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September 04, 1932 It's Your Move by W. H. Steckel, Morning Call

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ChessChess 04 Sep 1932, Sun The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

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"IT'S YOUR MOVE" The Mornln Cxll'i Chess Column Che-w Queries, Problems, Games and News Items Solicited. By W. H. STECKEL Alekhine Wins Pasadena Tournament ' Winning seven, losing one and drawing three games, Dr. Alexander Alekhine world's champion made a score ef 814-2' to annex first place in the International master's tournament held at the Hotel Maryland in Pasadena, Cal.
Isaac Kashdan of New York with a score of 7 4 -3 '.4 placed second winning five losing one and drawing five games. His only loss was to the cnampion in the ninth round. .Arthur Dake of Portland, Ore.;, goes the honor of defeating the champion in a game that went to 38 moves. Holding this victory Dake had to share tne lamplight with Reuben Fine and Fred Reinfeld both of New York and Samuel Factor of Chicago, the three scoring draws against Dr. Alekhine.
At a farewell dinner prizes were awarded to the first and second place winners and Arthur Dake, Samuel Reshevsky and Herman Steiner who tied for third, fourth and fifth places. The Rev. H. E. Ohman of Omaha and Miss Levleve Hines of Beverly Hills victors in the minor tournament and woman's competition, respective- 1v olcn x?to hnnniaf4 Captain J. Araiza of Mexico City, in behalf of his . country, accepted the silver cup oifered as a trophy for the winning of a team match between Mexico and California. Final Standing won lost Alekhine 84 24 Kashdan 74 34" Dike 6 5 R6shevsky 6 5 Steiner 6 5 Borochow 54 54 Bernstein 5 6 Factor 5 6 Fine 5 6 Reinfeld 5 6 Araiza i 34 71- Fink t3 8" Chess Champion Has Nemesis Generally speaking. Dr. Alexander Alekhine, world champion, who recently engaged and annexed first prize in the master's tournament at Pasadena, has no reason to dread any ol the many able opponents with whom his active career has brought him into contact.
With very few exceptions he has conquered them all, some with more or less difficulty and others with consummate, ease. Nevertheless, the world champion seems to have a nemesis. It is one of the Swiss experts who is not exactly in his class, but gets there just the same. Prof. O. Naegeli of Berne, enjoyed the great good fortune of winning from the champion in a small, unofficial competition arranged during a visit of Dr. Alekhine to that city earlier In the year. Dr. Alekhine did not regard that tournament as very important and feels that the game in question should not be taken too seriously. Prof. Naegeli met his famous opponent again in the international tournament held during the last two weeks In July at Berne. It was in the thirteenth round and the world champion fn the lead, was well on the road to achieving highest honors which eventually came his way. This time Prof. Naegeli obtained a draw. Had he made the most of a glorious opportunity ,which presented itself at Problem No. 163 By E. Plesnivy Black 11 pieces. sJ js fegy tut Mi W M 111 m ml trM jf Mj mi m iIm tMt femes' m m, White 11 pieces. White mates in three. White K on KR3, Q on QKT2, R en Q7.
KTs on KB 6 and KR6, Ps on KR4. KB2, Q2, QB4, QB5 and QKT3.. Black K on K3. Rs on QR and QR2 "Bs on QB and KR7, Ps on KB5, KB6, K2. QB2. QB3 and QR4. . BLACK his thirty-eighth turn he might have repeated his earlier triumph by forcing checkmate in three moves by sacrificing his queen. It was not to be and the chamDion escaped by the skin of his teeth. (New York Sun) The score of this eventual game will be published in our next issue.
With a clean score of 6-0, A. Herrmann, former city champion, won the weekly rapid transit at the Y. M. c a. Other scores were: W. H. Steckel. 5-1; W. Shuler, 4-2; E. Kocher, 2-4; V. Benner, 2-4; L. Buss, 2-4 and W. Hodgson, 0-6. . By scoring victories in the fourth and fifth games in the matcn witn Albert Weiss of this city, Charles Koch, also of this city, now leads by the score of 4-1.
The following games are from the recently concluded tournament held at the Hotel Maryland, Pasadena: Queen's Pawn Onenine Araiza Alekhine Araiza Alekhine At this stage the game was adjourned, Kashdan won upon resuming.

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'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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