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January 18, 1931 It's Your Move by William Henry Steckel, Morning Call

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It's Your MoveIt's Your Move 18 Jan 1931, Sun The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

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"ITS YOUR MOVE" The Morning Call's Chess and Checker Column Problems, Games, Positions In End Games and News Items Will Be Welcomed W. IL STECKEL, Editor Local Team Oefeats Penn Traveling to Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon, the Y. M. C. A. chess team won Its fourth straight victory of the season by defeating the University of Pennsylvania by the score of 6-2. The match was played In Houston Hall, Philadelphia, and was witnessed by a large gallery of Interested spectators. A. Itex again led the local boys to victory with another beautiful and Interesting game. His very presence seems to inspire the team to win.
With his presence in every match the team Is going to try to keep their record of this season Intact with no tosses, In other words an undefeated leason. , The results of the games played Saturday are as follows t'nlv. of Fi-nn V. M. C. J. E, Dunois H. V. Hrsse . . . , W. H. Sieckel A Hrx W. H. Shirr A. Vis E. Foley a. P. Baiiy .. .. P. B. Driver. Jr. 0 0 H. li. rintciiiie r. J. Warner .K. Warner ... 0 R. S. Driver . . 0 D. B. KtmniPlinan 1 I N. VnnrierPfjne 'j J. Himen Arthur Dake of Portland, Ore., won the championship of the Marshall Chess club on Sunday, January 11. Ahen he scored his last game in the fifth round of the finals. His opponent was D. Bentz.
Starting the ninth and final round with a clear lead of one point, Dr. Max Euwe of Amsterdam, made certain of first prize in the International tournament at the Hastings Chess Festival by drawing his game with Sir George Thomas In seventeen moves. The results of the final standing are as follows: ' Von Dr. Euwe " , Sultan Khan f Michcll 5,, Vines 4','a Thomns 4 Winter 3Vi Menclilk 3 Tylor 3 Cnlle 2'i Lost 3 4 4,'i 5 5Vi 6 fi 6'i The Y. M. C. A. chess team traveled to Easton on Friday cvenng to play the Easton Chess club in a ten-board match.
At the time of going to press the results of this team match were not available. We have added three new chess columns to our exchange list In the last few weeks. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, edited by H. Helms, who also is editor of the American Chess Bulletin, the Newark Evening News by George P. Northrop and the Cincinnati Enquirer by Dr. P. G. Keeney. The fourth and fifth rounds of the Lehigh Valley Checker tournament provided keen competition. In the fourth round; William Collan defeated Charles Geary by winning two, losing one and drawing one, and R. Kemmerer defeated Howard Brown by winning three and losing one. In the fifth round, Howard Brown defeated William Collan by winning two and drawing one. and Otto Zanger defeated R. Kemmerer by winning three. The sixth round will be played today between II. Brown and O. Zanger. The following is the schedule in the Y. M. C. A. tourney for the week of January 19: Godfrey vs. Billiard, Hesse vs. Stetkel, Albrecht vs. Foley.
Warsau vs. Roekel, Shuler vs. Campbell, and C. Geary vs. a Bj. Ciruitrey W. Ricrkel Y. Shu.er C. Corny A. VV'ursnu P. Rockol , P. Alhrecht E. Foley M. Campbell , V. Tmii.ird The following game was played at the Marshall Chess club in a simultaneous exhibition given by Frank .1. Marshall soon after his return from Europe: Danish Gambit F. J. MARSHALL a. c. rimonson WHITE BLACK 1 P-K4 P-K4 2 P-Q4 PxP 3 . P-QH3 . PxP 4 B-PB4 PxP 5 BxKTP P-Q4 fi BvOP KT-KB3 7 KT-OB3 . QKT-Q2 fl KT-B3 B-K2 9 Castles Castles 10 Q-K2 11 KTxKT 12 QR-Q1 13 HxT 14 KH-QB1 15 K-Q3 16 KT-K5 17 KT-KT 18 Q-B2 19 Q-B3 20 QxB For if 20 PxQ: 21. 22. BxP mate: 19 .... P given Black an easy win. KTxB KT-B3 KTxKT Q-Kl , B-K3 P-QB4 Q-KT4 BxKT B-K3 . " B-B3 Resigns R-KT3ch. K-Rl: -KB3 would have PROBLEM DEPARTMENT Solution to problems No. 43 by A. C. White P-Q 5; 4, No. 44 by Dr. P. G. Keeney R-Q-K, 2. No. 45 By C. H. Latting Black 6 Pieces. White 7 Pieces. White mates In two moves.
No. 46 By C. H. Lattlng Black 3 Pieces. " if m 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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