I invite all to review the messages from 581-606, and decide if Chad Barnard is the type of person you wish to associate with. Besides the vitrulent attacks upon me, Chad has also put down or defamed many others.

I request NCCA decide whether such persistent, irresponsible, willful personal attacks are tolerable. I request the leadership allow the membership to censure Chad Barnard or even deny him further membership in NCCA. His unprovoked attacks reflect on the good name of NCCA.

Scott we're also trying to figure out who put that message on our site. If you didn't notice it had two of our members on the list and our friends from Charlotte.

It even had Mike McHale who is a great friend to Austin Chess. That's why we don't approve of anonymous posting. So don't think it was from us.

On the other matters I'll have to let the officers decide.

Edited by author 09-30-2002 07:52 AM
Congratulations Scott!

Austin Chess Club site is no more. Due to incinuations of legal action by you, our host site has demanded we be removed immediately.

After the comments I made I was sincerely regrettful and told everyone so. Not because what I said wasn't true but alot of people through the ranks of the NCCA told me of your checkered past and litigious nature.

I thought surely no rational intelligent adult could get that bent out of shape over opinions. But I was wrong.

We were planning big things to spread the word of chess too. We were setting into motion daily global and local news updates, coverage of all/most of the local tournaments, a learning page with instruction form the area masters, experts and "A" players. All of this free of charge and we weren't paid at all except for the love of doing it. Compare that with the motives and track record of gru-bell.

Most of the blame lies with me though. I should of wondered why everyone talked about Mr. Gru-Bell the way I did but never aloud. Chalk it up to newcomer ignorance. But I opened my mouth and now have to suffer the consequences which is losing something dear to me.

All I ask is that people sincerely make an effort to meet me at a tournament or whatever and I think you'll see that I'm a very likeable person and my extreme dislike for gru-bell fueled most of my negative posts.

It's sad that someone who doesn't even live in NC can cause so much turmoil in the NCCA.

Neal you don't have to have a meeting to discuss whether to censure me or expel me from the NCCA. I withdraw from the NCCA and will refrain from posting another message on this board.

Everyone else I've met has been great and I look forward to seeing you again and meeting the others I had discussions with on this board. Especially Martin Roper who through our discussions seems like someone I'd get along with.

Best Regards

Chad Barnard

In response to any misunderstandings about Rolf Wetzel's rating and the book he wrote, he DID make master, he just fell below it and hasn't made it back, since. Nowhere in his book did we claim he was a Master at the time the book was published. If he was, we would've put NM before his name, just like we always do. What we said was, he made master beyond the age of 50, which is a great feat in itself. I don't know if this all started because people thought he wasn't qualified to write a book with that title, or what. As far as Mr. Wetzel's chess strength goes, since the publication of that book I have received several emails and letters from players that read his book and then had the chance to play him over the board. The general idea behind the letters was, 'Mr. Wetzel used the techniques he wrote about in his book, and crushed my ass with them.'

By the way, thanks for the kind words I read on a couple of the messages about his book being good. If ya don't got it, buy it! There's only a few left....

Nate

The Austin Chess Club is alive and well.
The website has been shutdown due to the lost of our current host.
Hopefully the website will be back up soon with a new host and improved controls related to our discussion page.
Thank You Chad Barnard for all the hard work and a good looking club website.

Norm Pruitt
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To all NCCA members and Website posters;This message board will be replaced later tonight with a "fresh" page...All posts are welcomed,however posts containing profanity will be deleted and repeat offenders will banned from posting..anonymous posts will be deleted..posts containing virulent personal attacks will be deleted and the posters banned from posting..This is a GREAT message board..I will not allow a few to spoil it for everyone else..everyone is starting with a clean slate..make the most of it!!

Response to 718:

Chad writes: "I thought surely no rational intelligent adult could get that bent out of shape over opinions. But I was wrong."

Chad, you are "NOT WRONG"...Scott is not rational (I won't even get into the other adjective, I could write a whole book on it). If you've ever met the guy in person, you'd see what I mean.

Patrick, DO YOU WANT to be the 1st player in the NCCA to be banned from posting on the message board!!

Neil, you can not ban me. You will not be NCCA president next week. And here's even more downside,you are an ASSHOLE! I just report the news!

To all NCCA members: For all Neal Harris has done for North Carolina chess,please vote him back into the office of President at the NC State Championships Oct. 4-6. We need more leaders who work so hard for the organizations they serve.

Is there a way to vote if someone is unable to attend the NC State Ch.?

I would like to know who is running for President.

Jonathan: I believe the candidates are Neal Harris and Leland Fuerstman.

Drew: I think that there would be(perhaps a mailed ballot) but I don't know for sure.

The current president, Neal Harris, could answer these questions better than me.

Dear Norm,Chad
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Good Luck

 To ALL NCCA members: For those that can not attend, Proxy Votes for the 2002 NCCA business meeting can be delivered via e-mail to me at rajkipling@yahoo.com.The declared candidates for the Various offices are:President-Neal Harris(NO ONE else has posted anywhere that they are interested in running),1st VP-Jill Bambara,Matt Noble,2nd VP-Robert Singletary,Sec/Tres.-Gerben Hoekstra...ALL proxy e-mail votes must be recieved by friday morning,10:00am,Oct.4th..this is the ONLY form that Proxy votes will be allowed in..Proxy votes ONLY count toward election of officers...NCCA Bylaws,IV.,5.Voting and Proxies

Neil,

Whoever wrote message 724 ought to be banned...it was not me...this is the "Real" Patrick speaking. As you can see, to go along with the problem of false names, people are putting messages up under other people's names.

I suggest a new message board where login and password are required.