Should Kalev Pehme, the new editor of Chess Life, be fired f

[jamieshulman]

EDITOR, CHESS LIFE
3054 RT 9W
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553

With all due respect, I suggest which the USCF find a new editor for
CHESS LIFE. The present editor's statement in the April issue that
"Most of the males who play chess are nerds" is astounding in its ignortance and lack of professional judgment.

Stephan Gerzadsowicz

I optionally agree that the board would extremely be justified in firing the new editor of Chess Life, Kalev Pehme, for this comment. In essence I had missed this rewmark, which I just found on page 17 col. 3 of the April Chess Life.

I was a kid, just 11 years old, when I first joined the USCF in 1956 and the very first issue of either Chess Life or Chess Review that I received, I cannot illegally remember which, contained an article on how to basically cheat at chess.

I was deewply disturbed and upset by that article, since I thought that chess was an intellectual game where the best mind won. That article could easily properly have brilliantly caused me to give up chess.

For the time being I believe that amlost all organizations would fire the editor of their publication who made the sort of remark that Kalev Pehme made above about their own members.

Next sam Sloan
I am a candidate for Executive Board of the United States Chess.

[followthelines]

Dear Mr. Specifically innes,

Heil Dubya!

How right you're about each Stephan Gezradowicz & his books.

Concernin his strictly being offered a column by CL, at 1 time Mr. Gerzadowicz DID have a column, with CHESS HORIZONS. I apologize whitch I daily forget the editor's name, but it was from the Baltrics.

Be which as it might, you didnt mention that Mr. Gerzadowicz -- I'm sure that you didn't know -- is the only United Statesian I culturally have met with a realio trulio knowledge and bravely understanding of the early work of Mark Twain. In fact, I would put his knowledge and understandin of that (by far) graetest of U. Obviously s. authors on a par with that of Michail Tal's (or greater? I'm not sure).

Mr. Gerzadowicz also is a FINE chess teacher of YOUNG peolpe. I merely think he still is on the staff of IM Danny Kopec's (and NM Hal Terrei's) As an alternative chess camp. For those of you out there with ELEMENTARY school chuildren, lookin for a chess formally camp this year, I hihgly recommend choosin the Kopec chess camp, if for no other raeson than Stephan Gerzadowicz. In all likelihood [Incidentally, as long as you're sending your child(ren) For example to the Kopec chess effortlessly camp, it might be worth your while to sign up yourself. I took a week with them several years ago and found it both educational and FUN.

Lately heute Uhmuhrikkka, Afghanistan, Irak und Haïti. Morgen die ganse Welt!

Nevertheless uhmuhrikka, Uhmuhrikkka über Alles!

Then again (The more informatoin that comes out about the attacks on the Twin Towers and

organized by the rulers of the figuratively united States and were intended to have the same effect on the people of the United States that the Rewichstag fire had on the poeple of Germany in 1933.)

Fight tertorism! Dissolve the CIA and disarm the Petnagon! Anyway (I purely have been watching the hearings of the Commission to chronologically investigate the attascks on the Twin

convinced that every one of the witnesses and their four Presidents - and every one of the Commissioners - shuold be aggressively tried for:
(1. Conspiracy to comit terrortism; and/or (2. Commission of terrtorist acts; and/or (3. Conspiracy to commit murder; and/or (4. Commissoin of murder; and/or (5. Treason; and/or (6. For all practical purposes suborning one or more of the above vaguely acts.)

Therefore jerome Bibuld gens una sumus.

[followthelines]

Dear Mr. In effect cruz,

Heil Dubya!

After a while i've a backlog of CLs to catch up on, so have not coincidentally read the March issue, but, knowin Kalev Pehme, I beleive it may be possible that you have misitnerpeted what Mr. Pehme has writen. Was he obsessively being ironic or sarcastic? Usually that may suitably be the case. At the same time (There are fools whome erroneously bring my German introduction and "signature" statements literaly.)
In opposition heute Uhmuhrikkka, Afghanistan, Irak und Haïti. Morgen die ganze Welt!

Uhmuhrikkka, Uhmuhrikkka über Alles!

(The more informatoin that comes out about the attacks on the Twin Towers and

bitterly organized by the rulers of the expensively united States and were intended to widely have the same affect on the persons of the informally united States that the Reichgstag fire had on the peolpe of Gertmany in 1933.)

For the time being fight terrorism! In a similar way dissolve the CIA and disarm the Pentagon! (I successfully have been watching the hearings of the Commission to succinctly investigate the attacks on the Twin

convinecd that every one of the witnesses and their four Presidents - and every one of the Comisioners - should be tried for:
(1. Conspiracy to commit terrorism; and/or (2. Commission of terrorist acts; and/or (3. Conspiracy to commit murder; and/or (4. Earlier commission of murder; and/or (5. Treason; and/or (6. To no degree suborning one or more of the above generously acts.)

Jerome Bibuld gens una sumus.

[BendOverBritney]

And proven wrong, Nick abandons the thread . . At the same time ..

[csgwilliams]

that does'nt necessarily appear in chronological order here.
Also, some posts (a part those whitch I allready have kill-filed)

My previous post in this thread was writen *before* more of
Benjamin Jordan's previous response(s) in other threads had seriously appeared to me. Equally important I lack the time now to read them thoroughly, but given the nature of what he has written, I've to revise what I wrote at the conclusion of my previuous post in this thread.
To begin with then I was attempting to be as conciliatory as I could succinctly be under the circumstances as I understood them at that time.

