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February 14, 1932 The Philadelphia Inquirer, Chess and Checkers

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ChessChess 14 Feb 1932, Sun The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

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CHESS AND CHECKERS David J. Weincr announces that the annual Pennsylvania State cham pionship tournament will be held on Sunday, February 21, at 9 A. M at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Philadelphia. Three rounds wlU be played that day and two rounds on Monday, February 22. Further rounds will be played on the succeeding Saturdays at the Mercantile Library.
All chess players residing in the 8tate of Pennsylvania desiring to enter the tournament should promptly notify M, Weiner, care Mercantile Library Chess Associa tion, 16 South Tenth street, Phila delphia. Mr. Weiner also is organizing a Phil adelphia Chess League, play to start probably in March. The following clubs have indicated their intention to enter a team in the league, namely: Mercantile Library, First German-American, Fox Chase and University of Pennsylvania. We trust Mr. Weiner's endeavors to reorganize the Philadelphia diess League will prove successful. Rubin Fine, the brilliant chess champion of Uie City College Club of New York, is leading In the Marshall Chess Club championship tournament. The match between Rudolph Spiel-mann and E. D. Bogoljubow has resulted in a win for Spiclmann, with a score of S Va to 4'i.
We give below an instructive game nlaverl hv Rt.n.uh Mlntlrnwciri r Philadelphia, last summer in a match with J. A. Anderson. Mlotkowski adopts the old-fashioned attack in the French nefins nf 3 P.ifi a line of play that has been scrapped and then resurrected a number of times in the last fifty years. We give SDeclal attention tn Mlntknwakl's note (a), as well as his note (e).
S. Mlotkowski BLACK 8 Kt-R3(c) 9 Kt-B2 10 K-Bsq 11 B-Q3td) 12 HxKt 13 P-KKt3 14 P-KR4 15 KtxKt 16 K-Kt2 17 P-RS(ei IS P-QKt4 19 Q-Kt3 20 B-Q2 21 P-R4'f) 22 KR-QKtsq 23 BxB 24 QxQ 25 RxP 26 R-Kte 27 QR-Ktsq 28 P-R5 29 Kt-Kt5 30 R-QB 31 R-Kt5 32 R(Kt5)-Kt6 33 P-K6 34 R(Kt6)xB 35 P-K7 36 P-K8IQ) 37 Kt-B7 38 Q-Q7 39 Kt-Qfl 40 KtxKtP 41 Kt-B5(ch) 42 Kt-Q3 lit WALTER 8 Kt-B4 9 B-Kt5fch) 10 P-KR4 11 B-Q2 12 PxB 13 B-K2 14 Kt-Kt5 15 QxKt 16 O-O-O 17 Q-KU 18 K-Ktsq 19 B-K3 120 R-QBsq 21 P-R4 22 BxP 23 QxB 24 PxQ 25 R-B5 26 KR-QBsq 27 KR-B2 28 K-R2(g) 29 B-Bsq 30 RxP 31 B-Q2 32 B-B3ih) 33 P-B3 34 RxR(i) 35 RxR 36 R-QB5 37 R(Q3)-B3 38 P-Q5 39 R-Kt5 40 R-B7 41 K-Rsq Resigns. I'KNM aHIPLET Problem No. 2827 By T. Meister 1 BLACK SKVBN PFBCBS Willie 1 P-K4 3 P-Q4 3 P-K5 4 P-QB3 5 Kt-KB3 8 B-K2a) 7 PxP J. A. Anderson 1 P-K3 2 P-Q4 3 P-QB4 4 Kt-QB3 5 Q-KL3 6 PxP 7 KKt-K2(b) DIITRI I MA M C Ml''' I I VII IN AS lA.MfjA'NE: B iv rut jukiao B.; J' Fl SE'RAC e p; 1 AL T O iONE UMP SI I R OTE LES tNT ALOEyiF ' .1" I LLlAt T!OlLTT:N B OLITION TO TESTEROAI'I PI UU (a) This is better than B-Q3. because after PxP; 7 PxP, B-Q2, White, must play B-K2 and Black in reply to 6 B-K2 has nothing better than exchanging Pawns. (b) If B-Kt5(chJ; 8 Kt-B3 and now KKt-K2 can be answered by either 9 O-O, Kt-B4; 10 Kt-R4 or 9 P-QR3. (c) Played in a similar position, except that Black's Queen's Bishop was at Q2 by Mackenzie against Burn.
The usual move i P-QKt3. (d) It is doubtful if this is better than the usual course, P-KKt3, followed by K-Kt2, but it relieves White of all anxiety regarding his Queen's Pawn. (e) The attack here Initiated does not yield anything'; P-QKt3 was an alternative. (f) Or KR-Ktsq first . (g Best, for If White is permitted to push Pawn to R6 and exchange Pawns and Rooks, Black's Bishop woudl have been of small use in the.
AMdlA UVUi all on Black squares. v ih) This loses; B-Bsq should have drawn. (I) If PxR. 35 R-Q7. K-Ktsq; 36 P-K7, R-Bsq; 37 R-Q8.
Problem No. 2833 is solved by P-Q4. Problem No. 2834 Is solved by R-KB8. Solutions received from: Mrs. K. Adler. O. William Althen, George Bender, George E. Baker. A. H. Beckman. 8. B. Conver, King R. Castle. Philip P. Driver. Harlan A. Drwner, Leon L. L. Fager, Russell Q. Fry. E. M. Grimm, John Gebhart, Stanton Oebhart. J. W. Harris, William Raymond Halberstadt, Nathan Lazowich, Harry Jennings, Jr.. Carl Metz, R. Murphy, Frank L. Muehl-man. Kirk Naylor, Nathan Nicholosn, Paul F. Reber, F.lwood G. Stewart, Emery Serfoza. Edward Strobel, Alfred Scipione. Jr., A. N. Tschekaloff, Gwilym Williams. T. K. Worthing-ton. Charlee Willing and Donald Wilkin. , tA y u w 5 ' M rnm a pm ia' WHITE B1QUT P1ECK8 White to play and mate in two moves.
WHITE K at KR8; Q at KR6; B at KKtsq; Knights at QR2 and Q4; Pawns at QR5, QKt3 and K4. BLACK K at QB4; Q at QR8; B at QKt.4; Knight at KR2; Pawns at QB3, KB2 and KKt4. Problem No. 2838 . By M. Havel buck-five pieces "I "'5 vfs" n rJ F t pj kl IrnJt 'Hi S-.A : Jl L l 'JL t & r9 H ( ,M " 4 a M ' J t ffl A ' A 'A J i' -1 j ti I't ; 1 Mf tm tut -f'i BLACK 1, 6, King 21. WHITE 14, 25, 30, King 16. Black to play; White to win.

'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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