Polgar/Truong caught red handed

A NY Times article came out today concerning the lawsuit Sam Sloan has filed against Susan Polgar and Paul Truong, among others. Sam Sloan has accused Polgar/Truong of impersonating him on various internet chess boards. I have seen some of these fake posts first hand, and I guess this impersonator has been at it for 18 months or so.

Before I go any further, I’d like to say that I think Sam Sloan is one of the lowest forms of life living on this earth. If there were no laws, I’m sure someone would have whacked him by now. It’s exactly people like him who bring the USCF down to a new level time after time.

As far as the accusations are concerned, it seems as if Sam Sloan may very well be in the right. According to Brian Mottershead, who was previously working on the USCF website, the IP address of the Fake Sam Sloan match the IP address Paul Truong/Susan Polgar use when they post on the USCF Forum. Truong has suggested that he believes his IP address was “spoofed”. When I first saw this I LOLed. It’s impossible to “spoof” an IP address like that, if it could be done I would be A LOT richer from my Spam days.

The only way Paul Truong’s IP address could end up on those posts is if:

A) Somone installed malicious software on his computer, turning it into an open proxy. Then for 18 months they used Truong’s infected computer to post on the Online Chess Boards. There are probably under 1000 people in the US who are capable of pulling this type of thing off. I’m sure most of these highly skilled people have better things to do than frame Truong/Polgar.

B) Brian Mottershead changed the logs on the USCF database. This is possible, but I’m sure the USCF has backups of the databases. If Mr. Mottershead never had access to the backups, like he claims on the Daily Dirt forum, then this should be easy to disprove.

C) Paul Truong actually impersonated Sam Sloan. This is by far most likely given the current information.

So it seems like another sad day for the USCF. The USCF has a problem finding good people to run the organization. The reason is because in order to want to do this job, you have to be a fucken lunatic to begin with. Most people who get into USCF politics are washed up chess players who have no power or success elsewhere, and use USCF politics as an outlet. Until the USCF starts getting highly motivated young people instead of old washed up losers, this shit will continue to happen.