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Bobby Fischer and the very distant acquaintance, Ronald Gross Quick review on media gaslighting of the public about Bobby Fischer. A particularly notorious detractor who made repeated attempts to grab headlines around the 1990s is a character, “Ron Gross”. According to E. J. Rodriguez, Gross is claimed to have been 13 years of age, moved to New York, mid 1950s, becoming fast friends with young Robert Fischer. “Two thirteen year olds walk through the streets of New York,” E. J. Rodriguez summarizes in Spanish. Fact. Ronald Gross was 19 when Bobby Fischer was 11. I recommend skeptics check chessgames . com, notably conspicuous are the absence of games one would expect from “two thirteen year old” chess addicts, living in New York, IF such claims were true. Ron Gross was a lifetime resident of Compton, California from the 1950s till the 1970s when his residency changed to Long Beach, California. The L.A. Times Sunday Chess column by Isaac Kashdan, New York Times and California Chess Reporter confirm the residency, membership and participation of Ron Gross in Southern California chess circles. The logical conclusion is, Ron Gross was never a close childhood friend of Bobby Fischer. Ron Gross was not even in the same chess league as Bobby Fischer. California Chess Reporter notes Ronald Gross and M. K. Saca were drawing in the California Open Tournament when Bobby Fischer was capturing the 1957 Cleveland tournament, beating out Arthur Bisguier. By 1958, young Fischer would be on his way to not only capturing the national championship, but winning International tournaments. Ron Gross was known to Bobby Fischer only in an obscure sense, hence, the chessgames.com archive is absent of games between Fischer and Gross. Contemporary newspapers between 1955 and 1972, fail to mention Bobby Fischer knowing, or even acquainted with Ronald Gross. However, Bobby Fischer does mention William Lombardy and vis versa, because their friendship was a well established fact. Throughout my newspaper archives which focus on Bobby Fischer in 1955, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61 and so on, the name of Ronald Gross is absent. Bobby Fischer invited his close, endearing friends to accompany his entourage to the 1972 World Championship when Fischer met Boris Spassky including the ONLY BLACK MAN in attendance at the event, Archie Waters, whom Fischer regarded as a mentor. But Ron Gross was absent. #chessmaster #chess #bobbyfischer #worldchesschampion Life Thoughts to Myself: Bobby Fischer and the distant, obscure acquaintance, Ronald Gross

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It's AI and I make no apologies

Hi.

Earlier, I deleted a butthurt viewer, who had nothing beyond leaving a comment, “AI,” as if that were supposedly a valid argument against the facts I presented about Bobby Fischer and the Worldwide Church of God.

Or perhaps they are butthurt about the facts I presented in regard to Ron Gross, a fraud who pretended to be a close, personal friend to Bobby Fischer from childhood. The facts are Ronald Gross was 19 when Bobby Fischer was 11, and were separated around 3,000 miles between the east and west coasts.

I make no apologies for resurrecting my own face, from the year 1987, and utilizing my real face with advances in modern technology to reclaim my voice which a serial killer tried to steal from me. Federal witness protection program was alluded to during the 9 month investigation. At that time, I turned it down.

Perhaps the detractor is challenging me to use my current appearance to make me a target of his Neo-Nazi friends. Or perhaps because he can not taunt, “Ugly” or other Ad Hominems.

Yes, this is in fact, my real face. More real than the detractor who uses AI to transmit his worthless trolling comments.

It's AI and I make no apologies #FederalWitnessProtection #metoomovement #cyberbullyingawareness

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Was Alexander Alekhine Murdered?

Dorothy Kilgallen thought so.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Thursday, May 30, 1946 On Broadway, by Dorothy Kilgallen … According to the underground, the death of Dr. Alexander Alekhine, the world's champion chess player, in Lisbon, was murder at the hands of those who fought the Nazis.

Dorothy Kilgallen is an interesting case study herself, as she too died under mysterious circumstances, some referring to her as "the reporter who knew too much." Police refused to investigate further and her case remains unsolved. I have completed the year 1946 for Alexander Alekhine, collecting the photos, chess games and newspaper articles from that year in chronological order. Before completion it was noted in one small newspaper clipping, Alekhine was "receiving instruction preparatory to becoming a Catholic when he died". And, in an article by the Australian Jewish press, chess player Milton Finkelstein expresses something interesting as to his own insights, "...World champion Alexander Alekhine, at the time an unwilling guest of the Germans..." and goes on to say, "1. He did not write them. 2. He wrote an entirely different article, which the Nazis rewrote and printed under his signature. [...] The content of these and similar defamatory articles are probably only interesting as curious reflections of Nazi thought processes.]" Unwilling? because Alekhine had never expressed any view similar to the Judeo Bolshevik Conspiracy myth. Only useful as 'curious reflections,' because they were not Alekhine's own thoughts.

