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August 28 1955
Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut, Sunday, December 15, 1957
Game Selection
Mr. Dutton, with his recent letter, sent me a copy of “Chess,” a chess column by Isaac Kashdan written for the Los Angeles Times. This featured a tournament for the women's championship title. The following game was played in this tournament.
Mona Karff (white) vs. Eva Aronson (black)
King's Indian Defense: Semi-Averbakh System
August 28 1955
The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, Sunday, August 28, 1955
Man's World? Gals Have Day In Chess Tourney at New York
Field is Rated As Strongest Of It's Kind by Merrill Dowden
This may be a man's world, as advertised, but you wouldn't think so if you should visit the Marshall and Manhattan Chess Clubs in New York this week.
For the ladies have moved in, bad and baggage, at these two strongholds of the bearded gender.
The occasion is the 1955 United States Women's Championship, which will continue through September 6. And the current tournament is rated as the strongest of its kind ever held in this country.
Competing for the first time in the same tourney are four U.S. women international masters: Mrs. Mary Bain, Mrs. Gisela K. Gresser, and Miss Mona M. Karff, all of New York City, and Mrs. Sonja Graf Stevenson of Palm Springs,Calif.
The other contenders are Mrs. Eva Aronson of Chicago; Mrs. Lena Grumette, Hollywood; Mrs. Willa White Owens, Avon Lake, Ohio; Miss Lucille Kellner, Detroit; Mrs. Jacqueline Piatigorsky and Miss Nancy Roos of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Mary Selensky of Philadelphia.
December 14 1953
The Journal Times, Racine, Wisconsin, Monday, December 14, 1953
Racine Chess Club Loses to Chicago
Racine Chess Club was defeated 7½ to 4½ by Chicago Austin Club, champions of the Chicago Chess League for the past two years, in a close match yesterday.
The outcome hung in the balance until the closing minutes, but R. E. Rigg and Jim Weidner lost their matches after losing early leads. Andy Mike, John Olsen, and Dan Andersen scored victories for Racine.
Rudy Kunz fought back from a losing position to gain a draw with Mrs. Eva Aronson, U. S. Women's Open Champion, while Art Domsky and John Stuempfig also drew with their opponents.
February 13 1950
Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Monday, February 13, 1950
Austin Chess, Checker Club Stars Compete
The Austin Chess and Checker club's 100 members are appearing at the World Hobby Exposition playing all comers in both chess and checkers.
There are a number of champions in the club. Albert Sandrin is the United States open chess champion. Another member, Paul Poschel, is Illinois champion.
Mrs. Eva Aronson, who is the only woman simultaneous chess player in Illinois, recently played 17 men at one time and won from 14 of them.
March 13 1961
Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Monday, March 13, 1961
Mrs. Eva Aronson and Frank Skoff deep in thought over chess problem at Gompers Park fieldhouse, 4222 Foster Avenue. Skoff is president of the Gompers Park Chess club. Tribune Photo.
'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.
