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Chess Chats Sun, Jan 1, 1956 The Press Democrat Santa Rosa, California Problem No. 4 by J.C. Morra, Argentina White to...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Friday, January 31, 2020

Problem No. 4 by J.C. Morra, Argentina
White to play and mate in three moves.
FEN Q4K2/6Bb/8/R7/8/1P6/BpPp4/k1bR1n2 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Qh1 Be4 2. Qh8 Bxc2 3. Bxb2#

Young South American Star

Oscar Panno, who won the junior world championship in 1952 when 18, comes from Argentina, where he dislodged M. Najdord as national champion. His latest success was in the interzonal at Goteburg, Sweden, where he finished third behind Bronstein and Keres, to qualify for next year's world champion candidates event.
A match with Reshevsky is now in the offing.
Below is his win over Carlos E. Guimard, also of Argentina, at Goteburg.
Najdorf was also one of his victims.

Oscar Panno vs Carlos Enrique Guimard
Gothenburg Interzonal (1955), Gothenburg SWE, rd 3, Aug-18
Tarrasch Defense: Classical. Bogoljubow Variation (D34) 1-0

(a) The Tarrasch variation.
(b) Threatens PxP.
(c) His Q's pawn is under fire all the time. The text-move looks for counter-chances.
(d) The “killer.” After 24…PxP; 25. P-Q5 wins.
(e) If 28. B-N5, N-N5; 29. RxR, N-QR4ch, etc.
(f) Simple? True, but neat. It shows great mastery on White's part.

Played in a Madras, India, tournament recently.

Sicilian Defense

K.N. Sunderam (white) R. Nagaraja Rao (black)

Unresolved Chess Game
Unresolved Chess Game: Can you solve it?

Descriptive
1. P-K4 P-QB4
2. N-KB3 N-QB3
3. P-Q4 PxP
4. NxP P-KN3
5. P-KB4 B-N2
6. B-K3 N-B3
7. N-QB3 O-O
8. B-K2 Q-R4
9. N-N3 Q-B2
10. Q-Q2 P-Q3
11. O-O B-N5
12. P-B3 B-Q2
13. QR-B1 QR-B1
14. B-R6 N-K4
15. BxB KxB
16. N-Q5 Q-Q1
17. NxN KxN
18. Q-Q4 P-KN4
19. P-B4 PxP
20. RxPch K-N3
21. R-QB3 P-KR3
22. Q-Q2 R-KR1
23. R-N3ch K-R2
24. R-R4 N-N3
25. QxPch K-N1
26. QxR mate
 
Algebraic
1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 g6
5. f4 Bg7
6. Be3 Nf6
7. Nc3 0-0
8. Be2 Qa5
9. Nb3 Qc7
10. Qd2 d6
11. 0-0 Bg4
12. Bf3 Bd7
13. Rc1 Rc8

(a) “Old Dragon.”
(b) The so-called “Maroczy bind.”
(c) So far so good, but here black should have played 16. …BxN; 17. BPxP, Q-N3ch, etc. Now he really gets “bound” up.
(d) 18. … Q-N3 does not help either, as then 19. P-B5 would suffice. White finishes the game in a quick and sure manner.

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'til the world understands why Robert J. Fischer criticised the U.S./British and Russian military industry imperial alliance and their own Israeli Apartheid. Sarah Wilkinson explains:
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“What a sad story Fischer was,” typed a racist, pro-imperialist colonial troll who supports mega-corporation entities over human rights, police state policies & white supremacy.		 To which I replied: “Really? I think he [Bob Fischer] stood up to the broken system of corruption and raised awareness! Whether on the Palestinian/Israel-British-U.S. Imperial Apartheid scam, the Bush wars of ‘7 countries in 5 years,’ illegally, unconstitutionally which constituted mass xenocide or his run in with police brutality in Pasadena, California-- right here in the U.S., police run rampant over the Constitution of the U.S., on oath they swore to uphold, but when Americans don't know the law, and the cops either don't know or worse, “don't care” -- then I think that's pretty darn “sad”. I think Mr. Fischer held out and fought the good fight, steadfast til the day he died, and may he Rest In Peace.
Educate yourself about U.S./State Laws --
https://www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit/videos
After which the troll posted a string of profanities, confirming there was never any genuine sentiment of “compassion” for Mr. Fischer, rather an intent to inflict further defamatory remarks.

This ongoing work is a tribute to the life and accomplishments of Robert “Bobby” Fischer who passionately loved and studied chess history. May his life continue to inspire many other future generations of chess enthusiasts and kibitzers, alike.

Robert J. Fischer, Kid Chess Wizard 1956March 9, 1943 - January 17, 2008

The photograph of Bobby Fischer (above) from the March 02, 1956 The Tampa Times was discovered by Sharon Mooney (Bobby Fischer Newspaper Archive editor) on February 01, 2018 while gathering research materials for this ongoing newspaper archive project. Along with lost games now being translated into Algebraic notation and extractions from over two centuries of newspapers, it is but one of the many lost treasures to be found in the pages of old newspapers since our social media presence was first established November 11, 2017.

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