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re:Working Hard for Chess - 2006/01/17 15:29
I read the literature on your web site and found it alot of the biase stuff we very often hear in the USCF ... mind you I am not trying to propose some radical agenda ... but I wonder why the national USCF and the national exec people can`t engender alot of the same values that are community values promoted on the local level in our many wonderful local chess clubs but seem off in some manner or another.
While chess organizations in many countries have made significant strides that advance chess, chessplayers we are stuck the same old corporate sounding platitudes (such as some of yours) that do not seem at all to suit a not-for-profit organization but a profit hungry corporate philosophy that does not teach our kids true moral values.
If I pay $1000 for a life membership at the market interest rates that should produce approx $40 per year in some treasury notes which means the USCF gets the money for a life membership from the interest and retains the principle from which they profit. This exacting formula excludes the vast amounts I spend on books, chess sets (etc.).
Frankly at think that many in the USCF leadership and you are at vast variance with the common values held by the rank and file USCF members which eventually will be forced to change.
I bought my step-sister and nephew scolastic memberships when the scolastic publicaton was issued monthly by the time those memberships were put into effect they were receiving an un pro-rated quarterly which I feel cheated us because we paid for a monthly.
This last election I didn`t even receive a ballot so don`t talk about OMOV because that is merely the surface of the problem of a bloated di-embodied bureaucracy such as the USCF`s.
Once upon a time the USCF was an organization that had maybe 2-3000 members but since then things have not really changed and the members have been treated in what seems arbitrary, and at times capricious.
Though we have attempted to encourage prisoners to join the USCF the gang of four slammed Sam Sloan for being a criminal when he wasn`t even convicted (which appears to be a predisposition to violate people`s constitutional rights as it discriminates against people`s past acts though their current conduct is legal).
The USCF represents less than 5% of all US chessplayers ( and I wonder why!), and alot of books it no longer carries while the same high profile glossy ads are abound You`ve asked why not have ads from non-chess related products, I ask why have ads at all after all I believe those revenues biase and corrupt our sport along with high priced tournament promoters that always seem to book high cost venues in which we are a captive market (eg Foxwoods [theres nothing else there] and the Senior Open cruises where not only are we required to pay high tournamnet fees but also hotel and birth cost (etc).
So with this brief summary of what`s on my mind its amazing you and many of the other candidiates have not said more.
In closing I would like to see the USCF bettered so if any one is interested I can be addresed in this forum or by email.
Thank You Very Much Yours Truly A.S.
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