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

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

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Your Move a of sub- 1s a Ave- took Yon- In the Yonkers match Seymour Israel had to me a very interesting game with A Strobl Israel playing Black in the Sicilian defense lost his game which however did not cause me to lose interest in the positional qualities continued: Q-R4 QR-Q Kt-Ql RxKt R-Q5 BxR QxP advantage second move Kt-KB3 B-KKt5 few more moves Q-B K-Q R-Kt Kt-Kt5 KtxB K-Q2 QxKt P-KB3 B-Q3 Resigns The preceding material begins my weekly colum In The Daily Argus I will be very interested In any comments or criticisms which may be aroused in the minds of the readers of my offerings Problem composers are invited to send In their compositions and I will endeavor to have all of them published Send in the solution to the problems printed In this column The solution to this week’s problem and the names of the solvers will be published in two weeks This will give you plenty of time to And the answer 5 6 P-K3 7 PxP ‘ 8 B-QKt5! save Kt-K5 he controls 14 to White’s 11 besides having gained two moves I believe the resultant loss of position is due to his last move for the following reasons.
Upon analysis we find that White’s Pawns on the K side are weakened and Problem No 1 WHITE: K on QB2 B on KB8 R on KR8 Kt on KR6 BLACK: K on QR8 P on QR7 B on QR6 White to move and mate in 3 Last riday night the Club an the Holsatia Chess Club of kers in a return match and lost by a score of 4 to 5 The result was published in The Daily Argus last Saturday the Q Black has a direct attack on the K’s position therefore it seems plausible that he should continue his attack in the center while attempting to further weaken White’s K side Therefore I suggest: 12 O-O-O bringing another piece to bear on the B which cannot be defended in one move Black now has all of his pieces but one developed on the center while White has yet to move 3 of his After B-K2 or B2 Black takes the Q and if White retakes with the B Black gains material by B-R3 If White retakes with the R Black's development is such that he should win me game 13 Kt-bs 14 B-KB4 15 Q-B2 16 KtxKt 17 B-K4 18 P-KKT4 19 PxB 20 QxB And after Black resigned Notes About the Mount Vernon Chess and Checker Club Group 11 L Davis 1 Miss H Taylor 0 Miss H Eolis 1 J MacDonald 0 Mrs B W McCready 0 Charles W Caley 1 ' M J Lyons 0 S Blumenson 1 In group 1 matches between John Cromelin and Martin Har-kavy and betwecjfi H Schipf and the writer were postponed and will be played at a later date.
In group 11 the match between Mrs Paul L Cromelin and Al Rothenberg was postponed due to the tardiness of Mr Rothenberg and Mrs Cromelin played her scheduled sixth round match with Mrs red A Schroeffel Mrs Cromelin playing the black pieces engineered a mate in 102 moves Next Thursday’ night the following matches are scheduled: group 1 — Dr B M Beholder J M Cromelin H Bradbury M Har-kavy R J Reichert Ben W McCready P L Cromelin Dr A A Blasi S Israel H Schipf Group 11: S Blumenson Mrs I’ L Cromelin C W Caley Jr M J Lyons J MacDontd Mrs B W McCready Miss Helen Taylor Miss H Eolis Mrs A Schroeffel Louis Davis The first named in each pair will play the White pieces Anyone who may be interested in watching the play is cordially invited to attend the session tomor row night at 36 South irst nue rom the first round of the Club's own tournament I picked out the following game one that effects the desired result in short order.
BLACK IL 1 Reichert P-Q4 KLQB3 ? By PAUL L CROMELIN The Mount Vernon Chess Club had two busy nights last week On Thursday the first round of the first annual intra-mural chess tournament was played with the following results: Group I Dr A A Blasi 1 R J Reichert 0 B W McCready 1 H Bradbury 0 S Israel 1 Dr B M Scholder 0 creates a weakness on the Q side one which ject to prompt attack j P-K3 KKtxP Q-Q2 necessary to niece but then follows 9 B-B4 10 KtxKt KtxKt 11 BxKtch K-Q2 12 BxR and Black should lose 9 Kt-K5 10 BxKtch 11 KtxB 12 Kt-K5 13 P-QR3 14 KtxKtch 15 KtxRch 16 Kt-B3 17 P-K4 18 P-K5 WHITE Dr A A Blasi 1 P-Q4 2 Kt-QB3 3 Kt-Q2 Taking quick Black’s unique 3 4 P-QB4 5 Q-QKt3 And Black Editor’s Note: The Daily Argus will have available in the near future a problem chart for the more expedient handling of chess that his KB is defended only by problems in this column which depended on his twelfth move The game follows: WHITE BLACK Slrohl Israel 1 P-K4 P-QB4 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-QB3 3 P-Q4 PxP 4 KtxP P-K3 5 P-QB4 Kt-KB3 6 KtxKt ' KtPxKt 7 B-Q3 T-Q4 8 BPxP KtPxP 9 PxP QxP 10 0-0 B-Kt2 11 P-B3 -B-B4 ch 12 K-R 0-0 ? This variation of the Sicilian seems to develop a strong position for Black Of the 16 center squares.

'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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