I object to this, especially since DeFeis is in favor of drug testing of chess players. George DeFeis is not a chess player, has never been and never will be. He does not represent chess players and cannot speak for them. He has made us a world's laughing stock by coming out in favor of drug testing of chess players.

George DeFeis happens to have been hired to be Executive Director of the United States Chess Federation. That does not give him the right to represent us or to make statements in our behalf.

It would have been much more appropriate to have John McCrary, the newly elected President of the USCF, appear as a spokesman for the USCF and chess players in general.

If George DeFeis appeared on these TV Talk Shows without first receiving express permission from the Executive Board of the USCF, I believe that he should be fired immediately.

Sam Sloan

• Report on the World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul
• Loomis Out, DeFeis still in
• Attorney Advises Suit against USCF Executive Board
• Edward Winter vs. Larry Evans
• Edward Winter attacks Sam sloan in Chess Life magazine
• It Was Supposed to have been a Pleasant Sunday Afternoon in Bryant Park
• GM Salov complains that Games Parlor has bounced a check on him
• Attorney Advises Suit against USCF Executive Board
• Exchange of words between Edward Winter and GM Larry Evans
• Chess Grandmaster Rusudan Goletiani has been approved for a green card
• Report on DoubleClick annual stockholder's meeting
• World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer Interviewed over the Radio
• Maurice Ashley makes The New York Times
• Hikaru Nakamura makes master at 10 years, 2 months