A Hungarian man plays chess beside an empty platform during a railway strike at the Keleti railway station in Budapest. Workers are demanding higher wages.
Source: BBC
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http://www.chessdiscussion.com seems to be offline – temporary or permanent?
Interesting as the chess is appreciated by people of different social classes, worldwide, and more interesting is that there are unprecedented record of where it is practicing the art of spontaneous caisse. Very cool!
I just saw this on pacer. How accurate is it?
Factual Background
This lawsuit is part of a scheme by Bill Goichberg and Sam Sloan to defame their political opponents through a campaign of falsehoods and innuendo. But there is simply no substance to their false claims. Goichberg and Sloan have no intention of bringing the matter to trial. The main purpose of the suit is to financially cripple their victims. Goichberg has ensured that all of his cronies’ and accomplices’ legal fees are being paid by membership fees of the United States Chess Federation, which he controls. And Goichberg is ensuring that his political opponents are not being indemnified or defended, even though they are entitled to a defense under the USCF bylaws, and indeed, they were previously proffered a defense by the USCF in connection with earlier related lawsuits. Every day, Goichberg and his cronies post a relentless series of falsehoods and half-truths on USCF-related websites, aimed at smearing the Defendants’ reputations in the chess community. They are using this lawsuit as a weapon to financially and politically destroy their opponents, by forcing the Defendants to appear in an unfamiliar forum thousands of miles from their homes.
Bill Goichberg is the President of the United States Chess Federation, the governing body of American chess. Under his control, the USCF has been plagued by inept management, self-interested dealings, petty politics, and unethical violations of computer confidentiality policies. As owner of the Continental Chess Association, a for-profit corporation which runs chess tournaments throughout the United States, Goichberg’s involvement in the USCF presents numerous conflicts of interest.
In order to silence his political opponents and to eliminate economic rivals, Goichberg has authorized frivolous, unfounded, and unnecessary lawsuits, funded by USCF funds. When members of the current board of directors were sued by disgruntled former director Sam Sloan, Goichberg saw to it that the board members who supported him received a legal defense funded by the USCF. But Goichberg also manufactured a pretext which he used to deny a legal defense and USCF funding to those board members who opposed him.
Goichberg has tacitly encouraged his cronies to engage in a systematic campaign of harassment against his political opponents. For example, he has expressly ordered USCF computer system administrators, who have access to confidential USCF databases, to violate the USCF’s own internal confidentiality policy. At Goichberg’s direction, those computer administrators admit that they obtained the private passwords of USCF moderators and general USCF members, so that they could access private communications and leak damaging and embarrassing information about Goichberg’s political opponents.
* As a long-time volunteer moderator for the USCF forums, I have personal knowledge that Bill Goichberg authorized Hal Bogner and Brian Mottershead to improperly access moderators’ confidential passwords so that Mottershead could obtain confidential communications which Goichberg disclosed publicly on the internet and used to attack his political opponents. Furthermore, in regards to Mottershead; Goichberg allowed brash disregard to the security of confidential information, and the passwords stored in the USCF database that could have been used to hack into other peoples’ outside accounts.
* This lawsuit is part of a plan to attack and impoverish his political opponents. I am innocent of the allegations set forth in the First Amended Complaint. I have never conspired with Susan Polgar to access email accounts belonging to the USCF, Bill Goichberg, Randy Hough, or anyone else for that matter. I have never improperly accessed or gained access to any servers or email accounts belonging to any person, other than myself. I have never improperly accessed email accounts belonging to any other person or to any organization, whether in California, Washington, Texas, or anywhere else in the United States. On the contrary, all of the illegal conduct alleged has been committed by USCF certain appointed system administrators and by friends and cronies of Bill Goichberg, at Bill Goichberg’s tacit or express encouragement. Forcing me to appear in a distant forum to defend false allegations is part of a strategy to impoverish me and punish me for opposing Goichberg’s unethical conduct.