Even if he did get it legally, the case should be dismissed for lack of factuality. Sloan doesn't just claim that Truong impersonated him, he claims to have suffered damage, inasmuch as before this happened, he was had a "sterling reputation as an investigative reporter", and "was held in the highest regard by the chess community".

That's obviously false. Before the Fake Sam Sloan appeared, the Real Sam Sloan's reputation was in the toilet. And it still is. The damage Sloan is claiming never happened. The low regard he was held in before the Fake Sam Sloan hit the scene is easily provable.

Also, legally, Sloan's case is ridiculous. Texas Tech?? Come on!

The importance of this issue isnt based on someone's lost reputation, but a member of the USCF board has potentially engaged in these possibly illegal (I dont know much about laws) and definately weird activities.

I thought one of the main reason's to get rid of Sloan was to attract sponsers. His weird figure had scared away potential sponsers, very understandably. But now, as we are supposed to embark on the new golden era of American chess, it turns out the other dude was a creep too!

Top and Bottom of page 1, then onward:
http://www.chessdiscussion.com/phpB...

<Whack8888>Sort through the chessdiscussion website under USCF/FIDE issues. You'll find that an IP address correlated to a Texas address. Texas Tech said that it was not a known IP address.

Here it is: http://www.chessdiscussion.com/phpB...

So what happens if I bring Niro's laptop from New York to Texas Tech? Will the IP address change or just the location recorded on the USCF servers?

Honestly, though, reading through it didnt really clarify anything.

<Whack8888> It appears to be misunderstood.

<Wannabe>Thanks for that!

Brian Mottershead posted this at chessninja.com October 8th 2007

<However, on the 19th, the Fake Ray Gordon made 6 posts on Usenet and these all matched Truong's IP address. A couple of days later Troung went to Mexico City, and Fake Ray Gordon posted from a Mexico City IP address that matched Truong's. That convinced me that Truong was the Fake Sam Sloan. That was the state when I wrote my post in the USCF Issues forum.> <The Usenet evidence, without any support from any USCF forum evidence, shows that the Fake Sam Sloan posted from AOL, a few times from a RoadRunner cable IP address in New York, from a couple of Suddenlink cable IP addresses in Texas starting around the time Paul moved to Texas, and a Mexico City ISP during the World Championship starting around the time when Paul was there.>

It seems Mottershead also might have done this legally(!) since if its true Truong posted on a forum both under his name and a fake Ray Gordon with the same MAC address than I'd assume this is legal as long as he posted under his real name. However, Mottershead says he's convinced its him rather than it is him, which could lead into minor technicality problems later. So he should get a court order first for the ISP to reveal the IP addresses identity. This is to avoid any unnecessary problems in court in the future.

This and the fact that Paul Truong already has a prior history of <my account must have been hacked!> convinces me Truong should just get this over with and confess.

<In the case of Mr. Truong, he has a history of pretending that his actions are not his. The most egregious example is when he created his own AOL site a few years ago, where he claimed that he had a Ph.D., and when confronted with the bogus claim, he said someone had hacked his page and he had no idea how it happened!>

http://christopherfalter.blogspot.c...

I really don't see Polgar/Truong being board members for long.

Assuming the evidence re IP addresses, etc. was illegally obtained (I have no idea if it was or not), that should not bar it from being used in a civil suit. It's only the government that is prohibited from using illegally obtained evidence in criminal proceedings.

I looked briefly at the complaint. What a disgusting mess! Here are a few observations about it, for what they're worth.

It's true that Texas Tech is listed as a defendant and Sloan says some uncomplimentary things about it in the body of the complaint, but he doesn't allege specific wrongdoing (besides letting Polgar and Truong use TT computers to post as the Fake Sam Sloan) and he doesn't seem to seek any relief from TT either. So I imagine Texas Tech will get dismissed from the suit pretty quickly, since Sloan didn't really sue it.

I can't speak to most of the claims because they're nonsense (set aside the sale of the New Windsor property?). As someone said on another page, it's a pro se complaint so a judge will read it indulgently. If an attorney filed this, it would be dismissed and disciplinary proceedings would be instituted against the lawyer. But, reading it generously, a judge would probably decide that it states a claim for libel against Polgar and Truong, maybe against a couple of Sloan's other targets.

47 USC s. 223, mentioned in the complaint, is a criminal statute and thus irrelevant to a civil action.

From the Chris Falter Blog. Again, the tough logical question, "So what you are saying, Mr. Troung, is that Sam Sloan and some of your other enemies, hacked into your website, changed the title so it said you are a Ph. D, then waited for like 4 years to finally point it out!"

Susan's moral compass points to true North 100% of the time. She has the dignity of a diplomat and is a pleasure to be around. Being in her presence is calming in a way. There is no way she is involved in any of this nonsense.

Paul Truong is an energetic and tireless promoter. He's had a very tough climb to get where he is today. His enthusiasm is contagious! Spend 5 minutes with Paul, and you'll feel like taking up jogging again. Paul furnishes so much content for Susan's blogs, handles so many business arrangements for Susan, and has his mind going in 100 different directions generating new ideas that will help chess, that he literally has NO TIME for any such nonsense with Sloan. Negative energy is not what Paul is about. I would say he is incapable of doing what is described.

Sam Sloan is "chess doo doo" and must be scraped from everyone's shoe.