The past two years there has been a SPICE Cup event in September. There are no tournament listings in our USCF announcements for any SPICE events in the future. The events link on the TTU SPICE page has been redirected to a blogspot page apparently set up by Polgar/Truong in which the lead article is about Paul and the Pirates. depts.ttu.edu/spice/
Just a week ago, the events link stayed on the TTU web system with outdated tournament listings that had not changed since early Spring. Anyone know what’s going on at TTU.
Announcement of a 2010 SPICE Cup for October/November 2010 just went up on the Polgar Blog and on the new TTUChess blog that links off the TTU SPICE web site. The TTUChess blogspot post is dated 7/9 even though it went up on 7/13 while the Polgar blogspot announcement is dated 7/13. There is still nothing official on the TTU SPICE web site or in the online USCF TLA.
The posted comments to the Polgar blogspot announcements are almost all dated March 27 and 28 of 2010. Very odd.
Brian, I think you’re a little fuzzy on how on-line TLAs (or print TLAs) work. They generally appear on line at the same time they appear in print. An October tournament would not appear until at least the beginning of August. And, of course, the top two or three sections of the Spice Cup are closed invitationals and would not have TLAs in any case.
The ties between the USCF and Susan Polgar are officially severed.
This is kind of like a couple of kids having a fight and saying they won’t play with each other anymore. Here we have one of the “kids” looking over at the other kid’s house being worried how that other kid is playing and who is coming over to their house to play.