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January 27, 1957 The Press Democrat Chess Chats by George Koltanowski

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Chess ChatsChess Chats 27 Jan 1957, Sun The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California) Newspapers.com

Problem No. 60 by A. Efron, Hartford. White to play and mate in two moves.
FEN n1B3bN/2pR1p2/1p3k2/1Pp2N2/2RpKP2/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Kd3 Kxf5 2. Rxf7#

17 Moves

Max Lange games in tournaments have always been a great weakness of mine and recently I ran across the following game played in the Barcelona tourney, 1944, which I feel sure will interest the student.

Max Lange

Dr. O.S. Bernstein (white) R. Lorens (black)
Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Max Lange Attack, Spielmann Defense

Descriptive
1. P-K4 P-K4
2. N-KB3 N-QB3
3. B-B4 B-B4
4. O-O N-B3
5. P-Q4 PxP
6. P-K5 N-KN5
7. B-B4 O-O
8. P-KR3 N-R3
9. B-KN5 B-K2
10. BxN PxB
11. B-Q5 P-Q3
12. BxN PxB
13. NxP PxP
14. NxP Q-Q3
15. Q-B3 B-R3
16. R-Q1 Q-B3
17. R-Q7 Resigns
 
Algebraic
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Bc5
4. 0-0 Nf6
5. d4 exd4
6. e5 Ng4
7. Bf4 0-0
8. h3 Nh6
9. Bg5 Be7
10. Bxh6 gxh6
11. Bd5 d6
12. Bxc6 bxc6
13. Nxd4 dxe5
14. Nxc6 Qd6
15. Qf3 Ba6
16. Rd1 Qf6
17. Rd7 1-0

(a) Von Bardeleben's continuation. The classical line is 6. … P-Q4 7. PxN, PxB; 8. R-K1ch, etc.
(b) Is unafeared of the double pawn on the KR file. If 7. … P-Q4; 8. B-QN5 or if 7. … P-Q3; 8. B-KN5, etc.
(c) Black brings his only attacking piece back to a square where it will be inactive.
(d) 11. … N-N5 looks better.
(e) If 13. … B-Q2; 14. Q-B3 and White continues the pressure.
(f) Now 15. … B-Q2; would lose a good pawn after 16. Q-N3ch
(g) Black is lost anyway. If 16. … Q-K3; 17. Q-N4ch wins.
(h) There's no way of meeting White's strong 17th move. After 17. B-Q1; 18. RxB, QxQ; 19. RxRch, KxR; 20. PxQ, Black is a piece down.

Bad Habit

Miguel Najdorf vs Nicolaas Cortlever
Buenos Aires Olympiad fin-A (1939), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 6, Sep-07
Gruenfeld Defense: Russian Variation (D96) 0-1

(a) See game Tartakower-Znosko-Borowski.
(b) Well played. If 11. PxP, then Q-B1.
(c) Heroic method of stopping the stamped of the white pawns.
(d) Better by far was 20. P-B5, P-B3; 21. P-R4, etc.
(e) Threatens N-B6ch.
(f) Hard to understand. Why resign when he has the better game? 28. P-N5, gives White an easy advantage in all variations. The moral: Resigning is a bad habit!

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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:
Bobby Fischer, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech
“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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