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August 18 1949
The Evening Star, Washington, D. C. Thursday, August 18, 1949
Engagement
Mr. and Mrs. Otto A. Patermaster of Lorton, Va., announce the engagement of their daughter, Gene Cressman to Mr. Jeffrey C. Bortner, sson of Mrs. Laura Bortner and the late Mr. Clair J. Bortner of York, Pa.
The bride-elect is a graduate of George Washington University where she received a degree in radio speech.
No date has been set for the wedding.
August 08 1950
York Daily Record, York, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, August 08, 1950
Jeffrey Bortner Admitted To Bar
Jeffrey Clair Bortner, of 212 South Beaver street, was admitted yesterday morning to practice law in the York county courts.
Motion for his admission to the bar was made by Attorney J. Edgar Small, in whose office he served his clerkship. Judge Walter I. Anderson, who granted the motion, congratulated Bortner on his achievement and wished him success in his career.
The new attorney is the son of Mrs. Laura Bortner, 1052 Mt. Rose avenue. He was married Feb. 21 to the former Gene Cressman Patermaster, of Lorton, Va., and Washington, D. C.
He was graduated in 1941 from William Penn Senior High school, where he was active in student government and dramatics and was listed in “Who's Who in American High schools.” He then entered George Washington university in Washington.
In 1943 Bortner enlisted in the Army, and after service in the European and Mediterranean theaters was promoted to the rank of captain. During part of his service he was a rifle platoon leader in the 28th Infantry regiment and was decorated for heroism in successfully assaulting German defensive positions in the Sieg river.
Later he was appointed aide-de-camp to the commanding general of the Eighth Infantry division. His decorations include the Combat Infantry badge. Bronze Star with Oak Leaf cluster, and the Army Medal of Merit.
At George Washington, where Bortner received his degree, Attorney Bortner was a member of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, membership in which is based on scholastic achievement. He also attended Indiana university and Pennsylvania State college.
He will open his office for the general practice of law at 31 South Duke street.
May 12 1952
The Gazette and Daily, York, Pennsylvania, Monday, May 12, 1952
Chess Tourney Ends in Draw
Youngest among the 23 entrants was Jay Bortner, seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bortner, 63 East street.
Attorney Jeffrey C. Bortner, club president, served as director of the two day tournament.
Trophies and consolation prizes will be presented at the Chess club's annual meeting in the YMCA at 6:30 p.m. June 5. A special brilliancy prize for the most outstanding game of the tournament will be made after judging of tournament game charts by I. A. Horowitz, New York, former U.S. chess champion and editor of Chess Review.
February 16 1965
The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, California, Tuesday, February 16, 1965
'Rebellion' At Institute
Mavericks at the Mechanics By Harry Bergman
Two maverick candidates, a mechanic and a professor, are injecting some spice into the usually cut and dried election of trustees to the governing board of the Mechanics' Institute and Library.
“It's high time that a mechanic be put on the board to loosen the tight-knit group we've had for years and years,” declared Kurt Josef Bendit, a consultant to the mechanical contracting firm of C. S. Hardeman, Inc.
“A little new blood will be good for the cultural life of San Francisco,” said Dr. Henry J. Ralston, physiology professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
“Theodore R. Meyer, institute president and a regent of the University of California, replied that “our election procedures are as democratic as they could possibly be.”
Welcomes Entry
He welcomed the entry of Bendit and Ralston. Nine candidates are running for seven seats in the annual election to the 111 year old institute's board of 14 trustees.
“I think it is a healthy thing to have a contested election now and then,” said Meyer, a San Francisco attorney who became a U. C. regent ex officio when he was chosen president of the Mechanics' Institute, as specified under the State Constitution.
As a result of this year's contest, a considerably larger voter response among the institute's 5,650 members is expected. Ballots mailed to the members will be counted next Tuesday.
The lineup features Bendit and Ralston against the administration slate of seven incumbents.
Autocracy
Bendit, a wiry man of 41 who has belonged to the institute for 23 years, contends that the “system of choosing our trustees has developed into something like a self-perpetuating kind of autocracy.” One of the trustees, he said, has been on the board for 20 years.
