This is Mr. Jim Wilkinson, Chief of Staff of the US Treasury Department. I use this picture because it’s nearly impossible to get picture with Paul in it. He takes 30,000 – 40,000 pictures a year but there’s hardly any of him. Q&A with Paul Truong (Part 1) – Questions by various USCF members Q: […]
New Weekly Column by Paul Truong
Starting this Monday, there will be a new Open Forum / Q&A column about Chess Marketing, Promotion and PR. Anyone with questions in these areas can send them to ChessMarketing@aol.com or you can post your questions right on this blog. Paul will pick some of the most popular questions and answer them each Monday. He […]
Another extremely qualified candidate
Statement from Paul Truong Dear friends and colleagues, What has happened to the USCF in recent years? Well, it has not been good at all! There was little sense of pride. There was little sense of financial responsibility. There was little sense of professionalism. There was little sense of urgency. There was little attempt to […]
A man who will change chess in America
This is Paul (at 14) and his father as Vietnamese boat people back in 1979 Here is an article that Mr. Randy Hough (a USCF board member) wrote about Paul more than 20 years ago (there are a few minor factual errors but in general it is a fantastic article). He has not changed. He […]
Newswise release
Texas Tech Hires Chess World Champion, Establishes Excellence InstituteLife News (Education)Released: Sat 12-May-2007, 14:00 ET Texas Tech University announced Saturday (May 12) that it will establish the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) and hire chess powerhouses Susan Polgar and Paul Truong to head the program. Newswise — Texas Tech University, known athletically as […]
A blogger’s feedback
I recently posted a part of an incredible Memoir by Paul Truong. You can read one chapter here. The summary is here and the outline is here. I just received this post from another Vietnamese blogger about this incredible story: “I’ve heard of many stories like yours told by my parents and their friends. I […]
Chapter 14 of the Memoir
This is a picture of Paul and his Dad in Indonesia in late 1979. He was 14. A Memoir of a Modern Odyssey Paul TruongWith Leslie Alan Horvitz (2002) Chapter 14 Our second day out of port began much the same way as the first. I was a bit surprised that I’d actually managed to […]
The Memoir
THE HUNGRY SEAA Memoir of a Modern Odyssey (2002)Paul TruongWith Leslie Alan Horvitz After Saigon fell to the Communists in the spring of 1975, hundreds of thousands of conquered South Vietnamese, desperate to escape the country out of fear of political persecution, slipped out of ports in small, rickety wooden fishing boats, headed into the […]
The Hungry Sea – A must read story
I have asked Paul for many years to complete his memoir but it is understandably very difficult for him to do it. Here is the outline: THE HUNGRY SEAA Memoir of a Modern OdysseyPaul TruongWith Leslie Alan Horvitz Table of Contents Prologue: Treading water in the South China Sea, surrounded by debris from a sunken […]
Interview about chess marketing, promotion and PR
Mr. Jack LeMoine recently did an interview with Paul Truong about chess marketing and promotion. It was published here. Below is the interview by Jack: Recently I asked Paul Truong about promoting chess. He is the top chess promoter in America. Below are my questions and his answers. Thank you, Paul! 1) What are the […]