I sent this book to the printers yesterday, Thanksgiving Day, where I spent Thanksgiving in the company of my devoted computer. This book of the New York 1889...
New York 1889 was a 20 player double round robin. As such, there were 38 rounds with 10 games each round. However, there was an unusual special rule: If two...
Oops!...I Did It Again As several people have pointed out just in the few minutes since I posted this, there was a mistake in the score. Had Chigorin played...
Sam, Since you offer no analysis, I have no idea what win you see, but it looks drawn to me. Where's the big froced breakthrough? If Black plays badly (e.g.,...
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Can White win this? This is a game I discovered in my chess research. This game is not in any of the chess databases. It was played in a match that was...
I met Jacqueline Piatigorsky at the 1965 Pacific Southwest Open in Santa Monica, California. She has just gotten back from the US Woman's Chess Championship,...
It is now apparent that the rumor and report that surfaced last week that a settlement in the Polgar vs. USCF litigation was imminent was simply a canard, a...
I took 69 pictures of the World Shogi Championship. I have posted 36 of the pictures on my flickr.com site. http://www.flickr.com/photos/43181281@N05/ Please...
Okay. Are you a citizen of this country? No, I am not. What is your citizenship? I'm sorry? Where are you a citizen of? I am stateless. You are stateless? Yes....
http://www.sloanteaches.com/servlet/the-13/Bobby-Fischer-vs.-the/Detail About chess during the peak of the cold war, bobby fischer vs the russians. Soviet...
Since Brian Lafferty demands that I answer his questions about mediation, here is my last communication with the mediators. It is dated September 15, 2009 and...
... I certainly have read the filings by Judge Patel. You are wrong as usual. The last document in the file is an order by Judge Patel dated October 14, 2009. ...
The mediation terminated on 9/18. The mediation was a total waste of time and money. 13 lawyers met for 2 days at 13 hours each day, for a total of 13 x 2 x 13...
I wish to point out that during the mediation process all pending motions were stayed. These included motions to remove Karl Kronenberger as the USCF's counsel...
The two mediators filed last month in San Francisco federal court that the mediation is over and terminated. The case has been transferred out of San Francisco...
[quote="rfeditor"]Uh huh. And are you offering to pay the USCF's legal fees for continuing the case? I thought not. BTW, a settlement would not "leave Polgar...
I have just received an email stating that cases of USCF vs. Polgar and Polgar vs. the USCF have been agreed to be settled with all parties exchanging mutual...
There is a thread going on over on the USCF Issues Forum entitled "USCF Governance". Unfortunately, it is hard to debate the issues there because of fear of...
Remember I told you that 229529284 was an undercover police agent. Join http://www.imqq.com and take a look at him/her now. Yesterday, he/she was a female aged...
Hey Chess Fans, Sloan Teaches Web Site Design Services as well as a certified tech in Computer Break Fix, Server as well as IT for your Office Needs, Buy a...
I want to warn readers here about an Internet police trap that I easily could have fallen into. In the last few hours I have received three emails from a QQ...
Instead of repeatedly saying "Prove It. Prove it", why cannot Tim Just simply answer the questions? Several possible answers would be perfectly satisfactory. ...
[quote="Tim Just"][quote="samsloan"]However, thinking about that, does the USCF pay his own expenses to attend all these meetings, or does Tim Just come at his...
Just so that everybody here understands the severity of the question, I have attended almost every USCF delegates' meeting for the past 14 years. At every one...
... Dear Mike, I believe that you are mistaken. At the most recent meeting at Indianapolis Tim Just was still calling the question, perhaps not quite so...
Tim Just calling the question all the time creates a "Tyranny of the Majority". Many delegates are only interested in one issue, their own. If given a choice,...
Since this has been brought up, I think we should discuss it. Everybody who has attended a USCF Delegates meeting has seen this happen again and again. We...
Staunton's Chess Player's Handbook The name “Staunton” has become so closely associated with chess that the words have become virtually synonymous. All...
Hey Readers, Grand Opening of my new Chess Website, http://www.sloanteaches.com Just today we released World Chess Champion Capablancas new chess book,...
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