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September 11, 1932 It's Your Move by W. H. Steckel, Morning Call

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ChessChess 11 Sep 1932, Sun The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

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The Mom In t Call' Chess Column Chew Queries, Problems, Games and News Items Solicited. By W. H. ST ECKEL Editor Wins Central Pennsylvania Championship Although outplayed in the middle stages in the game with David Houck, of Reading, W. H. Steckel was able to recuperate from an embarrassing situation by an error in the ending on. the Reading representative's part thus giving, the initatlve .to your editor, who was able later to announce mate In J;hree moves, and at the same time gain the championship of the Central Pennsylvania Chess tournament which was held last Saturday, Sunday and Monday at the Hotel Sterling, Wilkes-Barre. David Houck, of Reading, and H. V. Hesse, of Bethlehem, placed second and third, respectively.
A. N. Towsen, of Harrisburg. last year's champion, was tied for fourth place with Lester Keyser, of Berwick, and Kenneth Williams, of Wilkes-Barre. In the minor tournament held in conjunction with the regular tournament, two Macungie players, Leslie Buck and Henry Martz were prize winners.
Both represented Allentown. The former winning first place and the latter tied for second place with C. Valentino, of Wilkes-Barre. At a meeting following the fourth round matches on the second day of the tournament, it was decided to publish a book of the major tournament with Lester Keyser, of Berwick, the editor. Election of officers were held with the following elected to office for 1933; David Houck.
Reading, president; W. H. Steckel, Allentown, vice president; and Lester Keyser, Berwick, secretary-treasurer. - - The following are the standings of the major and minor tournaments: Major Won Lost W, H. Steckel 6 1 (Allentown) D. E. Houck S 1 (Reading) H. V. Hesse 4 2 (Bethlehem) 4. . A. N. Towsen 3V4 34 (Harrisburg) . L. Keyser 3M 3hi (Berwick) ' K. Williams 3',4 " 3VS (Wilkes-Barre) L. Schimpff 1 6 ' (Scranton), R. Gabriel - 6 (Reading) Minor - -. Won Lost L. H. Buck 4 1 H. G. Martz 34 1 C. A. Valentino 3"-, 1 M. J. King '. . . . 3 2 R. Murphy 1 ' 4 J. Smith ...... 0 .
5 The weekly rapid transit tourney of the Marshall Chess club -was won by Leon Rosen, who had a score of 10-1. David Polland, who was leading up to the final round, lost to H. R. Bigelow in the final and thus had to be content with second prize, g-l'i. Other prize whmers were: H. R. Bigelow, 7-4; Irving Chernev, T. A. Dunst, W. Grafman and Matthew Green, 6-4.
Dr. Alexander Alekbine, world hess champion, and winner of the recent international tournament at Pasadena, faced twenty-six opponents in a simultaneous exhibition at the Los Angeles Athletic club. He defe.ate.4 twenty, drew four and ' lost to Dr. Moses Scholtz and J. MacBride.
Mir Sultan Khan, the East Indian expert regained the annual championship of the British Chess Federation from Frank D. Yates, the victor last year at Worcester. This time the event was staged in London. This marks the Indian's second triumph in three attempts for he previously held the British champion- Problem No. 164 By A. Gunblat. Black 8 pieces. m ill - mi pistm ot t mm wM : ill'- - IB ' SM i White 7 pieces. White mates In two moves. White K-QR8, Q-QR7, R-QR3, Bs QR2 and KR2, KTs on QKT4 and QB5.
Black K on Q5, B on KKT3, KTs on KR4 and QKT, Ps on KKT2, K6, QR3 and QR4. 'it'W!! II'.. m m m.u tfr'TjL rjk-mpm wrss.vA ww m m m m & mil j jz. mm id AA.n BLACK J ship for a year after winning the title at Ransgate in 1929. "P Pan.Klonlraf nmrt th. sit tourney held at the, Y. M. C. A. ob oaiuraay aiternoon. tie iook over seven of the eight games he played thereby having almost a perfect score. W. Shuler. of Nazareth, placed second with W. Saul, of Allentf wn, third. , The following games were played in the Central Pennsylvania Chess tournament conducted at Hotel Sterling, Wilkes-Barre: Queen's Gambit Declined H. V A. N. H. V. Hesse ; Beth'hem While 19 B-Q3 20 R-Q4 21 B-OB4 A. N. Hesse Beth'hem White Towsen Harris'rg Blnrk P-Q4 P.K1 Towsen Hrrls'r HlnrC Kt-B3 Kt-Q4 Q-K!8rh KlxB Ktxil KI-B6.

'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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