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July 09, 1960 Let's Play Chess by William Oaker, The Montreal Star, Quebec, Canada

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ChessChess 09 Jul 1960, Sat The Montreal Star (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Newspapers.com

Let's Play Chess
'Over The Hill' Champion Leading In Buenos Aires

By William Oaker
United States Grandmaster Sammy Reshevsky has dramatically leaped into the lead, after 10 rounds, in the Buenos Aires International Tournament.
The former United States champion, whom many consider “over the hill” as far as top-flight international competition is concerned, is top man, with a score of 7-3, despite having given the field a handicap by losing his first round game.
He is closely followed by another former United States champ, Larry Evans, who has a score of 6½-3½. It was Evans who was responsible for Reshevsky's only loss. Evans, like Reshevsky, is considered to be playing way over his predicted form.
Two other players who are not playing to form, but in a dramatically different way, are incumbent United States champ, 17-year-old Bobby Fischer and Grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric, of Yugoslavia. Fischer has been only able to garner 3½-5½, with one adjourned game, and Gligoric has only managed 4-6. Fischer is thought to have the better position in his adjourned game.
Mark Taimanov, of the USSR would also have to be considered as below par, with only 4½-4½, with one adjourned game. His compatriot, Victor Korchnoi, the present Soviet champion, however, is only one point behind the leader, Reshevsky.
Standings and scores after 10 rounds are as follows: Reshevsky, United States, 7-3; Evans, United States, 6½-3½; Olafsson, Iceland, Unzicker, Germany, each 6-4; Pachman, Czechoslovakia, 5½-4½; Benko, United States, Ivkov, Yugoslavia, each 5-5; Rossetto, Argentina, Taimanov, Soviet Union, each 4½-4½; Guimard, Argentina, Wexler, Argentina, 4½-5½; Eliskases, Argentina, Gligoric, Yugoslavia, 4-6; Fischer, United States, 3½-5½; Foguelman, Argentina, 3-5; Bazan, Argentina, 2½-6½; Wade, New Zealand, 2-8.
In case there is anyone who might be inclined to forecast an eventual winner of this most exciting chess tournament in decades, remember, there are still nine rounds to go.
We cautioned last week that a good chess player should not jump to conclusions. It seems that a number took my advice and found a nice hole in my analysis. Permit me to hasten to say that those who wrote and telephoned are absolutely right.
The black rook should be on Q5 instead of QB5. We regret the error, which was not of our making. Many thanks for the kind things said as well as the criticism.
I understand that one reader is discouraged that the positions given are always in white's favor. This is merely traditional. However, in the interest of keeping everyone happy, we offer the following. Black is to play and win. White does not necessarily have to be checkmate, but after black gets through with him, he'll wish he had been.

Chess Problem

FEN r1b2rk1/ppp3b1/7p/3P2pq/2PB4/1P2Q1P1/P4bKP/R3RNN1 w - - 0 1
Black to play and Win.

'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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