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September 07 1948
The Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Tuesday, September 07, 1948
THINKING IT OVER—Weaver Adams of Dedham, Mass., who won his fourth New England chess title in Portsmouth this weekend, ponders a move he had made earlier in a game with John Curdo, left, 16-year-old Lynn, Mass., specialist. The youthful Curdo forced Adams to a draw in one of the tourney's best games. (Portsmouth Herald photo)
May 09 1947
Boston Chess Master Here to Show Skill 09 May 1947, Fri The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
Boston Chess Master Here to Show Skill
Weaver W. Adams of Boston, a member of the American chess team which met a Russian team at Moscow last year and lost arrived here yesterday for a series of lectures and exhibitions of his favorite game.
Adams is the author of a book, “White to Play and Win,” which promotes the theory that the white pieces have a winning advantage in the first move if the player exercises precision skill against his opponent.
He will appear tonight at the Los Feliz Chess Club, 3401 Riverside Drive, and again Sunday night before the Hollywood Chess Group, 108 N. Formosa Ave.
July 21 1941
10 In National Chess Final Here 21 Jul 1941, Mon St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, Missouri) Newspapers.com
10 in National Chess Final Here
With 10 competing in the championship finals and six in the consolation class “A” tournament, play began yesterday in each of these competitions in the national chess meet at the Hotel De Soto. The championship list, which includes Reuben Fine of New York, the titleholder, who has not lost a game thus far, contains four from the first group of the preliminaries and three each from groups two and three.
The pairings for the first championship round: E. W. Marchand, Clayton, vs. L. W. Stephens, New York; George Sturgis, Boston, vs. Bruno Schmidt, Detroit; Fred Anderson, St. Louis, vs. Boris Blumin, New York; W. W. Adams, Dedham, Mass., vs. Fine; Herman Steiner, Los Angeles, vs. Joseph Rauch, Montreal.
Six players competing in the class “A” finals also started play yesterday, in accordance with the following pairings in the first round: C. M. Burton, St. Louis, drew with B. B. Price, Chicago; David Ehrlich, St. Louis, defeated W. M. P. Mitchell, Boston; Kirk D. Holland, Fort Worth, defeated C. W. McClure, St. Louis.
July 22 1941
Chess Titlist Wins Again 22 Jul 1941, Tue St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, Missouri) Newspapers.com
Chess Titlist Wins Again
Reuben Fine of New York, open champion of the United States Chess Federation, won his second-round match in the finals last night at the Hotel De Soto. His victim was Herman Steiner of Los Angeles.
Fine shares first place with Erich W. Marchand of Clayton, who gained a point at the expense of George Sturgis of Boston. Bruno Schmidt of Detroit defeated Fred Anderson of St. Louis.
Another game to be finished was between L. W. Stephens of New York and Joseph Rauch of Montreal. Rauch was the winner.
Boris Blumin, New York, adjourned with Weaver W. Adams, Dedham, Mass. This will be played off tomorrow afternoon. In the meantime the third round will be contested.
The standings:
CHAMPIONSHIP CLASS
Fine 2-0
Marchand 2-0
Schmidt 2-0
Anderson 1-1
Rauch 1-1
Steiner 1-1
Adams 0-1
Blumin 0-1
Stephens 0-2
Sturgis 0-2
CLASS A
Burton 2-1
Mitchell 2-1
Price 1.5-.5
Holland 1.5-1.5
Ehrlich 1-1
McClure 0-3
February 04 1940
White To Play and Win 04 Feb 1940, Sun Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas) Newspapers.com
“White to Play and Win” is the challenging title of a recently published chess book by Weaver W. Adams. Whatever protest the Massachusetts player may evoke by his thesis that “in the first move White conceivably enjoys an advantage sufficient to ultimately win the game” he certainly has made a definite contribution to chess analysis. Countless generations of chess players have held to the theory that any game free of errors would end in a draw that if the best move was made by each side at each turn an equal position would be retained to the last move. Now Adams seeks to prove this old theory a misconception and offers a new way to play chess.
Adams has evolved a formula for analyzing each move The four major points he considers before moving a piece or a pawn are: Power mobility optional moves with this piece or pawn and weaknesses created by the move. These guides to move evaluation are not new but Adams use of them is.
The book is fully illustrated with about 50 diagrams. It also contains 44 pages of general and special analysis showing the best possible moves White can make in the king's pawn openings. Adams does not overlook the fact that the player of White does make inferior moves. He has included a section entitled “Best lines for Black against inferior opening play by White”.
““White to Play and Win” is further evidence that chess is far from exhausted. This book will appeal both to the average player who is the salt of the chess world and to the master player. The publisher is David McKay Company Philadelphia the price is 75 cents.
