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Date: 12 Mar 2008 09:36:48
From: samsloan
Subject: Bill Brock calls for the Resignations of Goichberg and Truong
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I agree that Goichberg should resign but I am sure that he will not do
so. However, my reasons for believing that Goichberg should resign are
entirely different than those suggested by Bill Brock.
In the first place, this entire situation was created by Goichberg.
After the votes were counted and I was declared to have been elected
to the board on July 20, 2006, Goichberg started a series of desperate
measures either to prevent me from taking office or to have me
immediately thrown off the board.
This include writing find letters to the USCF's attorney Michael
Matsler, asking for advice on how to stop Sam Sloan from taking the
office to which I had been elected. The USCF paid legal fees of nearly
$5,000 to Mr. Matsler for responding to these five letters (about
$1000 per letter) and I believe that Bill Goichberg should reimburse
the USCF for this amount.
This entire controversy about my prior relationship with Miss Polgar
started because Bill Goichberg and Joel Channing repeatedly, over and
over again, demanded to know the details about my relationship with
her. I had never even revealed that I ever had a relationship with
her, much what the nature of the relationship was. I do not play "kiss
and tell". I still have not responded to questions about this. If you
could see the Confidential BINFOS (which fortunately remain
confidential) you could see how frequently Channing and Goichberg
(especially Channing) pressed me for information about this. As I
said, they were acting like a "bull in a china shop" because they did
not know what they were getting into.
This alone is enough reason for throwing Joel Channing and Bill
Goichberg off the board. What ever my relationship was with Miss
Polgar twenty years ago (and I am not admitting that there even was
such a relationship) it was none of the business of Joel Channing and
Bill Goichberg and it was reprehensible of them to make a big public
issue over it.
Now that I was on the board and their efforts to stop me from taking
office had failed, Bill Goichberg started taking desperate measures to
make sure that I would not be re-elected. I agree that he has every
right under freedom of speech to campaign against me. However, he does
not have the right to use the financial resources of the USCF or his
position as president of the USCF to stop me from being re-elected.
Among the things he did to insure that I not be re-elected were:
1. Instructing the Chess Life editor not to publish my name in Chess
Life (other than listing me as a member of the board). There were four
times during my one year on the board that a Chess Life columnist or
news reporter included my name in a story or article submitted for
publication. Each time, my name was removed from the article by the
editor.
2. Giving a tremendous amount of publicity to Susan Polgar including
publishing free ads and pictures of her in every issue of Chess Life,
when she had done absolutely nothing noteworthy or news worthy during
that entire year. For example, she was given a cover photo in Chess
Life claiming that she had won the "Woman's World Cup" when all she
had actually done was win an unofficial exhibition event not rated or
recognized by either FIDE or the USCF in which all of her opponents
were weak players, whereas the real official Woman's World Cup was won
by Grandmaster Xu Yu Hua of China (who had not competed in the
exhibition event that Susan Polgar had won).
3. Appointing as moderators and "Forum Oversight Committee" members to
the USCF Forums vehemently anti-Sam Sloan and pro-Polgar, including
Herbert Rodney Vaughn and Gregory Alexander. These moderators
proceeded to repeatedly suspend Sam Sloan and anybody who supported
Sam Sloan or even agreed with Sam Sloan on one issue. Anybody who
agreed with had their postings pulled and they were suspended from
posting. More than one thousand postings by USCF members were pulled
or deleted from the USCF Fourms during this period.
4. Anybody who asked an embarrassing of Paul Truong or Susan Polgar
had their postings pulled. Anybody who questioned or disputed the
statements by Paul Truong and Susan Polgar had their posting deleted
and found themselves suspended. For example, posters were not allowed
to ask Polgar and Truong whether they were ried to each other or
not, they were not allowed to ask Truong what companies he had ever
worked for or what jobs he had ever held, nor could he be asked to
name the "billion dollar companies" that he claimed to have rescued or
saved, nor could he be asked to identify the 11 national chess
championships that he claimed to have won. In short, Truong was not
allowed to be asked to verify any of the outrageous claims that he was
making about himself and Susan Polgar. Susan Polgar was not allowed to
be asked to identify the four "World Chess Championships" that she
claimed to have won. In short, under the Goichberg Rules, the voting
public was not allowed to know that almost everything that Polgar and
Truong said about themselves during their election campaign was a lie.