“With all the high-falutin' qualifications of the present incumbents—capturing industry and commerce of lawyers and doctors—there isn't one among them who is as intimately familiar as I am with the mechanical problems of the institute,” he said, including the institute's nine-story building at 57 Post Street.
One plank in Bendit's platform calls for improvements and modernization of chess room to the benefit of approximately 1,000 members who play the ancient game.
On that point, Ralston, whose membership number (3647) is the same as that held by his father and grandfather in the past 75 years, agrees with Bendit.
Ralston also advocates a renaissance of such events as lecture series, exhibitions and the “famous” Mechanics' Fairs which he said “somehow passed out of existence” in the Institute's programs during the 1920s.
President Meyer recalled there have been “several” contested trustee elections in the past five or six years.
As to the cries for improvements in the fourth-floor chess room, Meyer said the “great majority of people” who use the room are “pleased with the service they get” for yearly dues that have remained fixed at $6 since the Institute was founded.
February 24 1981
The Reporter Dispatch, White Plains, New York, Tuesday, February 24, 1981
Professor Solomon Isaac Rubinow—Beloved husband of Shirley (Levinsohn). Loving father of Jerry, Sonya and Marisa. Dear brother of Bernard. Service Tuesday, 12:15 at the Westchester Riverside, 21 West Broad St., Mt. Vernon, New York. Contributions to Bio Mathematics at Cornell University appreciated.
The Reporter Dispatch, White Plains, New York, Tuesday, February 24, 1981
Dr. Sol Rubinow
Dr. Sol Rubinow, an Edgemont resident who was an authority on biomathematics and an accomplished bridge and chess player, died Sunday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. He was 57.
Dr. Rubinow, who lived at 160 Evandale Road in Edgemont had been hospitalized for the past two months following complications resulting from brain surgery.
Since 1964, he had been professor of biomathematics at the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences where he served as chairman of the biomathematics department.
He was noted for research in cell kinetics and wrote many papers on cancer research including the growth of cell populations and the physical forces acting on a single red cell.
Dr Rubinow was on the editorial hoards of several technical journals and was the author of “Introduction to Mathematical Biology” published in 1975.
Between 1946 and 1964, Dr. Rubinow held teaching and research positions at Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the Stevens Institute of Technology, and the Courant Institute of Medical Science.
Dr. Rubinow was one of the few persons who reached life master rank in both chess and bridge. As a chess player he was intercollegiate champion in 1943. The United States Chess Federation rated him as master emeritus.
In later years contract bridge became his preferred recreation. He was a frequent winner in New York tournaments. He won the Metropolitan Open Pair title in 1953, with his brother, Morton, and the Reisinger Team Championship in 1962 and 1963. In 1959, at the Knickerbocker tournament he won three titles in one weekend. He won three New England Regional titles and in 1963 was second in the National Men's Team Championship.
He lived in Edgemont for 8½ years.
Dr. Rubinow is survived by his wife Shirley Levinsohn Rubinow; three children Jerry, Sonya and Marisa, and a brother Dr. Bernard Rubinow of Glen Rock, N.J.
February 25 1981
Daily News, New York, New York, Wednesday, February 25, 1981
SOL I. RUBINOW
Funeral services for Sol I. Rubinow, professor of biomathematics at Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, were held yesterday at the Riverside funeral home in Mount Vernon. He died Sunday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Rubinow, a Scarsdale resident, was a teacher and researcher at several leading universities, including Harvard, Brown and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before joining the Cornell faculty in 1964.
1940
Caption: Rubinow, Sol. 3800 Carpenter Avenue. Lunchroom, Traffic and Tutorial Squads: Captain of Math Team. Did you ever see Sol at a stiff chess game. When rival after rival he puts to shame? City College.
Sol Isaac Rubinow, 1940 Yearbook, Evander Childs High School, Bronx, Westchester County, New York
June 20 1901
The Independent, Lincoln, Nebraska, Thursday, June 20, 1901
Massachusetts 3, Iowa 0, is the way the bix 70-board interstate match stands. The latest win for Mass. was by Harlow B. Daly of Dorchester, defending an Evans gambit offered by Dr. T. M. Edwards of Dunlap, Ia., who, by the way, is the father of our own Lee Edwards.
