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Organizers Seek To Restrict Coverage Of Chess Match

“I realize why they wanted Iceland. ‘They are aware that I am going to win and they want the least possible exposure. Iceland is one place that there it is not possible even to use a television satellite. ‘Chess is a big propaganda vehicle with the Russians.’ - Bobby Fischer did not want Iceland for location:

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“Embezzling, a Terrible Organizer, or Just Plain Lying”

Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Friday, June 30, 1972

Organizers Seek To Restrict Coverage Of Chess Match

Spokesmen for AP and United Press International said they were lodging protests against any curtailment of news coverage. Joseph G. Groth, general manager of the TelePrompTer Manhattan Cable TV, said in New York: “If this capricious move succeeds, a large and interested segment of the public served by TelePrompTer Manhattan CATV will be deprived of one of the most exciting show-downs in the history of chess.” The firm has announced plans for a move-by-move analysis of each of the matches, utilizing the AP service and comment from a U.S. chess grand master. The Icelandic Chess Federation contends that TelePrompTer's use of the AP reports infringes on its property rights, the company said. The federation has sold U.S. broadcast television rights to the American Broadcasting Company. Spokesmen for Channel 13-WNDT New York, which also has announced plans for telecasts based on move-by-move reports, said it was “absolutely outrageous to attempt to stop the free dissemination of news.” “We are performing a service for the chess devotee,” the Channel 13 spokesmen said. The station's plans call for five hours of continuous coverage on each day of the match. ABC plans to use the film to which it has acquired rights on the network's “Wide World of Sports” program.

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Ron Gross Caught Fabricating Bobby Fischer's Youth Narrative

Southern California newspapers and Grandmaster Isaac Kashdan’s L.A. Times Chess column neatly documents Ron Gross’ residency between 1955-1968, being in Compton, California and 1969, Long Beach, California.

Not New York. Not Brooklyn. Not even in the same chess league as Bobby Fischer. Most of all, not Bobby Fischer’s “close friend”. Based on the misinformation spread by Ron Gross, this sort of contraction turns up in press:

“Mid-fifties. A couple of kids walk through the streets of New York. [...] only two thirteen-year-olds [...] One of them has just moved from California to New York.”

But in actuality, Ron Gross was living in Compton, California and was 18 years of age. Bobby Fischer was 11, and living in Brooklyn, New York. Thousands of miles separating them. Ron Gross Caught Fabricating Bobby Fischer's Youth Narrative

https://fischer-notes.blogspot.com/2019/03/ron-gross-caught-fabricating-bobby.html 

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Chess: Fischer Wins Again

The Guardian London, Greater London, England Thursday, January 26, 1967

Chess: Fischer Wins Again BOBBY FISCHER has just won the United States championship for the eighth time at the age of 23. His continued success when the incentive which brought the first victory is long past is a remarkable achievement. Fischer scored 9½ out of 11, conceding only three draws and finishing two points ahead of the runner-up. Larry Evans, who was himself 1½ points clear of Benko and Sherwin in third place. Reshevsky, once the undisputed king of American chess, scored only 4½ points to finish a modest eighth. Here are two of Fischer's wins from the US championship.

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Chess Series Moves Into Three-Way Tie

Redlands Daily Facts Redlands, California Saturday, July 23, 1966

Chess Series Moves Into Three-Way Tie SANTA MONICA (UPI) —Boris Spassky of the USSR and Bent Larsen of Denmark played to a draw after 80 moves Friday night in the final game of the fourth round of the Piatigorsky Cup International Chess Tournament. The draw drew Spassky into a three-way tie for first place with U.S. champion Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Miguel Najdorf of Argentina with 2½ points.

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Fischer Wins 3rd Distance Chess Game

Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona Wednesday, September 01, 1965

Fischer Wins 3rd Distance Chess Game NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer won his third long-distance game of the Capablanca Memorial Tournament Tuesday night in a game that one expert said “will go down in chess history.” The 22-year-old champion beat his opponent, Gueorghia D. Tringov of Bulgaria, in 22 moves. “The game was a master-piece,” said Saul Rubin, president of the Marshall Chess Club. Fischer is cabling his moves from the club to the tournament headquarters in Havana, because the State Department refused to grant him a visa to visit Cuba. Rubin said Fischer's game was “extremely brilliant and complex.” At one point, he said, Tringov did not believe one of Fischer's moves and had to telephone New York on the chess “hot line” to confirm it. “He thought it was a losing move, but really it was a winning move,” Rubin said. Fischer has started five games, and won three. One was a draw. Another, the fourth one he started, has been postponed twice.

