Lucas Contract debate at the USCF Executive Board meetings

Lucas Contract debate at the USCF Executive Board meetings

Jerry Hanken Owes Sam Sloan $100

This is an audio tape of the meeting of the USCF Executive Board held on November 17, 2006 in Stamford, Connecticut. This is the portion of the debate in which the board debated whether to extend the contract of Chess Life Editor Dan Lucas.

This is the only part of the highly contentious meeting that took place in November 17-18, 2006 that has been made available. I especially wanted the tape of this meeting made public because a lot happened at this know-down-drag-out meeting, especially when Joel Channing started yelling at Sam Sloan and when the notorious hand under the table incident occurred. However, Bill Hall refused to make this tape available, in violation of the by-laws.

However, Bill Hall was finally forced to make this portion of the tape available, basically saying that he was only doing it this once, because of the controversy that arose over the Dan Lucas Contract. At