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| fab11mt: <Susan Polgar> kindly tell you associate that the images that she's been taking and posting on Picasa are all awesome. Is she a professional photographer?, or is she with MONROI? If she is part of your staff, you guys just rock. And the kudos also goes to Paul Truong because he is taking a lot of those pictures too!! |
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| Oct-03-09 |
| chillowack: <MaxxLange: <in china, there is an old saying, "if you get into lawsuits, you always lose", meaning, even if you win some compensation, in the end, it's not worth the time and effort> my experience, as a defendant in a small-time music business contract lawsuit, bears that out. "small-time" - sued for about $75,000. Now, I was 21 or 22...I had never even seen more than about $1200 cash at once...so it sure did not seem "small-time" to me. I wound up settling out my part for $500, after my parents paid a lawyer about $2500 for his time in making it go away. It was worth every penny. I got, however, a bargain in education about how this all works...don't let people push you around with threats of lawsuits: call their bluff. Make them file and serve you with papers, get a good lawyer, and turn it over to her.> If you learned this valuable lesson from your lawsuit, and "it was worth every penny," and you're now recommending that others fight legal battles as well, then how exactly does your experience "bear out" the old Chinese proverb that lawsuits are never worth it? |
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Oct-03-09
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| HeMateMe: If you can avoid all contact with lawyers, you will save a lot of money. |
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Oct-31-09
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| SugarDom: http://chesswindows.blogspot.com/20... An excellent article by our resident blogger Resty the Rusticbull... This guy is quite a writer, he should write in the newspapers or something... |
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Oct-31-09
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| Susan Polgar: Thanks for letting me know :) It is true though, the Filipino chess fans are amazing. |
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Nov-06-09
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| Susan Polgar: Breaking News: I have just been notified that Ray Robson will receive an invitation to Corus C. Full field will be announced soon. The 72nd Corus Chess tournament will be held from 15 January - 31 January 2010 in Wijk aan Zee. |
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Nov-08-09
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| Bradah: <GalileoPiccolino: SPICE CUP 2009 is a sort of Junior-Sophomore introduction to the School Campus, sub-par and uneventful to say the least.
WCC 2009 @ Khanty Manssysk and CORUS B @ Netherlands 2010 is the 'hazing' part, a welcoming ritual to the 2650 - 2699 Fraternity. If you managed to survive the hazing ritual, you deserved it and welcome to the Club.> From Wesley So pages. |
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Nov-09-09
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| Nf3em: thanks ma'am <susan polgar> for always supporting GM Wesley ... more power to you and good luck to all your endeavors! |
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Nov-26-09
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| Susan Polgar: It's a time for sharing and spreading love and happiness. Wishing you and your loved ones a very Happy Thanksgiving! |
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Dec-31-09
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| Susan Polgar: Happy New Year! I wish all of you a Happy, Healthy, and Successful 2010! |
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Dec-31-09
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| NakoSonorense: Happy 2010, Susana! |
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Jan-01-10
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| BishopofBlunder: From Ms. Polgar's bio: <She is an FST>. Help a brother out, what is an FST? |
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Jan-01-10
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| zanshin: <BishopofBlunder> FST is FIDE Senior Trainer http://ratings.fide.com/fide_arbite... |
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Jan-01-10
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| BishopofBlunder: T'anks, <Zanshin>. |
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| Jan-01-10 |
| k.bautista: we love you susan.....happy new year!!....from the filipino fans |
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Jan-01-10
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| moronovich: And a happy New Year to you,too Susan ! |
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Jan-02-10
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| PinnedPiece: Happy New Year, Susan from a fellow Texan
Go Red Raiders!!! |
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| Jan-02-10 |
| Jim Bartle: Are either of you on the list of candidates for new football coach? |
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Jan-24-10
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| Caissanist: Polgar and Truong have now reached a settlement with the USCF: http://main.uschess.org/content/vie...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/u... |
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Jan-24-10
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| HeMateMe: "Under the settlement, the USCF will allow Polgar and Truong to be playing, non-members of the USCF and will be listed as “Playing Non-Member Status.” The USCF Insurer, Ansur America Insurance Company, a member of Frankenmuth Financial Group, has agreed to provide $131,000 to the USCF and $39,000 to Polgar’s attorneys. The USCF is pleased that this matter is finally settled and that no USCF funds will go to Polgar and Truong. Additionally, the USCF receives $131,000 to agree to a settlement. " Looks like it ends with a fizzle, not a bang. Good for both sides, I guess. Apparently the USCF carries unsurance for this sort of thing, with Ansur. I hope their yearly premiums don't jump as a result of this. Does anyone know if any of the allegations and counter allegations were ever debated or proved in the courtroom, before the settement was reached? |
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| Jan-24-10 |
| Jim Bartle: "Does anyone know if any of the allegations and counter allegations were ever debated or proved in the courtroom, before the settement was reached?" I'd be satisfied just to see a clear presentation of the charges and counter-charges. I've never seen a case where the core issues were so little explained. |
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Jan-24-10
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| HeMateMe: I'd go blind reading the whole thing, but i thought there were counter charges about sending obscene/threatening emails using other peoples names as the sender. I think both sides were accused of that, not sure. I would be interested in knowing if the charges were proved against both parties, and a judge couldn't determine if one side was more culpable than the other. I thought it was intriguing that one side, or both, as private citizens, could (legally) muster the evidence regarding the emails to prove they were being victimized. You would think this sort of thing would be in the courts more often, if the proof can be determined, not by illegal hacking, but in a responsible way. Or, maybe neither side could substantiate what they were alleging. Perhaps you had to be there. |
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| Jan-24-10 |
| Jim Bartle: Yes, but what were Polgar's and Truong's original criticisms of the USCF which set it all off? Concrete charges, not "they're such terrible, closed-minded people." |
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Jan-24-10
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| HeMateMe: Supposedly rivals running for board seats were slandering each other with phony emails, dumped on the internet where they would be widely seen. It all reinforces the feeling you get that the USCF is about as professional as a high school chess club, just a micky mouse operation. at least this chapter is closed; maybe they can go upwards from here. I would think they have a lot of good people, a lot of responsible employees. Just a few have managed to make the whole organization look bad. |
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| Jan-24-10 |
| Petrosianic: The name of the USCF's lawyer, Karl Kronenberger, always cracks me up. There's an old Danger Man episode in which Drake addresses one of his contacts as "Kronenberger", and he replies "Please call me Wally. 'Kronenberger' makes me sound like a chess player." |
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