Bobby Fischer's Refutation of Kasparov Queen Sacrifice

The Observer London, Greater London, England Sunday, August 02, 1992 - Page 18

“Fischer was still able to spot what no one else could: the refutation of the queen sacrifice with which Garry Kasparov defeated Anatoly Karpov in their fifth world championship game.”

“Kasparov makes a bad book even worse and wastes many pages trying to prove that Karpov would have defeated Fischer if they had played a match in 1975. That is impossible as Karpov is hopelessly weak against attacks by knights. That is why he persistently lost to Kasparov and that's why Fischer would have won.” — from Confidential Chess Lessons ©2006, James Schroeder

Event from the 1972 World Chess Tournament

Numerous attempts have been made in a dim hope to notify Robert J. Fischer's merry band of chess enthusiasts about “??What possibly??” went so terribly wrong in Reykjavik. Left to biased media reports, they would have people of the world believing the European/Russian/Soviet organizers were simply rule-abiding innocents … without a shred of malice in their core… and those “disruptive” Americans were the problem, all along. This tiny snippet give evidence to just one of the behind-the scenes 1972 events! Why doesn't FIDE elaborate often on this. Why wasn't security raised to the highest levels? Every attempt to post the news item, is quickly met with social media restrictions. Artificial intelligence bots scan image files, “read” and search for any “buzz” words. After a couple more failed attempts, it is therefore prominently displayed on the newspaper archives in open view. The world deserves to know how Fischer was really treated in this location chosen by the Soviet Empire. This one event was the icing on the cake at Reykjavik. Why shouldn't Fischer or other American competitors such as Gata Kamsky, who returned from a tournament in Europe reporting, “I was sick almost a whole month when I got home from a tournament in Europe.” be heard, loud and clear?

Robert J. Fischer, 1956

After beginning the “Bobby Fischer Newspaper Archive” project in 2018, I discovered this rare photograph on February 01, 2018 of Robert J. “Bobby” Fischer, being one of the rare, earliest known from The Tampa Times, March 02, 1956 and, shared on this social media outlet. (Initially, the photo was first published on February 01, 2018 after I first began the project, but had not began making digital “clippings” with a permanent link from the newspapers website for other bloggers to use in their chess-related projects. First, I simply made digital copies from screen shots, and uploading as my own image files. Then realized the need to make a permanent records by clippings. Such “clippings” now total around 38,000+.) Discovery of this cool pic, helped changed my mind about the need of clippings for public availability and use.)

Sadly, an organization which has slipped in ethics went so far, MONTHS LATER, as to try to take credit for the discovery of THIS particular photo and selfishly ignoring the hard work and money I've invested out of pocket, and bestow credit to some character (a man of course) I've never heard of. Their man did NOT do the work. Their man did not discover my JPG file which is still uploaded to the server and has its original creation date. This woman did the work. This particular photograph appeared FIRST on this newsgroup and is time-stamped in more than one web sites. The file was stolen, uploaded, with my layout... not the layout which the Tampa Bay Times used, originally. The same file I published here on Feb. 01, 2018. Further credit goes to Newspapers.com for the industrious effort to digitally convert so many old newspapers, which contain a treasure trove of local chess photography, such as this picture, from around the world.

As I said then, I am not opposed to anyone reusing clippings that I work so industriously to provide to the public, daily! Out of sheer generosity, which are freely accessible to the public on the newspapers website, even to embed freely into your own blogs and web sites and spread knowledge of chess and especially the great Bobby. But men (and women) out there, if you have any honor at all, don't take credit for work a poor woman has done, when you have not actually done the work yourself, and everyone here know I have spent so much time, effort, even money on subscriptions, advertising, et cetera. Besides, have you no consideration for consequences, considering first, how you appear to the public, when there are thousands subscribing to this page, and have regularly read posts here, witnesses to the first time an item appeared, for YEARS. Our friends who were here on February 01, 2018, know better.

Needless to add, including the recovery of many old and long lost games from some of the masters of chess, among them a couple games by Mr. Fischer himself! Yes, a couple of Robert Fischer's games that were not recorded elsewhere, turned up in the old newspapers. There are witnesses to all of this activity since 2018.
No doubt, grown men with money and books to peddle to bolster their chess careers at the expense of robbing credit from a poor Autistic woman who works out of her simple love for a fellow church brother, and the suffering we endured, mutually in a shared cult experience. Shame on them! We (myself and supporters of Robert J. Fischer who follow this page) have together, discovered MANY lost treasures in these old newspapers since this social media page was created in 2018.

Nevertheless, for a couple of years I've thought it might be interesting to attempt some form of digital restoration to draw young Master Bob's outlines from the old slightly splotchy news article photo. Perhaps one day, The Tampa Times will make the effort to locate the original stored away somewhere within their old archives.

Published February 01, 2018, soon after the “Bobby Fischer's True Life History” Newspaper Reclamation Archive began…

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Bobby Is Wonder at Chess But Loses Game to Tampan 02 Mar 1956, Fri The Tampa Times (Tampa, Florida) Newspapers.com

Did They Really Say That??

