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January 18, 1959 Chess by Blake Stevens Express and News, San Antonio, Texas

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Championship ChessChampionship Chess 18 Jan 1959, Sun Express and News (San Antonio, Texas) Newspapers.com

Championship Chess
Blake Stevens
Texas State Champion
Joel S. Quinones, a member of the San Antonio Chess Club, displayed his skill in his encounter with Chess Master George Koltanowski, and demonstrated that when he is in form he is a dangerous adversary.
The opening selected by Koltanowski, a Queen's Pawn Game, drifts into unknown channels early (about move 6). Then a Colle System evolves in which White's Queen Bishop Pawn has been overadvanced to QB4 (instead of QB3) and the Queen is misplaced on QN3. This is a case of striving for too much, which reacts in Black's favor.
This game caused “Kolty” to ponder each move for a considerable length of time, and all the other players who participated in the simultaneous exhibition were able to devote a few more precious seconds to their own games.

George Koltanowski (white) vs. Joel S. Quinones (black)

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

Descriptive
1. P-Q4 P-Q4
2. N-RB3 N-KB3
3. P-K3 B-N5
4. P-QR4 P-B3
5. Q-N3 Q-B2
6. N-K5 P-K3
7. N-QB3 B-Q3
8. NxB NxN
9. P-KR3 N-KB3
10. B-Q3 O-O
11. O-O QB-Q2
12. P-K4 QP-KP
13. NxP NxP
14. BxN N-R3
15. B-B2 N-R3
16. B-N5 P-QN3
17. KR-N B-K2
18. R-R4? P-KR3
19. R-N3 Q-B5!
20. QR-?? QxQP
21. P-QR3 Q-B5
22. B-Q3 P-QN4
23. BxP PxP
24. Q-B2 Q-N3
25. R-K5 QR-Q1
26. RxR QRxR
27. RxR BxR
1/2-1/2
 
Algebraic
1. d4 d5
2. Nf3 Nf6
3. e3 Bg4
4. a4 c6
  1. Yielding the Two Bishops for development.
  2. 17. QR-Q1! so as to answer 17. … P-KR3 with 18. B-QB1 and keep the attacking possibilities very much open.
  3. Black keeps White busy with no chance to think of going over to a Kingside assault.
  4. It could be a long, tedious win for Black, but the Two Bishops make the win negligible.

In the next game Mr. Quinones plays the opening indifferently and quickly gets an inferior game. Then his opponent makes an error, but his error — his single error — is greater than the sum total of minor inaccuracies committed by Quinones, which tilts the balance past the equal line. Now another weak move would probably swing it back again. This time Quinones plays the correct move (19) and from then on does not let up, each move mercilessly precise.

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

J. S. Quinones (white) vs. C. Villareal (black)

Descriptive
1. P-Q4 N-KB3
2. P-QR4 P-QB4
3. N-QB3 PxP
4. QxP N-QB3
5. Q-Q1 P-R3
6. P-K4 B-N5
7. B-KN5 P-R3
8. B-R4 P-KN4
9. B-N3 NxKP
10. R-B3 Q-B3
11. KN-K2 P-QN3
12. P-QR3 NxB
13. RPxN B-B4
14. P-B3 B-N2
15. Q-B2 B-K6
16. N-K4 Q-K4
17. R-Q1 P-Q4
18. PxP PxP
19. RxQP4 Q-K3
20. RxQ6 Q-B7
21. N(2)-B3! Q-R8ch
23. R-Q1 N-Q5
24. BxNPch Resigns
 
Algebraic
1. d4 Nf6
2. a4 c5
3. Nc3 cxd4
4. Qxd4 Nc6
5. Qd1 h6
6. e4
  1. 3. P-Q5 retains slight advantage whereas the move played relinquishes all of it.
  2. 2.Weak, setting up a target for Black. 6. P-K3 B-N5; 7. KN-K2 is better. After 19. RxQP Black can not capture because of the Knight fork.

Holding Back
On checking results of the Hastings tournament we find that neither Tahl nor Olafsson played, only the minor masters Uhlmann, Darga, Duckstein, Wade, Barden, and a few others participated.
The main reason the stronger players declined to play is probably due in part to the fact that they did not want to reveal their latest opening stratagems, preferring to save them for the all important Candidate's Tournament.
This is not the case with Bobby Fischer. He is in the midst of the U.S. National Championship, and going strong. With two rounds remaining, he is leading such notables as Reshevsky, Bisguier, Evans, Lombardy, Donald and Robert Byrne, Sherwin, Mednis, and Benko. And he is only 15! Surely a future world champion!

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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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