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

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

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"IT'S YOUR MOVE The Morning Calll Chess and Checker Column Problems, Games, Positions in End Games and News Items WO! Be Welcomed W. H. STECKEL. Editor Maintaining the hleh-class form he has displayed all along since he left New York, Isaac Kashdan, champion of the Manhattan Chess Club, made what must be regarded as a brilliant showing while visiting Missouri, Nebraska, and Minnesota on his way across the continent to attend, the California Chess Congress in August. His first stop after leaving Chicago was at Minneapolis, where he encountered twenty-seven opponents in an exhibition of simultaneous play.
The opposition was strong and three sue ceeded in winning from the New Yorker, who also allowed a draw. He won 23. Next he visited Omaha, where 40 lined up against him. Kashdan defeated 38 of the remaining games, he arew one ana lost one. Swinging back mi at. ixmis. Kasnaan again encountered 40 at the Marquette Hotel. His score there comprised 36 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. The next evening, he lectured in the auditorium of the Bell Telephone building. A day later in the same place he played five consultation games winning all but one.
Arnold Herman and Harry Lew in partnership drew their games. Kashdan wound up at the Missouri-Pacific St. Louis Chess Club, making a clean sweep of 13 boards. The following are the scores of his simultaneous play in each city. (New Yonc sun) Reiding 37 37 Wiikes-Barre, 10 19 Scranton 21 20 Binghamton ... 21 20 Allentown .... 60 57 Philadelphia ..24 18 Harrisburg ... 17 16 Cincinnati 29 26 Chicago 17 15 Chicago 19 16 Omaha 40 38 Minncanolte 27 23 St Louis 40 36 St. Louis, 5 4 St. LouU 13 13 Total 389v 358 Lost 0 1 0 0 1 4 O 0 1 1 1 3 2 0 0 14 Drawn 0 0 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 0 17 man, 8. F. Treybal, 7; E. D. Bogoljubow, 6Vi, Pokorny, Shi; K. Opocen sky. Walter 5; Bohacek, 4; May, 3 tngei, 3. Sidney Bernstein and Leon Rosen, each with 7-1, won the two top prizes in the weekly rapid transit tourney of the Marshall Chess Club. Herman Helms, 6-2, took third prize A team match of ten boards was played at the rooms of the West Side Chess Club the home team defeated Brooklyn Central Y. M. C. A. by the score of i-2j,. The editor was the guest over the nonaays oi Kainael senano, wen known architect of Philadelphia and in connection with the editor's visit a gathering of chess players were present and participated in a simultaneous blndfold exhibition.
The following are two of the three games that tne editor played simultaneously while blindfolded. Steckel Senano White Black 1 P-K4 P-K4 2 P-Q4 PxP 3 B-B4 Kt-QB3 4 Kt-KB3 B-B4 5 Castles Kt-B3 6 P-K5 P-Q4 7 PXKt PXB 8 R-Kch B-K3 9 Kt-KtS Castles Sfeckel White 10 Q-R5 11 PXP 12 RXB 13 KtxPch Senano Black P-KR3 PXR K-B3 14 QXPch K-B 15 Kt-Kt5ch K-K lfl Q-Kt6ch KQ2 xi w-iits mate Steckel Meeney Eteckel White Black White 1 P-K4 P-K4 6 Ktxo 2 B-B4 . B-B4 7 BXR 3 Kt-KB3 Kt-K2 8 P-Q4 4 Kt-Kt5 Castles 9 BXP 5 Q-R5 P-KR3 Meeney RXKt K-K BXP Resigns Salo Flohr, of Prague, Czechoslava-kia, and Dr. Milan Vidmar, of Lu-biana, Jugoslavia, divided first and second prizes in the international tournament at Sikac, Czechoslovakia. Both tiered 9'i-3.
The other score, were Vasja Pirc, 8V4, Geza Ma-rcczy, E. Canal and Rudolph Spiel- PROBLEM NO. 155 Prize Problem No. 14 By XV. VON FITTLER Black 11 Pieces Here is drawn game Dlayed by R. S. Gabriel, of Reading, against Isaac Kasnaan in a recent simultaneous ex- hibition held in this city. Mr Ga briel drew this game by perpetual check but later analysis shows a forc ed win for this gentleman. casnnan oaonel Kashdan Black P-K4 Kt-KB3 Kt-B3 B-Kt5 P-Q4 B-Kt5 KtxP BxKtch WXB White 1 P-K4 2 B-B4 3 Kt-QB3 4 P-Q3 5 P-B4 6 PxQP 7 Kt-B3 8 BxKt 9 PxB 10 Castles 11 R-Kt JJL ;gj El -J? 1 if& ifilv m ml iTtn White 10 Pieces White Mates in Moves Solution to problem No. 12. K-B3. Standing of solvers: H. Peters. 10; R. Fatzinger, 19: A. Guerbsr, 10; E. Gardner. 9; H. Martz. 8; L. Buck, 8; F. Jackson, 8; E. Knoll, 6: R. Kessler, 6: L. Buss, 4; W. Wallitsch. 3; E. Lords. 2; W. Carlisle. 2; V. Benner, 2; P. Flickinger, 2; E. Jainet, Drawn by per- .
KtxP; 27. R-K2. KxBand Black should win Gabriel Black BxKt PxQP QxP Kt-R4 R-Qr Q-B4 QxP 0-R7eh Q-Kt6ch une lonowing game played on March 2, 1929, between the Mercantile Library and University of Pennsylvania Chess teams is considered by aamuei urasin wno at that time played board one for the college team to be his best played game. King's Gambit Mlotkpwskl Drasin Mlotkowski Kt-Kt3 mate. Stiles Ramblers Travel to Seidersville for Sunday Game On Sunday the Stiles Ramblers will travel to Seidersville where they will play the strong Seidersville A. A. These are two of the strongest Class B clubs in the Lehigh Valley and a good game is expected. The game will be called promptly at 3 o'clock.

'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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