1953
Robert G. Cross, Birth Year circa 1937
School: 1953, Burbank High School, Burbank, California
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Robert Gary Cross, 1953
Robert Gary Cross, 1954
Robert Gary Cross, 1955
August 1955
U.S. Open Chess Championship, California Chess Reporter, August 1955. Santa Monica Chess Clubhouse, Lincoln Park: Santa Monica Chess Club (seated) W. Sloan, Mr. Collins, Sr., unknown, Herbert Abel, Otto H. Wentcher and John Keckhut (standing) B. Mintz, Paul Wrangell, unknown, R. Sale, Dr. B. Collins, J. Hatfield, E. Edwards, Robert G. Cross and Ray Martin.
U.S. Open Chess Championship, California Chess Reporter, August 1955. 1955 Santa Monica “A” Team (lower) Ray Martin and Herbert Abel (upper) Robert G. Cross and John Keckhut.
Robert Gary Cross, 1956
August 28 1956
The Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet, Van Nuys, California, Tuesday, August 28, 1956
Matching Field of 21 contestants in a simultaneous-chess exhibition at Orcutt Park, sponsored by West Valley Chess Club, is Robert Cross of Santa Monica, standing left. Cross, 21, one of Southern California's top players, won 15 matches and drew in six others. Included in field facing him are Robert Hamman, tournament director, and R. E. Cunningham, club president, seated at right. The News Photo.
November 1956
Vol. 6, No. 4, California Chess Reporter, November 1956, Robert Cross
Robert Gary Cross, 1993
December 15 1993
Robert Gary Cross, Grave Marker
Robert Gary Cross, Death Certificate
Einar Michelsen, 1903
August 1903
August 09-21, 1903 Kristiania, Oslo, Norway, Biannual Nordic Chess Federation Congress. Einar Michelsen is featured at the back right, with head turned around facing camera.
Participants of the Nordic Chess Congress, Kristiania 1903. Michelsen is standing in the back row, second from left.
Einar Michelsen, 1907
1907
American Chess Bulletin 1907, p. 193
Einar Michelsen, Western Champion
E. Michelsen, of Chicago, and winner of the championship tournament of the Western Chess Association, held at Excelsior last August, was born in Odense, Denmark, in 1885, and learned to play chess when about fifteen years of age. He devoted considerable time after learning the game to composing and solving problems, and, when sixteen years old, took the first prize for composing a three-mover, offered by the Berlin Illustrated Zeitung. He played in the minor tournaments in Denmark during his school days, always making a good score. After finishing his studies in school, he went from Odense to Copenhagen, where he worked in a book store. Thence he went to Stockholm and staid about a year. During these years he still devoted a good deal of time to composing problems, and played occasionally. He then went to Christiana, Norway, from which place he came to Chicago, arriving there in 1905. Since that time he has been playing more or less at the Chicago Chess Club. He joined this club in 1906, after winning one of the simultaneous games played by Lee, a condition of the seance being that the winner of any game against the single player should be given a free membership. Of late he has not devoted much time to problems. At the annual tournament of the Western Chess Association, one year ago, he did not get a place in the finals, not winning half his games in the qualification rounds; but this year was able to beat them all. He occupies a position with the Mitchen Woolen Co., in Chicago, and will no doubt be heard from again in important tournaments.
Einar Michelsen, 1911
August 22 1911
Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tuesday, August 22, 1911
The Western Chess association, after trying Chicago and St. Louis, returned yesterday to Excelsior, Lake Minnetonka, for its twelfth tournament. Several of the old guard were missing, notably Dr. Bigelow of St. Paul, A. Rosen of Minneapolis and Louis Uedemann of Chicago, the latter for the first time since the earliest days of the association. George Wolbrecht of St. Louis, champion of 1910, was restrained by his engineering duties, and Oscar Chajes, champion of 1910, is by invitation representing the United States in the great Carlsbad masters' tournament. But Casia's lure is ever drawing new votaries to her shrine, as the following fairly representative list of entries shows: E. P. Elliott, champion 1909; Dave Barkuloo and W. Bland, Minneapolis; E. F. Schrader, St. Louis; W. H. Widmeyer, Denver, Col.; H. Kline, Kansas City; A. Blieden, Sigourney, Iowa; John F. Seymour, Lincoln, Neb.; J. L. Clark, Winnipeg, Man.; Charles Blake, Chicago; Einar Michelson, Harry F. Lee, Cincinnati.
Besides these who started in the first round, J. S. Morrison, Toronto; B. F. Paul, Blairstown, Iowa; C. C. Kanaga, Denver, and Dr. E. Schrader, Greenwich, Ind., withdrew their names, so that a most representative tourney was short of its promised scope.
