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January 30, 1916 Philadelphia Inquirer Chess and Checkers

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ChessChess 30 Jan 1916, Sun The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

Problem No. 1063
By Stasch Mlotkowski
White to play and mate in three moves.

FEN 8/4p1r1/1R2PPk1/1K6/5BP1/2PP4/8/Q7 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Qa8 exf6 2. Qe4+ f5 3. Qxf5#

Jose Raul Capablanca vs Roy Black

The following game was played in one of the matches of the Metropolitan League. The game is of special interest on account of White's unusual continuation of the attack against the Petroff Defense with his fifth move of N-B3 before advancing his Queen's Pawn.

Borislav Kostic (white) vs. Roy Black (black)
Petrov's Defense: Nimzowitsch Attack
Submitted to chessgames.com on 04/30/2025

Borislav Kostic vs. Roy Black

Descriptive
1. P-K4 P-K4
2. N-KB3 N-KB3
3. NxP P-Q3
4. N-KB3 NxP
5. N-B3 NxN
6. QPxN N-B3
7. B-Q3 B-N5
8. P-KR3 B-R4
9. B-K3 B-K2
10. P-KN4 B-N3
11. Q-Q2 Q-Q2
12. O-O-O BxB
13. QxB O-O-O
14. N-Q4 N-K4
15. Q-B5 P-KN3
16. QxQch RxQ
17. P-KB4 N-B5
18. B-B2 P-Q4
19. N-B3 B-Q3
20. B-N3 P-KR4
21. N-K5 BxN
22. PxB PxP
23. PxP RxR
24. RxR R-K2
25. R-K K-Q2
26. P-N3 N-N3
27. R-B K-K
28. R-R P-QB4
29. K-Q2 N-B
30. K-Q3 R-K3
31. R-R8ch K-Q2
32. R-B8 R-K2
33. P-QB4 N-N3
34. PxP NxP
35. P-B4 N-N5ch
36. K-K4 NxP
37. B-R4 N-B6ch
38. K-Q3 P-KN4
39. BxP RxP
40. B-B6 1-0
Algebraic
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nf6
3. Nxe5 d6
4. Nf3 Nxe4
5. Nc3 Nxc3
6. dxc3 Nc6
7. Bd3 Bg4
8. h3 Bh5
9. Be3 Be7
10. g4 Bg6
11. Qd2 Qd7
12. 0-0-0 Bxd3
13. Qxd3 0-0-0
14. Nd4 Ne5
15. Qf5 g6
16. Qxd7+ Rxd7
17. f4 Nc4
18. Bf2 d5
19. Nf3 Bd6
20. Bg3 h5
21. Ne5 Bxe5
22. fxe5 hxg4
23. hxg4 Rxh1
24. Rxh1 Re7
25. Re1 Kd7
26. b3 Nb6
27. Rf1 Ke8
28. Rh1 c5
29. Kd2 Nc8
30. Kd3 Re6
31. Rh8+ Kd7
32. Rf8 Re7
33. c4 Nb6
34. cxd5 Nxd5
35. c4 Nb4+
36. Ke4 Nxa2
37. Bh4 Nc3+
38. Kd3 g5
39. Bxg5 Rxe5
40. Bf6 1-0

Recommended Books

Understanding Chess by William Lombardy Chess Duels, My Games with the World Champions, by Yasser Seirawan No Regrets: Fischer-Spassky 1992, by Yasser Seirawan Chess Fundamentals, by Jose Capablanca Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, by Bobby Fischer My 60 Memorable Games, by Bobby Fischer Bobby Fischer Games of Chess, by Bobby Fischer The Modern Chess Self Tutor, by David Bronstein Russians versus Fischer, by Mikhail Tal, Plisetsky, Taimanov, et al

'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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