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August 21, 1932 The Philadelphia Inquirer, Chess and Checkers

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ChessChess 21 Aug 1932, Sun The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

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CHESS We understand Dr. Alekhlne has reached Pasadena and will take part In the international tournament scheduled to open August 15. We regret that neither J. R. Capablanca or Frank J. Marshall, the American champion, are scheduled to take part. Therefore, outside of the brilliant.Manhattan champion, Isaac Kashdan, Alekhine will be in a class by himself. We note that P. W. Sergeant, of England, has published a supplement to his third edition of Morphy's games.
The brief work gives Interesting sidelights on Morphy's history. Mr. Sergeant also gives Morphy's annotations to 15 of the games played between La Bourdou-nais and MacDonell. These games Morphy believed were in his time the finest recorded examples of chess. Morphy's notes originally were published in the New York Ledger in 1859.
An English publication states that Dr. Emanuel Lasker on July 10 left London for Hollandafter a prolonged stay in England. He contemplates producing an English edition of his Lehrbuch on the subject of "Conduct in Sport." A ineetiliff of rliesn nlavers wax held recently in Westminster, Eng land, w secure support lor the holding of an International chess tournament at Foulkstone next vear. The meetina was unanimous ly in favor of obtaining the inter- unumiHi eveni ana promises 01 financial support were forthcoming. The 79th annual report of the City of London Chess Club states that the club has lost more members than have been elected during the year.
There are now 69 regular members, 33 country members and 18 juniors. The financial difficulties, which are world-wide, are felt by all of the leading chess clubs, with the possible exception of those In Russia, which appear to have financial support from their Government. G. Stoltz. of Stockholm, recently captured first prize in the Brandenburg Chess Association held at Swinenuende. a German health resort. Stoltz in four of his games In this tournament adopted the King's Oambit, winning three and drawing one, as follows: He won from Rellstab, Brinck-mann, Samenisch and drew with Richter. We now publish his win from Rellstab. King's Gambit Stall: Rellstab WHITE 1 BLACK 1 P-K4 ,lp-K4 2 P-KB4 2 PxP 3 Kt-KB3 3 Kt-KB3ia 4 Kt-B3 4 P-Q4 5 PxP 5 KtxP 6 KtxKt 6 QxKt 7 P-Q4 7 Kt-B3 8 BxP 8 B-Kt5 9 BxP 9 BxKt 10 QxB 10 QxQtbl 11 PxQ 11-R-B 12 B-KB4 12-KtxP 13 Castles 13 B-B4 14 B-K5 14 Kt-K3 15 B-Kt5ch 15 K-B 16 B-Q7 16 R-R 17 BxKt 17 R-K 18 R-Q5 18 B-K6ch 19 K-Kt 19-PxB 20 R-Q7 20 R-KKt 21 B-Q6ch Resigns.
WALTER PENN SHIPLEY-(a) A line of- play adopted many years ago in the Vienna Gambit Tournament. Black does not attempt to support his extra Pawn, but develops his game and in most cases obtains at least an even position. (b) Now that the Queens are off the board. Black concludes he is fairly well out of danger and expects shortly to recover the Pawn that he has sacrificed.
White, however, plays the ending brilliantly and wins a most interesting game. Problem No. 2837 is solved bv Q-KR7. v Problem No. 2888 is solved by B-QB2.
Solutions received from Mrs. K. Adler, George E. Baker, George Bender. L. D. Benner, Harry W. Cohlck, S. B. Conver, Paul J. Clay, J. Dub-belde, Attillo Dl Camillo, James H. Fry, Russell Fry, Perry Stewart Fle-gel, Horace O. Faunce, Harry W. Gundel, E. M. Grimm, John Hannah, J. W. Harris, Kenneth Herster, Joseph W. Halberstadt, William Raymond Halberstadt, E. Carleton Jameson, H. L. Jameson, Roberts Lowrle, Frank Lakatos, George F. Meeter, 'Karl V.. Nygaard, Paul F. Reber, Sr.. Louis B. Scott. John Schwabenland, Sigmund Twersky, Charles Willing, L. S. Walle and Z. M. Zook. Problem No. 2891 By J. Dobrusky BLACK THREE PIECES 2 WHITE SEVEN PIECES White to play and mate In two moves. WHITE K at QKt7; Q at KKt4; R at Q4; B at, Q8; Pawns at QKt4, QB4 and Q2. BLACK K at K4; R at KB7; B at K2. Problem No. 2892 By G. Nemo BLACK White to play and mate In three moves. WHITE K at QB7; Knights at QB2 and,Q6; Pawns at QKt3 and Q2. BLACK K at QR4; B at Ksq; Pawns at QR3, QKt2 and KB2.

'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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