| Ray Gordon 2005-05-29, 12:31 am |
| > A few weeks ago, I made an offer to raise more than $40,000 to support
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> the 2006 US Women's Olympiad Team. I made a personal guarantee for
> this amount to help the team if I fail to raise it through my
> foundation.
Looks like Polgar is LOADED!
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> As you can see, there will always be obstacles to stop the growth of
> womenfs chess in America. The federation does not want to do
> anything. They have no interest to promote chess. They have not done
> anything for womenfs chess in years
There is no such thing as "women's chess." There is chess, which is played
by women as well as men. If Susan didn't SUCK at chess like her sister
Judit, she might recognize that.
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>. They claim they do not have the
> money to do it even though it would cost them nothing. This country
> has not produced too many GMs in the past decade. However, if others
> want to help, they will not allow it. I am not the only one who faced
> this. Politics will never end and some people will always put politics
> before the welfare of chess. This is one of the reasons why US Chess
> has gone nowhere. The federation benefited from the 1972 Fischer boom
> and not much has been done since to maintain the strong growth.
How much did USCF do for Fischer?
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>our 2004 historic Silver
> medalist team will not be given a chance to come back to go for the
> Gold in the 2006 Olympiad. This team is dismantled forever.
Good riddance!
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>I will not
> be a part of the 2006 US Womenfs Olympiad team
I'm crushed!
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>and I am not even sure
> if there will be a team in 2006. Even if a team is sent, they will not
> get the proper preparation.
"Waaaaaah!"
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> Because I spoke out and fought against the system, I am blacklisted
> again.
She's joking, right?
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>I faced the same thing 20-30 years ago. I just could not
> imagine of going through the same thing in 2005.
Isn't Susan Polgar not much more than 30 years old?
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>However, they have
> miscalculated. This will only motivate me even more to make sure that
> the young players of future generations would not have to go through
> this. That is why I refused to be involved in chess politics and I am
> lucky to have wonderful people supporting my initiatives outside of
> the federation without hidden agenda.
Translation: she's got patrons.
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