Chess politics - Best Wishes

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Best Wishes

beatchess@aol.com

2005-07-25, 8:39 pm

"He has been absent from meetings in person, so it would not surprise
me
if he resigned, but you are wrong about conference calls. He has
participated in some, including the most recent one last week.

Bill Goichberg"

Tim Hanke did not participate in the most recent conference call last
week. Tim has been away training in the National Guard. I am in
contact with him, he knows about the result of the election.

I would like this opportunity to congratulate Bill Goichberg, Gregory
Shahade, Joel Channing and Robert Tanner for getting elected to the
Executive Board.

Although, I am a bit disappointed about the results of the election,
life goes on and I feel relieve that I will not have the responsibility
to be President of the USCF after August 14th. I do not take the
results of the election as a reflection of my performance as President.
I have been a very strong President and made very tough decisions in
one of the most critical moments of USCF's history. My first thought
after learning about the results of the election was that I now fully
understand what Boris Spassky experience when he lost the World
Championship title to Bobby Fischer. Years later, Spassky declared
that this was the best thing that could happen to him..Freedom is a
wonderful thing, for two years I have been thinking about what is best
for the USCF, now its time to think about what is best for Beatriz
Marinello.

We all love the USCF and hope for the best. I think that Channing,
Shahade and Tanner will be excellent Board members.

All the best,

Beatriz Marinello
USCF President

George John

2005-07-25, 8:39 pm

beatchess@aol.com wrote:

Beatriz,

[SNIP]

quote:

> I have been a very strong President and made very tough decisions in
> one of the most critical moments of USCF's history.

[SNIP]

quote:

> We all love the USCF and hope for the best.

After the smoke clears, I think history will reflect well on your
leadership and administration. In 2003 it wasn't rhetoric. The USCF
was at the brink of bankruptcy. Your administration made the painful,
but absolutely necessary decisions to save the organization, and you
succeeded.

The office was right-sized, moved to an area with significantly lower
costs. An inefficient, money losing, and no longer necessary (for the
mission) B&E business was outsourced. You understood the need for
fiscal responsibility and your two terms resulted in a real (not
cooked) profit, as contrasted with the 1997-2003 timeframe where every
year there was a loss in operations with a total loss of roughly 1.7
million dollars.

Finally, you were the first USCF President, SFAIK, who understood and
explicitly stated that the USCF is in the information business. You
REALLY understood how vital it was for the USCF office to have
satisfactory information technology systems. Certainly, Mike Nolan
deserves huge credit for getting the job done, but without the support
of your administration, he would have never had the chance to shine.
Thank you so very much for that.

I truly hope you will be able to continue on the Board. We had two
resignations after the 2001 election, and three from the group which
was elected in 2001. I hope that trend does not continue with those
who were elected in 2003. However, if personal circumstances dictate
otherwise, I will certainly understand. In your instance I think we
have gotten far more you than what the typical board member devotes in
four years, probably a lot more.

Thank you again for everything you have done. It has been greatly
appreciated.

Best regards,

George John

recmate@aol.com

2005-07-25, 8:39 pm

beatchess@aol.com wrote:

quote:

> "He has been absent from meetings in person, so it would not surprise
> me
> if he resigned, but you are wrong about conference calls. He has
> participated in some, including the most recent one last week.
>
> Bill Goichberg"
>
> Tim Hanke did not participate in the most recent conference call last
> week. Tim has been away training in the National Guard. I am in
> contact with him, he knows about the result of the election.
>

Sorry for the error. I do believe that Tim has participated in some
fairly recent conference calls, though.

quote:

> I would like this opportunity to congratulate Bill Goichberg, Gregory
> Shahade, Joel Channing and Robert Tanner for getting elected to the
> Executive Board.
>
> Although, I am a bit disappointed about the results of the election,
> life goes on and I feel relieve that I will not have the responsibility
> to be President of the USCF after August 14th. I do not take the
> results of the election as a reflection of my performance as President.
> I have been a very strong President and made very tough decisions in
> one of the most critical moments of USCF's history. My first thought
> after learning about the results of the election was that I now fully
> understand what Boris Spassky experience when he lost the World
> Championship title to Bobby Fischer. Years later, Spassky declared
> that this was the best thing that could happen to him..Freedom is a
> wonderful thing, for two years I have been thinking about what is best
> for the USCF, now its time to think about what is best for Beatriz
> Marinello.

