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Robin Alan Ault, 1959

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June 29 1959

Press of Atlantic City, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Monday, June 29, 1959

1959, New Jersey Junior Chess Championship

Junior Chess Champ—The N. J. junior chess champion, Robin Ault, 17, of Cranford and other top players were congratulated by E. F. Daigle, right, director, at the close of a three-day tournament at the Penn-Atlantic Hotel. The young lad in front is Jeffrey Harris of 51 N. Windsor Ave., who was awarded the tournament's “Brilliancy Prize.” Others, from left, are Ault, first runner-up Roger Pitasky, 16, of Trenton, and third place winner Leslie Ault, 18, the champion's brother. Press photo.

Cranford Boy Wins Tourney Here To Become State Chess Champion
Seventeen-year-old Robin Ault of Cranford became New Jersey's junior chess champion yesterday at the Penn-Atlantic Hotel.
Ault defeated Glenn Reitze, 16, of Jersey City in the championship match to end the three-day State Junior Chess Tournament here. His record was four wins and one draw.
Reitz and five other competitors came through the tournament with three wins, one draw and one loss. Their places were determined by a tie-breaking system based on how they played their matches, with these results:
Second place went to Roger Pitasky, 16, Trenton; third to Leslie Ault, the winner's 18-year-old brother; fourth to Reitze; fifth to William Lukowiak, 16, Belleville, and sixth to Jerome Finkelstein, 17, Long Branch.
The first six placers were awarded trophies. Pitasky also won a trophy for accumulating the highest score of any competitor under 17.
Jeffrey Harris of 51 N. Windsor Ave. was awarded the tournament's “Brilliancy Prize” for his first-round victory Friday evening over John Yehl, 19, of Hamonton.
Yesterday's competition opened with the two Aults, Pitasky and Reitze tied with two wins and one draw each. In the morning's fourth tournament round, Robin Ault beat Pitasky and Reitze defeated Leslie Ault.
Reitze lost to Robin Ault in the fifth and final round, while Pitasky and Leslie Ault were recording wins over other opponents.


July 19 1959

Omaha World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska, Sunday, July 19, 1959

1959, Chess Meet Like A Wake With Tension

Ault (left), Gilden…Studies in concentration.

Chess Meet: Wake With Tension
The United States Junior Chess Championship Saturday had the atmosphere of a wake with tension.
The ballroom of the Rome Hotel was hushed except for a murmur of young voices. Dozens of observers moved silently from table to table. Players oblivious of all got up from their boards between moves' with sober thoughtful faces.
But filtering through the hush was a suppressed excitement. Players and observers were watching to see who would be the new champion.
Leading contenders were a study in the different ways youngsters concentrate.
Larry Gilden, 16, Washington, D. C., complained several times about noise. The Rev. Howard Ohman, tournament director, agreed and ordered the murmur back to a lower pitch.
Gilden returned to his table, shook his head nervously as if to indicate he had fathomed the strategy of his opponent, Robin Ault.
Ault, 17, Cranford, N. J., sat over the board with a classic poker face. But he sat on only a third of his chair with his right leg doubled up under him and his left foot waving up and down.
Ault was the winner and became tournament champion. Second was Gilbert Ramirez, 19, San Francisco, Cal., and third was Gilden.
Tournament rules forbid opponents to talk to one another or to discuss the game with spectators.
“But this doesn't prevent them, once the game is over, from going into the next room to restudy the moves,” the Rev. Mr. Ohman said.
“These kids play chess all the time. They finish the tournament games and play all night.”
Doesn't the pace and the excitement wear them out?
“I haven't seen any sign of it,” the Rev. Mr. Ohman said.
Monday at 7 p.m. the United States Open chess tournament, which attracts master players from over the United States, will begin at the Sheraton-Fontenelle Hotel.


'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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