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===Chess===
[[File:Sam Sloan (7961177488).jpg|thumb|Sam Sloan at the [[34th Chess Olympiad]] in [[Istanbul]]]]
Sloan studied chess from the age of 7 years old.<ref name="Hallman"/> In 1959, he was the youngest competitor in the National Capital Open Chess Tournament in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.anusha.com/lisa-sam.htm |title=Lone Woman, 54 Men Vie in Chess |work=The Evening Post |date=June 15, 1959 |accessdate=2020-11-29 |first=Carl |last=Irving }} archive at Anusha.com</ref> [[United States Chess Federation]]'s database reports that he has played in 152 chess tournaments since 1991 and that his highest FIDE rating was 2107 in 1997.<ref name=uschess>{{cite web |url=http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmtHst.php?11115292 |title=US Chess MSA - Member Details (Tournament History): Sam Sloan |work=uschess.org |accessdate=2020-11-30 }}</ref> He first met [[Bobby Fischer]] in 1956 at the Eastern Open Chess Tournament,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.anusha.com/post1956.htm |title=Eastern States Chess Tournament |date=November 24, 1956 |publisher=[[The Washington Post]] |accessdate=2020-11-29 }} archive at anusha.com</ref> attended a series of lectures by him at the [[Marshall Chess Club]], where they developed a friendship.<ref name="Hallman"/>
In July 2006, Sloan was elected to the Executive Board of the [[United States Chess Federation]] (USCF). He advocated a major expansion of [[Scholastic chess in the United States|scholastic chess]], arguing that the USCF should establish a program to certify school chess teachers. As second-place finisher (out of five) in the special election, he was elected to a one-year term on the board (the first-place finisher received a three-year term). His term of service began in August 2006. In 2007, he ran for reelection to the board, but was unsuccessful, finishing ninth out of 10 candidates. On October 2, 2007, he filed suit in the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York]] seeking to overturn the results of the 2007 USCF election and alleging a rival candidate had made more than 2,000 obscene "Fake Sam Sloan" newsgroup postings before the election.<ref name="mcclain3">{{cite news |first=Dylan Loeb |last=McClain |url=http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/drive-to-recall-member-of-chess-federations-board-is-under-way/ |title=Drive to Recall Member of Chess Federation's Board Is Under Way |date=March 23, 2008 |accessdate=June 1, 2008 |work=gambit.blogs.nytimes.com }}</ref> On August 28, 2008, US District Judge Denny Chin dismissed the suit [[prejudice (legal procedure)|with prejudice]]. The [[United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit]] affirmed the dismissal but modified it to "without prejudice" as the case had not gone to a hearing.<ref name="mcclain1"/><ref name="mcclain2">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/us/24dispute.html |title=Settlement in Dispute That Riveted the Chess World |work=[[The New York Times]] |first=Dylan Loeb |last=McClain |date=January 23, 2010 |accessdate=2020-11-28 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Bill |last=Goichberg |year=2007 |url=http://www.checkmate.us/Sloan.htm |title=Sam Sloan |work=checkmate.us |accessdate=2020-11-28 }}</ref>
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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>
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>
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