We have had substantial differences especially during the past year or
so, but there has never been any question that when USCF faced
bankruptcy in the summer of 2003, you provided the leadership needed to
avert this disaster. I hope that even though you will no longer be
devoting as much time to it, you will still be part of the team working
to guide and promote USCF in the coming years.

Bill Goichberg

quote:

>
> We all love the USCF and hope for the best. I think that Channing,
> Shahade and Tanner will be excellent Board members.
>
> All the best,
>
> Beatriz Marinello
> USCF President

Angelo DePalma

2005-07-25, 8:39 pm

<beatchess@aol.com> wrote

quote:

> I think that Channing,
> Shahade and Tanner will be excellent Board members.

Freudian slip?

Weren't there four people just recently elected?

DanHeisman

2005-07-25, 8:39 pm

Beatriz,

Thanks also for your Presidency during difficult times and, hopefully,
a productive continuation of your tenure on the Board.

Congratulations also to Bill, who has been handed a rather large
mandate, but has some very difficult decisions still to face. USCF
needs to continue to have strong leadership since there are still many
problems that need to be addressed in the near future.

Best wishes,
Dan Heisman
www.danheisman.com

chessdon

2005-07-25, 8:39 pm

Dan Heisman said: "Beatriz,

Thanks also for your Presidency during difficult times and, hopefully,
a productive continuation of your tenure on the Board.

Congratulations also to Bill, who has been handed a rather large
mandate, but has some very difficult decisions still to face. USCF
needs to continue to have strong leadership since there are still many
problems that need to be addressed in the near future.

First, congratulations to you Dan for winning a 2005 Cramer Award for
Excellence in Chess Journalism with your fine Chess Column.

Secondly, Beatriz will will be playing a key roll in the next
administration as hopefully will Randy Bauer. The election mandate
won't be used to dictate but rather to reach out. Confrontations will
be issue related and not personal.

Don Schultz

Jürgen R.

2005-07-25, 8:39 pm

On 25 Jul 2005 14:09:47 -0700, "chessdon" <chessdon@aol.com> wrote:

quote:

>Dan Heisman said: "Beatriz,
>
>Thanks also for your Presidency during difficult times and, hopefully,
>a productive continuation of your tenure on the Board.
>
>Congratulations also to Bill, who has been handed a rather large
>mandate, but has some very difficult decisions still to face. USCF
>needs to continue to have strong leadership since there are still many
>problems that need to be addressed in the near future.
>
>First, congratulations to you Dan for winning a 2005 Cramer Award for
>Excellence in Chess Journalism with your fine Chess Column.
>
>Secondly, Beatriz will will be playing a key roll in the next
>administration as hopefully will Randy Bauer.

What are these elections for then? Didn't Bauer just get thrown out on
his ear?

Will you next appoint Sloan to be Chairman of the Ethics Committee?

quote:

> The election mandate
>won't be used to dictate but rather to reach out. Confrontations will
>be issue related and not personal.

Yeah, Right.

quote:

>
>Don Schultz

Catalan

2005-07-25, 8:39 pm

"Angelo DePalma" <adpspammersgotohell@tellurian.net> wrote in message
news:fcCdnQhaCNEfpXjfRVn-sg@garden.net...

quote:

>
>
>
> <beatchess@aol.com> wrote
>
>
> Freudian slip?
>
> Weren't there four people just recently elected?

She used the future tense. What's more I agree with her.

RSHaas@aol.com

2005-07-25, 8:39 pm

Well and graciously said, Beatriz. Now back to our regularly scheduled
vitriol.

