| Parrthenon 2004-11-30, 12:45 am |
| I think it impossible to compare the doings of an art center in Lincoln,
Nebraska, with the anthropophagous politics of the USCF, a national
organization noted for its vicious infighting. My point was right on.
Typically, Mike Nolan misses the nub about Tim Hanke whose chess quarterly had
nothing to do with managing a team of permanent employees; it had to do with
keeping a beautifully done, obviously doomed amateur enterprise on its feet.
Management skills at Chess Life are minimal, in truth. Producing literate
articles, procuring decent photos, covering the major events in a timely
fashion and making coverage lively (that's called story planning) -- that's 90
% of the job. Tim would do just fine in that position.
Mike Nolan writes that Tim Hanke is being attacked for losing his job.
NONSENSE.
I have seen no attacks on Tim because he lost his job. I've certainly not
written an adverse word because of it. Nor, so far as I can see, has Sam Sloan.
Mike Nolan obviously is trying mightily, in the Randy Bauer tradition, to
personalize the issue in order to draw attention away from why we cannot see
the contents of the contract between the USCF and Crossville.
And, of course, we still have not been told why this Board could not have
waited two weeks while a successful, chess-productive businessman such as Erik
Anderson spoke with billionaire Gerry about the prospects for Liberty, New
York.
The whole business is hilarious. You have people like Randy Bauer and Mike
Nolan, our house parliamentarian, trying to pick a fight between this writer
and those board members leading the move to Crossville.
It won't work. There is no personal ill-will at all on my part and that of,
say, a Phil Innes. To the extent that personal sympathies play in this issue,
the truth is the opposite.
Once again, for the umpteenth time, a Hanke or a Marinello have overall done a
brilliant job. The issue is not their persons or their work. The issue is the
wisdom of the move to Crossville and keeping Board service and employment in
the USCF office distinct experiences.
I've already been told one shocking intention about the Crossville move, which
I cannot reveal unless I find a source other than the person who told it to me.
Yours, Larry Parr
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"FIDE has made its decision. Players who refuse to be drug tested will not be
able to play chess." -- Dr. Press, co-founder of the FIDE Medical Commission.
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