December 12 1959
The Lewiston Daily Sun, Lewiston, Maine, Saturday, December 12, 1959
Watch That Bishop—These are four of the 23 chess players who started a three-day tournament at the Circle Canadien Club in Lewiston last night. The winner, decided after the six rounds of play ending Sunday, will be the new Maine champion — the first to hold the title since the last tournament in 1942.
At the foreground table Dr. W. A. Perkins (left) of Togus, tournament director and Kansas chess champion in 1957, is watching Dr. Edward Blumberg of Pineland Training Center move up his bishop. At the rear table Lt. Commander H. C. Perkins (left) of Fleet Air Wing, BNAS, is pondering a move against Harlow Daly of Sanford, New England champion in 1908 and former holder of the Massachusetts and Boston titles.
Chess Players Start Tourney in Lewiston; To End Sunday
Twenty-three chess players met at the Cercle Canadien Club last night for the start of a three-day tournament which will decide the Maine chess championship.
The tournament started about 7:30 p.m. and in a few minutes the players were completely absorbed in the game despite the noise from the hall and other rooms. A few of the players had stop clocks with two faces to time their games and all of them kept records of the games move by move.
In age the players ranged from high school students to white haired gentlemen, one of whom was the New England chess champion in 1908. Some of the players used finely carved ivory pieces while others played with large wooden pieces.
This is the first Maine chess championship tournament since 1942 when the title was won by Carleton Fenley of Portland. While the tournament is open to anyone, the only entries were Maine residents.
The hall was lined with kibitzers, all of whom were obeying the primary rule of kibitzing, “keep quiet.” They had a chance to watch some top notch chess since the players included Dr. W. A. Perkins of Togus, tournament director and Kansas chess champion in 1957; Harlow Daly, New England champion in 1908 and also former holder of the Massachusetts and Boston titles; and Stanley Elowitch of Portland, a Deering High School student who has held the Portland championship the last three years.
A majority of the players were from Portland and are members of the Portland Chess Club. The Waterville Chess Club was also represented by several members, including Dr. Perkins.
The tournament will consist of six rounds, giving each of the players a chance to play six other players. Winners are matched with winner and loser with losers.
Stuart Laughlin, president of the Portland Chess Club, explained that this Swiss system is used to speed up the tournament in preference to having every player play with every other player.
The players played one round last night. They will play three rounds today and two Sunday.
Those participating in the tournament include:
Robert Doucette, Portland,
Dr. Jerome Tichy, Yarmouth,
John Morrill, Portland,
James Murphy, Lewiston,
Dr. Edward Blumberg, Pineland Training Center,
H. C. Perkins, BNAS,
Ray Duval, Portland,
Dr. Samson Fischer, Waterville,
Jeffrey Doucette, Portland,
Larry Eldridge, Waterville,
Keyes Sanders, Portland,
Kemy Theberge, Waterville,
Dr. Vaughn Sturtevant, Waterville,
Stanley Elowitch, Portland,
Fred Wren, Perry James Palange,
Lewiston,
Dr. W. A. Perkins, Togus,
Harlow Daly, Sanford,
Dr. Lovi Sarin, Waterville,
Dean Richardson, Portland,
Arthur Werner, Auburn,
W. J. Hodges,
Stuart Laughlin, Portland.
January 04 1962
Journal Tribune, Biddeford, Maine, Thursday, January 04, 1962
Harlow B. Daly Wins Portland Chess Tournament
Harlow B. Daly of the Country Club road won the Portland chess tournament over the weekend scoring five and a half points, five victories and a draw in the six-round contest.
He displaced Stanley Elowitch, Tufts University student who has held the title- for five years.
Daly holds the New England Amateur and Maine Open titles.
Dr. Vaughn Sturtevant of Waterville won second place with five points, losing only to Daly and John Merrill of Portland was third with a score of four.
Elowitch, whose winning years began when he was a ninth grader finished fourth with three and a half points. He played the draw with Daly but lost to Sturtevant and to Jeffrey Doucette of Portland.
Twelve players took part in the contest and cash awards were presented to the top five.
Daly won $12, an engraved trophy, and a year's possession of the permanent championship plaque on which his name will be engraved.
December 18 1961
Original caption: Harlow Daly, retired accountant from Sanford, Maine and holder of the New England amateur chess championship (he won the New England professional championship in 1908 at 24), won the annual Maine Open Chess Tournament, beating Larry Eldridge.
