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January 11, 1959 Chess by Blake Stevens Express and News, San Antonio, Texas

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Championship Chess Championship ChessChampionship Chess 11 Jan 1959, Sun Express and News (San Antonio, Texas) Newspapers.com

Championship Chess
By Blake Stevens
Texas State Champion

Once more we draw upon the games from the Portoroz Zonal Tournament. Here is a short but ferocious encounter abounding in tactical profundity, which strikes a weird imbalance in material and position and leaves the reader “up in the air.”

This is the one draw game of this tournament which ends so speculatively as to cause the reader consternation regarding its outcome. If the game had been continued there is no doubt in my mind someone would have won.

The final position is uneven, almost ragged, or, as the British say, “sticky.” Both players must have been short of time with little desire to pursue the complexities they had created.

Yuri L Averbakh vs Robert James Fischer
Portoroz Interzonal (1958), Portoroz SLO, rd 7, Aug-15
King's Indian Defense: Averbakh Variation. Flexible Defense (E73) 1/2-1/2

  1. The King's Indian Defense is well known to Fischer and only against Benko did he mishandle it.
  2. A quasi-sacrifice — 8. PxP Q-R4; 9. PxP NxP; 10. PxP R-K1, and black will win back one of the two pawns he is down and create pressure on white's QB3.
  3. Avoiding this interesting line of [illegible] B.
  4. Guaranteeing black a half-open King file. (By “half-open” we mean that the file is clear of black pawns, and black's pieces may operate fully against white pawns or pieces laying along the file. An open file, then, is one which is void of all pawns.)
  5. A quiet move — seemingly.
  6. Barrelling down the open King file.
  7. See note e. white's 9th move prevented the black QB from pinning on N5 and also paved the way for this thrust, usually premature at this stage.
  8. A retreat would precipitate Q-Q2 and O-O-O and a King side storming by white.
  9. Second gear. Black's 7. … P-QB4 produced the first tactical twist. White sidestepped this, but by his 12th and 13th moves, forced the game into new combinative channels. Here there is no immediate tactic, but white contemplates something like this: 14. P-KR4, 15. P-N5. Then on 15. … PxP; 16. PxP Knight moves; 17. NxB RxN; 18. B-Q3, Rook moves; 19. Q-Q2; 20. O-O-O and seizure of the open KR file with mating threats. This seems a very distant plan, but actually black's 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th moves would be more or less forced so that achievement is only 4-5 moves away. Therefore, a slow reaction by black on the Queenside would be fatal.
  10. A theme with variations — the semi-sacrifice again. 16. BPxP PxP; 17. NxP NxQP!; 18. NxQP NxB1; 19. PxN QxPch.
  11. Now necessary.
  12. To relieve the pin which would allow RxB.
  13. There is no quick way to win back the piece, but there are many interesting forceful continuations. 21. … P-KB4-B5 or 21. … Q-B3; 22. … P-KR4-5; doubling rooks on the king file 21. … QR-K1; 22. RxP? Q-B3!— or 22. … RxB. A fascinating game.
Fischer-Szabo, 1959

This position was reached in the Fischer-Szabo game. Black has temporarily given up a piece but will now win it back and have a healthy pawn to boot. Fischer, no pushover as we have seen, has things well in hand.

'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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