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Sloan had an international child custody struggle over his daughter, Shamema, with a couple that had adopted her after they alleged that he kidnapped her in August 1986.<ref name="Hallman"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationmultimedia.com/special/shamema/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010215015926/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/special/shamema/ |archivedate=2001-02-15 |title="Kidnapped" US girl held in Bangkok |work=The Nation nationmultimedia.com |date=September 12, 1990 |accessdate=2020-11-28 }}</ref> In 1990, Sloan was convicted of attempted kidnapping and served 18 months in a Virginia prison.<ref name="mcclain1">{{cite news |last1=McClain |first1=Dylan Loeb |title=Chess Group Officials Accused of Using Internet to Hurt Rivals |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/nyregion/08chess.html |access-date=27 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=8 October 2007}}</ref>
 
SloanHe won the 2011 [[Silver Medal]] in the Senior Division (of two entries) at the [[World Memory Championship]] in [[Guangzhou]], China.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldmemorychampionship.com/ |title=The Official Website for the World's Greatest Test of Memory Founded in 1991 by Tony Buzan & Raymond Keene OBE The Official website of the World Memory Championships |publisher=Worldmemorychampionship.com |date=October 26, 1991 |accessdate=February 1, 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203220325/http://worldmemorychampionship.com/ |archivedate=February 3, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.world-memory-statistics.com/competition.php?id=wsmc2011 |title=World Senior Memory Championship 2011 |accessdate=June 25, 2016 |work=world-memory-statistics.com}}</ref>
Sloan claims that he "dabbles in 15 languages, ... can program a computer".<ref name="Ackman"/>
 
Sloan won the 2011 [[Silver Medal]] in the Senior Division (of two entries) at the [[World Memory Championship]] in [[Guangzhou]], China.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldmemorychampionship.com/ |title=The Official Website for the World's Greatest Test of Memory Founded in 1991 by Tony Buzan & Raymond Keene OBE The Official website of the World Memory Championships |publisher=Worldmemorychampionship.com |date=October 26, 1991 |accessdate=February 1, 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203220325/http://worldmemorychampionship.com/ |archivedate=February 3, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.world-memory-statistics.com/competition.php?id=wsmc2011 |title=World Senior Memory Championship 2011 |accessdate=June 25, 2016 |work=world-memory-statistics.com}}</ref>
 
==Books==