The Gift of Chess

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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

Persecutors of Robert J. "Bobby" Fischer Harass Social Media Page Aiming for the Removal of It's Fight Against Hitler's Anti-Semitic Race Myths

Dearest ACLU, A message was sent from FB, threatening to “Unpublish” this page. Why? Because a theological fact Jewish scholars have themselves published against Antisemitic conspiracy theorists (which Facebook has now put itself in a position of defending!), threats of “unpublishing” a page that regularly engages itself in rebuking a lie spread by Hitler, Nazis and their antisemitic allies persist as the Hitler Race Myth continues to spread globally. Says the 150 Year old LeHigh University:

The Myth of the Jewish Race
“More than sixty years after the death of Hitler, the defeat of Nazism, and the horrors of the Holocaust, the concept of a Jewish race is still alive and well in the minds of too many. This book is an attempt to destroy such a concept from both a biological and historical point of view. To be a race Jews would have to have been isolated from other populations. However, they never avoided crossbreeding and converted many non-Jews. In other words, from Day One Jews have married non-Jews, and therefore there is no way to genetically characterize them as a race. Nevertheless, many people find it difficult to accept the ideas that Judaism is not hereditary, but a religion, and that Jews who abandon the Jewish faith, whether they adopt another religion or none at all, are no longer Jews. […]
Although many volumes have been written that condemn anti-Semitism and deal with its history, only two treat the myth of the Jewish race. Oddly, though both maintain that there is no such thing as a Jewish race, their authors write about Jewish blood and Jewish genes, which are misleading concepts as harmful and pernicious as the term race itself.”
https://lupress.cas.lehigh.edu/content/myth-jewish-race

Antisemites persecuted Robert J. Fischer… and we are not supposed to unite with Jews around the world, to expose them for what they are?

“Overview: Judaism is a religion and a way of life. In other words, it is a faith and a spiritual path. There is a Jewish community and a Jewish people. However, there is no Jewish race. Rather, Jews hail from many races just like Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and others. The notion of a “Jewish race” is a fiction perpetrated by anti-Semites who wish to define Jews as having their own race in order to denigrate Jews as being from an “inferior race,” and as being ***human." - Rabbi Frydman
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-jewish-people-a-faith-not-a-race/

I have stated the same facts, that Judaism consists of ALL Races and is NOT a race. All Races are welcomed into the synagogue, and that is how its been for 1000s of years.

Will FB Unpublish this page because the same FACTS have been expressed by the Supreme Court of the United States?

Judge rules that Judaism is not a race but Jewish people can be targeted for racism. Here's why that matters.
"A timely new court ruling is a reminder that human racial difference are based in prejudice, not fact.
Judaism is not a race. But Jewish people can be targeted for racism.
That may seem like a contradiction. But a recent ruling by U.S. Magistrate Mark Hornsby of Louisiana updated anti-discrimination laws in the state. In doing so, Hornsby has potentially helped to clarify the distinction between race and racism at a time when white supremacy is expanding its reach — and finding new groups to single out for hate.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/judge-rules-judaism-not-race-jewish-people-can-be-targeted-ncna896806

Is FACTUAL NEWS, and rebuking the causes of racism, “inappropriate” content for the FB environment?

If this page disappears from viewing, after FB was paid thousands of dollars to build it, and the same in hours to build it to its current level... you, the readers will know exactly why.

Bobby's persecutors have demonstrated they will not stop until this page is removed, in an effort to prevent the world knowing about the details leading up to his victory throughout the summer of 1972 and the lead up to Bobby declared the winner of the world tournament. If the page disappears, the work will continue on the blog archives. You already know where to find the blog archive.