On to another year...

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Alexander Alekhine vs. 300 Opponents

On February 28, 1932, world champion Alexander Alekhine was shown at the Claridge Hotel in Paris, France, at a chess competition. He engaged in simultaneous games across sixty boards with three hundred opponents during the event. Original b/w by Henri Manuel/Archivo ABC.

According to The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Monday, February 29, 1932:

Alekhine, Chess Champion, Plays 300 Men in Paris Paris, Feb 28 (A.P.)—Alexander A. Alekhine, world chess champion, matched against 300 opponents tonight in a benefit for French war veterans, playing on 60 boards with five players for each board, won 37 of the games, drew 17 and lost six.

I was told, among comments "The only thing Alekhine cared about was money." He died a pauper, and here he is, performing a spectacular feat which the proceeds shall go to charity... French veterans no less.

Some sought to begrudge Bobby Fischer every dime he could come by as well.

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The Death of Alekhine, 1946

I overheard Captain Obvious say Alekhine struck him as the kind of guy you would overhear saying, “Excuse me, can you pass me the Grey Poupon…” of course he ate with a knife and fork. All the more evidence he was unalived.

The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Saturday, March 30, 1946 CHESS CHAMPION’S DEATH Sir, — Portion, at least, of the cable from Lisbon about Dr. Alekhine’s death published in the “Herald” of March 29 would appear to have been circulated by some of his many enemies. The cable stated that Alekhine’s “friends” said that he liked to have his meals alone, and that he never used a knife and fork. This is flatly denied by Dr. Boris Eliacheff, Consul-General for France, who was Dr. Alekhine’s host in America; also by Mr. Lajos Steiner, Australian chess champion, who stated that Alekhine’s table manners were always perfect; and by Miss Dorothy Dibley, former woman chess champion of this State, who was at the same hotel as Alekhine for a fortnight, and dined at the next table. Alekhine never dined alone, says Miss Dibley, and always used the customary utensils. Dr. Alekhine was the son of a Russian nobleman, a man of the highest culture, and a doctor of law. One awaits confirmation of the manner of his death, but his manners at table can be vouched for. Sydney. C. J. S. PURDY.

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Alexander Alekhine Murdered

Working on culling news articles on Alexander Alekhine, 1946.

Only those complicit, in support of the act of murder, confess it was a murder then proceed to give you a list, six ways from sunday, why the act was justified, the narrative froth with a personal overt bias. Investigators who work in law enforcement see it all the time. Newsbreak: Unaliving anyone without a fair and impartial trial in a court of law is a crime!

It’s no case for Agatha Christie.

Simply go down the checklist of so-called “enemies” given in Lawrence Day’s list of "why Alekhine deserved to be unalived" and simply ask yourself, which on the list have a tendency of skewing reports in the media to their own favor at the expense of innocent victims, and just days after the merking of Alexander Alekhine carried out one of the most egregious terrorist acts in world history… again, at the expense of innocent people.

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Alexander Alekhine, collaboration with Nazis

This morning, I'm continuing work on sorting through all newspaper clippings about Alexander Alekhine from 1946. Following his death, hundreds of newspapers (at least those indexed in the collection) contained clippings about his death, so this is not a simple task.

I am interested in the claims made against him. First, we know his name was associated with a publication advocating Adolf Hitler's ludicrous eugenics idea, also known as the "Judeo Bolshevik Conspiracy" myth which preposterously reduces Judaism, a religion, to a "race" or, more crudely phrased in Nazi terms, a "subrace". Such an idiotic hypothesis has no truth, either scientifically or spiritually. Judaism is a religion. Adherents come from many walks of life and live all over the world.

However, a publication titled "Jewish Spirit in Chess" was written in the name of Alexander Alekhine, and we may never know for certain whether Alekhine wrote it willingly, under duress or coercion, or if he wrote them at all, a work of fiction penned under his name. I've never seen evidence to support any of it.

While I've been sifting through the torrent of 1946 papers, the question remains: "So, what exactly was Alexander Alekhine accused of?" The rumor mill was in full operation.

So far, just two news outlets have claimed that Dr. Alekhine

“…refused to testify in behalf of a Polish chess master who was executed by the nazis.”

About an hour ago, I discovered yet another claim,

“...He was alleged to have helped the German radio during the war.”

The following report from The Advertiser, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Tuesday, March 26, 1946, cites two sources for the alleged cause of death, not including a third that later started circulating, claiming he choked on a piece of meat! The timing appears odd to everyone involved because Mikhail Botvinnik's challenge for the world title had just been accepted by Alekhine and was scheduled to take place in London. As soon as Alekhine says yes, it appears someone else was thinking, 'H%#! no.'

These allegations are rumors, not genuine charges with evidence. Try throwing accusations at the wall (or the daily newspaper) to see what sticks in the public conscience.

