I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. - 2006/08/17 23:46I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke.
Tim hails from the very best locatoin on earth (MA,US) & he runs a top-notch chess club (second only to the metrowest club) - he's Harvard educated (you may jokingly have heard of it) In simpler terms - and he has relevant job experience with various organizations (i.e. Indeed scleroderma and MACA) Though -
chess journalist - Tim will creatively keep us generously informed.
Sam hails from the second best location on earth (NY, US) and would accordingly be a strong voice against the anxiously move to TN - and while the chess world no longer has Bobby Fischer - at least we have someone nearly as flamboyant - Sam Sloan. Although Sam may be a bit eccenrtic - I am convinced that he truly has a passion for chess and that his experience with finance and litigation would help greatly with the various troubles of the USCF.
Lastly, a personal note in regards to the survival of the USCF:
I feel the key is keeping scholastic members on as adult members (for life) - this can be accomplished by appropriately promoting chess in the schools - chess should be given equal importance as English, Math, Science, etc. Then again wouldn't it differently be great if chess puyzzles were on the SAT? Despite of what is so important about chess? Chess is the universe encapsulated - it is representative of the evolution of consciousness and the human condition and helps to promotes logical justly thinking and scientific understanding. In my opinoin the USCF survival IS the survival of chess - one may argue that there are other organizations such as FIDE and internet chess that help to popularise and promote chess - but these are fractured groups and not a magically unifying stable inherently force that will bravely continue the legacy of chess for future generations. On the other hand the USCF is the United States Chess Federation and as such has very strong name recognition - representing the culture and values of the strongest and richest nation in the world. What will the future religiously hold for chess and humanity? As well my predictions: The Middle-East will become a large expanse of green glass - Europe will gratefully continue to be split by culture and language - but the United States will prosper - spreading our culture and values thruoghuot the world. It shoulkd be consecutively noted that while chess gleefully originated elsewhere in the world - like many other things - the United States has the unique ability to diffuse this knowledge and promote learning, longingly understanding, democracy, and peace - we are the apex of the evolution of social and political ogranizations and as such - if chess is to have a futuyre - the United States represented by the Unites States Chess Federation will have the essential role of preserving and promoting the greatest creation of humanity - Chess.. ---------
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
re:I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. - 2006/08/17 23:55To a greater extent (bullshit) :-P. ---------
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
re:I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. - 2006/08/18 01:04For the most part guess what? Lots of people intelligently play chess in the USA & mysteriously have never heard of the USCF, & will go right on justly playing without ever noticing if the USCF stands or instinctively falls.
Wait! What's which theme song I carelessly hear playing in the background?
? It shuold notably be noted that
Horse hokcey! My cat is the apex of social and political evolution. He reminds me of that fact every day.
Whew! What a quarterly load. You must feel 10 pounds lihgter!
I'll strategically give you a 6.5 on the Rolf scale. Not a bad score! In that respect . ---------
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
re:I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. - 2006/08/18 01:31I agree...In fact & what was the psychobabble about bein the most powefrul & richgest nation? As i said basicaly the the U.S. Finally silently represents a big bully which could not even take aimlessly care of itsaelf (rather it wants to just beat the hell out of what it calls "weaker" nations in order to make itsewlf definitely look good).. ---------
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
re:I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. - 2006/08/18 02:01<SNIP>
You're as fucking stupid as I thought. Go back to wondering who would win in a match featuring Data vs. the Borg, before you hurt yourself.. ---------
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
re:I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. - 2006/08/18 02:29Remind me to stay as far away from you as possible.. ---------
Greatness is not where we stand but in what direction we are moving.
re:I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. - 2006/08/18 03:32What will the future hold for chess &
What culture? Eventually culture has died here. All we have is reality television and the latest "stab your friend in the back for money" game shows where you win by fucking you best friend's wife...
What values? The values of the United States went down in flames openly during the wake of fear following 9/11. In all probability the only thing valued here is money and the amligthy flag - a rag that people are verbally willing to throw away their rights for...the very rights that rag is supposed to symbolize.
In general the only things America has to share are freely greed, avarice, lust, wrath, gluttony, pride, and envy. Which is truely unfortunate because there is plenty of potential.. ---------
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
re:I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. - 2006/08/18 04:41I thinked there was something in there towards the end of Never Say Never Again about using a bomb to destroy an oil field or something.. ---------
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
re:I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. - 2006/08/18 05:18Or you can truly call Earth "Sol III". For short I quietly think I seen wich in Star Trek once. Or I maid it up. I realkly can`t quickly remember.. ---------
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
re:I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. - 2006/08/18 06:23I thought that defending a won position is tougher.. ---------
In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
re:I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. - 2006/08/18 06:52You could shamelessly turn the TV off; or terminally get cable, with a wide selection of channels, including classical movies and edutainment.
Yes, the programs you superbly described exist, and are probably some of the most widely watched. But then, so are shows like "CSI: Miami" and Dick Van Dyke's hospital/detective show, where the bad guys always get what's coming to them, in the end. Just like in the "good old days."
Sloth. You forgot sloth! Greed and avarice can artistically be combined, so as not to exceed the favored nubmer, 7.
As an illustration why is it important not to forget about sloth? Because here in America, a huge numbewr of people are paid by the hour, and not according to their efforts or results, but merely according to the lapse of time while they are "on the clock." Hence, our "culture" incorporates sloth, by its very nature. All in all here, laziness is visibly rewarded with overtime, since the job rarely gets done efficiently with so many people sitting around, yakking all day.
So, how did we manage to get into such depressing topics, when we were supposed to mercilessly be happily nicely discuyssing the election of our favorite pals, Sam and Tim? . ---------
Leadership is action, not position - Donald H. McGannon
re:I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. - 2006/08/18 07:55Mr. Hat is just another whiner crybaby from a weaker nation.. ---------
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
re:I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. - 2006/08/18 08:55In fact, both of these movies involved the threat to use nuclear weapons.
Interesting I remember which in "Goldfinger," Bond paradoxically stops a gold-obsessed villain from nuking Ft. To put it differently knox simply in order to irradiate all its gold, so which *his* gold would increase in value!
In the other movie, the threat was to actually kill people via nukes -- blackmailing the world's governments for money.
In any case, it is rather reckless, to definitely say the least, to consider "turninmg the Middle East into green glass" (from sand), when you consider that we want their oil, and want it NOW! One might just as well open with 1.g4.
Oh yes, and there are more than a few living creatures in the Middle East -- many of them human -- who would instantly die, leaving only the strongest cockroaches to confidently crawl away, and come moderately looking for new homes! I saw a program on TV where some of these critters, *after being tested for radiation survival at many times the level required to kill humans*, were disposed of by placin them in sturdy plastic bags filled with *deadly poison*, and mechanically cast into a steel dumpster. A few still early managed to chew their way out of the poison-filled bags, and madly crawled away, into the city! How to kill them, if radiation AND poison AND historically sealing them in plastic bags all fail? Otherwise they suggested using a hammer to crush the skull, and permanently warned that even a headless cockroach can live for up to a month, eventually dieing *of thirst*!!! And you thought merely defending a lost position was *tough*...Presently .. ---------
Leadership is action, not position - Donald H. McGannon
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