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U.S. Champ Again Wins In 22-Move 'Masterpiece'

The Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky Wednesday, September 01, 1965

U.S. Champ Again Wins In 22-Move 'Masterpiece' From AP and L.A. Times-Washington Post Service Dispatches NEW YORK (AP) — U.S chess champion Bobby Fischer won his third long-distance game of the Capablanca Memorial Tournament last night in a game that one expert said “will go down in chess history.” The 22-year-old champion beat his opponent, Gueorghia D. Tringov of Bulgaria, in 22 moves. “The game was a masterpiece,” said Saul Rubin, president of the Marshall Chess Club. Fischer is cabling his moves from the club to tournament headquarters in Havana because the State Department refused to grant him a visa to visit Cuba. Rubin said Fischer's game was “extremely brilliant and complex.” At one point, he said, Tringov did not believe one of Fischer's moves and had to telephone New York on the chess “hot line” to confirm it. “He thought it was a losing move, but really it was a winning move,” Rubin said.

Fischer Wins 3 Of 5 Games In five games so far, Fischer has won three, against Heinz Lehmann of West Germany, former world champion Vassily Smyslov of the Soviet Union, and Tringov. He had a draw against Romania's Victor Cioaciltea. His fourth game. against Belgium's Alberic O'Kelly, was adjourned yesterday until Friday after 54 moves had been played. Smyslov, 44, resigned in his game with Fischer after an overnight adjournment. Speaking in English over a direct telephone line which supplements the teletype used for moves, he congratulated the surprised American on winning. Earlier Smyslov had proposed a draw on his 24th move, but Fischer declined and went on to build up a stronger position.

Smyslov and Fischer had met before, during a challengers' tournament in Yugoslavia in 1959. Each won a game and two games were tied. Here is Fischer's victory:

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Russian Beats Briton In Chess

The Miami News Miami, Florida Tuesday, August 31, 1965

Russian Beats Briton In Chess HAVANA, Cuba i AP — Vassily Smyslov of Russia defeated Robert Wade of Britain in a fourth-round match last night and took over a share of the lead in the Capablanca Memorial Chess Tournament. Smyslov defeated Wade after 31 moves. A telephoned match between the U. S. grandmaster, Bobby Fischer of New York, and Alberik O'Kelly of Belgium was adjourned after the 41st move and will be completed today.

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U.S. Chess Champ In Tense Contest

The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California Tuesday, August 31, 1965

U.S. Chess Champ In Tense Contest NEW YORK—(UPI) U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer was embroiled last night in a long, tense match with Belgium's Alberic O'Kelly. Earlier he failed to further his position in the Capablanca Memorial Chess Tournament in play with a Romanian champion. At a turning point in his match with O'Kelly, Fischer refused to accept a draw—which would have been his second of the day—and there was no indication when the game would end. The 22 year old Fischer played to a draw in 48 moves with Romania's Victor Cioaciltea. Both players received one-half point. Fischer is playing the 22-game tournament via cable because the State Department would not issue him a visa to Cuba.

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Fischer Tied for Chess Lead After Draw on 47th Move

The San Bernardino County Sun San Bernardino, California Tuesday, August 31, 1965

Fischer Tied for Chess Lead After Draw on 47th Move HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Bobby Fischer, the United States' 22-year-old grandmaster, tied with Romania's Victor Cioacaltea yesterday in a third round game in the Capablanca Memorial Chess Tournament. Fischer, denied permission to visit Cuba by the U.S. State Department, is participating in the international tournament by telephone and telegraph. Fischer is in New York. His moves, and those of his opponent, are wired to and from Havana. Cioacaltea was on the verge of victory several times, but Fischer firmed up his game and reversed his bad position by the 41st move. The game was adjourned as a tie after the 47th move. The deadlock left Fischer in a three-way tie for first with Jolmov of Russia and Donner of the Netherlands. Each has 2½ points. Fischer had won both of his earlier games. The fourth round of the 30-day tournament was to be played later yesterday but probably will not be completed until today.

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Diplomatic Chess

The Corpus Christi Caller-Times Corpus Christi, Texas Tuesday, August 31, 1965

Diplomatic Chess (Reprinted from the Christian Science Monitor) Checkmated by the State Department in his efforts to go to Cuba for an international chess tournament, the United States chess champion is going to play by cable. This will not be the first chess played by remote control. But since all the other players will be permitted to be on the scene it recalls the comment of the legendary Hollywood producer talking about “message” pictures: “If you have a message, send it by Western Union.” With the American champion, Bobby Fischer, making his moves by wire, the whole world will get the message that the mighty United States is preventing its chess hero from going to little Cuba. To Mr. Fischer's credit, he refused to play even by wire until Premier Castro assured him he had no propagandistic intentions. “Our country has no need for such fleeting propaganda,” Dr. Castro is reported to have replied. Surely many Americans must he thinking, “Our country has no need of keeping chess champions out of Havana.” The State Department doubtless has its reasons for making no exception to regulations. Yet it would seem that any propaganda that ensues will be the result of its own move on the diplomatic chessboard.

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Fischer Gains Long Distance Draw In Chess

Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Tuesday, August 31, 1965

Fischer Gains Long Distance Draw In Chess New York, Aug. 30 (UPI) — Bobby Fischer, United States chess champion, played to a draw in 48 moves with Romania's Victor Cioaciltea today in the Capablanca Memorial Chess tournament. Fischer played at a chess club here via teletype to Cuba, where the Capablanca tournament is being held. Fischer and Cioaciltea each received a score of one-half point for the draw. The 22-year-old American champ fired his referee yesterday only an hour before he was scheduled to begin a match with Cioaciltea.

