| Chess One 2004-11-29, 9:46 am |
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"Tom Klem" <thewiz@lspamodem.com> wrote in message
news:x0zqd.179968$G15.179370@fed1read03...
quote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Thank you for your kind words about the beloved state of Nevada.
Tom, did you ever meet a bloke called Doug Wilkinson. He came to Nevada and
won the Open there when it was a very big tournament, rated about 2400. He
now lives around here and is a sometimes sparring partner.
quote:
> Regarding
> that subject now that _all_ the dirty deals and linen are out regarding
> the
> truth about USCF's last eight years. Both financial, and moral bankruptcy
> (doing the dues paying membership dirt) is the word which comes to mind at
> first blush, and I dare say here on these pages: "I told you so", and "So
> do
> you really think Stan Vaughan let a little twleve year old girl beat him
> twenty games in a row?" among other choice vignettes from memory lane
> after
> everything which we said has now been proven true. Vis a v, Sam Sloan is a
> Liar, Sweetheart Deals were soup du jour for insiders, and the memberships
> money was spent houdning "enemies" from the business. Richard Nixon, were
> he
> alive today, would admire the scum running USCF during the past eight
> years.
I'll tell you that my personal ambition in all this is to engage a set of
ideas, and not a set of personalities. Do you remember those scenes from
"Searching for Bobby Fischer" when young Josh has a crisis about his play,
and essentially has to decide whether to play against [=hate!] the other
player, or to play the board?
I think both ways are possible to play chess, but I also think each way
yields different results - one difference is the quality of the result, both
of the game itself, and also how one feels about playing it.
Its common for us foreigners to remark on the extreme level of personal
reflections, positive or negative, in US chess life, and given all that you
have said above - when will it be time to try 'playing the board' so to
speak?
As for lying, I am a liar. That doesn't disqualify me from 'playing the
board'. It also allows me to relate to lying in others, and try to examine
objectively what's true.
I don't know what's true or not in this particular situation. Although I
have read some things here which are plainly flase. What doesn't seem decent
to me is to justify an action by demeaning a critic of it.
More later Tom.
Phil
quote:
> I say below (with some tongue in cheek, but not too awful much) that Sam's
> purposes may be undiscernible to mere mortals, as they have been
> constructed
> in that crucible of wrethedness, New Whimsy Liar Works.
>
> For all we know, Sam's fiddling at the court house, could in fact be just
> what I speculated, that of giving the board a new dodge to not talk about
> an
> open litigation, and therefore stiffle through legal officiality, the
> entire
> conversation. Or NOT.
>
> We have no way to guess or for that matter even discover the underlying
> motives of this Chess gigolo, man about town and notorious liar.
>
> As for the move to Crossville, I think that I would be for it if I knew
> all
> the business workings of all the other deals, the actual contractual
> codiments and covenants signed on the dotted line (as it were); but alas,
> I
> know them not.
>
> I lean towards favoring the move simply because Goichberg and cronies seem
> to be against it. This is not to say that they are not right; I simply
> exercise my right to be peevish where those individuals are concerned (at
> the very least), and smell another dirty sweetheart deal in the making for
> the old guard, to the detriment of the fed (at the very worst). In my
> opinion, any group or meeting habituated by Don Schultz, by its very
> association with him, must be dirty and in favor of some old crony of his.
> The fact that he was never prosecuted for the loss or theft of millions,
> and
> was even reelected by OMOV, takes my breath away whilst I whistle in
> wonder.
>
> Naturally, I am always open minded where you are concerned, and would like
> to hear more in this thread about why you feel the way you do.
>
> Cordially,
> Tom Klem
>
> "Chess One" <innes8@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:kBvqd.647$8v3.394@trndny08...
> indeed
> USCF's
> of
> Sam
> to
> corrupted
> to
> of
> and
> to
> "report"
> truth?>> ---
> rather
>
>
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