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November 17, 1937, Evening Star, Washington, District of Columbia Chess by Paul J. Miller

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ChessChess 17 Nov 1937, Wed Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com

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By PAUL J. MILLER. Jr. WINFRED HORN, acting director of the General Tournament of the Social Chess Divan, computes the standings of the respective players: Odd Section. W. L. Pet. D. E Brand 3'2 '2 917 R. J. Fuglister_O'a 1 'a SIS E. E. Williams _it 2 .000 Henry Reil _it 3 .300 F. W Gleason_2'a 2'. .300 J. W Dubin_l'a 2'a .373 L W. Ferris_l'a 2'a .373 Maud Sewall _l'a 3'2 .30(1 J. SkefBngton _1 3 .250 J. Chmielewskl_1 5 .107 Mrs. H. E. Kittredge -0 1 .000 Even Section. W. L. Pet. is.ennem biuoos -n - * Vincent Saporito_fi'j l a Conrad Willnich _S 2 ..1* J. G. Fairchild -- _4 2 .««. Winfred Horn _ 4'i 2'a .*43 Raymond Lewis_3 2 son Joseph Tishler_—3 3 .300 W. L. Elledae _1 3 .230 H. Lybrand — _« 1 'iOO J. H. Terrill ... —ft 4 .000 0 U. Thompson_o S .oon M. Applebaum _ft * oft0 Robert Feeney drew with Anton Hesse in the championship tourney of the divan: Walter Jacobs and William Reynolds are tied for premier honors with two points each: while trailing the leaders are Carl Hesse and Simon Naidel. Colonials in Tourney Parties. ENTHUSIASTIC Aubrey Fuller. *ecretarv of the Omar Khayyam Chess Club of George Washington University reports that round No. 1 of the' college intraclub tournament for a book prize has resulted in these tallies: Section 1. Adelson, Brisebois, 1 >i; Dougherty, 0; Ervin, 3; Fuller, 0; Gonzalez. I; Brisebois, 0; Ervin. 1. Section 3. Seganisch, 0; Schleshinger, 3: Tate, 0; Derr, 3. Section 3. Elliot, 1; Kniffln, 1. Players are paired Into three sections of eight each, every contestant engaging every other player with alternate black and white men.
Victors in the respective sections will enter a round robin play-off. Tomorrow evening Deiween o ana 11 o’clock Columbian House, the Okay chessists will commence round No. 2. The championship tourney has been advanced to the spring months. President E. W. Kunkle of the Paul Morphy Chess Club has arranged simultaneous exhibitions of tandem skill at 1508 Fourteenth street N.W., featuring Vincent L. Eaton, problemist, and chess champion of the Morphy aggregation, and W. H. Mutchler, chess and checker writer.
The public is welcome to attend the entertainment tomer* 0 choose to engage the complementary players are advised to fetch their own equipment. Interhigh Yields to Divan. TNGLORIOUSLY the Interhigh Chess Association quintet, in the Metropolitan Chess Association team tournament for the District championship, went down In defeat before the Social Chess Divan by the score. 4-1. two of the interhigh losses being forfeits.
Chairman Alexander Sturges says the M. C. A. successfully has finished its second annual interclub fray with all teams playing strictly according to the announced schedule. Top honors fell to the Paul Morphy Chess Club, which becomes District team champion for the second consecutive time, winning last year under the pennant of the War Department Chess Club.
Individual scoring in the final round: „ Interhiffh vs. Divan. Robert Hostler n Carl Hesse 1 Samuel Bess _1 Simon N'airiel of; Doe 0 Anton Y Hesse l Melvin Bers-o Gen. B Bosoljubov l M. Doe _o Winfred Horn 1 1 4 All members of high school clubs will hold a special rally this Sunday, 3 p.m.
Parkside Hotel, at which conclave formal plans of the winter interhigh tournament will be announced. DR MAX EUWE, victorious in the seventeenth game against Challenger Alexander Alekhin In defense of the world title, is now within two points of the challenger’s lead. The eighteenth game is booked for play tonight at The Hague. Current standing: Alekhin, 6; Euwe, 4; drawn, 7.

'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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