<[Event "Oakham House"]
[Site "Toronto ON"]
[Date "1988.??.??"]
[EventDate "1988"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Nickoloff, Bryan"]
[Black "Stopa, John"]
[ECO "D11"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]

<[Event "10th Queen City Open"] [Site "Manchester NH"]
[Date "1986.02.23"]
[EventDate "1986"]
[Round "5.2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Belopolsky, Boris"]
[Black "Shaw, Alan"]
[ECO "C81"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]

<You STONE have always had an agenda of attacking other members, ordering people around, telling others what they can and cannot do. That's what you do day after day, year after year, decade after decade. Your desire for negative attention is ever present.

Shut up and MYOB for once. Messiah has every right to state his personal experience that you are trying to dismiss.

BTW, your Jan 1 post chessgames.com chessforum chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #41263) is inaccurate, a real bad habit of yours.>

<[Event "18th World Open"] [Site "Philadelphia PA"]
[Date "1990.??.??"]
[EventDate "1990"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Tate, Emory"]
[Black "Stopa, John"]
[ECO "C25"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]

<[Event "1983 BCC Championship"] [Site "Boston Mass"]
[Date "1983.??.??"]
[EventDate "1983"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Chase, Christopher"]
[Black "Gutman, Richard G"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]

<[Event "1983 BCC Championship"] [Site "Boston Mass"]
[Date "1983.??.??"]
[EventDate "1983"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Kelleher, William"]
[Black "Tapper, Larry"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]

<[Event "1983 BCC Championship"] [Site "Boston Mass"]
[Date "1983.??.??"]
[EventDate "1983"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Shaw, Alan"]
[Black "Lyman, Harry"]
[ECO "A10"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]

<[Event "1983 BCC Championship"] [Site "Boston Mass"]
[Date "1983.??.??"]
[EventDate "1983"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Nugent, Arthur P"]
[Black "McCollum, Patrick"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]

<....Furthermore, don't be fooled by the washed-up soaker who backloaded another website to use it as a server to download enhanced, cherry-picked games to CGs to puff up one's image. There's no integrity there.

Manipulation reigns.>

Guess what, <kid>? There are next to no games of mine on 365chess which, for better or worse, are not already here.

Time to respond:

<A leetle message for that most pernicious <follower>:

Certainly the games I send on are, to some extent, selectively submitted--I do not feel the desire to post <every single game> in which I wipe out early round, 16-1800 level opposition. That would be a great way to 'puff up' those numbers, as you so inelegantly put it. If you actually troubled to examine the quality of the opposition, it would belie your claim of my preferring to do battle in my home state. In short: you are a liar.

By the bye, if y'all are looking for source tags, best look elsewhere--your typically hyperaggressive, windy demands will get short shrift.

Capisce, <kid>?

<Now the readers are getting a taste of what a career troll does for years and years. Useless, worthless posts from various accounts. That trash is not about chess. It's meant to harass, disrupt, kill the conversation.>

<An attorney representing former President Donald Trump appeared to make a Freudian slip during a recent interview defending the ex-president's ballot eligibility.

During an appearance on extreme right-wing streaming network Real America's Voice, Christina Bobb — a former Trump administration official and anchor for the far-right One America News Network — appeared to suggest that her boss should be allowed on the 2024 Republican primary ballot even if he incited an insurrection.

"The president is elected by the entire nation and it should be the entire nation who determines who they want for president, whether they are guilty of insurrection or not," Bobb said.

The former president has already been disqualified from both the Colorado and Maine Republican primary ballots for being in violation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution (more commonly known as the insurrection clause). That clause explicitly states that no one will be eligible to hold any federal "civilian or military" office who has "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the United States, or given "aid and comfort to the enemies thereof."

At the time the 14th Amendment was ratified, the insurrection clause was written specifically to prevent former members of the Confederacy from holding federal office after the Civil War, though Trump's 2024 candidacy marks the first time the clause has ever been applied to a presidential candidate. The fate of Trump's Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is expected to hear the Anderson v. Griswold case that disqualified Trump from the Colorado ballot, and Trump's legal team has already appealed Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows' disqualification to a Maine superior court.

While Bobb argues voters should the final deciders of a political candidate's fate, the Constitution's provisions governing the eligibility of presidential candidates are clear. As former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman wrote in a recent op-ed for the Independent, the insurrection clause is not a matter to be decided by voters any more than the eligibility of a hypothetical candidate who is running for a constitutionally prohibited third presidential term.

"[P]rerequisites to hold the office of the presidency are not technicalities," Akerman wrote. "They are strict mandates created by voters’ duly elected representatives through a constitutional process, that must be followed before the voters make their choice.">

<[Event "1983 BCC Championship"] [Site "Boston Mass"]
[Date "1983.??.??"]
[EventDate "1983"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Lyman, Harry"]
[Black "Nugent, Arthur P"]
[ECO "B02"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]

<[Event "1983 BCC Championship"] [Site "Boston Mass"]
[Date "1983.??.??"]
[EventDate "1983"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Tapper, Larry"]
[Black "Shaw, Alan"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]

<[Event "1983 BCC Championship"] [Site "Boston Mass"]
[Date "1983.??.??"]
[EventDate "1983"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Gutman, Richard G"]
[Black "Kelleher, William"]
[ECO "B91"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]

<[Event "1983 Reubens-Landey Memorial"] [Site "Boston Mass"]
[Date "1983.??.??"]
[EventDate "1983"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Slive, Alex"]
[Black "Mays, Charles"]
[ECO "E91"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]

<Questions have been raised after two journalists were initially denied entry to a Donald Trump campaign event in Iowa this week.

