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4-26-2009

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TheParrot's Special Reports

• Polgar & the USCF:  A Parrot Special Report combines the text of GM Susan Polgar's remarks, published in last week's Squaawk, and the USCF's carefully worded response.  Also, a further response from Ms. Polgar.

• Scholastics - the Soul of Chess?:  Is the Scholastic chess movement actually bad for chess?  Maybe, or so argues Tom Braunlich in an article extracted here at Chessville (Scholastics and the Soul of Chess).  TheParrot's Special Report addresses some very strongly worded reader opinions, along with Braunlich's reply.

• USCF's Book & Equipment Deal with Chess Cafe:  It all started with the following posting by Larry Parr in one of the public newsgroups last week:  "Gentlemen, The USCF Executive Board has caved to the ChessCafe.  That is the report I received from a source.  By a 5-1 vote the EB has decided WITHOUT OFFERING A PUBLIC TENDER to alter favorably for the Cafe the terms of its contract and to extend the Cafe's sales agreement until 2012. Further, the Cafe will have over $100,000 of its $250,000-plus debt to the USCF forgiven. The vote was 5 to 1."

• USCF's Fingerfehler:  A related issue has also surfaced, the alleged blacklisting or boycotting of certain authors by USCF Sales.  USCF Sales is the name of the business entity, operated by Hanon Russell of Chess Café, which has contracted with the USCF to provide book & equipment (B&E) sales on their behalf.  TheParrot received this message (12/29/2005) from GM Raymond Keene, regarding the controversy on USCF Sales...

• Who Cares? - Women and Children in Chess:  Months ago the Parrot wrote to the USCF board via Bill Hall Executive Director of USCF, asking after standards in place to avert offense to women and children in chess.  These concerns, although according to Hall were delivered to the board, have not been addressed nor even acknowledged.  Perhaps this is a cultural thing, but in some cultures is not dishonorable nor some game of politically correct words, to actively protect women and children from offence - in fact it is considered manly.  The issues before the board were about the treatment of women and children, and the lack of standard evident in the works of USCF agents paid and unpaid – and who even sometimes wrote anonymously, but let it be known that they wrote as USCF agents.  And what happens if you don’t …  Now we have a collision of speculations about new board member Sam Sloan's standards with these non-existent USCF standards...

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