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January 03, 1932 It's Your Move by W. H. Steckel, Morning Call

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Chess ChessChess 03 Jan 1932, Sun The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

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IT'S YOUR MOVE V The Morning Call's Chess and Checker Column Problems, Games, Fositions in End Games and News Items Will Be Welcomed . W. H. STECKEL, Editor Dr. M. Euwe. Dutch chess champion and candidate for the world title, gave an exhibition on December 21, meeting simultaneously thirty of the strongest Dutch chess players. Dr. Euwe won seventeen games, lost five and eight were draws. The match, which lasted six hours was arranged by a combination of Dutch newspapers, which conceived the plan after the former world champion Capablanca, had given a similar exhibition here last August. The Polish chess master, Rubenstein, w ho is on a tour of Holland, was tne arbiter. Several hundred fans wt-nessed the contest New York Times. The following is the standing in the tournament of the' Capital City Chess Club of Washington, D. C: Otteu, Knapp, 8-l; Bettlngcr. 9-2; Sullivan, 9-2; C. A. Hesse, 8-3; Hickam; 7-3; Roberts, 5-4; Stark, 46-5; Davis, 4-6; A. Y. Hesse, 3-54; Gleason, 3-..; Simmon:., 3-6; Drysdale, 2-6; Clinton, 3-9; Parsons, 2-10; Clark, 0-11. The following is the standing in the tournament of the Newark Rice Cne&3 Club, of Newark,- N. J.: Parnelee, 3-; D. Meisel, 3-1; Schor, 814-1; Frere, 2-2; Brady, Driscoll and Bau-derman, 2-3; Ungerleider, 1-3; Mosh, 't1. .-, . . , , By playing "a tie in their match with Harvard, Princeton gained the championship of the H. Y. P. D. College Chess League and thereby wins possession of the - Selden-Stephens Trophy. The final standing of lic teams are as follows: Princeton, 7Ji-4; Harvard, 6-6; Dartmouth, 5-6 and Yale, 5-7. The following are the individual scores:' Princeton: McCor-mick, 3-0; Forbes, 2V2'1A; Rothschild, 2-0; Stern, 0-3. Harvard: Mergen-theim and Eaton each, 2-1; Long and Malkan, each 1-2. Dartmouth: Isaac;, 2-: 'Wood, 2-1; Fowle, 1-2; Maratz, 0-3. Yale: Fennell and Leaser, each 2-1 i Strong, 1-2; Borsodi, 0-3. - The following is. the standing -of the Bethlehem Chess club's tournament: Hesse, 10-1; Albrecht, 6-1, Reidelbach, 6-2; Schmidt, 4 -2; Kem-merer, 3-3: Schoonover,. 2-2; Oa-gen, 3-4; Schuler, 2 -3; W. Billi, 2-4; Panebianco, 2-S; M. Brill, 1-i; Bowker, 0-7. By winning the tenth game in the fifteen game match from the Central Pennsylvania champion, H. V. Hesse, of Bethlehem, the editor drew ahead by one point. The score standings 5- 4 in the editor s favor. , . Visitors to the annual chess congress of -the Hastings and St. Leonard s Chess club were treated to a surprise when Dr. Max Euwe, of Amsterdam who outranked Jose Capablanca of Cuba here a year ago, suffered defeat at the hands of Miss Vera Menchik, of Czecho-Slovakia, woman chess champion of the world, in the second round of the International Master' tournament at the White Rock pavilion. Miss Menchik, who also finished her adjourned game from the first round with Isaac Kashdan, of New York and lost it in 45 moves, had the pieces against the Dutch expert. The latter, - too eager to force a victory from what seemed to be an even position, found himself in trouble in the ending, from which he was unable to recover. Miss Menchik was heavily congratulated upon her 'notable success. She holds the championship of the Hastings and St. Leonard's CLess Club. Kashdan adopted the Petroff defense against F. D. Yates, the British champion. The game was adjourned after 35 moves with Kashdan three pawns ahead. The American is expected to win upon resumption. The standing to the end of the second round s as follows: Flohr, 2-0, Kashdan, 1-0; Euwe. 1-1; Menchik, 1-1; Stoltz, 1-1; Sultan Khan, 1-1; Thomas, 1-1; Jackson, 1-1; Mich-ell, -l; Yates, 0-1 New York Times.". Sweeping everything before them, including Columbia, one of the moist formidable of their rivals, the players of the City College took a commanding lead In the championship tournament of the Intercollegiate Chess League, the second and third rounds of which were contested at the rocms of the Marshall Chess club. The following is the standing of the teams: C. C. N. Y., 3-0; Columbia, 2-1; N. Y. U., 1-0; Brown, 1-1; Pennsylvania, 0-1; Brooklyn, 0-2; Pittsburgh. 0-2. Games won and lost: C. C. N. Y., 11-0; Columbia, 6-5; N. Y. U., 4-l; Brown, 6-4; Pennsyl vania, 1-5; Brooklyn, 2 -8; Pittsburgh, -7. In the play-off for the champion ship of the Central Pennsylvania Chess association, H. V. Hesse, of Bethlehem, defending champion, lost his title to A. N. Towsen, of Harrisburg, thus giving the title back to Towsen who Incidentally won the championships in 1927, 1928 and 1929. Correspondence H. G. Martz; Concerning move No. 32 in the game (10th) Hesse-Steckel. The move you suggest would not be advisable. This move incidentally would give me the exchange and give Mr. Hesse the inferior position. ' The following game is considered by Dr. Emmanuel Lasker to be his best played game: Pillsbury tusker- Pillsbury White Westburg, KT-K3. . . No. 133 By A. Wities " ( Black 5 Pieces fed ' Sl White 5 Pieces White mates in three Sir Alfred Yarrow, 89. grand old man of British shipbuilding, Is touring Europe by air. Japan's government steel works will probably show a deficit of nearly $10.- 000,000 for 1931.. A. N. TOWNSEN of Harrisburg, winner of Central Pennsylvania championship chess matches held in AUentown recently.

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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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