for Sam Sloan or Beatriz
Marinello, even though we were on the board from June 1, 2007 to
August 14, 2007, during that fiscal year.
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  Shakespeare wasn't Oxford and he didn't hoard malt or have to go to Italy         


Author: Roger Nile Stratmanmatter
Date: Jul 13, 2008 08:12

Despite the many candidates proposed as the "true" author
of Shakespeare's works by the loons on this newsgroup,
William Shakespeare of Stratford remains the only candidate
supported by the historical evidence.

http://tinyurl.com/2q7hd9

see also

www.shakespeareauthorship.com

The Droeshout portrait is not unusual at all!
http://hometown.aol.com/kqknave/shakenbake.html

See my demolition of Monsarrat's RES paper!
http://hometown.aol.com/kqknave/monsarr1.html

Agent Jim
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  Looking Back: Truong and Polgar concealed their marriage to each other         


Author: samsloan
Date: Jul 13, 2008 03:45

During their campaign to be elected to the USCF Executive Board,
Polgar and Truong concealed the fact that they were married to each
other.

Here is one example from the USCF Forums in January 2007:

http://main.uschess.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=27774#27774

[quote="chrisfalter"]My, how easily threads can get side-tracked!
Truong's views on corporate governance should be known and discussed -
but please, not on this thread! If you want Paul to give those...
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  Re: Polgar the Homelessness Expert and Myth Maker         


Author: samsloan
Date: Jul 13, 2008 03:03

On Jul 12, 8:22 pm, samsloan gmail.com> wrote:
> Truly astounding!
>
> http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/07/saturday-open-forum_12.html
>
> Polgar writes, "This is why I also advocate for chess players to be
> multi-dimensional. I have many different interests and my chess career
> includes top level success in many different areas such as: playing,
> writing, teaching, promoting and more. I also do chess commentary for
> major events as well as organizing major chess tournaments."
>
> The truth is that Susan Polgar is the most one-dimensional person we
> can imagine. She never went to school a day in her life. Her father
> kept her out of school and made her play and study chess 8-10 hours a
> day. The only thing she can do is play chess. The only thing she
> studies in chess. The only thing she reads about is chess. The only
> thing she knows is chess. The only thing she ever talks about is
> chess.
>
> Sam Sloan ...
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  Re: Previous poster is the newsloon/coward         


Author: Thom E. Geiger
Date: Jul 12, 2008 22:17

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:56:58 +0200, Anonymous Remailer
wrote:
>In article pghconnect.com>
>"Ray Gordon, creator of the \"pivot\"" cybersheet.com> wrote:
>>
>> They are so brvae when anonymous.
>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Ray Gordon,
>
>Actually the coward is the one who can't even specify the poster
>he is referring to, and makes a separate thread to be extra sure
>he doesn't have to specify the poster or the post he is
>referring to. There's alpha, there's average, then there's
>Gordon Roy Parker aka Ray Gordon.
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  Garry Kasparov: #18 among "World's Top 100 Public Intellectuals" (Prospect / Foreign Policy)         


Author: Berkeley Brett
Date: Jul 12, 2008 12:35

I see that Garry Kasparov has come in #18 in the list of the world's
"Top 100 Public Intellectuals" compiled by Prospect and Foreign Policy
magazines. The list includes Noam Chomsky (#11), Al Gore (#12),
Umberto Eco (#14), Amartya Sen (#16), Mario Vargas Llosa (#20), Jürgen
Habermas (#22), Vaclav Havel (#26), and many others.

Here's the list:

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10261

A bit about how it was compiled, including the surprising result this
year that "every name in the top ten would be from a Muslim
background." (This was not the case at all in the 2005 version of the
list.):

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10262

For comparsion, you might see the 2005 version of the list, courtesy
of Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_2005_Global_Intellectuals_Poll

All rather interesting....

(: {B} Bishop Berkeley {B} :)
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  GitClub Easy Defeats MyChess Level 4         


Author: chipschap
Date: Jul 12, 2008 08:43

I played out the following game under informal conditions between
GitClub Easy and MyChess set to Level 4. This was unscientific and
subject to error, of course. Both sides played on the same machine, a
dual-core 2.6 GHz with 4Gb of memory, nothing else running. MyChess
was running on DosBox emulation at 3000 cycles speed setting. Ignore
the timings below -- they are more a function of how fast I typed in
moves or whether I took breaks. In general GitClub played about five
times more slowly than MyChess. I selected MyChess level 4 because
that is the lowest level at which supposedly MyChess is decent (or so
I read somewhere) but that appears not to be the case! MyChess was
taking perhaps 5 seconds for a typical move.

We can't draw a lot of conclusions from this game given the unbalanced
and uncontrolled playing conditions. Still, we can observe:
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  Stupidest game of the month. 11 move Mate.         


Author: Sanny
Date: Jul 12, 2008 04:21

I played Beginner. I played Handicap Level and got a Knight Extra.

At GetClub with Handicap Level you can turn any level with a Knight/
Bishop/ Rook/ Queen Extra.

I thought that beginer without a Knight will be easy for me to win.

But when I played the game Beginner gave me Check Mate even without a
Knight.

And that too in just 11 Moves.

Rember I was having a Knight Extra. Still Beginner was able to win the
game.

Game Played between sanjay11 and beginner_x_N at GetClub.com

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sanjay11: (Black)
beginner_x_N: (White)
Game Played at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html
View Recorded Game: http://www.getclub.com/playgame.php?id=DM22495&game=Chess
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

White -- Black
(beginner_x_N) -- (sanjay11)
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  Match of the Century         


Author: help bot
Date: Jul 12, 2008 00:49

Here is what happened when I set the world's
strongest chess program, Rybka, as best I
could to simulate a Knight-odds match versus
GetClub... .

First, Rybka takes on the new "Baby" level:

1. Nb1-a3{12} e7-e5{0}
2. Na3-b5{4} Nb8-c6{4}
3. Nb5-d6{8} Bf8-d6{2}

Please note that I deliberately gave away the
White Knight, before handing things over to
Rybka.
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