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February 22, 1931 It's Your Move by William Henry Steckel, Morning Call

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ChessChess 22 Feb 1931, Sun The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

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"IT'S YOUR MOVE" This Morning Call's Chess and Checker Column Problems, Games, Positions In End Games and News Items Will Be Welcomed W. H. STECKEL,' Editor Playing with only four regulars, he Allentown Y. M. C. A. chess team von Its tilth straight victory of the eason In a closely contested match vita the Easton chess team by the core of SVz-VA. Besides playing with mly four regulars, the local club lefaulted one board due to the non ippearance of one of the players. The local club will be very busy luring the next few months. Team natches have been scheduled with leading 2, Bethlehem 3, WUkes-Barre ind the Mercantile Library of Philalelphia pending.
The summaries of the games between Allentown and Easton are as follows: Easton H. Clark, 0; J. B. Acton, 0; 3. D. Heisler, 4; O. K. Keithier, 0; 3. R. Gordon, 1; P. T. Anderson, 0; Rev. Pottschacker, 0; W, Auch, 1; 3. W, Horvath. 1. Allentown H. V. Hesse, 1; W. H. Steckel, 1; A. Turner, W. Shuler, l; J. Harper, 0; L. Heffelfinger, 1; K. Sockel, 1; J. Helfrich, 0; L. Stroh, 0. S. T. Btadehman, Pennsylvania state champion In 1914 was a visitor at the Bethlehem chess club during the past week.
Do not fail to make your reservations for the simultaneous exhibition, lo be given on Thursday evening, March 28. by Isaac Kashdan, of New York. Mr. Kashdan who is now making a tour of the west, writes us that he has recently given exhibitions in Binghamton, N. Y., Scranton and Philadelphia, Pa., Cincinnati, Ohio ind St. Louis, Mo. His total score is 128 won, 6 lost and 18 drawn. An exhibition given by H. V, Hesse at the Bethlehem chess club on Wednesday evening was very satisfactory end interesting to the spectators. Mr. Hesse also gave a blindfold exhibition. The record-breaking simultaneous exhibition given by Jose Capablanca at the Seventh Regiment Armory on this past Thursday a week ago was a great success. Playing against fifty boards, with four men at each board making a total of 200 men that he played against was Indeed a suc-ress for Capablanca won 28 games, drawing 16 and losing on 6. Not satisfied with only one exhibition by Isaac Kashdan In Cincinnati on the 11th of this month, where he played against 31, winning 26, losing 1 and drawing 4 games the chess fans arranged to have him give another exhibition the next evening against 17 opponents winning 16 of these and drawing one. Reading will be in Allentown this Thursday evening to play off the post-joned team match that was scheduled m the 12th between these two teams.
The following is the schedule in the Y. M. C. A. tournament for the week 3f February 23: Geary vs. Steckel, Ftockel vs. Hesse. Campbell vs. Mbrecht. Blllard vs. Warsau, Shuler is. Godfrev. Foley a by. Y. M. C. A. Standing 12'.i 3 H. V. Hes O. Godfrey , IV. H. Rteckel W. Shuler 9 R. Rockel 7 ' C. Oeary S'i A. Warsau , 3'j V. Albrecbt Ji E. Foley Y V. Billiard 6 M. Campbell 0 Bethlehem Chess Club Standlnf Won H. V. Hcse 7 P. Albrecht AVt W. Harris 4 C. Schmidt 4 '.'a C. OKden , 3 E. Schoonover 2 A. Bowker 1 P. Kemmerer 0 C. Panehtanco ,., 0 Dr. R. Bloas 0 So many fans have been inquiring how the correspondence team match Is getting along between the Rensaleer chess club of New York and the Allentown club that the editor has decided to publish the games as far as they have gone. The readers can Judge for themselves lr there Is an advantage for either side. 1 Scotch Gambit ALLENTOWN BLACK P-K4 KT-OB3 PxP B-B4 KT-B3 P-Q4 KT-R4 Q-K2 B3 BxQ PXP Board No.
RENSALEER W HI I E 1 PK4 , KT-KB3 P-K4 4 B-QB4 5 CKT-Q2 6 KT-KT5 7 PxP 8 Cl-K2eh 9 B-KTSch 10 OxQ 11 PxP Board No. Z Huy Lopez ALLENTOWN RENSALEER WHITE BLACK 1 P-K4 JP-K K1-KB3 B-KT5 B-R4 KT-B3 Castles B;B4 P-B3 P-QKT4 B-B2 p92 P-Q4 B-T3 PxP PxP Qx3 KxQ B-KT5 Gam-'! Declined AIXENTOWii 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Board No. 3 Queen's RENSALEER WHITE 1 P-04 Kl-KBJ P-QB4 B-KT5 P-K3 KT-B3 PxP B-Q3 Castles R-B PxP No. 4 Queen ALLENTOWN WHITE 1 P-Q4 KT-KB3 P-K3 P-QB4 KT-B3 B-Q3 KPxP BxP P-Q5 B-KTSch PxP 2 3 4 5 6 7 I 10 11 Board 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 BLACK KT-KB3 P-S14 P-K3 B-K2 P-B3 QKT-Q2 KPxP Castles P-B4 P-QK i A PxP Gambit IWIinril RENSALEER BLACK P-4 P-QB4 KT-KB3 P-K3 B-K2 BPxP PxP KT-B3 QKT-R4 B-Q2 PROBLEM DEPARTMENT. Solution to problems No. 51, by G, Heathcote R-(QB)-B7, No.. 52 by Dr, W. R. Inge Dalton B-08. No. 53 By J. C. J. Wainwright ' Black 7 Pieces m ml ml. m m White 11 Pieces 1.
White mates in two moves. No. 54 By Dr. Emil Palkoska Black 7 Pieces Lost White 5 Pieces White mates in three moves.

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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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