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March 15, 1959 Chess Chats by George Koltanowski, Press-Democrat, Santa Rosa, California

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Chess ChatsChess Chats 15 Mar 1959, Sun The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California) Newspapers.com

Chess Chats By George Koltanowski
International Chess Master

The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California, Sunday, March 15, 1959, Chess Chats by George Koltanowski Problem No. 171....

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Problem No. 171. White to play and mate in two moves.
FEN 8/B6r/k5p1/1R6/8/8/KQ6/8 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Rh5 Kxa7 2. Ra5#

THE ENGLISH OPENING
Ruy Lopez, Kieseritzky, Muzio, Algaier, Max Lange, From, McCutcheon and others owe such immortality to some more or less vague connection with a chess opening or a mere variation. This may also apply to a country being honored by the French or Sicilian defense and a town basking in the glory of the Riga or Cambridge Springs variation; and whenever the Mayor of Hastings opens the annual congress there, he has usually been inducted in making the first move: 1. P-Q4, “The English” because Staunton played it in 1851.
It has recently become very popular (easily lending itself to transitions into various highly modern lines). It was considered almost a joke by old Tarrasch and it took three to four decades to climb from a measly half per cent to a creditable tournament frequency of almost 10 per cent.
Carl Carls, Bremen master, has played P-QB4 all the time in tournament play and all his followers in Bremen want the name changed from “English Opening” to the “Bremer Partie.”
Carls, who died recently, was mortified in one tournament when he found the QB pawn glued to the board, when he wanted to make his first move. Another famous story of Carls is that when he visited Paris, his old friend Bernstein tried to convince him that the huge C4 neon-light display at the Eiffel tower was meant to advertise “his” opening rather than the 4-cylinder Citreon. Here's a game he won in 1912 at Breslau, the victim being the great Dr. Tarrasch who had just pronounced 1. P-QB4 to be “the most stupid on the chess board.”

Carl Carls vs Siegbert Tarrasch
18th DSB Kongress (1912), Breslau GER, rd 17, Aug-02
English Opening: Agincourt Defense (A13) 1-0

Bobby Fischer, the 15-year-old Brooklyn champion of the United States held on to his title for the second year in a row. Bobby keeps up with all the latest traps in the opening. His victim in the sixth round was no one less than the great Sammy Reshevsky.

Robert James Fischer vs Samuel Reshevsky
US Championship (1958/59), New York, NY USA, rd 6, Dec-??
Sicilian Defense: Old Sicilian. Open (B32) 1-0

CHESS QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game. For the price of a taxicab or a visit to the theater you may possess a world of illimitable adventures. It is the very water of Lethe for sorrow or disappointment, for there is no oblivion more profound than that for which it offers you solace. And what satisfaction is comparable with a well-won mate? It is different from the joy any other games may offer. A perfect mate irradiates the mind with the calm of indisputable things. It has the absoluteness of mathematics and gives you the victory ennobled by the sense of intellectual struggle and stern justice.”—A. E. Gardiner.

'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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