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Siegbert Tarrasch, 1914

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April 21 1914

St. Petersburg International Chess Tournament, April 21, 1914 – May 22, 1914

St. Petersburg International Chess Tournament, April 21, 1914 – May 22, 1914.
St. Petersburg 1914 was organized by the St. Petersburg Chess Society to commemorate its tenth anniversary. It invited the world’s top twenty players, but Amos Burn, Richard Teichmann, and Szymon Winawer declined for personal reasons. Oldrich Duras, Geza Maroczy, Carl Schlechter, Rudolf Spielmann, Savielly Tartakower, Milan Vidmar, and Max Weiss, on the other hand, declined due to tensions between Russia and Austria-Hungary.
The remaining eleven, nonetheless, made a formidable cast. These included the world champion in Emanuel Lasker, the leading title contenders in Akiba Rubinstein and Jose Raul Capablanca, former world championship contenders in Isidor Gunsberg, Frank Marshall, Siegbert Tarrasch, and David Janowski, a 19th century great in Joseph Henry Blackburne, a leading Russian master in Ossip Bernstein, and the joint winners of the 1913 All-Russian Masters Tournament in Alexander Alekhine and Aron Nimzowitsch.
Source: Chessbase, Revisiting St. Petersburg 1914


St. Petersburg International Chess Tournament, April 21, 1914 – May 22, 1914. Seated left, Emanuel Lasker. Seated right, Siegbert Tarrasch. Back row from left to right: Alexander Alekhine, Jose Raul Capablanca, Frank Marshall.

“The St Petersburg Tournament of 1914 featured the joint winners of the 1914 All Russian Championship (Alekhine and Nimzowitsch) and players who had won at least one major tournament. There were the veterans Blackburne and Gunsberg, established masters such as Tarrasch, Bernstein, Janowski, Nimzowitsch, Alekhine and Marshall as well as the World Champion Lasker and his two most prominent rivals, Rubinstein and Capablanca.
The tournament was divided into two sections. The first stage from the 21st April to the 6th of May was an all-play-all event with the first five finishers proceeding into the second stage which ran from the 10th to the 22nd of May. This second stage was a double round all-play-all with the scores from the preliminaries being carried over to the final.
It was expected that there would be a great struggle among Lasker, Capablanca and Rubinstein, but the latter failed to make the final, leaving Lasker and Capablanca to battle it out. Lasker was 1½ points behind Capablanca at the start of the finals but in the end ran out the winner by a ½ point, by scoring seven points from eight games, including a celebrated victory over Capablanca.”
Source: Chessgames.com: St. Petersburg (1914)


'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:

Bobby Fischer, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech
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.

Robert J. Fischer, Kid Chess Wizard 1956March 9, 1943 - January 17, 2008

The 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.

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