1962

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January 03, 1962

• The News Journal Wilmington, Delaware Wednesday, January 03, 1962 - Page 26 “Out Our Way”

April 09, 1962

• The Gettysburg Times Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Monday, April 09, 1962 - Page 4 “Donald Byrne Earns Chess Title”

April 10, 1962

• The York Dispatch York, Pennsylvania Tuesday, April 10, 1962 - Page 22 — Teen-Ager Expects Contract to Be Fulfilled — New York, April 10 — Bobby Fischer, 19-year-old U.S. chess champ, made a legal move after due deliberation against an opponent, Samuel Reshevsky, once a boy prodigy himself. Young Fischer asked the State Supreme Court to bar Reshevsky, now 50, from engaging in any public chess exhibition until the completion of a series of matches started between them last year. According to the youth's complaint, he entered into a contract with Reshevsky on March 15, 1961, for a series of 16 matches. The purse was to be about $8,000, with the winner to get a 65 per cent cut, the loser 45. After 11 games, the players were tied at 5½ points each. Subsequently, the teen-ager alleged, Reshevsky claimed the twelfth game and the match on the ground the young man failed to appear. Bobby maintained he had never agreed to the time scheduled for the twelfth game, that he was ready to go ahead with the match, but Reshevsky refused. Bobby, through his lawyer, Harold Davis, advised the court, “my reputation as the most skillful and proficient chess player in the United States will be irreparably damaged and tarnished unless Reshevsky fulfills the terms of the contract.” Bobby also said it was the general custom among chess pros that “forfeited games are not declared or accepted because of a temporary failure between two players to agree upon a mutually satisfactory date and time.” According to Bobby, Reshevsky improperly claimed the twelfth game of the 16-game series and he wants the older player to be directed to continue the series “from the end of the eleventh game.” Bobby lives in Brooklyn while Reshevsky lives in Spring Valley, N.Y. He could not be reached there. Reshevsky has 30 days in which to answer the suit—which sought no money damages. Read More

August 07, 1962

• The Napa Valley Register Napa, California Tuesday, August 07, 1962 - Page 10 — Dr. Kupka Named Head of Chest Center at Hospital — Dr. Edward Kupka, well-known authority on tuberculosis and other diseases of the chest, has been named assistant superintendent of the Napa State Hospital and will head the hospital's chest center program.

August 27, 1962

• The Indianapolis News Indianapolis, Indiana Monday, August 27, 1962 - Page 13 “Byrne Unseated”

September 09, 1962

• The Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky Sunday, September 09, 1962 - Page 46 “Book Tells How To Enjoy Chess”

September 20, 1962

• The Gazette and Daily York, Pennsylvania Thursday, September 20, 1962 - Page 32 “Spanish Team Leads In Chess Tournament”

October 26, 1962

• Daily News New York, New York Friday, October 26, 1962 - Page 6 — Find Chess Expert's Body Stuffed in Doctor's Safe — A Murder's bludgeon spelled checkmate and death yesterday for Abraham Turner, 38, rotund, extroverted tournament chess player and recent employee of the Chess Review, a magazine for devotees of the game, with quarters on the third floor of the four-story building at 134 W. 72d St. - CONTINUED - ★ / ★ / ★ Read More

• New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, October 26, 1962 - Page 23 — Top Chess Player Stabbed To Death; Body of Abe Turner Found in Safe on 72d St. — Abe Turner, a chess master who was one of the top players in the country, was found stabbed to death yesterday in the basement of a West Side building where he had been working as a clerk for the magazine Chess Review.
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October 27, 1962

• Daily News New York, New York Saturday, October 27, 1962 — Ordered to Bellevue In Chess Ace Killing — Theodore Weldon Smith, 35, a handyman, was sent to Bellevue yesterday for observation after allegedly admitting the fatal stabbing of Abe Turner, 38, well-known chess tournament player. Smith readily admitted the murder, police said, and told them Turner was “a spy” and he “had orders from the Secret Service to kill him.” Turner's body, stabbed nine times and beaten with a hammer, was found stuffed in a large walk-in safe Thursday in the basement of 134 w. 72d St., where Turner worked as a staff member of the Chess Review. The magazine employed Smith as a handyman. - CONTINUED - ★ / ★ Read More

• Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Saturday, October 27, 1962 - Page 10 — Man Is Seized In Murder Of Master Chess Player — New York (AP) — A man was seized late Thursday night in the slaying of a 280-pound master chess player, whose body was found stuffed in a walk-in wall safe of a basement laboratory on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The victim, Abe Turner, 38, had been stabbed nine times. Turner, a bachelor, lived in Mount Vernon, N.Y., with his father, Morris. He did general office work for “Chess Review,” a monthly magazine. Police said Turner apparently had been stabbed Thursday in a hallway of the building where he worked and his body dragged to a basement laboratory used by a doctor who has an office on the first floor. Seized as he was entering his room at a West Side YMCA was Theodore Smith, 38, a clerk-typist with “Chess Review.” Police said Smith, sought because he was the last person known to have seen Turner alive, readily admitted the slaying. Read More

October 30, 1962

• Lebanon Daily News Lebanon, Pennsylvania Tuesday, October 30, 1962 - Page 6 — Russians Cheat At Chess — Russians, who are noted for ungentlemanly habits, have been accused of cheating at chess. Not garden-variety cheating, but cheating at the international challenge level.
  Bobby Fischer, a young American who is one of the world's best chess players, has explained how the Russians do it. At tournaments against non-Russians, they assure good records against each other by agreeing to draw—tie—their matches. Then, when one Russian reaches a good score by beating other players, the other Russians throw their matches with him, assuring that the leading Russian will win the competition.
  The result, Fischer charges, is that no non-Russian has any chance of winning. Fischer vows he will enter no more international tournaments until the rules are changed to prevent such collusion.
  Back in the Stalin days, the Russians claimed they had invented everything from the automobile to electric lights. It is doubtful if they invented chess, which came from somewhere in the mysterious East.
  But they have invented the first efficient way to cheat at it. Read More

November 11, 1962

• The Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky Sunday, November 11, 1962 - Page 52 “U. Of L. Chess Club Organization Is Set”