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November 15, 1931 It's Your Move by William Henry Steckel, Morning Call

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ChessChess 15 Nov 1931, Sun The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

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"IT'S YOUR MOVE The Morning Call's Chess and Positions in End Games and W. H. STECKEL, Editor la the first round for the cham pionship of the Marshall Chess club. New York City, three games have been, decided so far, the results: Tholfsen, 1, Smirka, 0; Reinfeld, 1, Dunst, 0; Hanauer, 1, Bigelow, 0. The Hungaria International Chess blub of New York City had their first annual entertainment and dance at 828 East Eighty-sixth street.
A team match was scheduled and played between the Empire City Chess club and the City College, both of New York City. The City College of New York defeated the Hungaria International Chess club by the score of 9-7. A recent master's tournament at Bucharest in which five of the best players in Roumania toolc part, result-er as follows: Herland, 5'2; Mendelsohn, 4i; Lowenton, 4; Wechsler, 3!2, and Taubmann, 21-. United States Champion Frank C. Marshall and Erlcng Tholfsen gave a "tandem" simultaneous exhibition at the Columbia University Faculty club.
To those who never had the pleasure of seeing such a performance we will explain what thi3 means. A "tandem" exhibition means that the two tandem players make alternate replies to the moves of their opponents but must not consult with each other before or after their moves. At an exhibition given by Reuben Fine a member of the Marshall Chess club at the Ninety-second street Y. M. H. A., he was more than successful, winning nineteen games and drawing one. In the first two games that were played by the Central Pennsylvania champion and Lehigh Valley champion, H. V. Hesse of Bethlehem and W. H. Steckel, of Allentown, respectively, the latter won the first game and the second game ended in a draw. As two games are played each weekend the results will be published in I the daily and evening papers (Monday) of each week. We suggest to all who wish to enter the Central Pennsylvania Association tournament which is held this year in Allentown to make their reservation with the editor as soon as possible. Appended are three more games : if Checker Column Problems, Games, News Items Will Be Welcomed from the recently concluded tourna ment atBIed: Alekhine's Defense Stoltz Colle Stoltz .CoUe Blar RPxP BxB Kt-K4 B"R3 Kt-CWch QxB Kt-K4 R-B4 PxPe.O. P-B7 K-Kt Q-Kt7 BxP RxR QxOch White Blacc 1 P-K4 Kt-KBS 2 P-K5 Kt-Q4 3 P-OB4 Kt-Kt3 4 P-B5 Kt-04 5 Kt-QB3 KtxKt 6 OPxKt Kt-B3 7 Kt-B3 P-KXt3 8 B-OB4 B-Kt2 9 B-B4 Castles 10 Q-Q2 P-Kt3 11 P-KR4 P-KR4 White 17 P-KKt4 18 QR-Kt 19 KtxB 20 B-K4 21 BxR 22 K-Kt 23 P-QB4 24 Q-B3 25 P-B4 26 R-K 27 RxKt 28 R-KB 29 Q-Q3 30 QxB 31 Q-Q3 12 Castles OR P-K3 13 B-KK15 P-B3 14 PxBP 15 Q-B2 16 B-Q3 BxP O-K K.-K.VZ KeSlKuS.
Irregular Defense Nim- Nim- Zowitsch Black P-R3 P-Kt3 Kt-B3 Colle White 1 P-Q4 2 Kt-KB3 3 Kt-B3 4 P-K3 5 B-03 6 PxB 7 Castles 8 R-K 9 P-K4 10 PxP 11 P-Q4 12 PxP 13 B-B4 14 B-Kt3 15 KtxKt 16 Q-K2 17 K-R 18 QR-B 19 B-B4 20 P-K5 21 RxB 22 P-OR3 23 R-O 24 OR-Q3 25 P-R3 26 B-B2 27 B-B5 28 B-K3 29 RxR 30 RxR 31 Q-Q2 32 BxQ. 33 K-Kt 34 K-B2 35 K-K3 36 P-OR4 zowitsch B!aclc Kt-KB3 P-03 B-B4 QKt-Q2 BxB P-B J B-K4 Colle White 38 K-Q3 39 P-R4 40 P-KKt3 41 B-Q2 42 B-K 43 B-B2 44 B-K 45 B-B2 46 B-K 47 B-Q2 48 B-K 49 PxP .r B-B2 if P-Kt3 52 RPxP 53 B-K3 54 PxP 55 K-B3 56 K-Q2 57 K-B3 59 K-B3 r8 K-Q2 60 K-Q2 61 K-B5 62 K-Q3 64 K-Q2 63 PxP Kt-a Kt-K3 Kt-Kt2 Kt-R4 Kt-Kt2 Kt-K Kt-B2 P-QKt4 PxP Kt-K3 P-Kt4 PxP PxP K-B3 K-Q2 K-K2 K-B2 K-R4. K-Kt3 K-Ktf K-B4 P-B3cti K-K3 PxPch P-BS Kt-Q5cn K-Q6 Kt-Kt4 Kt-5 Kt-B6 P-B7ch J-B2 B-K2 PxP Castles Kt-Kt5 B-E4 OKtxP KtxKt OR-O B-Q5 S-K2 Kt-Kt3 BxKt P-KB4 R-Q4 KR-Q Q-K3 Kt-K2 P-OR3 Kt-Kt3 KR-Q2 RxR OxR OxQ K-B2 K-K3 K-04 P-B4 P-Kt3 Kt-K2 65 K-K2 66 B-B 67 K-O 68 B-R3 69 B-B 70 B-R3 71 B-B5 72 K-B Resigns. Kt-U7 37 B-K Caro Kann Defense Nim. Nimzowitsch Black ,B-Kt5 OR-B1 Asztalos White 1 P-K4 2 P-04 3 Kt-QB3 zemitsch Black P-OB3 P-Q4 PxP Asztalos White 20 P-Q5 21 R-Bl 23 R-B2-B1 2J Q-KB2 24 P-R3 25 KR-Q1 26 RxR 27 K-R2 28 Kt-B5 29 R-Q2 30 Kt-K3 31 B-Bl 32 K-Ktl 33 R-Ql 34 QxQ 35 0-Kt6 36 P-KKt3 Resigns. Q-K4 P-R3 B-Q2 Q-Kt4 RxR Kt-K4 R-B8 P-KKt3 BxP B-Q2 B-Kt4 OxKt RxK Kt-Kt5 BxB 4 KtxP Kt-B3 5 KtxKtch KPxKt 6 P-OB3 B-3 7 B-Q3 Castfes 8 Q-B2 P-KR3 9 Kt-K2 Q-B2 10 B-K3 Kt-Q2 11 Q-Q2 R-Kl 12 Kt-Kt3 B-B5 13 Castles KR BxB 14 PXB Kt-Bl 15 R-B2 Q-K2 16 P-K4 17 P-OR3 18 OR-KB1 19 PxP B-K. 3 P-OB4 PxP Kt-Kt3.

'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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