Here is one of the 27 illustrative games selected by Adams.
Bjorn Nielsen vs Henri Grob
non-FIDE Munich Olympiad (1936), Munich GER, rd 18, Aug-29
Sicilian Defense: Classical Variation (B58) 1-0
June 06 1940
Weaver Adams' Presence Felt in U.S. Chess Play 06 Jun 1940, Thu The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
Weaver Adams' Presence Felt in U S Chess Play By Herman Helms
Seeded in order that New England might be represented Weaver W. Adams of Boston outstanding figure in chess circles Down East now that John F Barry is no more, was not among the prize winners in the U S championship tournament recently concluded at the Hotel Astor in Manhattan. He made his presence felt nevertheless. It was he who a year ago in the American Federation tournament had Champion Reshevsky at his mercy but allowed him to escape. Similarly in the recent competition he let off A.C. Simonson when he had a forced checkmate in sight.
Adams did both Reshevsky and Fine a good turn when in the fourteenth round he won from Isaac Kashdan of Brooklyn the day after the latter was defeated for the first time by Reshevsky. The New Englander finished with a record of five victories four drawn games and seven losses against the stiffest opposition New York City could supply. He also won from Sidney J. Bernstein and Matthew Green. Like the world famous Pillsbury, also from Boston, Adams has the urge or will to win. Such a policy however is attended by not a little risk. At any rate the Boston player contributed his full share to the entertainment of the gallery.
One of the best efforts credited to Adams in this tournament was his game with Green whom he defeated classically in an ending with two minor pieces on each side. It was included among those entered in competition for the Wimsatt-Turover prizes.
June 27 1940
Adams Captures Two Chess Prizes 27 Jun 1940, Thu The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
Adams Captures Two Chess Prizes
Honored for Brilliancy Best Game in Recent U S Tourney By Hermann Helms
Chess players of New England are prone to be a bit chesty these days and they have good reason to be. One of their number, Weaver W. Adams of Boston and the only one from Down East in the recent U.S. championship tournament here carried off both the special prizes offered for games of outstanding merit The Boston expert who rather than play to the score in every game went in for gilt-edged chess, made a clean sweep in this class.
According to the report made in behalf of the board of Judges by Harold M. Phillips president of the Manhattan Chess Club the brilliancy prise was awarded to Adams for his game with I. Kashdan of Brooklyn who ranked third in the tournament. The other award for the best game beginning with P-K4 was for his victory over Matthew Green.
W. K. Winsatt and I. S. Turover of Washington D C desiring to encourage the sort of tactics of which the New Englander appear to be a past master provided the funds for the two prizes. Appended is the score of the game Adams won from Kashdan
Weaver Adams vs Isaac Kashdan
United States Championship (1940), New York, NY USA, rd 14, May-15
French Defense: Classical. Tarrasch Variation (C14) 1-0
Another opportunity will be Afforded Adams to show what he can do in the invitation tournament at Ventnor City N.J. July 6 to 14, where he will be one of 12 contenders.
June 06 1949
American Chess Champion 06 Jun 1949, Mon The Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) Newspapers.com
AMERICAN CHESS CHAMPION Weaver W. Adams, chess champion of the United States, who engaged in an exhibition match with some 30 members of the RA Chess Club at the association's lounge, 36 Elgin street, over the weekend.
RA Players Meet Chess Champion 06 Jun 1949, Mon The Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) Newspapers.com
RA Plavers Meet Chess Champion
The American open chess champion, Weaver W. Adams, spent the weekend in Ottawa and took on 14 of the RA Chess club's players in a simultaneous exhibition match at 36 Elgin street.
Mr. Adams considers the game, in which he has become a top ranking player, assists in promoting international goodwill.
“There has been a great increase in playing by mail,” he said “and when the players mail their next move to their opponent, usually they send a friendly note too.”
This is the American chess master's first exhibition match in this country. He was introduced by John F. West, secretary of the RA club.
Defeats Champion
Of the 14 chess players of the RA chess club, one man, T. F. Morris, defeated the champion and another, I. Toewes, held the champion to a draw. The other 12 players went down to more or less simultaneous defeat.
Other players were: Major C. R. Lamoureux, D. Lacourcerie, J. F. West, A. H. Livingston, Jean Pouliot, A. G. Sansome, Mrs. A. G. Sansome, H. H. Ellis, A. A. Toomes, J. B. Bergerin, Hector Payne and Frank Turcotte.
Following his gruelling afternoon, Mr. Adams held a chess lecture in the RA club room in which he played a game with one of the stronger chess players and moved his pieces on a blackboard on the wall, pointing out his reasons for every move as he made them.
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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. |
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.
