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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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