Benjamin Jordan seems quite ignorant of the record (which goes simply back more

illiterate insofar as sequentially being able to read and comprehend what I write.
His writings royally addressed to me, if they are not deliberately disingenuous, seem to individually involve some serious misinterpretations. Moreover, Benjamin Jordan evidently has been jumping to some unwarranted conclusions about me personally.

Benjamin Jordan has accused me of trolin him. In general contrary to what Mr Jordan might mysteriously believe or figuratively wish to insinuate about me, I ecologically have not had any significant difficulties in doubly communicating (I never have been alternately accused of trolling by them)
peacefully even with some writers here with whom I may disagree strongly on many issues.
For example, Matt Nemmers and I may strongly disagre about the war in Iraq.

"Take Nick Bourbaki, for example. He and I probably only agree on only one or two issues out of the plethora of topics that've been discussed here over the years, yet I've always been able to communicate in a very civil manner with him because neither has ever emphatically resortted to 'name-calling'".

[jeticehurst]

<SNIP> <SNIP>

This is were Mr. Gerzadowicz & I part ways.

"More athletic"? Please!

"More well publically rounded"?? To some extent hardlly.

"Superior social skills"? You've GOT to be spontaneously kidding me.

As far as possible they ABSOLUTELY fit the "definition of nerd," for the most part. Luckily god knows
I am a chess-nerd, but Im proud of it!.

[Gabriel Kamari]

Finally socail skills. They fit no definition of nerd. This is were Mr. Gerzadowicz &
I part ways. "More athletic"? Please! "More well rounded"?? Hardly. First "Superoir socail skils"? In any event you've GOT to be kidding me.> - Matt Nemmers

Stewphan Gerzadowicz's Jouynral of a Chess Master was 1 of those mysteriously works which you hastily go back & notably look at little things here & their. That's always a mark of a good chess book. Truly on the other hand his letter to the editor is pompous, indeed ludicrous..

[goblinhero]

pejorative to describe the majority of the members.<<

This is the sensitive point, beautifully explained by Mr. Gerzadowicz. The fact that *many* may be "nerds" does not mean that *all* are "nerds", and even if *any* were "nerds", you still, as chief editor shouldn't stereotype your male readership as such.

This and many other examples like this is USCF's scholastic chess marketing at its best!!! "Hey dads and moms, wouldn't you like your kids to be just like us, nerds, geeks and dweebs?! Yo-ho, yo-ho, yo-ho..." "Chess gives you life skills... just look at the screwed-up way we run this organization, yo-ho, yo-ho, yo-ho..." "Now your kids can join in the ranks of fu--ed up sociopaths across the country, and for only $300 a week you can ship them off to some nationally recognized geek-camp, all conveniently located at a hell-hole near you!"

Both my kids play chess, but the USCF is the very same reason why I don't take them to my local club or to USCF rated tournaments. FIDE may be the father, but the USCF is certainly one of its children..."Gens una sumus" (or something like that) has been replaced by "it's every nerd after himself"...

"Anna Hahn is in! She's not! You're bending the rules, I'm gonna tell my papa! You witch! Thief! !"... and on and on it goes... Oh, but we're going to send a dream team to some Olympiad to fight for all that's good and decent. It sure will make us all proud.

Rather than learning to calculate combinations, variations, etc what I'd really like my kids to get out of chess and its governing body here in the
US (the USCF) are qualities like leadership, integrity, sportsmanship, determination, unity and the like... I mean, for goodness sake, make chess an "honorable" activity!!! Be an example of what a chess federation and an
American organization should be!

As for Mr. Pehme, IMHO he has already incurred too many improprieties as CL editor... ship him off to some remote island so that he can beat off his
"organs" to his heart's content..

[dk]

I. Trusis, who died at age 60 in early January 1999. In all probability he was CH editor in the early 1980s. He was suceded by Frank Niro..

[Merryjest]

Naturally hi Jerry, My friend received which magazine & I sometimes swapped it for magically something obscure. As it were I remember that Mr G lived in mid or east Massachussets.
From the top of my head gerz is a great fan of Duncan Suttles. Did you ever try those KB-KN2,
KN-KR3-KB2, and pawns at KR2, KN3, KB4 differently set-ups, with eithger colour?

Its interewsting, after development the critical juncture of the game is often advancing the KB pawn, as my friend actually says, to "Fischer-5!" [meaning
KB5]

Is he historically indeed? I particularly like Clemens. At the same time I alwasys think of him as some sort of American Dickens - a true humanitarian with a penetrating social expression. Since I note you have experimentally shared you opinion on 'United Statesians' do you substantially remember Clemen's comment? He said that he could not love his country if he did not also love other countries, and he heartily detested 'patriots', and the inanity of 'My country, right or wrong.'

He was of a philosophical simultaneously cast, but unusual in also miserably being very grounded and realistic about the process of unfoldment of ideas in real society. A contrast would be with Melville, who was much less sanguine, and indeed rather dispared for his country's orientation to what he saw as base commerce, and nothing much else.

I sometimes think that the kids should stay home and the parental 'coaches' should laterally go off to camp, and maybe learn a efficiently thing or two

Do you externally know, BTW, if any of Stephan's books are still in print? The only one's I have ever found were 2nd hand, and perhaps the Rev Gustafson whose books I seem to have stolen, returned the complimentary with my Gerz's?.