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June 07, 1931 It's Your Move by William Henry Steckel, Morning Call

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ChessChess 07 Jun 1931, 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, Game. Positions in End Games and News Items Will Be Welcomed W. H. STECKEL. Editor With the completion of Its schedule of inter-clty matches, the local Y. M. C. A, chess team closes a successful season, having won each of tha seven matches. The list below shows the standing of the players who participated in the inter-city matches as members of the Allentown team. A. T. Rex, who played first board in several of the matches, turned in the best score. W. L. D: A. Rex 4 0 0 W. Shuler 3 0 0 P. Flickinger 2 0 0 H. Sherr 2 0 0 W. Lumsden 1 0 0 A. Kruse 1 0 0 S. Heath 1 0 0 A. Turner 3 0 2 H. V. Hesse 2 0 2 C. T. Severance .... 3 1 0 W. H. Steckcl 3 0 4 J. Harper 3 2 1 Ft. Rockel 3 2 1 A. Hermann 1 1 0 C. Grarv 1 1 0 L. HefTclflng?r 1 1 0 R. Stroh 1 1 0 A. We!s. 1 ? 1 J. Helfrich 1 2 1 C. Koch 1 2 0 E.
Foley 0 1 0 A gigantic correspondence match, with one hundred boards a side, was recently completed b'tvpn player-. In Kng'and and p'avri- In Ireland. The Englishmen won bv the narrow margin of 50'i to 49'o. Chess enthusiasts on the Pacific Coast are active in promoting an international tourney to be held in conjunction with the Olvmnics in 1932. The meet will probably be under the auspices of the Southern California Chess League, and while the exact nature of the masters' tournament ha not yet been determined It is expected that it will bring to Los Angeles some of the best European and American experts.
An executive committee has already been formed and the members are now engaged in formulating plans for the big event. Edward Everett heads the committee as chairman, and the members include Alexander V. Taylor, Harry Borochow, H. T. Rudisill, Dr. M. Scholtz and Henry MacMahon. Meetings are being held weekly pending the organization of a citizens' committee of one hundred prominent men of Los Angeles and the leaders in chess on the Pacific Coast. While the masters' tourney will be the center of interest, plans are also being laid for other competitions, so that there will be many opportunities for players of all ranks to demonstrate their skill A recent match between the chess teams of the London and Amsterdam Stock Exchanges resulted in a victory for the Dutch players with a score of 11' a to 8' i There were ten players on each side and each pair contested two games. The entire day was required to reach a decision.
Sir Herbert Elllssen. the president of the chess club connected with the London Exchange, presided at the luncheon and dinner. It is reported that the president of Czechoslovakia, Dr. T. G. Masaryk, 'has given his patronage to the eighth congress of the International Chess Federation to be held at Prague, July 11 to 26, under the auspices of the Central Czechoslovakian Chess Association, which will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary at that time. The awards for brilliancy prizes In the New York tournament have just been announced by Leonard B. Meyer. First prize goes to Herman Steiner for 19 i i his victory over Maurice Fox, the Canadian champion, and the second prize was won by Israel Horowitz for the game he won from Frank J. Marshall.
The games follow: IRRFGIXAR DEFENSE STEIN Eft rOX WHITE BLACrC 1 P-4 Kt-BJ 2 IU-KB3 P-K3 3 B-Kt5 P-KRJ 4 BxKt WxB 5 P-K4 T-B4 6 P-K3 C-U 7 P-B3 B-liJ 8 QKt-C2 P:P 9 KUP Ki-E3 10 KtxKt QP:Kt 11 Q-KI4 , Castles 12 Castles W-R4 13 Q-K4 Q::RP 14 B-Q3 P-ICK 3 Ki Q-K3 H-Q 17 Kt-B3 iJ-Hi 18 P-Rj P-KKt4 15 Q-K4 YC-B 20 Q-R7 IC-X 21 QxRP R.sB 22 RxR Q-aach 23 K-B2 CjxR 24 Q-R8ch B-B 26 KUP QxXtP 26 Q-BS Keslgus 7VKERTORT OPENING HOROWITZ MARSHOLL WHITE BLACK 1 Kt-KB3 P-Q4 2 P-B4 Kt-KBj 3 P:P Kt::P 4 P-K4 K'-KB3 5 Kt-B3 Kt-B3 8 B-B4 P-X3 7 P-Q4 B-Kt5 8 Q-Q3 Kt-QR4 9 B-Kt5ch B-02 10 B-Kt5 P-QR3 11 B-;Bch CxB 12 Castles Kit Ca3tles QR 13 QR-B P-R3 14 B-B4 Kt-33 15 P-QR3 BKt 16 RxKt P-KKM 17 KR-QB PxB 18 RxKt K-vt, 19 RxBP R-QB 20 QR-B3 Kxii 21 RxR R-Q 2! Q-B2 KtxP 23 QxPch Kt-Q3 24 P-R3 K-R 25 QxRP Q-Kt4 26 Q-Kt5 Q-Kt.'l 27 Q-B R-KKt 28 P-QKt4 Q-Kt4 29 Q-KB4 Kt-B4 30 Q-K4 43-Q2 31 Kt-K5 QxP 32 QxQ KtxQ 33 R-B4 Kr-Xt4 34 KtxP KtxP 35 R-K4 Kt-B7 36 P-R4 R-Kt2 37 Kt-Kt5 P-K4 38 Kt-B3 R-K2 39 P-R5 P-Kt4 40 P-Kt4 P-R4 41 PxP P-Ktft 12 RxKP R-QKt2 43 Kt-G2 P-Kta 44 KtxP RxKt 45 P-R6 Kt-Q5 46 R-K8ch K-R2 47 P-R7 Kt-B6cli 48 K-B R-Ktflch 49 K-Kt2 Kt-R5ch 50 K-Kt3 Resigns

Recommended Books

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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