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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
Chess Columns Additional Archives/Social Media

Why Robert J. Fischer Changed - Circa 1975

My work continues until I spread the message of Robert J. Fischer's decade in the Pro-Zionist, Pro-Israel, Worldwide Church of God... which falsely taught that Jesus and the people of the holy land were "white" people. And, part of that was harrowing stories how the Nazis would arise again from holy writ of prophecy and invade America and Britain, conquer, herd us into the death camps, (the unbaptized like myself and Bobby Fischer) there to coerce us into either accepting the Catholic and Protestant religions which observe the "Sun Worship" (Sun-day), or perish as the Jews did during the Holocaust. We were indoctrinated with those false prophecies for well over a decade. I suffered nightmares as a child, of Hitler personally ordering my execution. It were as if some took joy in telling their tales of what Germans would do to those who kept Jewish holy customs and the same sabbath. It was a brainwash, which kept us in permanent panic of end times prophecies that led to unimaginable (Complex) C-PTSD. Robert Fischer had already developed C-PTSD when he was seen in 1992 and thereafter.

When we began questioning Herbert W. Armstrong's prophecies, myself in 1980s due to the fall of the Berlin wall (we were taught that event would be a sign of the end time) and Fischer experienced the new need to seek out literature and research when the former end time date set at 1972 approached, and failed, when the church was supposedly to escape in an exodus to "Petra" (Place of Safety), prior to the "Great Tribulation"(1972-1975) prior to the return of Jesus.

Bobby Fischer was NOT Jewish.
Bobby was part of our Fundamentalist, Pro-Zionist, Pro-Jewish Christian-Cult sect, the Herbert W. Armstrong cult's Radio Church of God later, known as the Worldwide Church of God.

The media has told many whopper-sized untruths about what the Worldwide Church of God taught to its followers, and I have determined to set the facts straight.

In the mid 1970s when Fischer made his exit from the church, after 15 years of being taught Nazis would invade and capture unbelievers and force-convert them to Protestant/Catholicism, which reveres Sunday as their Lord's day... he, like myself, sought out Nazi literature to actually research what our future-captors were plotting... and what Fischer learned from the literature is that Nazis were NOT invading, nor plotting any invasions, but rather, peddling a century old myth, called the “Judeo Bolshevik Conspiracy”.

Fischer got hooked by that century old deception during the late 1970s.

This change in the youthful, pleasant Bobby Fischer everyone knew occurred AFTER he had abandoned the Worldwide Church of God. He discovered the Zionist-Palestinian controversy studies amidst the literature... but the "Judeo Bolshevik Conspiracy Myth" is planted among such literature, as a ruse by white supremacists to confuse and misguide, as a means to lead the vulnerable on a wild goose chase that claims "Jews" (the religious kind) overthrew Russia, and built the Soviet Union Empire for world domination --- which is untrue. White supremacists financed Trotsky and Lenin to overthrow the Russian people and their democratically elected Provisional Government led by Alexander Kerensky... ruling the people under an iron fist for the rest of the century, spreading fear, chaos, sewing discontent and espionage around the world for the remainder of the century... but most of all, Trotsky, Lenin and Hitler would crush the Socialist movement.

Religious Jews were persecuted in the Soviet Union, just as they (True Torah Jews, Neturei Karta) are persecuted today in Israel.

Anyone who does not acknowledge the "Judeo Bolshevik Conspiracy Myth" is ANTISEMITIC... needs to educate themselves. I denounce the myth as a falsehood!

That myth led to the brutal persecution of Jews, and lends credibility to political agendas pushed by mass media and acquisition of stolen land, camouflaged behind a protected minority status.

Zionism began as a movement comprised primarily by rightwing Christian, Anglo-Protestant fundamentalists, with notorious characters such as John Hagee and Joel Osteen, spearheaded by the notorious Donald Trump, preaching false prophecy how "Jesus will return" when all the Jews have returned to Palestine. The fact is, they don't want Jews living among them, because they're racist.

