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Best of Chess Fischer Newspaper Archives
• Robert J. Fischer, 1955 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1956 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1957 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1958 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1959 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1960 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1961 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1962 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1963 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1964 bio + additional games
• 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
• Robert J. Fischer, 1983 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1984 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1985 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1986 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1987 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1988 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1989 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1990 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1991 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1992 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1993 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1994 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1995 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1996 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1997 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1998 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1999 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2000 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2001 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2002 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2003 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2004 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2005 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2006 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2007 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2008 bio + additional games
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The Cold War Threat of "Jewish Communism" also known as the Judeo-Bolshevik Conspiracy myth

Occasionally, I bring this topic up as my work here would be of no value, if it is not to reveal the FULL truth about Robert Fischer's life and clear up some of the so-called "mysteries". The media has done a lot of damage in its attempts to obfuscate, or cover up, statements made by Fischer. But here it is. Fischer was NOT alone after he came out of the Worldwide Church of God in the 1970s, a cult he began following around 1962 over radio. During the same time, my own father was listening to the "Radio Church of God," over HAM radio, and by the early 1970s my parents forced me into this fundamentalist cult. That's where mine and Robert Fischer's life merges. (https://bobby-fischer-1962.blogspot.com/p/bobby-fischer-chess-genius.html) There, were taught the SUPERIORITY of Jews and Judaism… as "God's Chosen People". (The media often falsely claims the WCG was "antisemitic" but they do mislead the public!)

The WCG regularly fed the sheep a regimen about how the Jews were God's chosen, and through that religion alone, the law was delivered... and we alone, received the gospel of Jesus, as "Law Enforcer" via Herbert Armstrong, a gifted Apostle. Holocaust was a mere prelude of the coming fulfillment of the New Testament Revelations, before the second coming of Jesus. Herbert Armstrong emptied many bank accounts with those false prophecies, that would begin with Germany rising once again under Nazi-Fascist governing, with the backing of the "Holy Roman Empire" (aka the Anti-Christ, the Pope who keep Sunday for the Sabbath would be forced on the conquered -- and Armstrong filled us with fears of the Spanish Inquisitions, the coming enforcement of Protestant and Catholicism, persecuting, once again, the Jews and all people who worship on Saturday (on the 7th day Sabbath).

The media didn't want the public to know that about Robert Fischer's background.

The Cold War Threat of 'Jewish Communism' also known as the Judeo-Bolshevik Conspiracy myth

After having this ghoulish nightmare drilled into our minds weekly, for over a decade and a half.. it truly damages people. I couldn't concentrate in school, wondering always, when I came home would my family be missing after they were whisked away to a place of safety (similar to the rapture, but a geographic location in Jordan)-- left behind because children were forbidden baptism in the WCG. Robert Fischer was not baptized either. At night, I had nightmares so real, of Hitler ordering my execution and after being shot I could feel the life draining from my body and everything around me fading to black. Nightmares of hiding in ghettos to be rounded up by Nazi soldiers. I grew to adulthood in a state of constant panic... indoctrinated, culminating in Complex-PTSD. The fears were perceived as real of Nazis invading, coming death camps... because we were "Brainwashed" thoroughly.
And as the media notes well, Fischer did not speak of his religion to the public. We were instructed in the cult NOT to discuss our beliefs with outsiders.

Robert Fischer spoke to some of the ex-cult followers, dissidents, in 1976 about the mind control used by the Worldwide Church of God.
The Media doesn't want the public to understand the intensity of the abuse of which Fischer speaks, was done to him: https://hwarmstrong.com/ar/Fischer.html)

Nonetheless, I was there during the 1970s and 1980s. His words are correct and accurate defining the cult. I myself, finally began the slow exit that began in 1989 for me, that Fischer went through for himself from 1971-1976, and questioning when, how the end time would actually proceed. Mine was triggered when I heard the radio announce, "The Berlin Wall" was alas falling, and Armstrong prophesied it would be a "sign of the end". 1989. I was fear-stricken, and knew it was urgent to know what the Nazis were doing -- fast. So by 1991, thanks to a PBS Special on a trial headed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, where they failed to blip out an address to one of those organizations' newspapers for a brief second, I jotted it down and contacted them, hoping for years of suppressed questions and answers. I began tracing down any possible address to German Nazis, to ask the burning question: "Why do you want to harm people simply for the day they worship on?!"

Of course, I did find such a lead, and that "nazi leader" dismissed the question as ridiculous, claiming he didn't care what people worshiped, because some people NEED a religion, then boasted he himself as a "Pagan." He then rambled on something about how his/their argument with the Jews was a Political one, not religious, which at the time, made no sense to me.

I didn't believe him of course.
However, the response I received was unexpected and it began exposing some holes and gaps in Armstrong's false "prophecies". My belief in Armstrong crumbled piece by piece, over the next years from 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, till 1993, with a loss of faith in religion altogether.

I investigated the leads to "further information" this nazi "leader" gave me. It was from there, I began becoming exposed to the dangerous deception known as the "Judeo Bolshevik Conspiracy" myth, which is useful for more malignant forces to distract people's focus away from the real issue raging in Palestine. Robert Fischer too was unwittingly duped by the "Judeo Bolshevik Conspiracy" myth as well, after his exit from the Worldwide Church of God.

We had been forbidden to ask questions, to think beyond the confines of within Armstrong's little box... a patent interpretation of world events, filtered through Pasadena Ambassador College Press.

In other words, Robert James Fischer, like myself, was a CULT VICTIM... misguided by a malignant charismatic cult leader. All deliberate attempts by media and the chess journalists out there, who seek to distort and twist Robert Fischer's past out of their own political motivations, are inflicting damage on my personal life. I will not rest until people understand me, because I was judged far too many times by people who had no understanding THAT CULT... put me on the path I followed.
To finally gain some insight into the lives of hundreds of thousands of other former WCG followers, and the current victims among the splinter sects that broke away from the WCG following Armstrong's death. When people assume wrongly, about our life within the Worldwide Church of God, it will surely prejudice opinions against myself and countless other victims, including Robert Fischer, when ALL of us came out of the WCG cult.
I can not allow that. Therefore, Robert Fischer must be vindicated, as a CULT VICTIM... and his actions after 1962, put in context of the cult and its aftermath, or there is no "justice".

He did not "choose" because we were not given a choice.

The Cold War Threat of “Jewish Communism” also known as the Judeo-Bolshevik Conspiracy myth.
https://nybooks.com/articles/2019/02/21/fake-threat-of-jewish-communism/

People must beware this dangerous century old myth... the "Judeo Bolshevik Conspiracy" myth... for those like Hitler used it, and continue using it, adapting and re-adapting the myth, to appeal to, and convince the minds of vulnerable, receptive people, blaming the Jews (religious adherents) for things white supremacists like Dick Cheney, Netanyahu, George Bush, Koch, Henry Ford, et al -- a long list of white supremacists, are actually guilty of doing, themselves.

Occasionally, I bring this topic up as my work here would be of no value, if it is not to reveal the FULL truth about...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Robert Fischer's vindication is my own! and the hundreds of thousands of others who suffered in, and came out from the...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Tuesday, September 28, 2021

'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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