Old Haasie

Randy Bauer

2005-07-26, 12:34 am

I would also like to congratulate the winning candidates. I think the
winning candidates in general conducted themselves well, and it is good to
have new ideas and leaders on the Board.

I am particularly pleased by the election of Joel Channing to the Board. I
think Joel will provide insight and experience as one who has served on
Boards of Directors and been involved in large budget and high profile
projects. The USCF Board needs to become more collaborative and less
partisan. I hope that he will be able to help represent this philosophy and
create a new sense of direction.

I leave comforted by the knowledge that the USCF's finances are in better
shape than when I began my Board service a year ago. As we get to a much
better position relating to ongoing revenues and expenses, the incoming
Board is in a much better position to work to grow the USCF and services for
its members.

I've been a USCF member for over 30 years and a volunteer for at least 20.
I will, as circumstances allow, continue those efforts now and in the
future.

All the best for the USCF,
Randy Bauer

<beatchess@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1122307091.301781.70240@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

quote:

> "He has been absent from meetings in person, so it would not surprise
> me
> if he resigned, but you are wrong about conference calls. He has
> participated in some, including the most recent one last week.
>
> Bill Goichberg"
>
> Tim Hanke did not participate in the most recent conference call last
> week. Tim has been away training in the National Guard. I am in
> contact with him, he knows about the result of the election.
>
> I would like this opportunity to congratulate Bill Goichberg, Gregory
> Shahade, Joel Channing and Robert Tanner for getting elected to the
> Executive Board.
>
> Although, I am a bit disappointed about the results of the election,
> life goes on and I feel relieve that I will not have the responsibility
> to be President of the USCF after August 14th. I do not take the
> results of the election as a reflection of my performance as President.
> I have been a very strong President and made very tough decisions in
> one of the most critical moments of USCF's history. My first thought
> after learning about the results of the election was that I now fully
> understand what Boris Spassky experience when he lost the World
> Championship title to Bobby Fischer. Years later, Spassky declared
> that this was the best thing that could happen to him..Freedom is a
> wonderful thing, for two years I have been thinking about what is best
> for the USCF, now its time to think about what is best for Beatriz
> Marinello.
>
> We all love the USCF and hope for the best. I think that Channing,
> Shahade and Tanner will be excellent Board members.
>
> All the best,
>
> Beatriz Marinello
> USCF President
>

Matt Nemmers

2005-07-26, 12:34 am

Nice to see you back posting again Randy! For what it's worth, you got
my vote!

Regards,

Matt

Jürgen R.

2005-07-26, 8:33 pm

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:24:51 GMT, "Randy Bauer"
<randybauer2300@yahoo.com> wrote:

quote:

>I would also like to congratulate the winning candidates. I think the
>winning candidates in general conducted themselves well, and it is good to
>have new ideas and leaders on the Board.
>
>I am particularly pleased by the election of Joel Channing to the Board. I
>think Joel will provide insight and experience as one who has served on
>Boards of Directors and been involved in large budget and high profile
>projects. The USCF Board needs to become more collaborative and less
>partisan. I hope that he will be able to help represent this philosophy and
>create a new sense of direction.
>
>I leave comforted by the knowledge that the USCF's finances are in better
>shape than when I began my Board service a year ago. As we get to a much
>better position relating to ongoing revenues and expenses, the incoming
>Board is in a much better position to work to grow the USCF and services for
>its members.
>
>I've been a USCF member for over 30 years and a volunteer for at least 20.
>I will, as circumstances allow, continue those efforts now and in the
>future.

You are wonderful. The USCF is wonderful. Channing, Goich and
Marinato are all wonderful. The future is bright. Randy Bauer is a
financial genius and it is wonderful that the wonderful members of the
wonderful USCF had the opportunity to show their appreciation.

quote:

>
>All the best for the USCF,
>Randy Bauer
>
>
>
>
>
><beatchess@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:1122307091.301781.70240@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>

Jürgen R.

