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Kuhio Beach Chess Nuts Say Fischer Will Roast Spassky

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The Honolulu Advertiser Honolulu, Hawaii Saturday, July 22, 1972 - Page 25

Kuhio Beach Chess Nuts Say Fischer Will Roast Spassky by Bob Krauss
A Krauss Survey of the chess nuts on Kuhio Beach yesterday revealed that Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky can go home. Their World Chess Championship has been decided.
It'll be Fischer 15 games to nine.

WHEN SPASSKY returns to Russia from Iceland, the Commissar in Charge of Chess may checkmate him. At the same time, Fischer will become a millionaire giving lectures on how to play chess.
You can depend on this information because it comes straight from the Chess Capital of Hawaii, the second arbor going Diamond Head on Kuhio Beach.

A GATHERING of international experts laid it on the line for me yesterday.
Guam, Tahiti, California, Kaimuki and the University of Hawaii all voted for Fischer. Only Bulgaria and the United States Marines favored Spassky.

“FISCHER WILL skunk him now. See how fast the last game went?” said Robert Sandahl of San Diego, Calif., who comes to Hawaii to play chess. “That's because he's memorized 355 of Spassky's moves. He'll win the championship 15 to 9.”
Sandahl was playing chess with Velicko Cvetkov of Bulgaria. Young Cvetkov said he worked for an airline until he broke his leg. Now he plays chess.
“Spassky has more experience,” said Cvetkov, but not very loud. “He will win.”
Lui Piliwale, an importer-exporter from Guam, said he believes Fischer has already won.

SINCE THE contest started, he's played a businessman's chess game,” said Piliwale. “He's already won most of it. He got the cameras out. He got an extra $100,000.
“Fischer has been playing this match for the past two years, building up the pot, creating interest. His confidence is so supreme that he can't help but take it.”
Clyde Nakamura, an accounting major at the University of Hawaii, had a chess board under his arm and a timer's clock in his hand.
“Fischer already has a psychological advantage,” he explained. “Although the match is even it's as if Fischer won an extra game because he forfeited one to Spassky.
“His style has changed. Before, he played a much riskier game. Now he plays more solid and makes fewer errors.”

A RETIRED businessman predicted that Fischer would become an overnight millionaire after the match ends.
“He'll go down in history as the greatest one-man promotion team ever,” said the businessman. ‘If he wins, he'll be a millionaire on tours and speeches alone. I think somebody's behind him thinking up these things.”
Real estate broker Homer Winnagle, who was replaying the last Fischer-Spassky match with physics student Bob Glover, said Fischer will win.
Marine Cpl. Douglas Carlson, who comes to town from Kaneohe Marine Air Base on his days off to play chess, said he's for Spassky.

“FISCHER MAY win but I don't want him to,” said Carlson. “The Russian is a more refined player. He's been competing in world championships a lot longer and he knows what he's doing.”
The most positive expert was Albert Kalsbeek of Tahiti who said he's an etymologist researching the origin of the Polynesians through language. He was wearing a bathing suit and he carried a business card in his cap.
“Spassky has to win, otherwise they will shoot him when he goes back to Russia,” said Kalsbeek. “Incidentally, do you know how the term checkmate originated? It comes from ‘sheik match’ which means the king is dead in Persian.”
I asked Kalsbeek, “Do you play a lot of chess?”
He said he doesn't know how.

Kuhio Beach Chess Nuts Say Fischer Will Roast Spassky Kuhio Beach Chess Nuts Say Fischer Will Roast SpasskyKuhio Beach Chess Nuts Say Fischer Will Roast Spassky 22 Jul 1972, Sat The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaii) Newspapers.com

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Understanding Chess by William Lombardy Chess Duels, My Games with the World Champions, by Yasser Seirawan No Regrets: Fischer-Spassky 1992, by Yasser Seirawan Chess Fundamentals, by Jose Capablanca Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, by Bobby Fischer My 60 Memorable Games, by Bobby Fischer Bobby Fischer Games of Chess, by Bobby Fischer The Modern Chess Self Tutor, by David Bronstein Russians versus Fischer, by Mikhail Tal, Plisetsky, Taimanov, et al

'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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