Had the voting public been allowed to know that Polgar and Truong were
lying, Truong would never have been elected (since he just barely
squeaked in anyway) and the election of Polgar would have been a lot
closer.
It is ironic that after Bill Goichberg did all this to insure that
Polgar and Truong be elected so as to stop Sam Sloan from being re-
elected, Polgar and Truong started attacking Goichberg in the final
states of the election campaign in response to which Goichberg mailed
17,000 postcards to USCF members which priily attacked me but was
also critical of Polgar and Truong.
What has happened is that Goichberg has created this monster and now
the monster is about to devour him. Goichberg is being attacked from
all sides, especially from the Trollgar side that he had helped elect.
I am not aware of anybody who supports Goichberg any more. The recent
surprising call by Bill Brock for Goichberg's resignation is just one
example of this.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 16 Mar 2008 07:42:41
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bill Brock calls for the Resignations of Goichberg and Truong
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SAM AND GOICH
>This is what makes it so shocking that Goichberg
started attacking me so vehemently from the day in
2006 that that I was first elected to the board. > -- Sam Sloan
Sam is right once again. Sigh.
And while I would not employ Rob Mitchell's
canine imagery, he does provides the likely reason
why Bill Goichberg rounded on Sam Sloan.
For myself, I would say that Bill used Sam, whom he
knew had bad relations with many others. Once Bill got
the USCF presidency, he had no use for Sam and kicked
him aside at the moment he could divine expedient political
reasons for doing so.
Such is the fate of pioneers who take the
arrows. In that sense Sam has little to complain
about, and his treatment, though far less civil, was
not unlike what Tom Dorsch got from his allies when
he acted as their spear-carrier.
Sam is right, then, about Bill Goichberg's
tournaments. They are wonderful adornments to
America's chess life. As editor of the eponymous mag,
I believed these events were also an adornment to Chess
Life. At a time before Bill was the solid financial citizen
that he has since become, I accorded him the first
truly major publicity he ever got in CL -- not out of
charity, but in the belief that a national magazine
should report on big national events and show the jazzy,
glamorous side. (Oh, I know! I know!) Goich, never long
on personal grace, though normally fair enough in his
nasality, opined that perhaps I gave him too much publicity.
Yet one can oppose the man's chess politics root
and branch, while supporting his chess entrepreneurship.
I take some credit, as the then editor of the Friends of the
USCF Newsletter, in helping to defeat Goich in his presidential
race against Denis Barry.
Bill belongs as a living member -- and may he
prosper late into a long and happy life -- of the US
Chess Hall of Fame. He does not belong in the chair
of USCF president.
As for John Hillery, trust the man to reverse it
all. He supports what Goichberg does wrongly, he
opposes what he has done so brilliantly and, I dare
say, lovingly at times. In Mr. Hillery we have a
truly constipated personality.
Yours, Larry Parr
Rob wrote:
> > This is what makes it so shocking that Goichberg started attacking me
> > so vehemently from the day in 2006 that that I was first elected to
> > the board.
> >
> > Sam Sloan
>
> Really? Everyone knows a junkyard dog is useful when wanting to
> protect your rubbish but no one invites it inside the house to live
> with you!
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Date: 16 Mar 2008 05:50:57
From: Rob
Subject: Re: Bill Brock calls for the Resignations of Goichberg and Truong
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> This is what makes it so shocking that Goichberg started attacking me
> so vehemently from the day in 2006 that that I was first elected to
> the board.
>
> Sam Sloan
Really? Everyone knows a junkyard dog is useful when wanting to
protect your rubbish but no one invites it inside the house to live
with you!
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Date: 16 Mar 2008 02:49:25
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Bill Brock calls for the Resignations of Goichberg and Truong
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[quote="rfeditor"][quote="redman"]I agree with Joe Lux. This is a
legitimate USCF issue.
I would like to respectfully request that John Hillery let us know how
and when he has ever disagreed with President Goichberg.
Ever.
