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Efim Dimitrievich Bogoljubov, 1952
June 19 1952
Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, Hollywood, California, Thursday, June 19, 1952
Death Checkmates Ewfim Bogoljubov
Triberg, Germany, June 19. (AP)—Ewfim Bogoljubow, 64, Russian exile three-time German national chess champion, is dead.
July 11 1952
The Guardian, London, Greater London, England, Friday, July 11, 1952
Bogoljubow
The death is announced at the age of 64 of Ewfim D. Bogoljubow, one of the great figures in chess. His best days were in the twenties, culminating in his remarkable victory in the Moscow tournament of 1925, where he finished well ahead of Em. Lasker, Capablanca, and other front-rank masters.
In his later years his powers gradually fell off and present-day players tended to forget what a great player he was. That is the fate of most masters who do not follow Morphy's example and retire at the height of their fame. Bogoljubow's chief characteristics were imagination and originality. They served him well against lesser mortals, but against players of his own class they cost him many a point, although even when playing Alekhine he won more than a few fine games.
In the following brevity from a Stockholm tournament in 1920 (playing White) against Wendel he shows an almost puckish humour:
Efim Bogoljubov (white) vs. Verner Wendel (black)
2nd Stockholm Jubilee (1920), Stockholm, Sweden
Dutch Defense: Spielmann Gambit
1. Against 2. … P-Q4; trying to prevent the gambit continuation 3. P-K4, Bogoljubov had thought out the following line, relying more on his own ingenuity than on the soundness of the conception; 3. P-K4, QPxP; 4. B-N5 (or B-QB4), followed by N-R3, or P-KB3, with good attacking chances.
2. The idea is 3. … PxP; 4. P-K4 P-Q3; 5. P-KR3, and White acquires great mobility.
3. Forcing Black to continue to attack, when he should be more concerned with his means of defence.
4. The cat among the pigeons. There is no adequate reply.
5. Plausible, for he threatens 11. … N-Q5. If at once 10. … N-Q5; 11. Q-K4.
6. An amusing ending; 15. … NxQ; 16. B-N5ch K-K1; 17. N-B7ch K-B1; 18. R-KB1, &c. A delightful miniature.
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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. |
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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.