2005-07-26, 8:33 pm

On 25 Jul 2005 20:01:47 -0700, "Matt Nemmers" <nemmers.matt@gmail.com>
wrote:

quote:

>Nice to see you back posting again Randy! For what it's worth, you got
>my vote!

How many votes? Would Sloan have beaten him if you hadn't voted?

quote:

>
>Regards,
>
>Matt

Randy Bauer

2005-07-26, 8:33 pm

In article <4g9ce1d1a3a30kgj48fhvv3cvgclggsgoi@4ax.com>, Jürgen R. says...

quote:

>
>On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:24:51 GMT, "Randy Bauer"
><randybauer2300@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>You are wonderful. The USCF is wonderful. Channing, Goich and
>Marinato are all wonderful. The future is bright. Randy Bauer is a
>financial genius and it is wonderful that the wonderful members of the
>wonderful USCF had the opportunity to show their appreciation.

Oh, Jurgen, it's so nice to know you care.

Why exactly do you hang around discussions of USCF politics, anyway? Don't you
have a chess federation in your own country you can grumble about?

Randy Bauer

quote:

>
>

Mike Murray

2005-07-26, 8:33 pm

On 26 Jul 2005 07:21:26 -0700, Randy Bauer <Randy_member@newsguy.com>
wrote:

quote:

>
>Why exactly do you hang around discussions of USCF politics, anyway? Don't you
>have a chess federation in your own country you can grumble about?

quote:

>Randy Bauer

Jurgen's just jerkin' his gherkin.

parrthenon@cs.com

2005-07-26, 8:33 pm

RANDY'S FAREWELL ADDRESS

<The USCF Board needs to become more collaborative and less partisan. I
hope that he [Channing] will be able to help represent this philosophy
and create a new
sense of direction.> Randy Bauer

This love message did remind me of Laurence Harvey's emoting about how
lovable everyone was in a summer long ago. After that things went
south in The Manchurian Candidate.

<You are wonderful. The USCF is wonderful. Channing, Goich and Marinato
are all wonderful. The future is bright. Randy Bauer is a financial
genius and it is wonderful that the wonderful members of the wonderful
USCF had the opportunity to show their appreciation.> Jurgen

Jürgen R.

2005-07-26, 8:33 pm

On 26 Jul 2005 07:21:26 -0700, Randy Bauer <Randy_member@newsguy.com>
wrote:

quote:

>In article <4g9ce1d1a3a30kgj48fhvv3cvgclggsgoi@4ax.com>, Jürgen R. says...
>
>Oh, Jurgen, it's so nice to know you care.
>
>Why exactly do you hang around discussions of USCF politics, anyway? Don't you
>have a chess federation in your own country you can grumble about?

I have never grumbled about the USCF so far as I can recall. In fact
the USCF is very similar to analogous organizations purporting to
regulate and promote games and sports. All of them reel from calamity
to calamity and from scandal to scandal. The reason is that they
attract a certain types of mediocrities, like you for example, who
find their fulfillment by occupying meaningless positions on
meaningless committees.

The reason I sometimes read this newsgroup is that the sheer absurdity
of it is entertaining.
[vbcol=seagreen]
>
>Randy Bauer
>
>

Taylor Kingston

2005-07-26, 8:33 pm

parrthenon@cs.com wrote:

quote:

> This love message did remind me of Laurence Harvey's emoting about how
> lovable everyone was in a summer long ago. After that things went
> south in The Manchurian Candidate.

Interesting you should say that, Larry. Very often your posts remind
me of Angela Lansbury in that same film. Perhaps instead you should
pass the time by playing a little solitaire.

Jason.

2005-07-26, 8:33 pm

Hey Bauer, I heard your slut wife is going to star in the remake of "Debbie
Does Dallas". I find it interesting that you don't mind her having
unprotected sex with all those greaseball porn actors.

