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Blacklist of USCF Sales

Taylor Kingston is involved with USCF Sales and is the perpetrator of the blacklist. Naturally, he will deny that it exists. However, it is easy to veryify that there is auch a blacklist. Just call USCF Sales and try to order a book by any author on the blacklist. You will find that you will not be able to order the book. Yet, call Barnes & Noble or any reputable bookstore and you will find that you will be able to purchase books by these authors.

Sam Sloan Sam Sloan 19:08, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

This is clearly not true. For some of the listed authors all their books are simply out of print, and you will not get them directly from Amazon or Barnes & Noble (Sam Sloan is clearly one of them). And at least one author (Keene) is listed in the catalogue. There might be other reasons why there are no books of these authors deliverable by USCF Sales, you are just assuming that there is such a blacklist, you have no proof, and it is definitely not an established fact. Rook wave 04:42, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Please stay to proven and verified information. You really should have a look at this page: Misplaced Pages:Verifiability. Rook wave 23:14, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

The "Blacklist" seems to be more of a theory than anything else, perhaps the article can be re-written to reflect this. --DaiTengu 04:22, 28 December 2005 (UTC) The issue of this blacklist was debated at the USCF Executive Board meeting in Minneapolis in May and again at the USCF Delegates Meeting in Phoenix in August. It is being debated again on the chess politics and email groups. There is no serious doubt that the blacklist exists. The issue is whether Hanon Russell who took over USCF Sales last year has the right to blacklist authors for political reasons.Sam Sloan 04:30, 28 December 2005 (UTC)