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April 10, 1932 The Philadelphia Inquirer, Chess and Checkers

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ChessChess 10 Apr 1932, Sun The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

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Isaac L. Kashdan. champion of the Manhattan Chess Club and one of the leading players of this country, has accepted an Invitation by the California players for a masters' tournament to be held this year. A Consultation Chess Tournament is now In progress at the Mercantile Library. Seven teams consisting of two players on a side have entered.
The tournament will be a one-round affair and one game Is to be played weekly. So far the games played are as follows: Winkelman and Ruth won from Beucler and Oedance, Sack and Gordon defeated Martinez and Huntsberger, Weiner and Levin won from Drasln and Levin and Bauder and Dl Martino drew a bye. The League Tournament In New York is progressing according to schedule. The Marshall and Manhattan Chess Clubs lead with a score of seven wins and no losses. The Marshall Club, however, leads In the number of games won, with a score of 47S win and 7 losses, compared with 44 wins for Manhattan players and 12 losses.
Third place Is held by the team of the Hungarian Workers. The other clubs known to our players here, namely, the Rice Progressive Club, the City College Club and the New York University, are considerably further down in the list. V.'e give below an Interesting and Instructive game played by J. C. Archer, Jr., a strong South African player.
The game was played In a recent tournament for the championship of the Durban Chess Club. Archer has won this championship four times in the last six years. The notes are taken from B. C. M. Greco Counter-Gambit J. C. Archer, Jr. E. C. Hooper WHITE BLACK 1 P-K4 2 Kt-KB3 3 KtxP 4 P-Q4 5 Kt-B4 6 Kt-B3 1 P-K4 2 P-KB4 3 Q-B3 4 P-Q3 5 PxP 6 a-Kt3 GENET AITS DOLMEN1 IROOE' LESS STEEDS. ISOLl'TIO TO I.AHT Rl'Ml.tT'S CHESS AND 'BY WALTER 7 B-B4(a) 8 P-Q5 9 PxP 10 KtxPch 11 QxB 13 Kt-Kt5 13 Kt-B7ch 14 B-B4ch 15 KtxR 16 Castles QR 17 Q-Q8 18 QxKUQ8)ch 19 Kt-B7ch 20 R-Q8, mate 7 P-B3 8 B-B4 9 KtxP 10 BxKt 11 Kt-B3 13 Kt-K2 13 K-B2 14 K-Bsqb 15 QxP 16 Kt-Ksq 17 QxBP 1 KxQ. 13 K-Bsq (a) Following the excellent example of Sir O. A. Thomas, who played this move against Tartakover at Spa, 1926, the game continuing 7 Kt-KB3; 8 Kt-K3, B-K2; 9 B-B4, P-B3; 10 P-Q5, P-Kt4; 11 B-K2, P-Kt5; 12 Kt-R4, B-Q2; 13 P-QR3.
Black's reply in the present game leads to an immediate catastrophe. ib) Black might as well resign now. B-K3 obviously avails him nothing. Problem No. 2849 is solved by Q-Qsq. Problem No. 2850 Is solved by B-Q3. Solutions received from: Mrs. K. Adler, O. William Althen, George Bender, George E. Baker, A. H. Beck-man, S. B. Conover, Philip P. Driver, Harlan A. Downer, Leon L. L. Fager, Russell G. Fry, Horace C. Faunce, E. M. Grimm, John Gebhart, A. A. J. Grant. Stanton Gebhart. J. W. Harris, Robert W. Gottlieb, Kenneth Herster, I. Reber Longacre, William Raymond Halberstadt, Nathan Lazo-wich, George 8. Middleton, Raymond T. Murphy, Carl Metz, Karl F, V Nygaard. E. S. Perkins, Paul F. Reber, Sr., Elwood G. Stewart, Earl Sheeley. A. N. Tschekaloff, Walter E. Wolflnger, Gwilvm Williams, Albert Whiteman, John Wilkinson, Jr., Charles Willing, John M. H. Hamilton and Ralph Paul Fisher. Problem No. 285S that Problem No. 1354 was not BLACK FIVE WHITE ELEVEN PIECES Whit to play and mate In two moves. WHITE K at Ksq; Q at KKtsq; R at KB3; Bishops at QKt8 and KKt6; Knights at QR6 and K3; Pawns at QRJ, QR7, K5 and KR4.
BLACK K at Q5; Knight at KB8; Pawns at QB3. QB5 and KR4. CHECKERS P1SN.N 8HIPLET Problem No. 2854 , By M. Havel BLACK TURKS! PIECES WHITE POL'R PIECES White to play and mate In three moves. WHITEr-K at QKt2; Q at QS; Knights at Ksq and K4. BLACK K at KR8; B at QKt2; P at KKt7.

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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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