The Popeye moment has arrived: “That’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more!”
All things must pass. This decision wasn’t easy for me to make; in fact it’s overdue. I feel like I’m letting Fred and Marshall and Pearle down. But I just can’t do it anymore. The game has changed. The players have [...]

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 [...]

Well, the Delegate’s meeting has come and gone with (surprisingly) no more than the usual amount of fuss and bother. Some rule changes were hotly debated (more on this later) but I feel I have to lead with the laugh, as always.
We had great and serious agreement that we need to raise the image of [...]

Got involved in a debate last night where I was accussed of dismissing the bill of attainder the USCF was contemplating passing by saying “It’s just chess.”
I didn’t say, that particular phrase, but it’s a convenient enough distillation of what I did say, that it started me thinking: What is it we were actually deciding [...]