“That's the trouble, everybody is so concerned about keeping the players happy. Sports has become too permissive. The guys running things are too wishy-washy.
“They ought to be like the International Chess Federation. They have a world championship coming up and one of the players made a mild complaint, through his seconds, about some burned-out bulb on the stage.
You know what the tournament referee said? He said, “Tell that bum that the lights are good enough to see the board by, and if he doesn't stop bellyaching I'm going to throw him the hell out and award the championship to the other guy. I don't want one more peep out of that prima donna.”
Man, that's the way to run sports. Those chess people don't pussyfoot around. We could learn a lot from them.” ([Perhaps like, how to select a racist, Anti-American haven to isolate the match. Perhaps ignoring rules… BREAKING RULES, BRAZENLY, that otherwise permit players to demand removal of needlessly disruptive camera men, to which the Organizers brazenly then, feed a flood of lies down the media pipeline claiming the player was “breaking the rules.” Or, perhaps chess should be handled the way Spassky's totalitarian authoritarian knee-breaking regime keeps order.“])

Is the bum at Daily News, Longview, Washington aware people are paying top dollar to see the players at their best and not there for the interests of tournament organizers?

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A Closing Thought on Soviet Sportsmanship:

Boris Spassky: “When we have all lost to Fischer, will all of us be dragged on the carpet?
Petrosian replied: “Yes, but not here.”

Was Bad Publicity and Demonizing Robert Fischer "Necessary" to Bring Awareness to Chess?

For those with doubts that GOOD PUBLICITY for Robert Fischer was enough to generate widespread interest in chess, consult the 1971 Bobby Fischer Newspaper Archive. Western press was literally LIONIZING Bobby, elaborating on the significance of his unheard intellectual achievements. 6-0 Fischer-Taimanov, 6-0 Fischer-Larsen… knockouts… practically unheard of in that level of grandmaster competition. Victories of monumental proportions… arousing excitement and interest among Americans, especially the young and their counterparts in western nations who were sensing the very real possibility of bringing home the very crown the Soviets had taken hostage since after WWII.
In 1971, reports about Fischer were for the most part, positive, informative… rousing interest in the game of chess, and it is important to emphasize: Being covered by media agencies within nations OUTSIDE control of the Soviet Empire's authoritarian clutch. In Argentina, Canada, the U.S., there were just too many eye-witnesses to testify after every round, that Fischer was certainly not making “unreasonable demands” and Moscow couldn't exactly throw the tournament into chaos, from within Argentina, the United States or Canada. In fact, when the Soviets misbehaved, as they often did, it quickly passed into disparaging headlines. The propaganda was beyond Soviet control, and there was nothing the Soviet could do about it. Now could it? Perhaps in Russia, twisting the stories to fit the party line for their own unfortunate citizens, but not western folks.
By Spring 1972, when the “old hands” Ken Smith's publication referred to working behind the scenes in Europe and Russia to disqualify Fischer and replace Fischer with a Soviet contender, it was all downhill from there. Either way, Americans and fellow westerners were already ITCHING to see the Soviet get its long overdue comeuppance and the crown brought home. Period.
The public was engaged and there was only one way to go from there: UP! More lionizing, more showering Fischer and the game with full coverage as a role model for young American youth, and the Soviet Empire along with the decades of nuclear threats and the myth of the “Soviet-Nazi Übermensch” biting the dust. The world was fascinated in 1971. There was no need of the vicious, inflammatory, defamatory Soviet influenced press to “bring attention to chess”. Fischer's artistry was enough! Anything else was excessive Soviet-bias and a blatant campaign of hostility targeting Robert Fischer. Make things up out of thin air, or twist the facts to make Fischer out to be a “bad guy” to the glory of the Soviet empire. All the while, family-oriented Americans and Westerners were now turning away from Chess. Soured by the awful reports coming out of Reykjavik. False reports designed to turn people around the world away from their interest in seeing the Soviet defeated, squashed and publicly humiliated.
Without the Soviet's campaign of defamation, the people would've bought their chess boards, and learned the game, the news agencies would've broadcast the tournament on television and radio, without the Soviet defamation campaign! The public were engaged… and had been supportive of Fischer all the way up until the Soviet smear campaign was orchestrated through Moscow's worldwide network of media connections, and had the Soviets not unleashed their bombastic venomous bloviation in world media, perhaps had the tournament been hosted elsewhere, say Australia who bid a whopping $225,000 with the lion's share going for duly deserved prize money fitting of a champion like Fischer — the world interest would have been increased one hundred... thousand fold! Instead, the Soviet chose to drag the world tournament through a sewer of petty bickering and backbiting.

Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, July 21, 1972

What's wrong with Bobby Fischer?
Not enough to deserve the vicious television, radio, and press that he is receiving.

Soviet Anti-American Invective to Turn World Interest AWAY from Fischer's Defeat of USSR!! Who's controlling the flow of information and narrative out of Reykjavik??

Fond Du Lac Commonwealth Reporter Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 18

Sale of Chess Sets Not on Increase. THANK The Soviet Union for Betraying The Game!
With all the notice that the World Championship Chess Match between Bobby Fischer of the United States ([and all the negative Soviet publicity dripping with vicious hubris and idle rumors, defamatory allegations manufactured in Moscow against Fischer who is now ISOLATED in Soviet stronghold of Anti-American Iceland, thousands of miles from any location where major media outlets would have otherwise congregated]) -- and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union has been getting lately, one would think that the stores would be selling chess sets faster than they arrive in stock.
But, such is not the case in Fond du Lac. Only one out of three local stores contacted noted a marked increase in chess set sales. The other two have noticed no increased demand for the games. ([THANK THE SOVIET UNION'S NAZI PROPAGANDA MINISTRY!])

Rehashed Soviet Anti-American Invective to Turn World Interest Away From Fischer's Defeat of USSR 21 Jul 1972, Fri The Reporter (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) Newspapers.com