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> POSTED BY BILL GOICHBERG ON FIDE NEWSGROUP
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> <His [Erik Anderson's] Liberty proposal was not connected in any way with
> obtaining any seats on the Board, nor was an earlier proposal to take over

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> National Scholastics, nor was his US Championship proposal. AF4C has also
> contributed to other USCF projects like the Women's Championship, with no

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> seats involved.
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> In 2003 when many people thought USCF was about to go bankrupt, Erik

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> merger between USCF and AF4C which would have paid USCF $500,000 but given

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> equal seats with USCF on the merged Board. Erik said that the request for

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> seats was because USCF in recent years had not shown itself to be a

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> steward of funds and his sponsors didn't want to pay out that much money

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> having no control.
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> The Board appointed a Past Presidents committee which opposed this idea. I

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> did not support it. The Past Presidents suggested that a modified

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> this idea, for instance AF4C obtaining 2 seats out of 7 or 3 out of 9,

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> a good idea and recommended that talks about such possibilities be held

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> AF4C.
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> The Board appointed Beatriz Marinello to discuss this with AF4C, however

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> discussions were held. Beatriz said that she would not engage in such
> discussions because she objected to the Liebermans' motion on the advance
> Delegates agenda to approve the merger. At the Delegates meeting the

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> withdrew their motion, but these talks still did not occur. At the

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> Board meeting I asked Beatriz about the status of these discussions and

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> indicated that there was no point to having them, as AF4C would not offer
> anything acceptable to USCF.
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> I believe that we should discuss with our most productive sponsor ever

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> ways to promote chess together. Erik has indicated that he is very open to

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> wide variety of possible ideas which would benefit USCF without AF4C

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> any Board seats. Keeping in mind that we can always say no to unacceptable
> proposals, I feel it is foolish not to have such discussions. We already

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> from their great work with the US Championship that it is possible to work

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> AF4C for USCF's benefit.> -- Bill Goichberg
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> ARROGANCE AND STUPIDITY
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> So, contrary to Stan Booz's allegation, the Liberty proposal came

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> no demand for Board seats.
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> What I find so astonishing is that this Board would not even discuss with

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> Anderson -- a respected and very wealthy businessman who is also

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> chess productive -- the possibility of two weeks in which to talk with
> billionaire Gerry.
>
> That Board decision still makes no sense. It smacked of arrogance and
> stupidity, which so often go together.
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> ________________________________________________________________
> "FIDE has made its decision. Players who refuse to be drug tested will not

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> able to play chess." -- Dr. Press, co-founder of the FIDE Medical

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> Let's face it. You two guys would look good in a 70s Red Muscle car.
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> Jane Adams wrote:
> Who's Huggy Bear?

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> I'd actually given that way more thought than I want to admit, but when
> you consider that every tip Huggy gave to Starsky and Hutch panned out as
> useful, I couldn't think of anyone on rec.games.chess.politics who could
> be Huggy.
>
> Stan Booz as Captain Dobey, for sure.