Journal Tribune, Biddeford, Maine, Thursday, December 21, 1961
Sanford Man Is Featured In Sports Illustrated
Harlow Daly, Country Club road, is one of six persons featured in the “Faces in the Crowd” column in the Dec. 18 issue of Sports Illustrated.
The picture caption reads: “Harlow Daly, retired accountant from Sanford, Maine, and holder of the New England amateur chess championship (he won the New England professional championship in 1908 at 24), won the annual Maine Open Chess Tournament, beating Larry Eldridge.
September 29 1968
Portland Press Herald, Portland, Maine, Sunday, September 29, 1968
Veteran Harlow Daly of Sanford scored well, finishing with 4½-4½.
July 10 1979
The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Tuesday, July 10, 1979
Daly—In Framingham, July 8, Harlow B., 95, of 30 Salem End Road, Master Emeritus of U.S. Chess Federation and life member of Mass. Chess Association, father of Richard H. of Framingham and Marion E. Daly of Framingham, brother of Mrs. Clara Graham of Framingham, also survived by seven grandchildren. Funeral services Wednesday, July 11, at 2 p.m. from the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in North Berwick, Maine. Calling hours Tuesday, July 10, from 7-9 from the Wadsworth Funeral Home, 318 Union Avenue, Framingham.
February 07 1903
Boston Evening Transcript, Boston, Massachusetts, Saturday, February 07, 1903
Lasker vs. Barry Today
In Simultaneous Play at the Boston Chess Club, Last Night, the Champion Won Twelve, Drew Two and Lost Two Games
This afternoon and evening at the Boston Chess Club John F. Barry, Boston's leading chess amateur, will meet Dr. Lasker for the second time. The world's champion, who is entitled by courtesy to the move and with it the first player's privilege to dictate the opening to a certain extent, has generously expressed himself as entirely willing to play the black men again. If Mr. Barry plays the white there will be great interest among his followers to note the particular variation which he will select on his fifth move, it being taken for granted that the opening will be a Ruy Lopez, with the first four moves identical with those of the first game between the two experts.
Last evening at the Chess Club Dr. Lasker met a team of sixteen men in simultaneous play. Twelve of these he defeated, to two he lost, and with two he drew. The winners were Mr. A. W. Ryder, the old Harvard player, now instructor in Sanskrit at the Cambridge university, and J. S. Jones, a Denver lawyer, formerly of this city, and for some weeks a visitor here. Draws were scored by Claude T. Rice of Harvard, at present the leading university player, and by Harlow B. Daly, captain of the Dorchester Chess Club team, a schoolboy player who is considered one of the most promising of the rising chess generation.
Mr. Ryder won the exchange in the mid-game through Dr. Lasker's tactical error allowing him to “fork” the two white rooks with his knight. With this gain in material he steadily forced an increasingly advantageous position, and Dr. Lasker resigned after thirty-four moves. Mr. Jones, like Mr. Ryder, defended a Ruy Lopez. He found a flaw in Lasker's attack, and took advantage of it with such accuracy that on the thirty-eighth move white resigned with the loss of a piece and the queening of an adverse pawn in sight.
Mr. Rice, who lost to Lasker at the B. A. A. Wednesday, played a center counter Gambit, and got an attack early in the game. He pressed it steadily, but Dr. Lasker defended so skillfully that only a draw resulted. Mr. Daly's game was the sharpest fought of the match. It was a King's Gambit Declined, an opening which gives black an even game if properly met, and Mr. Daly played it finely. Early in the evening he refused a proffered draw, and his refusal was renewed at a later stage in a more even position. Finally it came down to an ending with three pawns on a side and an even position. The champion's third offer of a draw was then accepted.
Among those who lost were Mr. Lourie, who won his game against Lasker Wednesday, but who was unable to repeat the feat, though he played a strong game. Technically Lyman F. George drew, Dr. Lasker accepting his facetious offer of a draw in a lost position with the smiling answer, “You've worked hard for it; take it.” Others less fortunate were W. J. Miller, F. E. Parker, S. M. Ballou, J. Crane, Jr., J. J. Kraus, G. R. MacNamara, G. E. Hyde, H. Friberg, Dr. D. B. Lepper and Dr. Percival.
