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September 05, 1937 Los Angeles Times Chess by Herman Steiner

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Chess by Herman SteinerChess by Herman Steiner 05 Sep 1937, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com

L. A. Times Problem No. 805 by J. P. Taylor
White mates in two.
FEN 8/4K3/8/Q1Npk3/7P/3B3P/3P4/8 w - - 0 1
Solution: B-K4;
1. Be4 dxe4 2. Ne6#
1. Be4 d4 2. Qc7#
1. Be4 Kd4 2. Qc3#

L. A. Times Problem No. 806 by C. Bayer
White mates in three.
FEN 8/1p6/1P1p2P1/3kB3/K7/5NP1/2P5/5Q2 w - - 0 1
Solution: N-N5;
1. Ng5 dxe5 2. Ne4 Kxe4 3. Qd3#
1. Ng5 Kxe5 2. c3 d5 3. Qf4#
1. Ng5 Kc6 2. Qb5#

Reuben Fine vs Mikhail Yudovich Sr.
Moscow (1937), Moscow URS, rd 6, Mar-14
Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Pillsbury Variation (D40) 0-1

Santasierra (white) vs. M'tinson (black)
Indian Defense

Santasierra vs. M'tinson, 1937

Descriptive
1. P-Q4 N-KB3
2. P-K3 P-QN3
3. B-Q3 B-N2
4. P-KB3 N-B3
5. P-QB4 P-K4
6. P-Q5 B-N5ch
7. B-Q2 BxBch
8. NxB N-K2
9. N-K2 P-Q3
10. N-B3 N-Q2
11. P-B4 PxP
12. PxP N-N3
13. O-O O-O
14. KN-K4 N-B3
15. Q-B2 B-B
16. QR-K NxN
17. NxN B-B4
18. N-N3 BxB
19. QxB R-K
20. Q-Q4 Q-Q2
21. N-R5 P-B3
22. R-K6 RxR
23. PxR QxP
24. P-KB5 Resigns
 
Algebraic
1. d4 Nf6
2. e3 b6
3. Bd3 Bb7
4. f3 Nc6
5. c4 e5
6. d5 Bb4+
7. Bd2 Bxd2+
8. Nxd2 Ne7
9. Ne2 d6
10. Nc3 Nd7
11. f4 exf4
12. exf4 Ng6
13. 0-0 0-0
14. Ne4 Nf6
15. Qc2 Bc8
16. Re1 Nxe4
17. Nxe4 Bf5
18. Ng3 Bxd3
19. Qxd3 Re8
20. Qd4 Qd7
21. Nh5 c6
22. Re6 Rxe6
23. dxe6 Qxe6
24. f5 1-0

Notes By Winner
(a) This move took forty minutes as a plan had to be formulated to meet Black's PB4, which would give him quite a good game, PK4, PKN4 PKR4 and PQN4 all came under consideration and were rejected as unsatisfactory. Finally PB4 was decided on and if PB4, PK4 immediately.
(b) PKB4 was best.
(c) Best, QxB4 apparently winning material, would result as follows: 22. PxQ; 23. NxPch, KB2; 24. NxQ RxR; 25. RxR RQ and the knight is trapped.
(d) He had counted on QK4, which is refuted by QN4. The end game resulting from 23. QK2 would have been in White's favor after 24. PKB5, etc.

Isaac Kashdan vs Milton Loeb Hanauer
US Championship (1936), New York, NY USA, rd 5, Apr-30
Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Worrall Attack Castling line (C86) 0-1

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'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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