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July 10, 1960 Boston Globe, Chess Notebook by Lyman Burgess

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Chess ChessChess 10 Jul 1960, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

Chess Notebook
By LYMAN BURGESS
In the midst of the controversy centered around Mikhail Tal's fitness for the world championship, before a rematch with Botvinnik has been arranged, the inexorable mills of the FIDE are busily grinding a new challenger. Two important zonal tournaments have already concluded—the Eastern European zonal in Budapest, and Western European Zonal in Madrid.
In Budapest, Gideon Barcza of Hungary won and became the only outright qualifier for the interzonal. Mario Bertok of Yugoslavia, I. Bilek of Hungary, T. J. van Scheltinga of Holland, and Alexander Matanovic of Holland, and Alexander Matanovic of Yugoslavia, all scored 10-5. There will be a playoff among these four to determine two other qualifying places.
At Madrid the final was even more inconclusive. Four players tied for first place— J. Donner of Holland, Gligoric of Yugoslavia, A. Palmer of Spain, and L. Portisch of Hungary. Another playoff will be necessary.

FIDE rules concerning zonal and interzonal tournaments are in a constant state of flux. Whatever new rulings are in effect this year, the result is confusing. P. Clarke, the young English master played in the Eastern European zonal; one Dutchman played in the Eastern another in the Western; to say nothing of some Hungarians and Yugoslavians who divided places in both tournaments.
According to the new rules the U.S.A. will be allowed to qualify three for the next interzonal. The American zonal is the U.S. championship tournament.
O. A. “Bud” Lester, Jr., of West Newbury, New England's outstanding theoreticians, has finally finished the Achilles bit and has come out to rejoin the simmering chess world. Lester will attempt 30 simultaneous chess games while blindfolded. He'll probably do it, too; he has already succeeded with 15.
To underscore his enthusiasm for chess, Lester has produced a club periodical for the Merrimac Valley Chess Club. The pamphlet is called “The Annotator.”
Not only does Lester annotate games, he annotates people, too. Witness the comment on one of Margaret Gould's games: “Peggy gave away a pawn early in her game but when the open position obtained led to a win for her, she insisted it was a 'calculated mistake.'

The Buenos Aires tournament has been a Donneybrook from the start. No one can seem to dominate and the lead moves from player to player. Fischer started slowly- and Evans broke fast.
But the real news is the inability of the two Russian representatives to dominate the field. For so many years it seemed the mere appearance of a Russian master took care of first prize—or so it seemed. To see now two top flight Soviet masters getting their lumps from somewhat less than topflight “Westerners” is soothing. Carlos Guimard, Argentine, was the winner.

292. King's Indian Defense

Carlos Guimard vs Mark Taimanov
Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 2, Jun-24
Torre Attack: Fianchetto Defense. Euwe Variation (A48) 1-0

'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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