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• Robert J. Fischer, 1960 bio + additional games
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• Robert J. Fischer, 1965 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1966 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1967 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1968 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1969 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1970 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1971 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1972 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1973 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1974 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1975 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1976 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1977 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1978 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1979 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1980 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1981 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1982 bio + additional games
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• Robert J. Fischer, 1984 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1985 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1986 bio + additional games
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• Robert J. Fischer, 1988 bio + additional games
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• Robert J. Fischer, 1990 bio + additional games
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• Robert J. Fischer, 1999 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2000 bio + additional games
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• Robert J. Fischer, 2003 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2004 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2005 bio + additional games
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• Robert J. Fischer, 2008 bio + additional games
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1867

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January 10, 1867

January 23, 1867

  • The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Wednesday, January 23, 1867 - Page 2 — Southern Hospital Association Ball. Reception, Paul Morphy. Reception Committee will meet on Wednesday night, 23d inst., at Gen. Beauregard's office, 44 Carondelet. Notice. Office of the Southern Hospital Association for Disabled Soldiers, New Read More

  • The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Wednesday, January 23, 1867 - Page 3 — Office of the Southern Hospital Association For Disabled Soldiers, New Orleans, January 5, 1867. (Paul Morphy was on the “Arrangements” committee, and acting as a “Receptionist” for this charitable outreach for disabled veterans.)

February 04, 1867

  • Pittsburgh Daily Post Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Monday, February 04, 1867 - Page 1 — Chess Club.

February 10, 1867

  • The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, February 10, 1867 - Page 4 — Chess

February 24, 1867

  • The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, February 24, 1867 - Page 4 — Chess. / / /

February 27, 1867

  • The Courier and Argus Dundee, Tayside, Scotland Wednesday, February 27, 1867 - Page 3 — Chess Announcement Premature — The announcement in some of the English and French papers that Mr. Morphy and other well-known players will take part in the Paris tournament is premature, as the committee of management is not yet fully formed.

March 11, 1867

March 17, 1867

  • The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, March 17, 1867 - Page 5 — Chess. — “An unpromising beginning; but one with worshipful sanction, for, if we remember rightly, the greatest of German players, Anderssen, adopted it successfully against the great of American players, Morphy.)

March 22, 1867

  • The Weekly Republican Plymouth, Indiana Friday, March 22, 1867 - Page 5 — A feature of the Paris Exposition is to be an international chess tourney. Russia, Germany France, England and America will be contestants. Russia's knight is said to be a magnificent player. Germany boasts a man who has vanquished twenty opponents at one Read More

April 10, 1867

  • Hartford Courant Hartford, Connecticut Wednesday, April 10, 1867 - Page 2 — “A great chess tournament, some of the prizes of which are given by the Emperor Napoleon, is to take place at Paris during the Exposition. Where is Paul Morphy?”

April 27, 1867

  • The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Saturday, April 27, 1867 - Page 6 — Chess.

May 09, 1867

  • The Guardian London, Greater London, England Thursday, May 09, 1867 - Page 4 — Great International Chess Tournament. — A great international chess tournament is to take place at the Cercle International in Paris on the 15th. It is expected that the famous American chess player, Morphy, will take part in the tournament.

May 20, 1867

  • The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Monday, May 20, 1867 - Page 2 — An eclectic English journal calls the great chess-player Morphy—Murphy.

  • The Brooklyn Union Brooklyn, New York Monday, May 20, 1867 - Page 2 — Morphy is playing chess in Vienna. / (False rumor).

June 02, 1867

  • The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, June 02, 1867 - Page 7 — Chess. “A finely played game, wherein Mr. Morphy gave the odds of his Queen's Rook to Mr. Michaelis.”

June 09, 1867

  • The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, June 09, 1867 - Page 7 — Chess. — The following is one of the remarkable positions from the “Abécédaire Echiqueen,” or Problems formed to represent the letters of the Alphabet, of which we spoke in our last. It will be seen that the pieces are so arranged as to form the letter M, the initial Read More

June 12, 1867

  • Hartford Courant Hartford, Connecticut Wednesday, June 12, 1867 - Page 4 — The National Game. — “…In 1867 the effects of this infatuation are visible and the mercury in the thermometer of sport has fallen far below its old point of summer heat. A parallel to this state of things may be found in the chess mania of 1857—the year of the American Read More

June 19, 1867

Paul Morphy, Esq., and family left here, yesterday, for Paris.Paul Morphy, Esq., and family left here, yesterday, for Paris. 19 Jun 1867, Wed The New Orleans Crescent (New Orleans, Louisiana) Newspapers.com

June 24, 1867

  • Daily News London, Greater London, England Monday, June 24, 1867 - Page 5 — Chess Congress of 1867 — There are chess tournaments held every evening in the conference saloon or in the international concert room of the club. The most celebrated chess players join in these contests. Among the foremost are Anderson, of London; Read More

Chess Congress of 1867Chess Congress of 1867 24 Jun 1867, Mon Daily News (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com

June 27, 1867

  • The Buffalo Commercial Buffalo, New York Thursday, June 27, 1867 - Page 1 — Morphy, the chess-player, is to take part in the coming Chess Congress, in Paris.

  • Memphis Daily Appeal Memphis, Tennessee Thursday, June 27, 1867 - Page 1 — The celebrated chess player, Paul Morphy and family, left New Orleans last week for Paris. /

July 08, 1867

  • The Evening Telegraph Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monday, July 08, 1867 - Page 1 — Chess in Paris and in New York — “The Paris correspondence of the London Daily News says:—…Morphy's determination to give odds doubtless excludes him from the Congress, but will give extraordinary interest to the meeting of great players. We have no report of Read More

July 28, 1867

  • The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, July 28, 1867 - Page 13 — “Chess. — Mr. Morphy it must be remembered, has not had any hard practice in Chess for some years, and whether if he had entered for the Emperor's Prize he would have won it is problematical. In his best play we have not a doubt he would have beaten any player in the list.”

September 10, 1867

September 13, 1867

September 14, 1867

September 15, 1867

Paul Morphy Reported With Typhoid FeverPaul Morphy Reported With Typhoid Fever 15 Sep 1867, Sun The Times-Democrat (New Orleans, Louisiana) Newspapers.com

September 28, 1867

  • Fort Smith Weekly Herald Fort Smith, Arkansas Saturday, September 28, 1867 - Page 2 — Paul Morphy is still in Paris, but has not played any of the new chess monarchs there.

October 31, 1867

  • The Ouachita Telegraph Monroe, Louisiana Thursday, October 31, 1867 - Page 1 — Wonderful Memories. — Morphy and other chess-players have recently given instances of their extraordinary memories. Dr. Wallis tell us that he could by mere effort of memory perform arithmetical calculations, as multiplication, division, extraction of Read More

November 12, 1867

  • The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Tuesday, November 12, 1867 - Page 1 — Young Kaiser, Boy Violinist — “Indeed, when we consider the tender age of this remarkable child, and remember how weak must be the arm that guides the bow with such perfect taste, we are filled with wonder, and conclude the boy must have a Read More

December 03, 1867

  • The Daily Standard Raleigh, North Carolina Tuesday, December 03, 1867 - Page 2 — Mr. Daniel W. Fiske, formerly of the Astor Library, since of the Chess Monthly, and still since editor of the Hartford Courant, sailed on Saturday for Egypt, to “do” the Nile, and incidentally to buy books for the Cornell Library. Mr. Fiske is an excellent linguist, a man of Read More

December 12, 1867

'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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