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April 12, 1931 It's Your Move by William Henry Steckel, Morning Call

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ChessChess 12 Apr 1931, Sun The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

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"IT'S YOUR MOVE" The Morning Call's Chess and Checker Column Problems, Games, Positions in End Games and News Items Will Be Welcomed W. EL STECKEL, Editor ' The recent cable chess match be tween Indon and Philadelphia has been conceded to the Englishmen by Norman T. Whltaker, captain of the Philadelnhla team. This gives London permanent position of the Samuel W. Insull Trophy. The match was conducted on six boards ana ine uniu score is calculated to be in favor of London. Th drawine lor pairings in the International Tournament to , be played at the Alamac hotel. New York of rin iV niar on Anril 16. The time limit will be forty moves each two hours. Tne tournament, wu ucgui on the afternoon of April 18.
Local chess fans await with keen Interest the games to be played Dy isaac, Frank J. Marshall in this tournament. These games will proviae u uiu , for Kashdan's chess-playing ability. .- VOlnnrtntr Vila stmllltaneOUS eXhibl- cuuuduiq tion in this city on March 26, Isaac t-v.j .n..H fnrtv nnnonents in a Similar display at the Newark-Rice Chess club on Marcn ia. n was 33 wins, 2 losses ana a oraws.
R. S. Goerlich. Bethlehem, has been elected a director of the Western Chess Association (the oldest national w ..i..Hn bavin been or- ganlzed in 1900) for 1931. Goerlich is also president of State Association. the North- f 1111 Q " ' ampton chess team defeated the Nazareth chess team Nazareth Y. M. C. A. . 1931 in ine eiecuuu w -- : the Correspondence Chess League of America resulted as follows:- President, Mrs. W. I. Seaman, Stapleton, a. x.: iirsi vice i)ira"- - -v. .i. nranOa Winn " iur- ond vice president, William J. Bryan, urer, Z. Leslie Hoover, 205 Pomander Road, Mineola, N. Y. Anyone interested in correspondence chess snouia coiniumm;M3 secretary.
The followins game was played during last November for championship of Paris 1930-31.
The notes are from the American Ches Bulletin, urueuiu, 10 11 12 13 14 IS 16 -H. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 11 29 (a) .3: : (ai 30 Q-B2 PxKt Kt.tr 'KtxB P-K4 PxP Q-Q3 P-B4 B-R2 " QR-KB . Kt-K3 ) P-;Q5 S) . Kt-Kt4 -Q-Q4ch KtxP KtxP Q-K4 (J P-Kt4 RxP O-KB ' ' ' R-B7ch. .' en RxRch KtxKt , - - P-KB4 . '. i BxB -Kt-B3 Kt-R4 (b) RxP QR-KB Q-R8 c) KR-B3 P-KKI4 (d K-Kt2 (f) PxP R-B4 P-K4 (h) 43R-B3 (t P-B4 ' R-B2 -R-Kt4 - ,QxBP (k) i RxR Resiirns (it TARTAKOWER " W1U I Zi , 1 P-Q. 2 Kt-KB3 j 3 P-B4 . ' 4 B-Q2 ' 5 P-KKt3 6 B-Kt2 7 Castles . 8 QxB . : 9 Kt-B3 . . ROMI BLACK . KUKB3 P-K3 , B-Kt5ch Q-K2 P-QKt3 B-Kt2 BXB - . Castles Kt-K5 chaneed Knights on.
the tenth move and wvuia now piay vui, du ur. Tartacower must be dlffsrent. (b) The Knijht, thus side-tracked, will be missed later on. . (C) With KVervrhln Of Knm tfili sortie- or the .Queen might be a paying venture, but It turns out otherwise.
. d) Meeting the adversary more than niiwy.. iv r-KKt3 was neces :. (e) While his fellow Knleht la' far from tne scene of action, this piece la busy and . "c5.
"''coaceriingjy active. , x. JL 20 PkP: 21 Kt-Kt4, R-KJ3: 22 Kt-K5, R-Kt2; 23 Q-K4, P-Q3; winnlni' P-KR4; 26 Xt-Q7, g) Opening an Important diagonal for the Oueen. after which there la practically no hope for Black.- - tn( Otherwise White would win the . (i If 24 Q-B4: 28 ICtrP.
Ox je.PfQ. R-Q: 2T Kt-K5 and the BP must fall in due course. UV PT26 PjtP- P- KtxP rB3)J 27 Q-K4, R-B2; 28 OxKt QxBP. etc. ..
The qptn file is so tremendously ?; oi M," '5LerJE. 18 noining to be done. If 29. ...... RKt3; 30 R-B7ch.
RxR: 31 ikxS2?u 5-5fi 2? Q-K3ch, R-KMi, 33 f,v"A: wxc mate. U .Checkmate is forced after 31 .. &"ffv.6' m?n t 32 R-B8ch. K-Kt2; 33 Problem Department No. 62 By C D. Hamilton Black 6 .Pieces. i mi t n White 11 Pieces. ,. White mates in three moves.

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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, 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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