Help Elect Chuck Unruh and Jim Gray

for

Positive and Responsible USCF Chess Leadership

Oklahoma’s chess players need your help in the next USCF Delegate Election. After a very light Oklahoma turnout for the 2004 USCF Delegate election, Frank and Jim Berry were able to claim a surprising victory. Soon after at the USCF Delegates Annual Meeting, they attempted to strip the OCA of its State Chapter Affiliate with a Delegate’s Motion. This procedure was designed to bypass all normal due process for such a change. It would have given the OCF the right to conduct all Oklahoma State Championships and be responsible for leading all chess in Oklahoma, including scholastics. Fortunately, the USCF advised OCA leadership of the developing situation. Chuck Unruh, Jim Gray, Steve Sawyer and Mike Swatek were granted unused Delegate positions by N. California, Texas and Arkansas to successfully defend against this attack.

Chuck Unruh and Jim Gray participated in the 2005 USCF Annual Delegates Meeting and plan to do so again in 2006 and beyond. Chuck is an active member of the USCF Finance Committee. Being a long-time Master level player and a very successful businessman, he is a valued member of this committee. Jim Gray is an active member of the USCF States Committee which handles State and State Chapter affairs. His involvement in this committee has helped to ward off additional procedural moves by the OCF and add value in other USCF States issues with his legal background.

Chuck and Jim have proven their Oklahoma chess leadership skills with the revitalization of the OCA in the face of continued OCF attempts to destroy it for almost 3 years. USCF membership in Oklahoma is up 20% in the past two years and annual chess tournament activity by Oklahomans has grown an amazing 8% in the past 4 months alone. Today, Oklahoma chess is experiencing an unprecedented rate of growth and is a bright spot in the middle of the nation for the USCF. This is the kind of positive and responsible leadership that Oklahoma needs to contribute to the USCF so it too can better meet it challenges.

PLEASE, don’t allow apathy to let the USCF Oklahoma Delegate be taken by anyone that can muster a handful of votes from a few of their friends. SUBMIT YOUR BALLOT which is being mailed separately by 10 June and help assure Oklahoma has positive and responsible USCF Delegate Representation. VOTE FOR CHUCK UNRUH and JIM GRAY.

Your support will be much appreciated by all Oklahoma chess players that want to see the continuation of Oklahoma’s Chess Renaissance.

Thanks,

Your OCA Leadership Team