::: I agree that I took out some material that could potentially be re-inserted. I have no objection at all for its reinsertion, if its accompanied by citations to realiable sources. For example, I don't object to the custody story since its accompanied by a citation to the relevant court case (which was not so in the original version).   

 ::: As for the book, I have no problem with inserting the fact that he wrote a book about asian chess, which is a fact easily verifiable by a visit to amazon.com. However, the book appears to be self-published (the website for ishi press is also sam sloan's webpage) so none of the claims in the book can be presented as facts. Unless there is another source documenting the facts that: (i) Sloan has visited 80 countries (ii) Sloan has competed in Thai, Chinese, and Japanese chess tournaments, these statements ought to be either removed or rephrased as "Sloan claims to have visited..." or "Sloan claims to have competed..."