When Bush was in office, excuses were made to start illegal wars to acquire more land, more resources, stolen wealth in the middle east, and critics such as Robert Fischer who stood in the way were crushed.

Robert Fischer became aware just how racist such religions, and their collaborations in politics are (U.S. law prohibits an amalgamation between church and state!) and how religion and sacred books are used as an "excuse" to invade and plunder lands.

Here, in America we had a quasi-religious policy dubbed "Manifest Destiny" as the foundation upon which to give moral fortitude behind theft and plunder of Native American real estate, "from sea to shining sea". Some being so bold as to even speculate on acquiring Mexican territory for the Anglo-Protestant man's empires...

Jesus Was Not White.

Robert Fischer, 1978Robert Fischer, 1978 31 Jul 1978, Mon Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia) Newspapers.com

My work continues until I spread the message of Robert J. Fischer's decade in the Pro-Zionist, Pro-Israel, Worldwide...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Sunday, November 28, 2021
Greed for More Land and Resources, of the British-American Empires

Kenyan at Westmar Hopes to Sell African Chess Game

Sioux City Journal Sioux City, Iowa Sunday, May 23, 1965 - Page 10

Kenyan at Westmar Hopes to Sell African Chess Game
Lemars, Iowa—A Westmar College senior, Charles Otanga Libutsi, from Kenya, Africa, has taken an ancient African marble game, applied for a copyright on an assortment of rules gleaned from memory, named it African chess, and now is looking for a capitalist to help develop a market for it in the United States.
The game, bearing some resemblance to a combination of Chinese checkers, monopoly and chess, requires a board with 20 grooved out holes—18 running in two parallel rows of nine and one at each end of the board. Because he is a foreign student Mr. Libutsi cannot introduce the game to the market, but is looking for backers to do it. He came to the United States in September 1961 and will graduate from Westmar College May 30 with a B.A. degree. He plans to earn a M.A. degree and return to Africa to “help establish an African governmental system.”
Mr. Libutsi says the title “African Chess” may be misleading because it is not the African name for the game. However the marble game is widely played in Africa under various rules and names.
“In the process of experimenting my rules, I met people who have been in other countries who said that they saw something similar to African Chess … foreign students from the Philippines, India, Damascus and Ceylon say they have such games but with entirely different rules.”
The Westmar College student said he became interested in writing a set of rules for African Chess while working the E.U.B. church camp at Milford, Nebraska in 1963 when youngsters and camp counselors asked him to teach them some African games.
“I had no written rules on which I could rely. I figured from my memory anything that would be similar to what we used to play in Africa when I was young. I made the rules and began experimenting with them. The game caught on very quickly and many children and adults loved to play it whenever they had a chance.
“Since its introduction at Westmar College the summer of 1964, this game has become popular here and many people would like to have it sold on the market,” he said.
Mr. Libutsi can be contacted through Charles W. Semke, foreign students advisor at Westmar College in LeMars, Iowa.

Kenyan at Westmar Hopes to Sell African Chess GameKenyan at Westmar Hopes to Sell African Chess Game 23 May 1965, Sun Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, Iowa) Newspapers.com

Robert J. Fischer vs. U.S. History and Thanksgiving Day

Tomorrow is “Thanksgiving Day” in the good ole' U.S.A., and I for one, will be sitting this holiday out, for there is no valid reason to “celebrate”. It is a time of mourning for many. This video, is yet another to recently surface, chock full of the harsh, cold fundamental realities U.S. Education has hidden from its children about U.S. History 101… for centuries. The narrator paints a pithy portrait of how the narrative we were taught from our earliest days in public schools compare to the coarse realities at the founding of the colonies… which always brings me back to Robert J. Fischer.

In the past, when Bobby Fischer was quoted from 2005 as saying “… That country, the United States, belongs to the red man, the American Indian …” he was mocked, scorned, ridiculed by the press (just as they had always done). It were as though what he spoke were untrue or the product of an unhinged mind. Bobby was and still is CORRECT and the sordid efforts to refute the chess genius crumble, lie by miserable lie. Bobby Fischer's criticism was VALID! TIMELY! ahead of its time. It is however, time to consider the sources of such unfounded accusations and baseless ridicule!

