AAfter 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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