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January 10, 1932 It's Your Move by W. H. Steckel, Morning Call

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ChessChess 10 Jan 1932, Sun The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

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"IT'S YOUR MOVE" The Morning Call's Chess and Checker Column Problems, Games, Positions in End Games apd News Items Will Be Welcomed W. H. STECKEL. Editor Reuben Fine Wins Again Although outplayed in the middle stages, Reuben Fine, C. C. N. Y. captain was successful In winning another game m the tournament for the championship of the Marshall Chess cub. His opponent was H. Ransom Btgelow, one-time champion of Oxford University.
, The latter handled the opening j-er-fectly and played steady until the ending, when he faltered and permitted Fine to win. Fine's score Increased to 8-1, with four more games to be played. The standing of players is as follows: Fine, 8-1; Thoifsen, 6-2; Hanauer. 5V4-2V4: Smirka, 5",-3',2; Bernstein and Santasiere, 5-4; Relnfeld, 4U-2; Cass, 4'4-4V, Grossman, 4-5; Levensteln, 3-4; Dui.t, 3-5; Bigelow, 2-7; Morton, 14-4-i, Croney, Ji-7V4. New York Times.
Kashdan Ties for Chess Lead Isaac Kashdan, of New York, and S. Flohr and Miss Vera Menchik, both representing Czecho-Slovakia, won In the sixth round of the International Chess Master's tournament at . the White Rock pavilion. The American opposing Dr. Max Euwe, of Amsterdam, 1930 winner, played the White pieces against Alek-hine's defense.
Kashdan, knowing tne opening thoroughly, obtained a splendid position and building up a promising attack, was successful In pusiing it to victory. Dr. Euwe was checkmated in twenty-nine moves. The standing of the tourney to the s-n of the sixth round is as follows: Kashdan and Flohr, 5-1; Menchik, -i2-2M?; Euwe, Jackson and Sultan Khun, 3- 3; Stoltz, 2V2-2V2'. Yates, l-3:2; Thomas. 1-4; Michell, 'A-V. New York Times. The following is the standing of the Castle Chess club in their annual tiur-nament of 1931-32: Foley, 10-2, Rockel. 9',i-2',i; Godfrey, 6-3; Baly-jian, m-Ste; Hodgson, 4-7; Snyiiti, 4- 7; Sterner, 3-9; Miller, 2-8. C. C. N. Y. Wins Chess Title With twenty-three victories and one draw out of twenty-four games, giving them a record of six consecutive maxh victories over their six rivals, the City College chess players of the Intercollegiate Chess League in the rooms of the Marshall Chess club. City College finished Its tournament play by blanking N. Y. U. In the fifth round and repeating the same triumph over Pennsylvania. The Phillips trophy, ornamented with chess designs and college colois was presented to Reuben Fine, captain of the C. C. N. Y. quartet. The trophy was won by City College hi 1928 and by Columbia in 1929. President Phillips also presented medals to the members of the champion team, Sidney Bernstein, Robeit Levensteln and Nathan Beckhardt, in Solution to problem No. 133 by A. Witles, Q-KR. No. 134 By Plmenoff and Umnoff. Black, 10 pieces.
White, 7 pieces. White mates in two. addition to Fine. Henry Nissnewite. wno servea as suosutute, dui am nojf participate, received a medal. The final standing of the teams is as fel lows: City College. 6-10, 23Vi-H: Col umbia, 41,a-l12; 13'i-lOVi; Brdwn, 3-3; H',4-12; N. Y. U.. 3-3; 915; Pittsburgh, 2-4; 9-15: Brooklyn, l'i- 4i; 912-14'; Pennsylvania, 1-5; 6-16.
These scores are the matches and games won and lost respectively. New York Times. The following is the standing in the tournament for the class B cham pionship of the Allentown Chess club. Foley, 5-1; Heffelfinger, 2-1; H. Weii- and, 2-2; W. snyaer, 2-2; w. w&i-lltsch, 2-2; McKee, 1-2; Dr. Dreyer, 1-3; A. Guerber. 1-3.
The following game and notes ate from the chess column of the Newaik News
To prevent P-Q4: which, however. White has no Intention of playing on account of the black B bishop. (b) Creating a weakness at K-Kt3; but the modern school was not so well understood twenty-nine year.s ago. c) After much maneuvering Lasker at last catches his less experienced opponent.
(e) For if 55.... K-R: 58 Q-BBrh, winning the Queen. From 'Pillsbury's Chess Career.

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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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