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February 04, 1933 Chess Games-Problems by Paul L. Cromelin, The Daily Argus, Mount Vernon, N.Y.

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ChessChess 04 Feb 1933, Sat Mount Vernon Argus (White Plains, New York) Newspapers.com

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CHESS Games— Problems By Paul L Cromelin and the next week PROBLEM NO 19 Black — - 6 Pieces Rook have done better CHRISTIAN SCIENCE a two-week re was '8 15 495 RxN more last be White — 6 Piece White Mates in Two three and one-half White Plains which his the the 1 0 0 0 60 60 IOO Black The Readers 23 ’29 'an ’30 ’3030 ’29 BARNHART vs KRIEGER : v We have received a request that the game between John W Barnhart and Milton Krieger from the Club Championship play be published It had been our intention to include this game in today’s column but an incorrect score kept us from doing so The game will appear next Saturday Votes in the Reader’s Game must be in the office of The Daily Argus by Wednesday of each week What will Black’s sixth move be? Cast your vote! The Chess Editor White the White more threatening might 58 to play B-R5 followed releasing the White King The lead- 7 — 0 J J Casa- Solutions ninst be In the Daily Arjrrm office by the second Wednesday following publication The theme will be described two weeks after publication Problems ' The key-move for Problem No 17 is 1 R-Kt4 a waiting move and illustrating a “masked'pin”.
The main variations follow 1 R-B8-and 1 P-Q in which case the White Kt “unmasks” a pin by the Queen Correct solutions were received from A J Bastine J C (Your suggestion is timely We are trying to do ’ something' about it) Michael J Lyons Ben W McCready (I can not find (he score Let's start all over again Your move!) and JohnC Rolff it of be 3 to S ECON DA UY TOURNAMENT ’ Albert R Dwyer maintained unbrbken score and the lead in secondary tournament at Mount Vernon Chess Club by winning from Martin Reimer last Thursday night J J Casagrande continued his ’series of upsets by winning from Dr B M Scholder and holds second place ers: A K Dwyer grande 6 — 1 Dr 5—2 Starting today cess in the secondary play will interrupt the tournament to allow unplayed schedules to be brought up to date At the conclusion of this interval the eighth and ninth rounds will conclude the tournament County League The Mount Vernon Chess Club added another point to its total of wins in the county matches last night' by defeating White Plains 7M-2M One more point was undecided at 1 o'clock in the morning The t?am left then leaving Max Hacker still at play The match concluded the second round Next week Mount Vernon draws a bve the third and final round will be gin With a point lead on is in second place with a score of 4-4 the indications are that' the county title will' come to Mount Vernon at the end of the tournament.
The result in order of boards is as follows: (Mount Vernon players listed first and playing the White pieces on odd boards) Meyer 1 Sharrard 0 Blasi 1 Hofmann 0 Krieger 0 - Svigals 1 Hacker Blake unfinished Barnhart Strom "0 ’ Brenneis 1 uhs Cromelin Dotsch Loftus Brown 1 oley 1 Kershaw Davis 1 Sheffield 0 Casagrande 1 Peinlich 0 LOWEST P It I C E D CHEVROLETS Whits: Kim? nn KX5 Quen on Bishops on KB and KN7 Knljhls on KI ami QS Black: King on QI: Kooks on QB1 and QR5: Knights on Qys and QR6 a Pawn THE READER’S GAMEThe diagram gives the position in the Reader’s Game after Black’s move 5 BPxP and Whites 6 BPxP Tne game appears to be opening up ive ballots were cast for Black’s fifth move with - no less than four divisions of opinion J J Casagrande and E Dayton cast the deciding votes A R Dwyer preferred N-B3 R Loftus B-N5ch and M J Lvons suggested QN-Q2 Kenneth S Howard East Orange N'J! a composer well’known to the readers of ' this column has sent a few of his old two movers.
He : writes: “And’ when I have some new and sound two-movers I’ll make some further contributions” The first of the three follows 3' Small down payment— Eaev inance KOGER SMITH TOURNAMENT ' Entries in the tournament which will decide the individuals county champion are beginning to trickle in H Schipf of Mount Vernon and Eldorous Dayton of New Rochelle already have signified their intention to play While the match will not begin until March 17 an early application to take part will greatly facilitate the arrangements ‘ for play Send in your application now to Hy ox Roger Smith’ Hotel White Plains Marcn it) is the day on which entries will accepted The Roger Smith tournament inaugurated last year Max Hacker of Mount Vernon won the title and the distinction of being the first recognized county champion His name was engraved on the Roger Smith trophy which became his property for a year This year Hacker will defend his title and in the event of a successful de fense will have to win the trophy a third time lor permanent possession Y M C A On riday Paul L Cromelin will play simultaneously at the Y M C A on South Second Avenue ‘Mount Vernon against all comers from the boy’s group After the play discussion and explanation of the game will be given.
CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT By virtue of Hacker’s draw with Stevens lat Sunday Milton Krieger’s lead for the championship of the Mount Vernon Chess Club has increased to a full point Not entirely because of the draw however With monotonous regularity Krieger added the point to his score by winning from Dotsch Barnhart drew a bye this week The leaders: M Krieger 8 — 0 ’M Hacker 7 — 1 J W Barnhart' 6‘S — 1!£ ' ' GAME NOTES On his strengthens dcring We don’t understand White's 25th Surely 25 R-QB threatening and B-K5 would have been troublesome At move 32 again would be at QB White at move by B-K froip the defense of the NP And we can not understand the draw clearly except that the combatants might have tired by this time by - KENNETH S HOWARD The alkirk Herald (Scotland) March S3 1927.

'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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