Cordially,
Tim Redman[/quote]
Tim, I disagree with Bill about almost every facet of organizing
tournaments. Big class prizes (larger than third or fourth overall),
high (three-figure) entry fees, multiple sections, re-entries, out-of-
state organizers squeezing out the locals -- I've opposed all of them,
and had some limited success in keeping them out of Southern
California. I did not agree with all of Bill's endorsements in the
last, and I didn't vote for all of them (though exactly who I did vote
for is none of your business). I was also opposed to OMOV (and still
am). I did agree with Bill that those you endorsed should not be
elected to the Board in 2001, and that the performance of the Board
under your leadership was not entirely satisfactory. Is that really
the only issue that matters to you?[/quote]
I happen to agree with Bill Goichberg and therefore disagree with John
Hillery on every one of these issues. I believe that these huge mega-
Swiss tournaments that Goichberg holds are a great contribution to
chess.
This is what makes it so shocking that Goichberg started attacking me
so vehemently from the day in 2006 that that I was first elected to
the board.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 12 Mar 2008 22:13:42
From:
Subject: Re: Bill Brock calls for the Resignations of Goichberg and Truong
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On 12, 5:27=A0pm, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:
> Bill Goichberg has been either a member of the board or Executive
> Director almost every year since 1996. He was Vice-President from 1996
> to 1999, Executive Director 2003-2005 and President from 2005 until
> now.
>
> Every year but one of those years the USCF has gone down, down down.
>
> It is time for Bill Goichberg to resign. He has nothing further to
> contribute and his presence is doing more harm than good.
>
> However, I would not want Goichberg to resign if Truong is left on the
> board. Goichberg should stay until he is absolutely certain that
> Truong is gone.
>
> Sam Sloan
I would think that bill goichberg would begin to want to resign.
As demonized as these chess board members are, I don't know who in
their right mind
Would actually want to serve on a board of directors that is involved
in the plotting of an
Overthrow of a foreign government. The chess players all knew it was
illegal, they just
Called the cops and created fake bomb threats at the Tennessee offices
to try to
Discredit cus Roberts.
Becoming a wartime diplomat of St Kitts and Nevis to stay out of jail
is not what I imagined
Out of this, but I'll take whatever lifesaver I can get. It looks like
diplomatic immunity kept me
Out of prison - or total shutdown of my r.g.c.p postings, which is now
seems less likely, but
Possible, due to future political changes.
If these folks would sit down and discuss with me their role in the
coup-de-ta attempt, maybe
I would let this go. You chess players do not understand how many
people are mad and upset
At the State Department, the United Nations, the IOC, and even in the
American National Olympic
Committee.
This is big trouble. It is on my record, forever. I used diplomatic
immunity. That is like a felony
Charge that never gets processed. For the rest of my life, I have to
watch where I travel, and
Everyone in the clique won't get off this that easily. I will get to
tell my side, and when I do,
More trouble comes our way.
Diplomatic immunity is very destructive to chess, and I hope you folks
realize this. It isn't about
Ego, this is about state sovereignty.
cus Roberts
Ambassador of St Kitts and Nevis to FIDE and the USCF
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Date: 12 Mar 2008 15:27:55
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Bill Brock calls for the Resignations of Goichberg and Truong
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Bill Goichberg has been either a member of the board or Executive
Director almost every year since 1996. He was Vice-President from 1996
to 1999, Executive Director 2003-2005 and President from 2005 until
now.
Every year but one of those years the USCF has gone down, down down.
It is time for Bill Goichberg to resign. He has nothing further to
contribute and his presence is doing more harm than good.
However, I would not want Goichberg to resign if Truong is left on the
board. Goichberg should stay until he is absolutely certain that
Truong is gone.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 12 Mar 2008 09:51:07
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Bill Brock calls for the Resignations of Goichberg and Truong
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I agree that Goichberg should resign but I am sure that he will not do
so. However, my reasons for believing that Goichberg should resign are
entirely different than those suggested by Bill Brock.
In the first place, this entire situation was created by Goichberg.
After the votes were counted and I was declared to have been elected
to the board on July 20, 2006, Goichberg started a series of desperate
measures either to prevent me from taking office or to have me
immediately thrown off the board.
This included writing five letters to the USCF's attorney Michael
Matsler, asking for advice on how to stop Sam Sloan from taking the
office to which I had been elected. The USCF paid legal fees of nearly
$5,000 to Mr. Matsler for responding to these five letters (about
$1000 per letter) and I believe that Bill Goichberg should reimburse
the USCF for this amount.