The only games of note were those between Widmeyer and Lee and Goldsmith and Elliott. Widmeyer is a natural born chess player, who, without practice, comes to this tournament to lock horns with the best, year after year. His game with Lee, a very strong player, showed this. Goldsmith and Elliot are zealous rivals of equal force, and both played sound chess.
August 25 1911
Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Friday, August 25, 1911
Chess
The Western Chess association's tournament at Excelsior has arrived at a point where prediction is possible. It looks like Michelson or Blake, but both have hard games to play. Michelson, the hardest and it may depend on the last battle between the two. Schrader seems off and is entirely out of it.
The seventh round of the Widmeyer and Elliott game adjourned in favor of Widmeyer. Clark beat Barkuloo, Lee beat Seymour, Michelson beat Blieden, Bland beat Couper and Blake beat Schrader in an end game which should have been a draw.
In the eighth round, Michelson beat Widmeyer, Kline beat Seymour and Lee beat Barkuloo after a hard struggle in which the boy showed chess and steadiness against so able a veteran. Couper had a chance to beat Blieden, but ultimately lost. Schrader beat Clark, Blake should at least have drawn with Elliot, but his end play was not up to his usual standard. The Goldsmith-Bland game adjourned.
Among the expert chess players visiting and keenly following the games was Professor Kinney of Kenyon.
Score in full
Won. Lost. Draw. Total. Blake 7 1 0 7 Michelson 7 1 0 7 Elliott 5 2 1 3½ Schrader 4 2 2 5 Blieden 4 3 1 4½ A. Goldsmith 3 1 2 4 Clark 4 3 1 4½ Lee 4 4 0 4 A. Kline 3 3 1 3½ Barkuloo 3 5 0 3 Widmeyer 3 5 0 3 A. Bland 2 5 0 2 Couper 7 7 0 1 Seymour 0 8 0 0
Schedule for today; Morning: Bland vs. Seymour, Blieden vs. Goldsmith, Widmeyer vs. Couper, Blake vs. Michelson, Clark vs. Elliot, Barkuloo vs. Schrader, Kline vs. Lee. Afternoon: Elliot vs. Barkuloo, Michelson vs. Clark, Couper vs. Blake, Goldsmith vs. Widmeyer, Seymour vs. Blieden, Kline vs. Bland, Lee vs. Schrader.
September 10 1911
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsyvlania, Sunday, September 10, 1911
Western Chess Association Players at Excelsior, Minnesota
From left to right—William Widmeyer, champion North Dakota; John Levi Clark of Lincoln, Neb., late champion Boston Chess Club; Murray Goldsmith, champion of Ohio; C. S. Conper of Rochester, Minn.; Wilfred Bland, secretary Minneapolis Chess Club; Harry Kline of Denver, Col.; Eina Michelson, ex-champion, W. C. Assn; Dare Barkuloo of Minneapolis, boy of 14, who plays a remarkable game; Harry Fowler Lee of Chicago, a widely known player, oldest in the group; Charles Blake of Winnipeg, Manitoba, winner of the tournament; Edward Schrader of St. Louis; Abe Blieden of Kansas City, and E. P. Elliot of Minneapolis, Minnesota, secretary treasurer of the Western Chess Association.
Einar Michelsen, 1914
June 20 1914
Evening star, Washington, District of Columbia, Saturday, June 20, 1914
CHESS EXPERTS TO MEET.
Einar Michelsen, Western Champion, to Play N. T. Whitaker.
A chess game, considered by devotees as of unusual interest is scheduled to be played in the rooms of the Washington Chess and Whist Club tomorrow evening, when Einar Michelsen, the western champion, will meet the local master. N. T. Whitaker, in an informal match. Mr. Michelsen is said to be the strongest player west of the Alleghenies.
This evening at 8 o'clock in the rooms of the Washington Chess and Whist Club, 908 14th street northwest, Mr Michelsen will give a simultaneous exhibition, to which all players of the city are invited.
Einar Michelsen, 1915
April 22 1915
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, April 22, 1915
CHESS MASTERS OFF ON THREE WEEKS' GRIND
With Capablanca and Marshall showing the way, the eight experts in the chess masters tournament are playing their third round at the Hotel Grenoble, in Manhattan, today. In the photograph herewith, showing the opening of the congress, the following well known players and enthusiasts appear: Seated in front (left to right) J. R. Capablanca, Eduard Lasker, J. Bernstein, F. J. Marshall. Seated in rear (left to right) A. Kupchik, O. Chajes, A. B. Hodges, E. Michelsen. Standing (left to right) G. Koehler, R. J. Brown, L. Rosen, F. P. Beynon, John L. Clark, Hermann Helms, Frank I. Cohen, Julius Finn, Hartwig Cassel, W. M. de Visser, A. Martinez, Frank Rice Marshall, Mrs. F. J. Marshall. (Courtesy of Pathe News.)
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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.