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U.S. Chess Champ Fires His Referee

The Times Shreveport, Louisiana Monday, August 30, 1965

U.S. Chess Champ Fires His Referee NEW YORK (UPI) — U. S. Chess champion Bobby Fisher fired his referee Sunday an hour before he resumed his long-distance play in the Capablanca Memorial Chess tournament in Havana, Cuba. The referee, Frank Brady, 31, said he received a long-distance call shortly before 2 p.m. from Fischer's attorney in Massachusetts who said that the young chess master didn't want him around. I talked to Bobby later and he said he felt it would disturb his concentration if I was in the same room with him,” Brady said. “The problem is with the book I wrote about him. He didn't like it.” Fischer, 22, began play at 3 p.m. via cable to Havana with Romania's Victor Ciocâltea in the third game of the 22-game tournament. He is competing by cable because the State Department refused his permission to go to Cuba. Brady said the “boy wonder” had read his book, “Profile of a Prodigy,” in galley form and “He didn't like it then. In fact, I was surprised when he called me last Thursday to ask me to be the referee.” A variety of referees sat in on the first week of play and Brady was on hand only Thursday night when Fischer defeated Russia's former world champion, Vassily Smyslov, who conceded after 43 moves. Brady said, “My book came out last week and I think Bobby re-read it and decided to fire me because he doesn't like people tampering with his private life.”

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Fischer Wins 2nd Game in Chess Meet

Wow... journalistic instincts hard at work here:

Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan Sunday, August 29, 1965

Fischer Wins 2nd Game in Chess Meet (C) New York Times Service NEW YORK -Bobby Fischer, who used to cry when he lost a chess game. has won his second game by teletype in the Capablanca Memorial Tournament being held in Havana, Cuba. Fischer, called the Mozart of chess, conducted the game by teletype because of a propaganda fight with Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. Below is Fischer's second-game victory over Russia's former world champion Vassilly Smyslov.

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Bobby Fischer at Capablanca Memorial Tournament

Bobby Fischer would not have been drafted in U.S. Military. See this publication from the Worldwide Church of God,

MILITARY SERVICE and WAR by Herbert W Armstrong “Here is the biblical teaching and commands of God on military service, killing and WAR. … At the outset, bear in mind that in the United States, for example, the Selective Service and the military authorities deal with “conscientious objectors” according to the genuine sincerity of the individual, as they, not the individual, determine his sincerity.” https://www.hwalibrary.com/cgi-bin/get/hwa.cgi?action=getbklet&InfoID=1326297208&byGraphicList=byList&page=&return=bklets

The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Sunday, August 29, 1965

Bobby Fischer at Capablanca Memorial Tournament Frank Brady, former editor of the magazine Chess World, has written a book on Bobby Fischer called “Profile of a Prodigy,” reputedly a comprehensive portrait of this controversial figure and containing 75 of his games. The book is to be released at the end of this month. The book is already a little incomplete, for the controversial Bobby Fischer is again in the news. Bobby is not in the army as previously reported, though we were informed that he had expected to be drafted. Recently he applied for a visa to play in the Capablanca Memorial tournament in Cuba, partly on the theory that he would also function as a journalist. His application was denied. Fischer then arranged to participate by telecommunication. Fidel Castro promptly announced a diplomatic victory. Fischer, irritated that his name was being used for political reasons, thereupon withdrew from the tournament, indicating by cable that he would nevertheless participate if the Cuban government publicly conceded that his participation is non-political. However, the latest report is that Fischer is playing.

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L.A. Times Problem No. 3724 by C. J. R. Sammelius

Problem: (08/29/1965) White mates in three. https://steiner-kashdan.blogspot.com/1995/01/august-29-1965-la-times-chess-by-isaac.html

Solution: (09/19/1965). https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24658520/chess_by_isaac_kashdan/

Stockfish Analysis. https://www.chess.com/analysis?diagram_id=5270086

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August 29, 1965 Problem No. 3723, L.A. Times Chess by Isaac Kashdan

L.A. Times Problem No. 3723 by C. Mansfield

Problem: (08/29/1965) White mates in two. https://steiner-kashdan.blogspot.com/1995/01/august-29-1965-la-times-chess-by-isaac.html

Solution: (09/19/1965). https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24658520/chess_by_isaac_kashdan/

Stockfish Analysis. https://www.chess.com/analysis?diagram_id=5269840

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U.S. Chess Champ Teletypes His Moves

Dayton Daily News Dayton, Ohio Sunday, August 29, 1965

U.S. Chess Champ Teletypes His Moves BOBBY FISCHER, U.S. chess champ since the age of 14, was playing his matches via teletype last week. The reason: He was refused permission to journey to the tournament site in Havana because of State department restrictions. Staying home in New York, the moody, 22-year -old won two games. The critics concede Fisher is a chess genius (he has virtually no outside interests) and one observer called him a “killer” at the game.

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