“Bobby always had mixed feelings about the way Native Americans were unjustly stripped of their land and culture. Charity work in favor of native Americans is something Bobby would support.” — A.E.L.

“… That country, the United States, belongs to the red man, the American Indian …” — Bobby Fischer, 2005
(Indigenous people dwelling on what is now called the “American Continents” would have shared the land, but White settlers would not and took without asking. Every treaty ever made, has been violated https://www.history.com/news/native-american-broken-treaties.)

“We are on Amazon Smile and the link is smile.amazon.com/ch/47-3730147. Thank you.” — @PWNA4hope (http://www.nativepartnership.org/)

Tell members of U.S. www.Congress.gov “Bobby Fischer Day” deserves official recognition as a national and international celebration of public chess tournaments, t-shirts, memorabilia, prizes, family fun and festivities hosted in cities around the U.S., and the world.
U.S. House of Representatives - Ford House Office Building Room 217 Washington, DC 20515 U.S.A. (FAX 202-226-0357)

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #IndigenousPeoplesMonth

How the Soviet Empire Helped the U.S. Empire to Build Apartheid Israel

Asbury Park Press Asbury Park, New Jersey Sunday, September 21, 1969 - Page 13

“With the French arms embargo still in force, Israel has fallen back on the United States as the only major supplier still considered sympathetic to this country.
Mrs. Meir probably will ask to buy more armor and possibly more planes, to counterbalance Soviet supplies to Egypt.”

Golda Meir Coming With Thanks, PleaGolda Meir Coming With Thanks, Plea 21 Sep 1969, Sun Asbury Park Press (Asbury Park, New Jersey) Newspapers.com

Wealthy Indians Fear Politicians; Flee With Riches

“… That country, the United States, belongs to the red man, the American Indian …” — Bobby Fischer, 2005

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn New York, Friday, August 29, 1924

Wealthy Indians Fear Politicians; Flee With Riches; Always in Danger of Having Estates Put in Hands Of Guardian. Special to the Eagle.
Oklahoma City, Aug. 25—Several judges have taken a firm stand backing up public opinion in favor of justice to the Indians following a public plea in which it was stated:
“Why do we permit wealthy restricted Indian families to be driven out of the State to escape legal harassment? There are today approximately 50 wealthy Indians who are living either out of the State or just sort of drifting about from one place to another, afraid to purchase homes and settle down in once place. These are restricted Indians whose estates are under the guardianship of the Government. Experience has taught them, and Government officials, too, that just about as soon as one of these Indians acquire a legal resident some one bobs up with a court petition asking that the Indian be declared incompetent and that a guardian be appointed. Naturally these Indians especially the more intelligent ones—and most of them are sufficiently intelligent to be better off without a guardian than with one—resent this. It is for that reason that they live in California, Colorado, or any other place where they believe they are safe from such embarrassment. These petitions are usually brought for the sole purpose of getting a slice of the Indian's money and with no thought toward preserving his estate. These conditions are not peculiar to any one county but exist in all of them to a varying degree, in the territory of the Five Civilized Tribes.
“Of course these Indians do not need guardianship. They are already furnished that by law, the Government itself providing for such service. * * * Appointment of an additional guardian by State courts only adds confusion and expense to the Indian and makes easy picking for lawyers and guardians who can grab any part of it.
“The attitude of the judiciary could and should have a tremendous effect on a situation like this. If the county and district courts would assume a policy that would negative the efforts of grafters to get a hold on the estates of restricted Indians, and insist that the Government guardianship was sufficient for this class of Indians, the harassing of Indians would be greatly reduced, if not eliminated entirely.”

Wealthy Indians Fear Politicians; Flee With RichesWealthy Indians Fear Politicians; Flee With Riches 29 Aug 1924, Fri The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com

'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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