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Archive for December, 2006

First Results In…

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

… on the tournament with the BAP scoring system. (OK so it took me a while to find the event.)
As I suspected, the points favored Black dramatically, as Black outscored White 52-36 during the 6-round event. The actual game results worked out to +18-15=7 for White, meaning our earlier estimate of White and Black splitting [...]

Oh, Great. Another Slate.

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Just what I needed to hear.
First let me say I like Susan Polgar and think she’s got a good heart and sincerely wants to improve things in the USCF. While I’ve met the rest of her slate, the only other member I have any personal knowledge of is Randy Bauer, and probably the best way [...]