Chess South Africa The chess games of Robert James Fischer Robert James ("Bobby") Fischer was born on March 9, 1943 in Chicago. At 13, he won the stunning brilliancy D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956, which Hans Kmoch christened "The Game of the Century." At 14, he won the US Championship, becoming the youngest player ever to do so. Fischer's victory qualified him for the 1958 Portorož Interzonal. He tied for 5th–6th, which sufficed to advance him to the Candidates Tournament to decide the challenger to World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik. Fischer won the US Championship all eight times he played, in each case by at least a point. In 1962, he won the Stockholm Interzonal 2½ points ahead of Efim Geller and Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian. In a famous article in Sports Illustrated, The Russians Have Fixed World Chess, Fischer accused the Soviets of cheating: Petrosian, Geller, and Keres had drawn all 12 of the games among themselves at Curaçao. In 1970 he won the Palma de Mallorca Interzonal by a record 3½ points. (1) Hooper & Whyld.
اتحاد الإمارات للشطرنج Chess on Stamps Many years ago, when it seems like I had more time, and there was no computer screen to distract me, my stamp collection didn't gather dust on the shelf. "Topical Collecting" -- collecting stamps picturing certain topics, rather than the stamps of a single country, caught my interest, and I started to accumulate stamps with the chess theme. As I hand-lettered my album pages and researched the tournaments, I felt some regret that others couldn't share the lovely images. Now, with the advent of a webpage which anyone can browse, my feeling of regret is gone: I've dusted off my collection, and the tiny images can be seen larger-than-life, through the magical philatelic magnifying lens of the WWW. Here I present a selection of some of the earliest ones, from 1947 through 1962. Bulgaria 1947USSR 1948Jugoslavia 1950Hungary 1950Cuba 1951Finland 1952Bulgaria 1962 Chess on Stamps Checklist Bulgaria 1947: Balkan Games Scott: 580 / Gibbons: 674 / Michel: 608 / Yvert: 541 (Scott: 1225-1229 +imperfs)
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