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Reshevsky Lags In Chess Contest—Fischer and Lombardy in Keen Match

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New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, January 03, 1958

Reshevsky Lags In Chess Contest
Sherwin Expected to Win on Resumption—Fischer and Lombardy in Keen Match
Samuel Reshevsky, leading in the United States championship tournament for the Lessing J. Rosenwald Trophy, was still undefeated in the tenth round at the Manhattan Chess Club last night. But after a five-hour session and forty moves had been recorded, his opponent, James T. Sherwin, was regarded as fairly certain to win upon the resumption of play.
Bobby Fischer, the 14-year-old national open champion, a close second in the standing, was not too happy, either. At one stage, he had William Lombardy on the run, but permitted him to slip away. Fischer was a pawn ahead, also after a five-hour session, but Lombardy's forces were strongly posted. Opinions differed widely as to the probable outcome upon resumption.
Reshevsky retained his lead with a score of 8—1. Fischer was at 7½—1½, Lombardy 6—3 and Sherwin 5½—2½.
Both Reshevsky and Fischer resorted to the King's Indian Defense. For once Reshevsky castled early on the King's side of the board, whereas Sherwin, at his ninth turn, castled on the opposite wing. They jockeyed for position for the next eight moves when Reshevsky, in exchanging knights, opened the KR file.

Reshevsky in Trouble
Thereupon Sherwin based a powerful attack upon the black king. To ward this off Reshevsky saw fit, in order to recover a pawn, to give up a rook for a knight. From then on the international grandmaster was distinctly on the defensive but still in trouble when Sherwin was called upon to seal his move.
Fischer played with his customary confidence against the world junior champion, who opposed him with the white pieces. The Brooklyn lad castled on the king's side and Lombardy followed suit two moves later.
With 7. P-Q5 Lombardy brought about a partly locked position, while Fischer fianchettoed both bishops. With a capture of a pawn, in passing, Lombardy broke open the position at the thirteenth move. But Fischer, playing steadily, clung to the initiative. Rooks and minor pieces were exchanged and Lombardy brought his queen into action on the king knight file.
Lombardy forced an exchange of queens on the thirty-first move, but still Fischer's position held tight. He missed a promising line of play at the thirty-fourth move with Kt-Q7, whereas Kt-Kt4 would have been more effective. At the close it was anybody's choice.

Turner and Kramer Win
Abe Turner, George Kramer and Hans Berliner, Washington, were the tenth-round winners. Turner played a rattling game against the Nimzo-Indian defense played by the United States champion, Arthur B. Bisguier, won his queen and scored in forty-six moves.
Kramer won from Herbert Seidman, who also played the Nimzo-Indian defense, in fifty-three moves. The same opening was adopted by Sidney Bernstein against Berliner, who won in forty moves. A draw was recorded between Edmar Mednis and Arthur Feuerstein in a King's Indian defense lasting forty moves.
Atilio Di Camillo and Arnold S. Denker adjourned a Reti opening after forty moves.
The adjourned game from the ninth round with Bisguier was resigned by Bernstein without resuming play after forty-one moves.

Bobby Fischer and William Lombardy in Keen Match

'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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