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December 03, 1932 Chess Games-Problems by Paul L. Cromelin, The Daily Argus, Mount Vernon, N.Y.

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ChessChess 03 Dec 1932, Sat Mount Vernon Argus (White Plains, New York) Newspapers.com

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Paul Cromelin Boards 1 0 Sviga Is C I undeliii8 0- 0 0 odd Rye SharC Schamach MacG regor Larson Wendling to attend vis-club brought chess players for play have new and ' better I a Visitor’s Night The Mount Vernon Chess - Club will hold its second open house of the season tonight A record attendance is expected at the clubrooms 9 South Third Avenue Last October invitations itor’s night at the forthmore than 50 Since then facilities been increased equipment has been added and the season's activities have begun Two hundred invitations have been sent out and all who like the game are welcome to attend As the main feature Dr A A Blasi will play simultaneously against the first ten visitors who sign up against him regardless of strength.
This exhibition will begin at 8:30 o’clock Club Tournaments Play in the championship tournament to decide the first title- holder for the new Mount Vernon Chess Club will begin Saturday December 10 instead of on Tuesday as announced in this column last week Every Saturday will he tournament night from December 10 until the close of the round robin play A secondary tournament will engage the interest of those not yet in the championship class and there will be a women’s tournament Westchester I eague ' Last Saturday the Westchester County Chess League played the Connecticut Chess League in a 17 board match at Bridgeport Conn The county contingent was compelled to take the short end of a — 7 ‘I score after a long hard battle The' box score follows: - The Mount Vernon Chess Club was the meeting place last night for a match between the Rye Chess Club and the Holsatia Chess Club of Yonkers.
The Holsatia team won on the first two boards The third at midnight was adjudged a win for Holsatia which also won on the fourth and sixth to take the match by a score of 5-1 Hol satia played white on tne boards Complete results: leavers listed first in each 1 M Scharf 0 E Sporkman 1 A Ceruzzi 0 K Schmidt 1 S Schamach 0 R Stack 1 B Tiu-bin 0 W Ebrech 1 Dr Geo Webster 1: O Strobl 0 Charles Svigals 0 I latt 1’ Next riday the Mount Vernon Chess Club is scheduled to play Rye at Rye - ’ Problem Department - Problem 9 by rank Janet besides being a superlative composition is in a class by itself inasmuch as no pawn of cither color is to be found on the board Only those who have ever tried to compose can appreciate the labor involved in perfecting such an idea Take out word for it that the feat Is superlative and that it is more than likely that no other problem of its kind exists The key move Is of the “waiting type” involving a move of the White King Only 1 K-R7 is sufficient Black has a defense to all others by check Again r V C ” -whn WC I UOUl L LU U A w been in the habit of sending us sus-rather apt summations on the I CHESS Games — Problems. various compositions that have ap- peared 'this season Of Janet's work he writes “Zugswang for Black Doldrums for White with only the King free Every Black piece in the pose was a part of a key-stone the dislocation of one causing the fall of the whole In other words Black to move White to mate” Correct solutions were received from A J Bastine J ' C A C Eckert and red Higgins.

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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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