February 08 1903
The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Sunday, February 08, 1903
Boston Chess Experts vs. Dr Lasker.
Sketches of the Men Who Have Defeated or Held the World's Champion.
Boston Chess Experts Who Played Against Champion Lasker.
The visit of Dr. Emanuel Lasker, which began Monday afternoon at the Boston athletic association, conclude last evening at the Boston chess club. His work was watched with interest in this city contested with the master, and the two local stars, John F. Barry, the world's amateur champion, and Abraham Moses Sussman, New England champion, went down to defeat before him.
During his visit Dr. Lasker was defeated three times in simultaneous play and five local men registered draws in their matches.
W. R. Lourie of the Boston chess club, who scored the first victory over the noted master at the Boston athletic association on Wednesday evening, was born in Russia in 1883. He came to this country when quite young with his parents, and was educated at the English high school. He was graduated with honors in 1901, and returned to take a post-graduate course. He entered the Institute of Technology last September.
About five years ago he first took up chess, but did not enter into the deeper study of the game until two years ago, when he joined the Boston chess club. His victory over Dr. Lasker was a revelation to the members of the organization, who anticipate a brilliant career for the young man in future tournaments.
At the rooms of the Boston chess club on Friday evening A. W. Ryder and L. S. Jones succeeded in forcing Dr. Lasker to resign. Ryder accomplished his feat on the 34th move, while Jones required 38 to beat the champion. Ryder, who is an old Harvard player, is now an instructor in the university from which he received his degree. He has played the game for several years and has often contested with experts of note in local tournaments.
Jones hails from New York where he is identified with the Manhattan chess club. He is also a member of the Boston chess club and has often competed in the big tournaments. He has battled against amateur champion John F. Barry on more than one occasion, but the latter has inevitably come out victorious.
The men who have broken even with Dr. Lasker during his visit of the past week are Bertram A. Smalley of the Boston Press club, Herbert H. White of the Boston A. A., Frank K. Foster and Harlow B. Daly of the Dorchester Chess club and Claude T. Rice of the Harvard Chess club.
Smally has been one of the most prominent members of the Press club's chess team for several years. He is a graduate of Dartmouth college, where he took a prominent part in track athletics and football.
White is a graduate of Harvard and a chess player of note. He was a member of the varsity chess team during his collegiate course and upon graduation was appointed manager of athletics.
Frank K. Foster is well known in this city, especially in labor circles, where he has held several high elective positions. He is a regular player on the Dorchester chess club team and last May was associated with the Boston chess team which played the Brooklyn chess club on Memorial day.
Harlow B. Daly, secretary of the Dorchester chess club is 19 and a student at the Boston Latin school. He resides with his parents on Butler st., Dorchester Lower Mills. He has been a moving spirit in the Dorchester club, and has attained considerable prominence as a player. He was also associated with the Boston team which played Brooklyn chess club last year.
Claude T. Rice, the Harvard expert, met Dr. Lasker at the B. A. A. Wednesday evening and was defeated, being the first to resign. His draw with the expert Friday evening was not unexpected, as he is considered a clever player, and especially so in intercollegiate circles. He is a member of the American university team which plays the Oxford-Cambridge team by cable in April.
May 29 1902
Boston Evening Transcript, Boston, Massachusetts, Thursday, May 29, 1902
Intercity Chess Match
Teams of Twenty Players in Boston and Brooklyn Compete by Telegraph Tomorrow
Mr. C. J. Eliot, who finished second to Mr. Sussman for the league's individual championship despite his team's indifferent standing, will represent the Somerville Chess Club, with Mr. Hermann A. Fosdick as his associate. The Dorchester Chess Club, which finished second to the Press Club for the team championship, will send Mr. Harlow B. Daly, a schoolboy player of much promise, and Mr. Frank K. Foster, known also in typographical and labor circles in this city. The Lynn Chess Club will be represented by Mr. T. F. Whelan, with Mr. C. D. Hill as an alternate.
March 08 2005
South Florida Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Raul Benedicto, 82, engineer, helped develop A-10 Warthog
By Peter Franceschina
Staff Writer
Raul L. Benedicto, a retired Boca Raton aeronautical engineer who was a key member of the team that developed the Air Force's tank-busting A-10 Warthog, died Saturday after a brief illness. He was 82.