Regards,

Jason Repa

"Randy Bauer" <Randy_member@newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:132387686.000068f7.033@drn.newsguy.com...

quote:

> In article <4g9ce1d1a3a30kgj48fhvv3cvgclggsgoi@4ax.com>, Jürgen R. says...
>
> Oh, Jurgen, it's so nice to know you care.
>
> Why exactly do you hang around discussions of USCF politics, anyway?
> Don't you
> have a chess federation in your own country you can grumble about?
>
> Randy Bauer
>
>
>

Angelo DePalma

2005-07-27, 12:32 am

Outer Slobovia has no chess federation.

"Randy Bauer" <Randy_member@newsguy.com> wrote

quote:

> Why exactly do you hang around discussions of USCF politics, anyway?
> Don't you
> have a chess federation in your own country you can grumble about?

Angelo DePalma

2005-07-27, 12:32 am

As long as we're changing the subject, how about we discuss results from
this year's Outer Slobovian Chess Congress. I hear 750-lb GM Suet
Triglyceridovich won with +3. Women's champ was Esnatcheria Armpitthirsuta
of Turkey.

<parrthenon@cs.com> wrote in message
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quote:

> RANDY'S FAREWELL ADDRESS
>
> <The USCF Board needs to become more collaborative and less partisan. I
> hope that he [Channing] will be able to help represent this philosophy
> and create a new
> sense of direction.> Randy Bauer
>
> This love message did remind me of Laurence Harvey's emoting about how
> lovable everyone was in a summer long ago. After that things went
> south in The Manchurian Candidate.
>
> <You are wonderful. The USCF is wonderful. Channing, Goich and Marinato
> are all wonderful. The future is bright. Randy Bauer is a financial
> genius and it is wonderful that the wonderful members of the wonderful
> USCF had the opportunity to show their appreciation.> Jurgen
>

Randy Bauer

2005-07-27, 12:32 am

"Jürgen R." <jurgenr@web.de> wrote in message
news:8mtce11p0u13tn0krtk9mvebjk8shnu2gi@4ax.com...

quote:

> On 26 Jul 2005 07:21:26 -0700, Randy Bauer <Randy_member@newsguy.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> I have never grumbled about the USCF so far as I can recall. In fact
> the USCF is very similar to analogous organizations purporting to
> regulate and promote games and sports. All of them reel from calamity
> to calamity and from scandal to scandal. The reason is that they
> attract a certain types of mediocrities, like you for example, who
> find their fulfillment by occupying meaningless positions on
> meaningless committees.

It's somehow comforting to be considered mediocre by you.

Randy Bauer

quote:

>
> The reason I sometimes read this newsgroup is that the sheer absurdity
> of it is entertaining.
>
>

Randy Bauer

2005-07-27, 12:32 am

<parrthenon@cs.com> wrote in message
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quote:

> RANDY'S FAREWELL ADDRESS
>
> <The USCF Board needs to become more collaborative and less partisan. I
> hope that he [Channing] will be able to help represent this philosophy
> and create a new
> sense of direction.> Randy Bauer
>
> This love message did remind me of Laurence Harvey's emoting about how
> lovable everyone was in a summer long ago. After that things went
> south in The Manchurian Candidate.

This point in the process is hard for Larry. He can't start punching the
new guys' chops just yet. What to do when the bars are closed and there's
nobody to fight with?

Randy Bauer

Jürgen R.

2005-07-27, 3:33 am

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:35:40 GMT, "Randy Bauer"
<randybauer2300@yahoo.com> wrote:

quote:

>
><parrthenon@cs.com> wrote in message
>news:1122399504.712732.248610@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
>This point in the process is hard for Larry. He can't start punching the
>new guys' chops just yet. What to do when the bars are closed and there's
>nobody to fight with?

In Des Moines, Iowa, ....

quote:

>
>Randy Bauer
>

parrthenon@cs.com

2005-07-27, 8:34 pm

THE BARS ARE CLOSED

This point in the process is hard for Larry. He can't start punching
the new guys' chops just yet. What to do when the bars are closed and
there's nobody to fight with? -- Randy Bauer

Honest Randy is correct to this extent: It does feel a bit like
a Sunday morning after a bender the night before.

