Talk:World Chess Federation

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This is a bogus, non-existent organization. It has no members, conducts no meetings, holds no tournaments or events. Its claim to have had Bobby Fischer as its champion is pure fiction.

Basically, during the period 1995-1999 Stan Vaughan repeatedly used a trick of forming a corporation in Nevada with the same name as a well established and well known organization. He would then claim that he WAS that other organization. In this way, Vaughan formed the "World Chess Federation, Inc.", the "Nevada State Chess Association, Inc." and the "American Chess Association, Inc." He also formed the "Nevada Libertarian Party, Inc." Vaughan became president of all these corporations. He claimed the right to declare himself World Chess Champion, American Chess Champion and Nevada Chess Champion. He also threatened suit against the real World Chess Federation ("FIDE") when it scheduled a tournament for the real World Chess Championship in Las Vegas in 1999.

Stan Vaughan filed a lawsuit in Nevada District Courts' 8th Judicial District Court (Case number 97A369674) entitled Stan Vaughan vs. United States Chess Federation. Vaughan's case was dismissed with prejudice and the court issued an injunction barring Stan Vaughan from claiming any relationship with the USCF.

The judge made it clear to Stan Vaughan that he would be spending time in jail if he violated this court order. As a result, Stan Vaughan dropped out and has not been seen in the world of chess again since 1999.

The author of this comment is Sam Sloan. It was moved here from the article by MarkSweep✍ 03:22, 30 August 2005 (UTC).

Micahmn (Talk) writes (There is a dispute going on with this organization -- I will try to follow up with it shortly). You had better come up with something soon. As far as I know there is no such corporation as "World Chess Federation Inc." Everybody knows that the real World Chess Federation is FIDE. You had better come up with some support soon for your ridiculous claim that the World Chess Champion is Stan Vaughan. Sam Sloan 08:43, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

(No it is not. World Chess Federation is incorporated in Nevada and has existed since 1988. It ran the WCF World Candidates tournaments at the Las Vegas Riviera Casino for two months 2009-2010 won by Ron Gross. It is no fiction that Bobby Fischer cofounded the organization and was the first champion back in 1992 in 5 million match in Serbia sanctioned by his own WCF. Nonsense ridiculous you take the false statements of somoen arrested more than 50 times by his own admission and who is a convicted felon. All you need to do is go to www.wcfchess.org Right there are copies of the Federal trademarks of worldwide rights for World Chess Federation and The World Chess Championship. Everyone knows FIDE did not acquire rights to title which was personal property of Alekhine. 72.193.213.78 (talk)

No. If you continue to vandalize articles mentioning FIDE we will have to take steps which may include blocking your IP address or semi-protecting the pages so that you cannot edit them. Quale (talk) 18:54, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

A couple problems with your claims. 1. Nobody recognizes the Nevada WCF as a real world champion or a real organization in chess. 2. Nowhere in any publicity with Bobby Fischer's match was there a reference or mention of a WCF. Finally, if you want to put an article here about the organization, you need to provide third party references attesting to the notability of the organization. Just having a trademark to a name doesn't meet WP:Notability standards here. Mateinsixtynine (talk) 19:26, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Merge

Per Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Use_English_words, recommend this content be moved to the English version, and the French term used as a redirect.Cander0000 (talk) 19:14, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

• Actually even English speakers know FIDE as FIDE. World Chess Federation is rarely used, even in English. Everything is in the right place now. 68.190.126.10 (talk) 05:46, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Keep redirect

Once again, need sources before making this into a separate article. Only mentions of the Nevada WCF in chess are usually joke mentions. Article on wikipedia which point to this page usually refer to FIDE. This isn't the place to advertise a local chess organization, no matter how big you think. Mateinsixtynine (talk) 22:16, 26 March 2013 (UTC)