From: CLO
USCF Board Revokes Memberships of Polgar and Truong
By Bill Hall
August 10, 2009
The USCF Executive Board voted Friday night to revoke the memberships of Susan Polgar and Paul Truong. Polgar and Truong appealed the revocations to the Board of Delegates on Saturday and the revocations were upheld by a vote of 55-21 (Polgar) and 58-18 (Truong).


What's this now? Piss off a few powerful USCF leaders and they launch a real campaign against you. This is the first time anyone has been forcably removed from the organization. Fischer was removed but he was fine with that and had already put the organization behind him.

What exactly did Susan and Paul do? I haven't clearly heard this yet? Tell dirt on USCF board members? Heck, I could do that. In fact I've passed on every piece of information I could. Does that make me subject to removal from the prganization too?

Using a cannon to kill a mosquito is typical bureaurocracy. Instead of minimizing the damage to the organization the board has just created grounds for further litigation. That's just stupid even if you agree with the popular opinion.

what now? Are you gonna try to remove me USCF? My member # is 12870233 if that helps your attempt.

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Source: Susan Polgar's Chess Blog

I found the following Press Release:

Russian Federation (Press Release) March 30, 2009 --

Introducing “SPACE Tech”, the latest Cyborg chess beast By Fujitso, LLC.
Susan Polgar Advanced Computer Engineering (SPACE) Technology, the brain child of Jerry Perez of Texas Tech University

· DD660 includes quad-core Xeon processors and 1-TB SATA drive support.
· 8 GIG of RAM.
· The system provides up to 2 TB per hour of aggregate inline de-duplication throughput, and up to 700 GB per hour for a single stream. It offers up to 36 TB of raw capacity. With its data reduction capabilities, the system can handle from 520 TB to 1.3 PB of logical capacity.
· SPACE also contains additional secret state of the art components by Fujitso, LLC., which will greatly enhance calculation speed.
· Chess database of over 4 million games.· Latest endgame tablebases which include nearly all significant 7-piece endgame.
· Latest opening tablebases which include a number of secret analysis from top Russian Grandmasters.
· This super computer is trained to learn from its own mistakes as well as those of the opponent. It utilizes an experimental artificial intelligence program developed by the Russian Academy of Science which provides the program with unmatched middlegame positional play.
· After 6 months of lab testing, SPACE has an estimated rating of 3,500, which is far stronger than the latest version of Rybka.
. NASA has shown great interest in the program as a possible onboard mission commander for deep space exploration.

Russian Academy of Science
152020 Pereslavl-Zalessky
Russia

Source: Susan Polgar Article
Can I have one of these, Susan? pleeez!

I'm adding this video to my youtube favorites.

Susan Polgar has announced on Her Blog that she is starting a webcast-esque video show on ICC. I won't waste precious time boring you with parroting the information but you should definitely Check It Out!