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November 15, 1942 Los Angeles Times Chess by Herman Steiner

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ChessChess 15 Nov 1942, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com

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CHESS BY HERMAN STEINER INTERNATIONAL CHESS MASTER Address All Mail to the Chess Editor Nov. 15, 1942 L A. TIMES PROBLEM 147 Bt X. A. L. Larsen (1st Pr.) White mates In two. Wh. 7; Bl. 7.) L A. TIMES PROBLEM 1348 By W. Lyon (1st Pr.)
QUEEN'S PAWN OAMX Vnrkaplch Hufnairt, Vorkaplch Black P-OB4 P-K P-Q3 B-K2 B-N4 PxP N-Q2 N-K4 K-B BxN BxB P-B5 White 1- P-Q4 2- P-QS 3- P-K4 4- B-Q3 5- N-K2 6- P-KB4 7- NxP 8- 0-0 9- B-NSch 10- N-Kbch 11- PxB 12- QxB White 13- N-BJ 14- B-Q7 15- N-Q5I 15-PxN 17- RxPch 18- F.xN 19- K-R 20- Q-B4 21- B-KB7 22- QxRch 23- P-K7 24- Q-Bich Hutnaiel Black P-QRi NlNi-Bl NxN NxB? K-NT Q-N3ch P-KR3 R-KB RxR K-R3 QxP Reslmi GR0UP A W. L. 5 4 Cohen Finkelsleln. . Vt 't Vorkaplch . 3 'a Za Henderson Borochow . Hoerber , . Everett ,. Hufnaeel . Dob.sevnue Fortl Lenk Martin ... Platuch ., Fielding ,. Oellert, ... Luban .... W. L. Schlei(er ... IVt 't Weles 1 0 , Wolf! ' Chernls ... 0 1 Light 0 I Relnhardt .0 1 Aronson ... 0 2 Polland ... 0 GROUP B 3i V4 Coswell .... 1V4 l1 3 1 Pollycove ..1 0 3 1 Paine . 1- 1 3 3 Riser 1 1 2's 4's Towbln .... 1 3 , 2 0 Collin ','s 2t 2 1 Adler 0 1 2 4 Dunaway . . 0 2 OROUP C Mako Hanf Look Harrison Sr. Ulnch . Dalsko .... Erlckson Jr. Erlckson Sr. Lleberman . 1 Bromberg . . 1 Fotre Jr.., . . 0 Fotre Sr. ..0 Ferer 0 Gordon ... 0 Harrison Jr. 0 Laykin .... 0
HOLLYWOOD OPEN LADIES CHAMPIONSHIP W. L I W. l!Mrs. Farley.. 0 1 Mrs. Adler. .. 0 2 Mrs. Hoerber. 0 3 , Mrs. Look ... 0 3 , Mrs. Stein . . 0 llMrs. Marx .. 0 Mrs. Roos ... 4 Mrs. Harrison 4 Mrs. Berkow. . 4 Miss Borochow 2 Miss Batsch . 2 Miks Durnerln 1 Mrs. Williams 1 Mrs. Chernls. 0 7! Mrs. Vorkaplch 0 Whits mates In three, (Wh. 12; Bl. 8 1
SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 1343 N-B3. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 1344 B-ON3. We received solutions from the following: Dr. R. H. Wilson. Rev. P. Prlchard. C. P.,Ford. J. E. Tyler, W. B. Tudor, R. H. Hays. B. Bushueff. Mrs. P. Tovar. W. Har. mon. F. Mamaretten, O. A. Hall. J. Menkes, M. Moiris. H. Bruhn, A. D. Reynolds Sr., A. s. wens. tapt. N. Maximov, M.c. J. Davidson, L. A. Salsado, J. O. Dodge. M. Rudholm. E. W. Fassett, D. M. Poole, E. H. Quayle. J. P. Walsh, C. B. Collins. W. C. Noltina. O. 8 Peck. M. Morris. E. E. Ragland, J. C, Drake, S. J. McConnell.
KOLTANOWSKI SIMULTANEOUS BLIND FOLD CHESS George Koltanowski. world's blindfold chess champion, will again visit Los An-seles and be guest of the Hollywood Chess Group at 10H N. Formosa Ave., where he will play blindfolded asainst 10 players.
Anyone interested in participating in this unusual event please call for reservation, Wtbsler 8817 er WYoming 3510. CHESS MAGAZINES Chess Review. 83 yearly, a monthly publication: American Chess Bulletin. 82 yeariy, bi-monthly: C.C.L.A. Magazine, 82 yearly, bi-monthly.
THE HOLLYWOOD OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP The Hollywood Open Championship Tournament sponsored by the Hollywood then Group and played at their headquarters at lllH N. Formosa Ave., has created Interesting competition In all three classes. Due to the fart that some lit players participate (Including the Ladies Championship Tournament,) games are played off nightly by individual arrangement. Visitors are welcome to watch the games at all times. From the Hollywood championship: ENGLISH OPENING Weiss Aronson ! Weiss Aronson White Black 'White Black 1- N-KB3 N-KB3 26-KxB R-B3 2- P-B4 P-K3I27-R-K2 B-Q3 3- N-B3 P-Q4I28-B-B4 BxB 4- P-K3 QN-Q2 : 29-KxB K-K2 5- Q-B2 B-Q330-P-K5 P-KN3 6- N-QN5 B-K2:31-K-K4 R-O 7- PxP NxP32-P-B4 P-QR4 8- P-K4 N-N5133-P-KR4 P-QR5 9- NxPch K-B34-P-R5 PxPrh 10- Q-B3 R-QN ;35-KxP R-KN 11- N-QN5 N-B4:36-K-K4 R-N5 12- P-CJR3 37-R-KB R-R5 NlN5i-QfichI38-KxP RxP NxBch!39-RB)-KB2 N-B5ch B-Q2 0 Mrs. Wolff CHESS BOOKS 13-BxN 14- K-K2 15- K-B 16- QN-Q4 17- Q-N3 18- P-N3 19- PxN 20- K-K2 21- P-Q3 22- P-B5 23- R-Q 24- QxQ 25- R-Q2 R-B Q-B2 P-K4 B-Rch 40- P-BS 41- R-QB2 42- R-B7ch 43- P-B6 44- R-Q2 PxNi45-K-5 Q-B4 46-P-Q4 B-N7I47-R-B5 Q-B7ch:48-KxR Rxl49-K-0 BxNch , 50-R-QB2 '51-R-N2 QR-KR3 R-Rfl R-QN3 K-K R-QNS R-RSch P-R4 R-N4ch RxRch R-R8 P-R5 K-Q Resisns j considera-: how-! Due to the fact that ao many latter about chess literature were sent in. and the difficulty in procuring same, we urge, our readers to make their holiday ttttt-lions as soon as possible t assura prompt delivery. The following may be ordered through tha writer: The Ideas Behind the Chesg Openings, by R Fine, $1; the Immortal Games of Caoablanca, by F. Reinfeld.
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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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