Image Source: Arizona Studies for Judaic Studies: Hitler: The Sources of Myths and Facts

ACLU A message was sent from FB, threatening to "Unpublish" this page. Why? Because a theological fact Jewish scholars...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Thursday, July 29, 2021

I am personally horrified by Facebook's actions, just yesterday. Many here are familiar with our personal story https://vindication-of-bobby-fischer.co/ Robert J. Fischer joined the Christian sect, “The Worldwide Church of God,” as I was made to do at a young age. Over a decade of indoctrination about what Nazis would do when they invaded. I vividly recall being made to watch "Holocaust" a television miniseries from 1978 which helped shape my understanding of future events as interpreted by cult leader Herbert W. Armstrong. The selection process, of people brought in off the street, and harassed by an officer, finding evidence, whether it was realistic or not, to label people "Jewish". Both myself & Bobby would later question Armstrong, and dare to research the Nazis for ourselves, confront our deepest fears that had been drilled in since youth… Fischer discovered the “Palestinian problem” amidst the literature, and myself, I observed what the Nazis were doing, confused, due to my youth, but in later years came to recognize it for the stalking / harassment behavior that it is.

You have seen Nazis and Anti-Semites on social media, and it is utterly impossible for them to carry on a conversation without searching every person's background for any semblance to anything, that remotely resembles what Hitler would define as “Jewish”… “The Jewish Race” myth.

The Myth of the Jewish Race
“...More than sixty years after the death of Hitler, the defeat of Nazism, and the horrors of the Holocaust, the concept of a Jewish race is still alive and well in the minds of too many. This book is an attempt to destroy such a concept from both a biological and historical point of view. To be a race Jews would have to have been isolated from other populations. However, they never avoided crossbreeding and converted many non-Jews. In other words, from Day One Jews have married non-Jews, and therefore there is no way to genetically characterize them as a race. Nevertheless, many people find it difficult to accept the ideas that Judaism is not hereditary, but a religion, and that Jews who abandon the Jewish faith, whether they adopt another religion or none at all, are no longer Jews. […]
https://lupress.cas.lehigh.edu/content/myth-jewish-race

Many of you have witnessed these Nazi / Anti-Semites target Robert Fischer. They cannot discuss his chess, without mentioning “Jewish” “Jewish” “Jewish” “Jewish” and chuckle to themselves in anonymity. The same as Hitler, mandating a yellow star be placed on their clothing identifying them… singling them out… subjugating them, whether they were actually Jewish or not. If a person had so much as a great grandparent who had worshiped in a synagogue, it was enough to dictate they were "Jewish" and subjected to intense persecution. Singling out Robert Fischer, a non-Jew by birth, and calling him “Jewish” is no different than the Nazis of Hitler's era.
We, Robert Fischer and myself, were of a Christian sect. Orthodox Jews do not accept Jesus or the New Testament. Bobby Fischer was not Jewish.

Facebook monitors clearly have not familiarized themselves with the Holocaust, and Hitler's murderous racial myths, and how the Nazis sought out non-Jews, “racially profiled,” by mere physical attributes, (that is what some monitor at Facebook claimed was a violation: A screenshot of a Nazi feigning they were Jewish, and abusing Bobby to spread Hitler Race Myth propaganda, transforming a religion into a racial category, a “nationality” by research into their background, to denigrate them). To me, it is horrifying, and strikes the center of the trauma that I lived through … The post in question, revealed no identity, but it provided a prime example, exposing NAZI PROPAGANDA for what it looks like on Social Media… and was pointed out correctly, that the person writing it, admitted they do not believe in God, nor do they adhere to Judaism. So then who or what, was spreading the “Hitler Race Myth” lie? For attempting to educate the public, Facebook says it is a violation of their policy… and punishes the persons educating the public about Anti-Semitism.

Who makes the policies at Facebook which overtly protect Nazis freedom to troll, even pretending they're Jews?

But after seeing the recent articles on Facebook racial profiling (Reuters: US Facebook Workers; U.S. Agency Probes Facebook for Systemic Racial Bias in Hiring/Promotions), and high officials in their company refusing to hire people of color, discriminating, racism, I am not at all surprised that Facebook policies protect Anti-Semites, and PROTECT Nazis who IMPERSONATE Judaism!

This page was threatened with “Unpublishing” because one of the main purposes is to expose Anti-Semitism, arm people with information, and educate the public.

With their racist employment policies, Facebook monitors are not in a position to know enough about Anti-Semitism to make a qualified judgment on who's violating what!

I am personally horrified by Facebook's actions, just yesterday. Many here are familiar with our personal story...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Thursday, July 29, 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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