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June 13 1960
Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday, August 18, 1979
Chess and Backgammon Demonstrations
Here's your chance to beat an expert Wisconsin's own Mr. Robert Holyon
Aug. 17-18-19
Jim Edwards and Lenore Holyon will also be on hand to provide free instruction to novices.
June 13 1960
Rapid City Journal, Rapid City, South Dakota, Monday, June 13, 1960
Airman New State Chess Champion
A/2C Robert E. Holyon, formerly stationed at Ellsworth Force Base, was crowned state chess champion at the state tournament held in Rapid City this weekend. Holyon, who is being transferred from the Rapid City to duty in France, unseated M. F. Anderson of Rapid City, many-time champion.
Runner-up in the two-day contest was E. M. Welling of Rapid City.
Following tournament play Sunday the following were elected to office: Richard Denu, Pine Ridge, president; Stanley Brownhill, Rapid City, secretary-treasurer, and Anderson, vice president. Anderson was tournament director and a defending champion.
Highlighting the meet was a decision to join the U.S. Chess Federation in order to receive national recognition. All players participating the tourney held membership in federation and it will be required that all participants in future state meets be members of the national organization.
During the next year the state in the junior high schools group will conduct, tournaments state to create interest chess. The association will provide trophies to winning students.
Unless a stronger bid is received before tournament time next year the state tournament will be conducted in Rapid City.
July 29 1966
The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Friday, July 29, 1966
Coals To Newcastle: Chess 'Brain' Takes On Reds
George W. Baylor
Tech instructor to “checkmate” Russians.
World's Best Players To Learn From Tech Instructor's Studies By Art Glickman
Telling the Russians how to play chess is like telling Arnold Palmer how to play golf.
But George W. Baylor, a young psychology instructor at Carnegie Institute of Technology, will give it the old college try next week when he presents a paper at the 18th International Congress of Psychology in Moscow
'They Can Learn'
Although he feels the Russians “are the best chess players in the world,” he thinks they can still learn something from a computer program he developed analyzing “what makes a good chess player.”
By analyzing chess moves, according to Mr. Taylor, psychologists can begin to understand the whole realm of human problem-solving behavior.
This could lead to more simplified ways of doing things in other fields, such as algebra, he said.
The instructor, an avid chess player in his youth, chose the chess computer program fro his masters thesis at Tech. He is currently studying for his doctorate.
The computer he worked with did not play complete games, but searched for checkmating combinations.
Checkmating is the checking of an opponent's king so that escape from capture of the attacking piece is impossible.
Choose Rules
By Following a select set of these rules instead of trying to sift through the hundred of thousands of possible moves, the computer can play intelligent chess.
Chess-playing computers now in existence cannot store all the possible moves in their memories
For this reason Mr. Baylor said, a computer competing in a Pittsburgh chess tournament would probably come out in the middle of the field. But eventually, he added, “we think we can make a world expert.”
Similar computers can be used to expand the power of human thinking in more academic areas than chess.
For example, computers can take note of how top students go about solving algebra problems. Their findings could be used to revise textbooks.
Many algebra textbooks, Mr. Baylor said, give poor instructions as to how to solve problems.
1958
George W. Baylor, 1958, Hollidaysburg High School, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania
March 10 1958
The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Monday, March 10, 1958
Area Seniors in Science Quiz
Students Named For Tomorrow
Five seniors from Western Pennsylvania high schools will take part tomorrow in the ninth Science Experts Quiz. The school representatives will compete in a simulcast at 7:30 p. m. over KDKA radio and Television Station WQED.
Competitors are Ward Collis, Northfield Macedonia High School; George W. Baylor, Hollidaysburg; J. Paul Balas, Donora; Eleanor L. Mitchell, Charleroi; and C. Pershing Henry, Punxsutawney.
The quiz is a preliminary event to the School Science Fair sponsored jointly by The Press and Buhl Planetarium.
Silver dollars will be awarded by The Press, and winners will have a chance to compete for scholarships to the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Judges tomorrow will be Benjamin R. Fisher, vice president, Fisher Scientific Co.; Dr. W. A. Weber, Duquesne University, and Dr. T. H. Dunkelberger, University of Pittsburgh.
'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.
