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February 26, 1972 Montreal Gazette The Game of Kings by D.M. LeDain

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The Game of KingsThe Game of Kings Sat, Feb 26, 1972 – 50 · The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) · Newspapers.com

Championship Match Set
With the two principals in the world championship match champion Boris Spassky, USSR, and challenger Bobby Fischer USA unable to reach mutual agreement as to the site, FIDE president, Dr. Max Euwe has succeeded in effecting a compromise by splitting the match between Iceland and Yugoslavia. These were the first preferences of each in their original lists.

Progress in Western Hemisphere
Organized chess is much further ahead in Europe than in the Americas, but there are signs of substantial progress on this side, particularly in holding important events. Three of the four matches in the 1971 Challengers tourney of the world series were held in Vancouver, Denver and Buenos Aires. Bobby Fischer's rise had a lot to do with that. Then the World Students Team Championship was staged in Puerto Rico, and the North American Intercollegiate was expanded into the Pan-American Intercollegiate at Toronto, in which two Caribbean countries sent entries, as well as Canada and the U.S.A.

Historic Occasion
Now comes news of a further development in the formation of the Pan-American Chess Association at San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina, where the first team tourney has been organized. Argentina easily placed first with 25½ pts., followed by Cuba, 17½; Brazil and Chile, 16 each; Paraguay, 11½; Uruguay 9½; Ecuador, 8½; Bolivia, 7½. This is at least a start. The intention is to challenge the winner of the European Cup tourney, now in progress, for the championship of the hemispheres.
An individual championship is also on the program for alternate years. San Antonio, Texas, will hold the first this year, with Cuba organizing the 2nd team championship in 1973. Canada will undertake the 2nd individual championship in 1974 and Chile the 3rd team event in 1975.
Two games from the Pan-American Team Championship, Tucuman, Argentina, 1971:

O. Panno, Argentina (White) vs. Chemin, Brazil (Black)
King's Indian Defense

Descriptive
1. P-QB4 N-KB3
2. N-QB3 P-KN3
3. P-K4 P-Q3
4. P-Q4 B-N2
5. P-B3 O-O
6. B-K3 P-K4
7. KN-K2 P-B3
8. P-Q5 N-K1
9. P-B5! P-B4
10. Q-N3 K-R1
11. R-Q1 KBPxKP
12. NxP BPxQP
13. QxQP N-QB3
14. PxP N-N5
15. Q-Q2 Q-R4
16. KN-B3 B-B4
17. P-QR3 N-QB3
18. B-QB4 N-Q5
19. O-O Q-Q1
20. P-B4 BxN
21. NxB NxQP
22. NxN QxN
23. PxP! RxRch
24. BxR
1-0
 
Algebraic
1. c4 Nf6
2. Nc3 g6
3. e4 d6
4. d4 Bg7
5. f3 0-0
6. Be3 e5
7. Ne2 c6
8. d5 Ne8
9. c5! f5
10. Qb3 Kh8
11. Rd1 fxe4
12. Nxe4 cxd5
13. Qxd5 Nc6
14. cxd6 Nb4
15. Qd2 Qa5
16. N2c3 Bf5
17. a3 Nc6
18. Bc4 Nd4
19. 0-0 Qd8
20. f4 Bxe4
21. Nxe4 Nxd6
22. Nxd6 Qxd6
23. fxe5! Rxf1+
24. Bxf1 1-0
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Understanding Chess by William Lombardy Chess Duels, My Games with the World Champions, by Yasser Seirawan No Regrets: Fischer-Spassky 1992, by Yasser Seirawan Chess Fundamentals, by Jose Capablanca Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, by Bobby Fischer My 60 Memorable Games, by Bobby Fischer Bobby Fischer Games of Chess, by Bobby Fischer The Modern Chess Self Tutor, by David Bronstein Russians versus Fischer, by Mikhail Tal, Plisetsky, Taimanov, et al

'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's True History
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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