January 18 1947
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Kenneth Ray Smith, 1959
September 13 1959
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas, Sunday, September 13, 1959
The game of the week was also shown with black's moves in the left hand column.
Kenneth Smith (white) vs. Max Burkett (black)
King's Indian Attack: Symmetrical Defense
Kenneth Ray Smith, 1972
December 02 1972
Church's Chicken Chess Tournament ad, from the Austin American-Statesman, Austin, Texas, Saturday, December 02, 1972. Bobby Fischer made a brief appearance and signed autographs.
Kenneth Ray Smith, 1950
July 04 1950
The Durham Sun, Durham, North Carolina, Tuesday, July 04, 1950
LEADERS IN CHESS TOURNEY—Shown above are Eliot Hearst (left) of New York City and Ken Smith of Dallas Texas who are virtually tied for the lead in the Southern Chess Tournament which closes in Durham today.—Sun Staff Photo.
Chess Meet To End Today
Scores at the end of the sixth round of play in the Southern Chess Association tourney here show Ken Smith of Dallas, Texas, tied with Norman Whitaker of Shadyside, MD and Eliot Hearst of New York City in games won and lost at 5-1. However, Smith is ahead in the tie-breaking system used in this tournament. That is, points are given-for each win, taking into consideration the standing of a player's opponent at the time of the games.
Tied for second place are: Hans Berliner, D. H. Mugridge, James Sherwin, all having won 4½ and lost l½ games. Karl Burger, W. Long, Harold Mouzon, E. Nash and Martin Southern are all tied at four games won to two lost.
Two local players who are holding their own at three games won and three games lost are W. J. Peters and Kit Crittenden.
The tourney closes today.
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'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.
