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June 19, 1932 The Philadelphia Inquirer, Chess and Checkers

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ChessChess 19 Jun 1932, Sun The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

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We are advised by the general committee of tho Chess Congress of i.)2 that an international tourna ment will be held this summer on August 15 to August 29, at Pasa dena, Cal. Among the probable contestants are the following: Dr. Alekhlne, Frank J. Marshall, Isaac Kashdan, Arthur W. D'ake, Samuel Reshevsky, H. Horowitz. H. Steiner, Samuel Factor and last but by no means least Robert B. Griffith. It was a pleasure to note that this brilliant Callfornian still takes an interest in the game.
Many years ago he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania and made art enviable record In this city as a player of marked ability. President Leonard B. Meyer has awarded the brilliancy prize hi the Metropolitan Chess League to F. J. Marshall for his game against Gladstone, of the Rice Progressive Club, President Meyer stating that In this game the American champion Is seen at his best and the final mating combination Is reminiscent of the Marshall of years ago.
The Mercantile Library team captured first place in the Philadelphia Chess League for the season 1931-1932. D. G; Weiner, of the Mercantile Library, had a clean score of five wins, and S. T. Sharp, the State champion, won five and lost one.
J. Levin, also a strong player, won four and lost none. The score of the clubs follows: Won. Lost. Mercantile Library.... 29 7 Masters ,, 27 9 Baker 21 15 Oerman-American .... 16' i 19'i Central City 13 22 West Philadelphia .... 9'4 2fi4 University of Penna.... 9 26 We give this week a brilliant game taken from a recent work by Messrs. W. H. Watta and Philip Hereford published In this cilv, entitled "Every Game Check Mate." Nearly all of the games occurred In the master tournaments of the postwar period. The following game was played at Stockholm in 1919: King's Gambit iBreyer Var. England E. D. Bogoljubow, E. Jarobsen, R. Ret! and G. Nyholm and R, Spielmann. J. Olson.
WHITE BLACK 1 P-K4 1-P-K4 2 P-KB4 ' 2 PxP 3 Q-B3ta 3 P-Q4(b) SOI.CTION TO YF.STERUArS PUZZLE CHESS AND BY WALTER 4 PxP 5 Kt-QB3 6 B-Kt5ch 7 P-Q4 8 KKt-K2 9 O-O 10 Q-B2 11 KtxKt 12 KtxP 13 B-QB4 14 P-KR3 15 BxB 16 QxKt 17 QR-Ksq 18 R-K5 19 P-KR4 20 Q-K3 21 RxP 22 R-K7 23 RxR 24 RxKKtP 4 Kt-KB3 5 B-Q3c 6 QKt-Q2 7 0-0 8 Kt-Kt3 9 B-KKt5 10 Kt(Kt3)xP 11 KtxKt 13 P-QB3 13 B-B2 14 BxKt 15 KtxB 18 B-R4 17 Q-Q2 18 B-Kt3 19 BxP 20 QR-Qsq 21 RxR 22 Q-Rsq 23 K-Rsq 24 KxR White mates In two moves. (a) This consultation, game was played to test the "Breyer Gambit," or rather the form of the K's Gambit resurrected by that great chess genius. The Idea Is that since Whitens attack Is to be made on the KBP, he will do well to seize the file at once and not obstruct the Q by Kt-KB3. (b) Black can also continue with 3 Q-R5ch; 4 P-Kt3. PxP; 5 PxP, Q-B3; 6 Kt-B3, with a better game as analyzed by Rett. Or can continue with 3 Kt-QB3. and on White replying PxP, Black should reply according to Tarta-kower with 4 QxP. Kt-B3; 5 Kt-QB3, Kt-QKt5, etc. c P-B3 Is belter here, offering a P for a promising attack.
Problem No. 2869 Is solved by R-QB8. Problem No. 2870 Is solved by R-K2. Solutions received from: Mrs. K. Adler, George E. Baker. George Bender. L. D. Bennch, Harry W. Cohick. S. B. Conver. J. Dubbelde, Attilio Di Camlllo, James H. Pry, Russell O. Fry, Peggy Stewart FlegeL Horace O. Faunce, E. M. Grimm, John Hannan, J. W. Harris, Kenneth Herster, Joseph W. Halberstadt, William Raymond Halberstadt, E. Carleton Jameson, H. L. Jameson, Karl V. Nygaard, Carl.Metz, Kirk Naylor. Paul F. Reber, Sr., John Schwabenland, A. N. Tschekalon and Charles Willing. Problem No. 2873 By W. A. Shinkman White to play and mate in two moves. WALTER PENN SHIPLEY WHITE K at QB3; 0 at KKt2; B at KB3; Knight at Ksq and KB2; P at QB2.
BLACK K at K6; R at KR8; Knights at KKt8 and KR7; Pawns at K7 and KB5. Problem No. 2874 by J. Moller BLACK FOUR PIECES White to play and mate in three moves. WHITE K at QR7; Rooks at QKt6 and KRsq; Pawns at QR3 and QKt-3.
BLACK K at QR4; R at KB6; Pawns at Q5 and KB2.

'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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