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Author Re: EB meeting and stuff
Larry Tapper

2006-02-26, 7:33 pm


Mike Nolan wrote:
quote:

> ...Yes, Jay Sabine is Harry Sabine's son. He applied for a position in
> the membership department when it was advertised locally and was well
> qualified for the position, as he was a 1600 player and had also been a
> TD.
>
> In fact, all of the membership department staff hired in Tennessee are
> rated 1400 or higher and all are TDs, so the people answering the phones
> and e-mail in Tenneessee are, shockingly, actually people who play chess
> and understand how to run chess tournaments!
> --


This is noteworthy for those of us who recall the numerous dire rgcp
predictions about how the level of chess culture in the USCF offices
would be horribly degraded as a result of the move to Crossville, where
they think chess ain't nuthin but tall checkers, etc. etc. Larry Parr
would have bet on it. If he were a betting man, that is.

Larry T.

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