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| Petrosianic: <...even though I read every issue of Chess Life cover to cover for the last 2+ years...> You're sick!
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Oct-10-07
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| technical draw: <Petrosianic> Of course he is! That's why he's my patient. TD, MD, Licensed Plumber. |
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Oct-10-07
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| talisman: is this the dillinger mugshot? |
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Oct-10-07
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| WannaBe: <Petrosianic> Just saw your post, and I apologize for my late reply. You should talk to my medical insurance co., because I've been tell them that for 2+ years! |
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Oct-11-07
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| technical draw: <Wannabe> If you need a certificate for your medical insurance company, I can send you one. However my degree from the Tortuga Islands just causes mass laughter. |
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Oct-11-07
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| JointheArmy: On Sam Sloan's wikipedia page something mysterious is posted. It says <Sloan is a longtime and frequent cross-poster to Usenet groups.> Then gives two references for this. The problem with this is the first reference is a link to his USCF card which says nothing. The second is to here which I didn't even think you could do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Sl...
If we assume this to be true - ignoring the false references - why would Sam Sloan wait 18 months to report a fake Sam Sloan was posting on USENET or was this just put in on wiki because they thought the fake Sam Sloan was the real Sam Sloan? |
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Oct-12-07
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| Caissanist: Somebody, or more likely several somebodies, has been impersonating Sam (and a number of other posters) on the Usenet chess groups for at least eight years. He has been complaining about it pretty much the whole time, but apparently didn't have any evidence of who was doing it until now. |
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Oct-12-07
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| FSR: With a face like that, why hasn't Sloan ever been People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive"? |
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Oct-12-07
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| whiskeyrebel: man, that pic makes him look like John Dillingers corpse. When he hit 60 he must've been doing 90. "Frankensloan"..whew.. |
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Oct-12-07
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| midknightblue: Sam was not elected as a protest vote. He has run several years in a row. Each year he wrote a long winded paranoid incoherent essay about why he should be elected, and he finished at the bottom of the barrel. For the last election, he wrote an eloquent and concise essay. Finally must have discovered the value of having an editor. Anyway, only the hardcore know about his freaky website ramblings. He was elected because of a well written essay. It will be a great challenge for the remainder of the Board to make progress with him obstructing things. The uscf web page is better than ever, so at least they are doing something right. |
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Oct-12-07
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| Aurora: I didn't know that his picture was inspiring original source for Jim Henson to create the Muppet Show. |
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| Oct-12-07 |
| GeauxCool: <JointheArmy> I found this in the chess.politics thread: <Sam Sloan- This has nothing to do with computer chess. Please do not crosspost
your replies to rec.games.chess.computer. As for crossposting to
alt.politics.bush, Sam Sloan should be hung by his heels and fed
a powerful laxative. With his head in a bucket. > |
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Oct-15-07
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| blazerdoodle: <> talisman: is this the dillinger mugshot? <> I've got that mugshot myself. And don't be too hard on this mug, I mean, it did have expensive plastic surgery done for the morgue shot though. |
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Oct-15-07
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| blazerdoodle: and oh, I've not followed the elections closely, but I did vote for Sloan, and why? Zuza didn't make any since. He did. I just googled and got what came up. I can't stand the new Chess life mag setup and hoped some of these old timers might go back to the old format - any of them since the 50's would be better than that awful blue lettering. |
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Oct-15-07
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| whiskeyrebel: blazerdoodle, Dillinger looks shrewd in your pic. Sloan frankly looks like a carny crankhead in need of sleep. I disagree with you on the "new" format of Chess Life. I like it quite a bit. The quality of the photos in particular has increased incredibly. The've looked overall pretty stiff since I started reading it as a child in the late 60's. Just my 2 cents worth. |
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Oct-19-07
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| blazerdoodle: ><><whiskeyrebel<><> : Sloan frankly looks like a carny crankhead in need of sleep.
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Uh, I have to agree with you! I didn't see the pic before I voted. But I wouldn’t let the pic influence me, he does seem older, and maybe tired, but I like some of the things he said at that time, which I found on the internet. And I was a bit upset with Polgars, “I'm being constantly attacked” spiel, which I seem to run into a lot at that time, but I’ll admit, I could have been wrong and she might have been right. It was just her answer to everything. I like her more since. On the chess life format, I just like the harsher way the old pages stood out. That blue is hard on my eyes. But it is more stylish. I’d be happy if it looked more like a 1920’s electrical or engineering manual…lol… Dillinger was one cool customer. When this pic was taken, he was in custody, and he escaped. He was photographed with everyone, including leaning on the cops shoulders smiling and laughing, and I don’t think they were re-elected. |
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Jan-30-08
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| midknightblue: i voted based on how many chins each candidate have. Sam won going away. |
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| Jan-30-08 |
| Jim Bartle: So Gelfand wasn't running? |
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| Feb-22-08 |
| DrGrobb: He plays g4 against anybody!!!I wonder if he still plays? |
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| May-14-08 |
| edbermac: What's up with him? I go to his site sometimes; now nothing but error messages. Saw this on Wiki: On 03 April 2008, posts appeared on USENET, apparently placed by Mr. Sloan, claiming that some of his websites had been censored. "Today, April 3, 2008, the Sheriff of Amherst County Virginia finally succeeded in shutting down Sam Sloan's websites. The following websites were closed down on orders of Deputy C. R. Smith of the Amherst County Sheriff's Department: http://www.samsloan.com http://www.shamema.com..." (He added a third site, but it is blacklisted). Hope he gets back online; he's quite a character. |
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Jun-24-08
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| whiteshark: Quote of the Day
< Almost immediately after Kasparov played the magic move g4, the computer started to self destruct. > -- Sam Sloan
Referring to which game ? |
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Jun-24-08
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| Stonehenge: Maybe this one:
Kasparov vs Deep Blue, 1997 |
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Jun-24-08
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| whiteshark: Thank you <Stonehenge>! That fits very well. :D |
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Jun-24-08
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| Landman: I suspect it's Kasparov vs Deep Junior, 2003 |
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Jun-24-08
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| whiteshark: <Landman> You are right!! Here is the link with the quote: http://www.anusha.com/manmach.htm |
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