This entire controversy about my prior relationship with Miss Polgar
started because Bill Goichberg and Joel Channing repeatedly, over and
over again, demanded to know the details about my relationship with
her. I had never even revealed that I ever had a relationship with
her, much what the nature of the relationship was. I do not play "kiss
and tell". I still have not responded to questions about this. If you
could see the Confidential BINFOS (which fortunately remain
confidential) you could see how frequently Channing and Goichberg
(especially Channing) pressed me for information about this. As I
said, they were acting like a "bull in a china shop" because they did
not know what they were getting into.
This alone is enough reason for throwing Joel Channing and Bill
Goichberg off the board. What ever my relationship was with Miss
Polgar twenty years ago (and I am not admitting that there even was
such a relationship) it was none of the business of Joel Channing and
Bill Goichberg and it was reprehensible of them to make a big public
issue over it.
Now that I was on the board and their efforts to stop me from taking
office had failed, Bill Goichberg started taking desperate measures to
make sure that I would not be re-elected. I agree that he has every
right under freedom of speech to campaign against me. However, he does
not have the right to use the financial resources of the USCF or his
position as president of the USCF to stop me from being re-elected.
Among the things he did to insure that I not be re-elected were:
1. Instructing the Chess Life editor not to publish my name in Chess
Life (other than listing me as a member of the board). There were four
times during my one year on the board that a Chess Life columnist or
news reporter included my name in a story or article submitted for
publication. Each time, my name was removed from the article by the
editor.
2. Giving a tremendous amount of publicity to Susan Polgar including
publishing free ads and pictures of her in every issue of Chess Life,
when she had done absolutely nothing noteworthy or news worthy during
that entire year. For example, she was given a cover photo in Chess
Life claiming that she had won the "Woman's World Cup" when all she
had actually done was win an unofficial exhibition event not rated or
recognized by either FIDE or the USCF in which all of her opponents
were weak players, whereas the real official Woman's World Cup was won
by Grandmaster Xu Yu Hua of China (who had not competed in the
exhibition event that Susan Polgar had won).
3. Appointing as moderators and "Forum Oversight Committee" members to
the USCF Forums vehemently anti-Sam Sloan and pro-Polgar persons,
including for example Herbert Rodney Vaughn and Gregory Alexander.
These moderators proceeded to repeatedly suspend Sam Sloan and anybody
who supported Sam Sloan or even agreed with Sam Sloan on any issue.
Anybody who agreed with Sam Sloan had their postings pulled and they
were suspended from posting. More than one thousand postings by USCF
members were pulled or deleted from the USCF Forums during this
period.
4. Anybody who asked an embarrassing question of Paul Truong or Susan
Polgar had their postings pulled. Anybody who questioned or disputed
the statements by Paul Truong and Susan Polgar had their posting
deleted and found themselves suspended. For example, posters were not
allowed to ask Polgar and Truong whether they were ried to each
other or not, they were not allowed to ask Truong what companies he
had ever worked for or what jobs he had ever held, nor could he be
asked to name the "billion dollar companies" that he claimed to have
rescued or saved, nor could he be asked to identify the 11 national
chess championships that he claimed to have won. In short, Truong was
not allowed to be asked to verify any of the outrageous claims that he
was making about himself and Susan Polgar. Susan Polgar was not
allowed to be asked to identify the four "World Chess Championships"
that she claimed to have won. In short, under the Goichberg Rules, the
voting public was not allowed to know that almost everything that
Polgar and Truong said about themselves during their election campaign
was a lie.
Had the voting public been allowed to know that Polgar and Truong were
lying, Truong would never have been elected (since he just barely
squeaked in anyway) and the election of Polgar would have been a lot
closer.
It is ironic that after Bill Goichberg did all this to insure that
Polgar and Truong be elected so as to stop Sam Sloan from being re-
elected, Polgar and Truong started attacking Goichberg in the final
stages of the election campaign in response to which Goichberg mailed
17,000 postcards to USCF members which priily attacked me but was
also critical of Polgar and Truong.
What has happened is that Goichberg has created this monster and now
the monster is about to devour him. Goichberg is being attacked from
all sides, especially from the Trollgar side that he had helped elect.
I am not aware of anybody who supports Goichberg any more. The recent
surprising call by Bill Brock for Goichberg's resignation is just one
example of this.
Sam Sloan
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