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August 08 1973
Daily News-Post, Monrovia, California, Wednesday, August 08, 1973
Master chess player Walter Cunningham plays 38 players at once in a chess exhibition sponsored by the Arcadia Chess Club. Cunningham won 23 of the games Monday night. Twelve games were draws and three were won by Chess Club players. Winners were Louis Enriquez. Pete Geissler and Geoge Boehm.
January 30 1976
The Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Florida, Friday, January 30, 1976
Federal Grant Helps Move To Check Effects Of Aging
GAINESVILLE (AP)—Dr. Walter Cunningham, who recently needed only three hours to win 18 of 23 simultaneous chess games, uses chess competition as part of a study on the effect of age on mental skills.
“One's ability to understand others and react to others, important to chess, is a highly experience-related ability which increases to a fairly advanced age,” the 32-year-old University of Florida psychologist said.
CUNNINGHAM, one of 60 American life masters at chess, said the research project is supported by a $90,000 federal grant.
“It was long held that intellectual abilities peak at age 20 and decline thereafter,” Cunningham said. “Now, it is generally believed there are no age-related declines in abilities.”
He disagrees with both theories and concludes high-speed work declines significantly as people age, but ability to perform unspeeded tasks doesn't decline if the person is physically healthy.
“In fact,” he said, “verbal ability and experience-related abilities tend to increase with age. In some individuals, vocabulary scores show increases even to age 80.”
May 26 1953
The Gazette and Daily, York, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, May 26, 1953
Horst Bottstein Is Chess Tourney Winner
Horst Bottstein, 624 Roosevelt avenue, won first place Sunday in the York City and County Chess championship, rather than Herman Bottstein, as reported incorrectly yesterday.
Herman Bottstein, who also competed in the tournament, is the father of the winner.
June 06 1955
The Gazette and Daily, York, Pennsylvania, Monday, June 06, 1955
Rabbi Wins Chess Tourney
Rabbi Amos Edelheit, front left, yesterday won the York city and county chess championship in the weekend tournament at the YMCA sponsored by that organization's Chess club. His opponent, opposite, was Herman Bottstein. In front of thej is the situation just before checkmate.
Rabbi Edelheit thus wins a leg on the trophy visible in the background. Looking over his shoulder is John Schultz, tourney director. Opposite Schultz is club president Spero Custis and behind him is C. A. Miller, oldest member of the club. Behind Miller and seated is Horst Bottstein, champion for the past two years and who, if he had won this year, would have retired the trophy.
Ten top chess players in York county took part in the tourney. The scoring was Swiss.
In a separate tourney for women Gladys Purcell won with a 3-0 score. Tied for second place at 1-2 were Naomi Culbertson, Wanda Prause, and Marion Redmond.
Men's scores were Rabbi Edelheit 4-0, Schultz 3-1, Thomas Hollahan 3-1, Herman Bottstein, Horst Bottstein, and Dimitro Grenda 2-2, David Schatanoff 1½-2½, Joseph Schatanoff 1-3, Leroy Gutheridge 1-3, and Miller ½-3½.
November 23 1970
The York Dispatch, York, Pennsylvania, Monday, November 23, 1970
Hermann Bottstein
Herman Bottstein, 77, husband of Frieda M. Bottstein, died at 3 p.m. Sunday at his residence, 9 Crest view Drive.
He was a native of Berlin, Germany, having retired, in 1958 from Swiss Automatic Inc. of York.
Surviving also are a son, Horst Bottstein, 35 N. Gotwalt St. and three grandchildren.
Rabbi Eli Louis Cooper will officiate at funeral services at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Baumeister and Orcutt Colonial Mortuary, South Queen and Jackson streets. Burial will be in Susquehanna Memorial Gardens, near Dallastown.
'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.
