After some mediocre results, Ivanchuk is back on track by winning Bazna by a full point. In the July 2009 FIDE rating list, Topalov will remain at #1, followed by Anand, Kramnik, Carlsen and Aronian.
With the recent success by Nakamura and not so hot results by Kamsky, he is very close to taking over the #1 U.S. ranking on the FIDE chart. Alex Onischuk is also very close to breaking 2700. The top 3 U.S. players may be within 15-20 points from each other.
It’s Saturday Open Forum. The forum is yours. What would you like to discuss?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Is that former NY Governor Pataki?
What will the USCF do about the bribery charges against Bill Goichberg, Randy Hough and Jerry Hanken as well as the cover up by Bill Hall and Jim Berry? Will the USCF contact the authority to press criminal charges against these individuals?
16 men and 16 women left at Wimbledon. Who are Susan’s picks?
GM Susan Polgar could you list your favorite chess books? For example…my favorite chess books are
1. My System and Chess Praxis by Aron Nimzowitsch.
2. Learn from the Legends by Mikhail Marin
3. Winning Chess Middlegames by Ivan Sokolov
4. Analytical Manual by Mark Dvoretsky
5. Endgame Manual by Mark Dvoretsky
6. Beating the Open Games by Mikhail Marin
7. A Spanish Repertoire for Black by Mikhail Marin
Are any of these on your list?
The USCF is filled with crooked chess politicians. I hope the voters will throw people like Goichberg, Berry, and Hall out the door.
‘Proof’ of Kenyan birth twice scrubbed by eBay
But seller of ‘Obama’s birth certificate’ dodges administrators to post 3rd time
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Posted: June 27, 2009
3:19 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Editor’s note: Since publication of this story, the auction item has been removed for the third time. None of the item identification numbers in this article remain valid.
An eBay seller who previously promised to deliver a certified copy of President Obama’s actual birth certificate – from a hospital in Mombasa, Kenya – has twice had his listing removed from the popular auction website.
In a third listing, however, the seller calling himself “colmado_naranja” has explained why the birth certificate was twice yanked by eBay administration.
“The first cancellation was done in what eBay describes as being in the interests of keeping my account safe,” the newest listing claims, referring to the now scrubbed item # 160344374585. “eBay was under the impression that a third party had accessed and compromised my account, that this third party put up the Barack Obama African birth certificate auction and that I had no knowledge of the said listing.”
Original eBay offer for Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate
As WND reported, colmado_naranja’s original listing claimed, “President Barack Hussein Obama II was born in The Coast Provincial Hospital at Mombasa in Kenya at 7:24 p.m. on August 4, 1961.”
The seller, who according to the eBay rankings has completed dozens of transactions on the behemoth auction site without difficulties, further said this birth certificate is the real deal, obtained while he was traveling in Kenya.
“Kenyans were amused at how gullible Americans could be when it came to obvious things like the fact that Kenyans overtly admit to Barack Jr.’s Kenyan birth, yet the Americans continue to believe that they know better,” colmado_naranja wrote. “I delved further and found that a birth certificate was on file at The Coast Provincial General Hospital at Mombasa.”
According to the third, and newest, listing, however, even after calling eBay customer service and restoring the original auction under a new item number, the birth certificate sale was scrubbed again, a second time, for another reason altogether.
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Colmado_naranja’s second listing of the birth certificate, item # 160344928067, had already generated significant attention this morning. WND readers emailed, stating the bids had topped $7,000, even as high as $10,000 for the alleged Kenyan document.
Even those critical of the questions surrounding Obama’s birth and eligibility to serve as President noticed, as members of the message board Democratic Underground claimed to have reported the auction to eBay administration as a “forgery and offensive item.”
At some time around 10:30 ET this morning, however, the second auction listing was scrubbed as well.
No that really is Governor Sanford