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Chess Masters Meet for a Tournament

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1960, Bobby Fischer in Mar del Plata, Argentina Chess

The Province, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Saturday, March 26, 1960

The Masters Meet for a Tournament
Some twenty of the leading chess masters of the world, invited by the Argentine Chess Federation, will compete in the annual international tournament at Mar del Plata, famous South American health resort.
Play will start on Tuesday after drawings of numbers for the pairings have been held a day earlier.
Soviet interests will be looked after by two grandmasters: David Bronstein and Boris Spassky.
Among others whose acceptances have been received is that of Bobby Fischer, United States champion, who will once more be in action and one of the favorites for a high prize.
Iceland will send Fridrik Olafsson and Argentina will be represented by two of her most experienced grandmasters, Miguel Najdorf and Eric Eliskases.
Other Argentineans will be Bernardo Wexler, Osvaldo Bazan, Alberto Foguelman, Raul Sanguinetti, Luis Marini, Carlos Incutto, Jaime Emma and Carlos Bielicki, recently winner of the world junior championship.
Ludek Pachman was invited from Czechoslovakia, but could not accept. Thereupon invitations were issued to Wolfgang Unzicker of East Germany, Bent Larsen of Denmark and Laszlo Szabo of Hungary.
Following is the score of a game played between Bielicki and Wexler:

Carlos Bielicki (white) vs. Bernardo Wexler (black)
King's Indian Attack: Wahls Defense

Carlos Bielicki vs. Bernardo Wexler

Descriptive
1. N-KB3 N-KB3
2. P-KN3 P-KN3
3. B-N2 B-N2
4. O-O O-O
5. P-Q3 P-Q4
6. QN-Q2 P-B4
7. P-K4 N-B3
8. P-B3 P-K4
9. Q-N3 P-Q5
10. N-B4 N-K
11. PxP BPxP
12. B-N5 Q-B2
13. KR-B B-K3
14. Q-R3 R-B
15. B-Q2 P-B3
16. N-R5 R-B2
17. N-K B-B
18. Q-R4 Q-N3
19. NxN PxN
20. P-N3 N-Q3
21. B-KB3 N-N4
22. Q-R5 B-QR6
23. R-B2 P-QB4
24. R-N KR-B2
25. B-K2 Q-N2
26. R-B4 R-B3
27. R-R4 B-N5
28. BxB PxB
29. RxP R-N3
30. R-R N-B6
Resigns
Algebraic
1. Nf3 Nf6
2. g3 g6
3. Bg2 Bg7
4. 0-0 0-0
5. d3 d5
6. Nd2 c5
7. e4 Nc6
8. c3 e5
9. Qb3 d4
10. Nc4 Ne8
11. cxd4 cxd4
12. Bg5 Qc7
13. Rfc1 Be6
14. Qa3 Rc8
15. Bd2 f6
16. Na5 Rf7
17. Ne1 Bf8
18. Qa4 Qb6
19. Nxc6 bxc6
20. b3 Nd6
21. Bf3 Nb5
22. Qa5 Ba3
23. Rc2 c5
24. Rb1 Rcc7
25. Be2 Qb7
26. Rc4 Rc6
27. Ra4 Bb4
28. Bxb4 cxb4
29. Rxb4 Rb6
30. Ra1 Nc3
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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