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March 05, 1960 The Chronicle, Chess For All, By G. Chesters, Nantwich, Cheshire, England

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ChessChess 05 Mar 1960, Sat The Chronicle (Nantwich, Cheshire, England) Newspapers.com

CHESS FOR ALL
(By G CHESTERS)
CHESHIRE JUNIORS have once again hit the headlines by a convincing win in the Northern Counties' Jamboree. This was held last Saturday in the Manchester Chess Club's rooms Lancashire and Yorkshire making up the opposition.
The British Chess Federation splits itself up into five Unions: Western Counties Southern Midlands Northern and the Welsh C.C.U. A Union is composed of several counties the three counties named above being the strongest in the Northern Counties' C.C.U.
A Jamboree is a team event in which three or more teams take part. Each player plays only one game. With just three teams participating the event is quite easy to organise. Of the twelve Cheshire boys six played Lancashire and six played Yorkshire opponents. The remaining six Lancashire boys played the remaining six boys from Yorkshire. Of the three top boards; two play each other the third being opposed to one of the three second boards.
Cheshire finished with eight points, 2½ points ahead of Lancashire with Yorkshire last with only 4½. Below are the scores of the Cheshire players, many of whose names will be familiar to regular readers: P. D. Yerbury (1), M. R. Hudson (1), both of Caldy Grange; G. Chesters (½) of Crewe; D. I. W. Reynolds (0), of Wallasey; R. H. Mellor (1), of Stockport; P. C. Chatwin (0), of Preston; V. W. Knox (1), of Wallasey; N. J. Birdsall (1), of Caldy; B. McDonagh (½); P. Jeal (1), both of Stockport; J. S. Edwards (0), of Chester; and, on board twelve, G. K. Sandiford (1), of Manchester.
The Cheshire team will now play in the British Counties' Jamboree in London on April 9. There will be one county from each of the other four Unions participating. Devon, according to the weekly chess programme on Network Three (Sunday at 4 p.m.), will almost certainly represent the West. Staffordshire (not Warwickshire) surprisingly won the Midlands' Jamboree.

Some news from the international front. The International Tournament at Riga in December was won by Spassky, ahead of fellow Russians Mikemas, Tolush, and Tal (2½ points behind the leader). No British or U.S. players took part. Young genius Bobby Fischer again won the U.S. Championship, ahead of Byrne, Reshevsky, and (the now no longer “statelessrdquo;?) Benko. For the sixth time, the Canadian Championship has been won by Abe Yanofsky, with eleven out of eleven!

Chess

The diagrammed position occurred in a North Staffs League match. White played 1. B—B4ch K—Rl; 2. QxQ? overlooking the decisive 2. RxNP After 2. RxNP, play might have continued 2. … QxQ; 3. BxQ NxB; 4. RxB dis.ch. N—Q4; 5. NxN PxR (if P—R4; 6. N—B7 dis.ch. K— R2; 7. R-N7 mate); 6. N—B7 dis.ch. K—Nl; 7. N—R6 mate.
From the diagram White played 1. B—B4 ch. Why can't Black play 1. … NxB?
Note that White could have played immediately 1. RxPch KxR (or K—Rl); 2. Q—Q2, winning Black's Queen.
Answer: After 1. B-B4ch … NxB; 2. QxNch. wins the Black Queen.

H. Reynolds.
J. R. Cadwallader to play.
Crewe v. Penkhull, Feb. 1960.
FEN r4rk1/ppp1R1pp/1b1p3q/n4p2/6b1/2QB1N2/PB3PPP/5RK1 w - - 0 1

'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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