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June 23, 1935 Los Angeles Times Chess by Herman Steiner

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Chess by Herman SteinerChess by Herman Steiner 23 Jun 1935, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com

Dake Wins Pacific Coast Championship
We congratulate Mr. Dake upon his achievement in winning this match. His score was 4½-1½. The proposed eight games were not played on account of illness of Mr. Steiner, and instead only six were played. The Chess and Checker Club of Los Angeles was responsible for the first four games, and Mr. E. P. Elliott, former western champion and secretary of the club, is directly credited for all arrangements. The Exposition Park Chess Club, through A. N. Pray and S. Wolff ably handed the fifth game, and the Santa Barbara Chess Club, through Mr. Pat Rafferty and L. A. Cooke arranged the sixth game at Hotel Mar Monet. The following are the last two games of the match:

Fifth game:

Arthur William Dake (white) vs. Herman Steiner (black)

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

Descriptive
1. N-KB3 P-KB4
2. P-Q4 N-KB3
3. P-KN3 P-K3
4. B-N2 B-K2
5. O-O O-O
6. P-B4 P-Q3
7. P-N3 Q-K
8. N-B3 K-R
9. B-N2 Q-R4
10. Q-Q2 QN-Q2
11. Q-N5 Q-K
12. QR-K N-K5
13. Q-B QN-B3
14. N-Q2 NxN(Q2)
15. QxN Q-R4
16. P-K4 P-B5!
17. PxP Q-R5!
18. P-KB5 N-R4
19. P-B4 PxP
20. P-K5 PxP
21. N-Q5 P-K5!
22. R-K3! B-Q
23. K-R N-B3
24. R-R3 Q-N5
25. R-KN Q-N3?
26. NxN QxN
27. P-Q5 Q-B2
28. R-R6! K-N>>
29. B-KB P-KN3
30. R(N)xPch QxR
31. RxQch PxR
32. Q-N2!! P-KN4
33. PxP R-B2
34. P-N6 R-N2
35. Q-R3! 1-0
 
Algebraic
1. Nf3 f5
2. d4 Nf6
3. g3 e6
4. Bg2 Be7
5. 0-0 0-0
6. c4 d6
7. b3 Qe8
8. Nc3 Kh8
9. Bb2 Qh5
10. Qd2 Nd7
11. Qg5 Qe8
12. Re1 Ne4
13. Qc1 Nf6
14. Nd2 (??No NxN)

Sixth game:

Herman Steiner (white) vs. Arthur William Dake (black)
Italian Game: Classical Variation, Tarrasch Variation

Descriptive
1. P-K4 P-K4
2. N-KB3 N-QB3
3. B-B4 B-B4
4. P-B3 Q-K2
5. O-O N-B3
6. P-Q4 B-N3
7. P-QR4 P-QR3
8. P-KR3 P-Q3
9. R-K O-O
10. B-KN5 P-R3
11. B-R4 K-R2
12. P-Q5 N-QN
13. P-KN4 P-N4
14. B-KN3 R-R
15. QN-Q2 QN-Q2
16. B-Q3 N-B
17. N-B4 B-R2
18. K-N2? N-N3
19. N-K3 N-B5ch
20. BxN NPxB
21. N-B5 BxN
22. KPxB K-N2
23. B-K4 Q-Q2
24. Q-N3?? P-KR4!
25. R-K2 PxP
26. PxP NxP
27. R-KN K-B3
28. K-B QR-KN!
29. QxNP QxRP!
30. R-N2? R-R8ch
31. N-N Q-Q8ch
0-1
 
Algebraic
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Bc5
4. c3 Qe7
5. 0-0 Nf6
6. d4 Bb6
7. a4 a6
8. h3 d6
9. Re1 0-0
10. Bg5 h6
11. Bh4 Kh7
12. d5 Nb8
13. g4 g5
14. Bg3 Rh8
15. Nd2 Nd7
16. Bd3 Nf8
17. Nc4 Ba7
18. Kg2? Ng6
19. Ne3 Nf4+
20. Bxf4 gxf4
21. Nf5 Bxf5
22. exf5 Kg7
23. Be4 Qd7
24. Qb3?? h5!
25. Re2 hxg4
26. hxg4 Nxg4
27. Rg1 Kf6
28. Kf1 Rg8!
29. Qxb7 Qxa4!
30. Rg2? Rh1+
31. Ng1 Qd1+
0-1
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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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