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Lasker Still Supreme Among Chess Masters

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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Friday, November 26, 1909 - Page 24 — Lasker Still Supreme Among Chess Masters – Janowski of Paris Added to the Champion's List of Redoubtable Victims. — Once again has Dr. Emanuel Lasker, the chess champion, proven that he is practically invincible by defeating D. Janowski, the French champion, in the series of ten games which has been concluded at Paris, resulting in a one-sided victory for the former by the score of 7 games to 1, with 2 drawn. The only game won by Janowski was the sixth, and in this the champion, playing black, experimented with the defense to the Four Knights' opening. However, he adopted the same fourth move in the eighth game, and succeeded in drawing it. The result of the series was a surprise and disappointment to the admirers of Janowski, who had been much encouraged by the result of the series of four games played in Paris last winter, and which gave each two wins.
Interest will now center upon the forthcoming match for the world's championship with Dr. Lasker and Carl Schlechter of Vienna, Austrian champion, which will be played in sections at Vienna, Berlin, Munich, St. Petersburg, and, possibly, also at London. Thirty games will be contested, according to the conditions which the principals have signed.
Dr. Lasker has now defeated decisively Steinitz, Marshall, Dr. Tarrasch and Janowski, although the encounter with the Parisian was not in the nature of a match, and not for the title, as in the case of each of the other opponents. Other possible aspirants for the title are G. Maroczy of Hungary, A. Rubinstein of Russia, and, in due course, Jose R. Capablanca, Cuban champion and conqueror of Marshall.
In the seventh Lasker-Janowski game, details of which are at hand, honors were even throughout the middle game, Janowski making a number of tricky moves with his rook, which required care on the part of the champion. On the fifty-second move the latter in turn initiated a combination with a move of his rook, the effects of which his opponent failed to appreciate. The outcome was that Dr. Lasker won a pawn prettily three moves later, and then got his adversary into a mating-net, from which he could not escape without a further sacrifice of the exchange. In the eighth game Dr. Lasker was again cramped in the opening, but freed his game by energetic measures. Finally, he gave up a bishop, and, occupying the open KB file with both rooks, forced a draw by perpetual check.
With the intention, no doubt, of publishing the entire set of games for the United States championship in book form, F.J. Marshall, the Brooklyn master, who has been recovering some of the laurels lost to Capablanca, by his success against J.W. Showalter in Lexington, has permitted only a few of the scores of the game to see the light of day. While everyone concedes the right to Marshall to create a possible source of revenue for himself, yet opinion is divided as to whether his course is beneficial to chess in general, and therefore, to his own interests or not. One of the best contested series with Showalter was the second of the series played at the rooms of the Louisville Chess and Whist Club. Marshall had the white pieces and offered the king's gambit, so seldom seen in match play. Showalter declined to accept the pawn with 2. B-B4, and queens were exchanged on the fourteenth move. The Kentuckian played excellent chess throughout the middle game, and succeeded finally in drawing after thirty-nine moves.

Lasker Still Supreme Among Chess Masters

'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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