Alas, no Brock, Booz, Bauer, Beatriz to kick around any more.

And how did those brassknuckles get on one's right hand anyway?
Whose blood? Whose hank of hair? The whole scene reminds one of Lon
Chaney, Jr. as the wolfman who wakes up the next morning wondering what
happened.

Randy Bauer

2005-07-27, 8:34 pm

In article <p0aee1djj5m6j87gl5d1rckig9iokh310s@4ax.com>, Jürgen R. says...

quote:

>
>On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:35:40 GMT, "Randy Bauer"
><randybauer2300@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>In Des Moines, Iowa, ....

We watch re-runs of the movie Patton and recall how we saved Europe from mad
men.

Randy Bauer

chasmad

2005-07-28, 12:31 am

parrthenon@cs.com wrote:

quote:

> THE BARS ARE CLOSED
>
>
> Alas, no Brock, Booz, Bauer, Beatriz to kick around any more.
>

And Larry Parr got his lame XXX fired! What a happy time it was!
(Wait, that was years ago, wasn't it?)

Charles

jamesrynd@aol.com

2005-07-28, 6:32 am

Look, der kleine Juergenchen lives in a country where a large
percentage of its citizens thought they should have a right to vote in
the last American election, so cut him a break, OK? Delusion seems to
be part of the German spirit. Plus, he is still trying to catch up on
his quota of beating up Turkish Gastarbeitern, so he is a bit testy
this week.

Jürgen R.

2005-07-28, 6:32 am

On 27 Jul 2005 11:52:21 -0700, Randy Bauer <Randy_member@newsguy.com>
wrote:

quote:

>In article <p0aee1djj5m6j87gl5d1rckig9iokh310s@4ax.com>, Jürgen R. says...
>
>We watch re-runs of the movie Patton and recall how we saved Europe from mad
>men.

Sorry, I am missing the point. Did Patton beat up people on the
streets of Des Moines.

I agree that the treatment of Europe, and particularly of Germany,
after the war, is one of the very few great successes of U.S. foreign
policy in the last century. - What that has to do with the current
discussion is obscure ... unless it is this: You think I am German,
and therefore must have attitudes that you ascribe to Germans and you
ran out of ammunition, so now you are reduced to flinging dirt...

Were you always so dumb or is that what happens to people who stay in
Des Moines too long?

quote:

>
>Randy Bauer

Randy Bauer

2005-07-28, 8:35 pm

In article <c79he11670q9bq7nj8l1ovvbdmbeeujesg@4ax.com>, Jürgen R. says...

quote:

>
>On 27 Jul 2005 11:52:21 -0700, Randy Bauer <Randy_member@newsguy.com>
>wrote:
>
>
>Sorry, I am missing the point. Did Patton beat up people on the
>streets of Des Moines.
>
>I agree that the treatment of Europe, and particularly of Germany,
>after the war, is one of the very few great successes of U.S. foreign
>policy in the last century. - What that has to do with the current
>discussion is obscure ... unless it is this: You think I am German,
>and therefore must have attitudes that you ascribe to Germans and you
>ran out of ammunition, so now you are reduced to flinging dirt...
>
>Were you always so dumb or is that what happens to people who stay in
>Des Moines too long?

Jurgen, you really need to work on your insults -- this hardly even rises to the
level of sophomoric.

I hear Larry Parr is available by correspondance course. Check with your local
technical school, you might even be able to get high school credit for it.

Randy Bauer

quote:

>
>

DanHeisman

2005-07-29, 3:32 am

quote:

>
> What are these elections for then? Didn't Bauer just get thrown out on
> his ear?

Jurgen,

Yes, sorry, slip of the old brain. I meant the other board carryover,
Tim Hanke.

Regards,
Dan Heisman

DanHeisman

2005-07-29, 3:32 am

Don,

Thanks! I am deeply honored to win the prestigious Cramer Award of Best
Column, Any Media for my Novice Nook column at www.chesscafe.com and I
very much appreciate you taking the time to note it here.

Best wishes,
Dan H