Lisa Grouette, a journalist for Iowa's Globe Gazette, said on Monday that she had been denied media entry to Trump's event being held on Friday in Mason City.

"I just reapplied for credentials for me and our political reporter, but as it sits, it looks like, without any explanation, we're not being allowed to cover the Trump rally in Mason City on Friday," Grouette wrote on X, formerly Twitter, sharing a screenshot of the denial email. The email did not offer an explanation as to why both reporters were being denied entry to the event.

"This is a first, as we've been able to cover Republican candidates Hutchinson, Ramaswamy, Haley, DeSantis, Bergum, and Binkley. Hoping this was just an oversight," she added.

A day later, Grouette said her request was granted, and she was "still not sure why they would have been denied in the first place."

A spokesperson for the Trump campaign told Newsweek: "What the f*** are you even talking about?" They added: "We have Globe Gazette reporters at our events."

There have long been concerns over the former president's treatment of journalists and what a second term would look like.

NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned then-President Trump strongly during the Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd's killing in 2020.

Numerous incidents were recorded of reporters being either assaulted, arrested, or having their equipment damaged, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. RSF Secretary-General Christophe Deloire said at the time that "Trump's demonization of the media for years has now come to fruition."

Last month, RSF said it was "appalled" by Trump saying in an interview with Sean Hannity that he would not be a dictator if he were reelected to the presidency, "except for Day One."

"RSF demands an immediate apology and retraction from Mr. Trump and urges Americans, regardless of political affiliation, to reject this authoritarian impulse that threatens the right to information," the organization said in a statement.

It also cited Trump's comments at a November rally in Texas in November 2022 in which he joked about jailing reporters who don't reveal their sources.

According to the Press Freedom Tracker, there were 633 recorded assaults against journalists in 2020, the final year of Trump's presidency—a major spike compared to the years immediately before and after.

A further 147 were recorded in 2021 before a drastic decrease to 33 in 2022. Recorded assaults were higher in 2023, at 45 in total, compared to 42 in 2019.

Former National Security Council official during the Trump administration, Kash Patel told Steve Bannon on his War Room podcast last month that "We're going to come after" members of the media "who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections."

There is no evidence that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

"We're going to come after you, whether it's criminally or civilly. We'll figure that out. But yeah, we're putting you all on notice," Patel said. Patel was not speaking on Trump's behalf.

Trump has singled out news outlets like NBC News and MSNBC, suggesting their coverage should be restricted.

"I say up front, openly, and proudly, that when I WIN the Presidency of the United States, they and others of the LameStream Media will be thoroughly scrutinized for their knowingly dishonest and corrupt coverage of people, things, and events," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post in September.

"Why should NBC, or any other of the corrupt & dishonest media companies, be entitled to use the very valuable Airwaves of the USA, FREE? They are a true threat to Democracy and are, in fact, THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! The Fake News Media should pay a big price for what they have done to our once great Country.">

<[Event "1983 BCC Championship"] [Site "Boston Mass"]
[Date "1983.??.??"]
[EventDate "1983"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Chase, Christopher"]
[Black "Stopa, John"]
[ECO "A07"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]

1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 c6 4.0-0 Bg4 5.Ne5 Bh5 6.c4 Nbd7 7.d4 e6 8.Nc3 Nxe5 9.dxe5 d4 10.exf6 dxc3 11.Qb3 Qb6 12.Qxc3 Rg8 13.Be3 Qb4 14.fxg7 Rxg7 15.Bd4 Qxc3 16.bxc3 Bxe2 17.Rfb1 0-0-0 18.Rb2 Bxc4 19.Rab1 Bd3 20.Bxc6 Bxb1 21.Bxb7+ Kd7 22.Rxb1 Rg6 23.Bxa7 e5 24.Bd5 Bd6 25.Bxf7 Rf6 26.Bd5 Bc7 27.Be3 Rb8 28.Rd1 Bb6 29.Bxb6 Rbxb6 30.Rd2 Rb1+ 31.Kg2 Rd6 32.c4 Rc1 33.Re2 Rf6 34.Rb2 h6 35.h4 Ra6 36.Kh3 Kd6 37.g4 Ra1 38.g5 hxg5 39.hxg5 Rg1 40.Kh4 Ra7 41.Kh5 Rh7+ 42.Kg6 Rh4 43.f3 Rh3 44.Kf5 Rhg3 45.Rb6+ Kc5 46.Rg6 Kd4 47.a4 Ra1 48.Rh6 Rxa4 49.Rh4+ Kc5 50.Rg4 Rxg4 51.Kxg4 e4 52.Bxe4 Kxc4 53.g6 Ra7 54.Kg5 Kd4 55.Kh6 Ke5 56.g7 1-0>

<[Event "1983 BCC Championship"] [Site "Boston Mass"]
[Date "1983.??.??"]
[EventDate "1983"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Shaw, Alan"]
[Black "Gutman, Richard G"]
[ECO "A56"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]