Born Valentine's Day in 1923 in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Mr. Benedicto earned his engineering degree with honors at the University of Michigan and spent most of his career with military contractor Fairchild Republic Co. of Long Island, N.Y.
He was involved in the design of a number of aircraft, including the team that developed the A-10 in the late 1960s. He rose to become chief engineer at the company before retiring, after 35 years, to Boca Raton in 1981.
“We had a 38-year marriage, never a fight, never an argument, something that doesn't exist very often,” said his wife, Ines. “He was the best man in the world. He was a fantastic guy. When you never have a fight or an argument, you can imagine.”
A number of Fairchild engineers retired to South Florida, including Gordon Rosenthal. He and Mr. Benedicto avidly followed news of their progeny's successes in the first Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
“He was very analytical. He had a very strong mind,” Rosenthal said. “He was enthusiastic about aircraft in general and the role he was playing.”
The A-10 is designed around a giant cannon that is lethal to tanks, artillery and other armored vehicles. Its ugly appearance earned it the nickname Warthog, but the engineers who designed it are proud of the protections built-in for pilots, who fight at close quarters with the enemy and can fly the plane back to base even if it has been shot up.
“The only problem with our airplane is that it is ugly as can be. It doesn't bother me, because it was designed to meet certain requirements,” Mr. Benedicto told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel for a 2003 story on the Warthog. “It's not sexy. It's functional.”
Mr. Benedicto was an avid chess and bridge player. He was the New York state chess champion in 1966, and he and Ines won a number of regional bridge tournaments in Florida. The couple loved to travel and take cruises.
Even though Mr. Benedicto was born on Valentine's Day, it was not a day the couple celebrated more than any other, Ines Benedicto said. “Every day was wonderful,” she said. Ines Benedicto said her husband's wish was to be cremated and have his ashes scattered across the Atlantic Ocean.
May 1949
Svetozar Gligoric - Gideon Stahlberg Match Tournament (May 20-June 09, 1949) The match of twelve games took place in May 1949 in Split and Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Original b/w photographer unknown. Photo credit via Pero Sentic.
July 15 1950
New Pittsburgh Courier, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Saturday, July 15, 1950
In N. C. Tournament
Chess Star Invited, Then Barred From Playing With Whites
By A. M. Rivera, Jr.
Durham, N.C.—W. A. Scott, son of the late founder of the Atlanta Daily World newspaper, was the victim here last week of Tarhellia's determined back-to-the-wall struggle against the threat of integration.
Scott, who was invited to play in the annual tournament of the Southern Chess Association, was refused because of his race when he sought to pay his entrance fee at the Washington Duke Hotel here last week.
ACTED “GENTLEMANLY”
Sam A. Agnello, president of the Durham Chess Club, host of the association, told The Courier, “Scott withdrew his application gentlemanly when objections were raised to his participation.”
Young Scott told this reporter that he was invited to play in the tourney by Martin Southern, a Knoxville, Tenn. attorney and one-time president of the association. He stated that he had played in the Tennessee State tournament in January, and in the Mid-South tournament at the Peabody Hotel in Knoxville in April, and anticipated no difficulty here.
NO BIAS IN RULES
According to Mr. Scott, Mr. Southern met him upon his arrival at the hotel and informed him to expect objections to his participation. Scott said, “Mr. Southern told me, 'I can present you to the group and state that you will play because the constitution of the American Chess Federation permits no racial bias, but I do not want to embarrass you.”
Mr. Southern told the group that he invited Scott to the tourney because he felt that the game was a contest between two human minds and that he had no thought of disturbing the Southern tradition.
A small group from Georgia and Florida objected, and stated that they would withdraw if he was permitted to play.
The hotel management reminded them of the state's segregation laws. A few players suggested that the tournament be moved to a location, where Scott might play, but Scott withdrew when it became apparent that any insistence on his part might “break up the tournament.”
Kit Crittenden, state champion, and others volunteered to pay his return fare back to Atlanta, Scott told The Courier, a gesture that he appreciated, but refused.
'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: Tweets by swilkinsonbc |
 “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.
March 9, 1943 - January 17, 2008The 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.
