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January 01, 1978 The Sacramento Bee, The Chess Column

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Biker Doesn't Fit The StereotypeBiker Doesn't Fit The Stereotype 01 Jan 1978, Sun The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, California) Newspapers.com

The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, California, Sunday, January 01, 1978

Chess by R. E. Fauber with Frank Garosi
Chess Players: Biker Doesn't Fit The Stereotype
THE STEREOTYPE of chess as an effete game for the anemic and underweight is slow dying. In fact chess provides pleasure and a creative outlet for all types and sizes of people. There is a sense of completeness about the micro-world of chess.
One of the leading players and organizers in the Bay Area illustrates this perfectly. A stocky, muscular character, Max Burkett travels to tournaments on his bike and swaggers to the registration table swinging his crash helmet. In Oakland they call him Motorcycle Max.
Burkett is not a person to be treated flippantly. He likes his beer and his Scotch in generous quantities and while some people treat chess tournaments as though they had just taken the Crusader's vow, Burkett refuses to stop living at night just because he has another game in the morning. He might be a higher-rated player today were he not vulnerable in morning rounds. By evening he is a tiger, but in the morning he sometimes succumbs as the result of living not wisely but too well.
Burkett's lifestyle, for all its colorful aspects, centers around chess. He publishes bulletins of the games of Bay Area tournaments, directs tournaments, and cooperates with anyone who is trying to give chess a boost. If you want to do a macho number, do not perform the rendition around Burkett — he'll floor you; but if you want to play chess or help promote it, Burkett is a perfect gentleman.
His current project is to organize the master and nearmaster players into an association to encourage quality tournaments and chess in Northern California. To have more time for this, for tournaments and his bulletins, he recently relinquished his job with the post office and now derives his non-chess income from a newspaper delivery route. One pictures him zooming crash-helmet on his bike through the streets of Oakland, hurling papers at high speed and bellowing: “Check, check, and double check!”
Over the board, Burkett is known for his deep opening knowledge and a preference for getting a wrestler's bind on the opponent and crushing him. He is most vulnerable when he sacrifices material, but here he coaxes a risky variation to victory.

Victor Baja (white) vs. Max Burkett (black)
Ruy Lopez: Open, Dilworth Variation

Victor Baja vs. Max Burkett, 1977

Descriptive
1. P-K4 P-K4
2. N-KB3 N-QB3
3. B-N5 P-QR3
4. B-R4 N-B3
5. O-O NxP
6. P-Q4 P-QN4
7. B-N3 P-Q4
8. PxP B-K3
9. P-B3 B-QB4
10. QN-Q2 O-O
11. B-B2 NxKBP(a)
12. RxN P-B3
13. PxP BxRch!
14. KxB QxP
15. K-N1 QR-K1
16. N-B1(b) N-K4
17. B-K3 NxNch
18. PxN QxKBP
19. B-B5(c) B-R6
20. QxQ RxQ
21. N-N3 R-K4!
22. B-B2 P-N3
23. R-K1 RxR
24. BxR P-KR4(d)
25. B-Q1 R-B2
26. B-K2 P-R5
27. N-R1 R-K2!
28. K-B2 B-N7!
29. KxB RxBch
30. K-B1 RxNP(e)
31. N-B2 RxRP
32. N-N4 K-B2
33. B-R4 P-B4
34. B-B2 P-N5
35. PxP PxP
36. K-K1 K-K3
37. B-N3 K-B4
38. N-K5 K-K5
39. N-N6 P-Q5
40. K-Q1 P-Q6
41. N-K5 P-N6
42. N-B4 P-N7
43. N-Q3 K-K6
44. N-B4 K-B6
(f)
0-1
Algebraic
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bb5 a6
4. Ba4 Nf6
5. 0-0 Nxe4
6. d4 b5
7. Bb3 d5
8. dxe5 Be6
9. c3 Bc5
10. Nd2 0-0
11. Bc2 Nxf2(a)
12. Rxf2 f6
13. exf6 Bxf2+!
14. Kxf2 Qxf6
15. Kg1 Re8
16. Nf1(b) Ne5
17. Be3 Nxf3+
18. gxf3 Qxf3
19. Bc5(c) Bh3
20. Qxf3 Rxf3
21. Ng3 Re5!
22. Bf2 g6
23. Re1 Rxe1+
24. Bxe1 h5(d)
25. Bd1 Rf7
26. Be2 h4
27. Nh1 Re7!
28. Kf2 Bg2!
29. Kxg2 Rxe2+
30. Kf1 Rxb2(e)
31. Nf2 Rxa2
32. Ng4 Kf7
33. Bxh4 c5
34. Bf2 b4
35. cxb4 cxb4
36. Ke1 Ke6
37. Bg3 Kf5
38. Ne5 Ke4
39. Nxg6 d4
40. Kd1 d3
41. Ne5 b3
42. Nc4 b2
43. Nd6+ Ke3
44. Nc4+ Kf3
(f)
0-1

(a) This variation is generally considered inferior to the even wilder 11. … P-B4; 12. N-N3 B-N3; 13. QN-Q4. The two pieces should be better than the R and P, but White is still underdeveloped and so Black gets pressure.
(b) Q-B1!?
(c) Because 19. QxQ RxQ; 20. R-K1 B-R6; 21. B-Q1 RxNch; 22. RxR RxB.
(d) White has the two Bs, but they are not very active. Black's task is to maintain the bind until he is ready to break in. This presents a few technical problems which Burkett solves succintly.
(e) And not 30. … RxRP N-B2 trapping the R out of play.
(f) 45. Resigns

'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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