Meanwhile, what a pity such ostracism was not extended to the Koch Brothers, IBM, Coca-Cola, Henry Ford's Motor Company, and others that collaborated with the Nazi dictatorship... for which we have overwhelming evidence!

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To all those who showed up at a tournament in tennis shoes and shorts or a pair of ratty jeans, Tashli Tailiev says “Eat your heart out.”

"...FIFTEEN thousand collective farmers took part in one major rural chess tournament. The winner was an exotic personality—Tashli Tailiev, a Turkmenian. He was an absolutely untutored but prodigious player. Tashli displayed great genius in the middle of the game, but began with a very poor opening technique. When attempts were made to teach him the rudimentary theories of particular kinds of openings, unforeseen difficulties arose. Not only was he ignorant of chess symbols, but he was completely illiterate. He made a colorful figure at the tournament for he insisted on sitting in a chair with legs crossed in oriental fashion. He refused to wear shoes and not once did he take off his sheepskin cap."

From: Alexander Alekhine, 1946 collection, in an article, Chess Players by the Million! By Eric Downton, Moscow; Star Weekly, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Saturday, February 16, 1946

Chess Games of Tashli Tailiev

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Alexander Alekhine and the Nazis

I'm still working on organizing all of Alexander Alekhine's known chess games chronologically as of tonight; I'm currently working on Alexander Alekhine, 1936, my goal being to cover his entire playing career in chess, which started around 1905 and ended in 1946 when he passed away too soon. He may have choked on a piece of meat while eating, according to one theory, but others believe he might have been singled out for assassination because of his "sins" during the second world war.

It's my challenge to find out. Based on what I've read, Alekhine gave the Nazis consent to use him to propagate their racial hygiene nonsense by drawing comparisons between different chess player classifications, which is obviously absurd. To his credit, Alekhine did renounce his affiliation after the war, stating that he was forced to write these kinds of articles.

In addition to having a natural talent for effective moves that transcends all racial and ethnic divides, strong chess players also possess a diligence to work hard, study, and have a disposition toward humility to take constructive criticism—which of course includes losing gracefully. In short, good sportsmanship which is an attitude.

However, I believe Alexander Alekhine was an uncounted victim of the Nazi government. Any political organization or government that interferes with sports is a terrible type of governance and ought to be abolished.

The Bolshevik government, which usurped Russia in 1917, is said to have detained and imprisoned Alekhine. As you may recall, there were two revolutions. The first was the fall of the monarchy by the true Russian people, who installed Alexander Kerensky and the provisional government until actual elections could be held. Second, and sadly, the Bolsheviks or October Revolution, which toppled the administration.

Despite being part of the aristocracy, Trotsky granted Alexander Alekhine permission to escape an imminent death sentence.

The great Russian chess master Alekhine likes to tell the tale of a game of chess that saved his life. It seems that shortly after the Bolshevik revolution Alekhine, as a member of the old Russian nobility, was imprisoned and sentenced to death by Trotsky, then in the height of his glory … But when Trotsky realized who his prisoner was he came to his cell and — invited him to play a game of chess, a diversion of which the Red war lord was passionately fond. And after the game Alekhine was set free and enabled to leave Russia — much to his amazement, as he had defeated Trotsky, and had thought that such a blow to the revolutionary leader’s pride would surely seal his doom. 1935, Alexander Alekhine

An interesting synopsis of Alekhine's intentions regarding the Bolsheviks was found in another article, Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, December 06, 1923:

Alekhine moved to the south of Russia from his Moscow home when the revolution began. He was eventually imprisoned at Odessa and faced death. He claims that a major factor in his release was the fact that he was a chess master and did not hold any counter-revolutionary beliefs. He worked in the Foreign Office's legal division in St. Petersburg during the previous administration. Alexander Alekhine, 1923

Did the aristocrat Alekhine have no anti-revolutionary beliefs? That gives me some insight into what Alekhine would have been thinking during the Nazi occupation of Paris during the war. Given that the Nazis were predominantly anti-Bolshevik, Hitler swiftly set his sights on capturing Russia ("Operation Barbarossa," began on June 22, 1941) following the 1939 duplicitous, double-crossing pact between Stalin and Hitler that called for Germany to invade Poland from the west and Russia invading Poland from the east.

Hitler’s Crusade. Bolshevism and the Myth of the International Jewish Conspiracy by Lorna Waddington

Historians have observed that such anti-Bolshevik sentiments were at the heart of Hitler's entire campaign. I started my own campaign years ago, writing and even speaking on the myth of "Judeo Bolshevik Conspiracy" in an effort to alert people to its hazardous and tempting techniques.

But let's get back to Alekhine. Presently, I feel I have no right to pass judgment. I am cautious about Alekhine's motives and am willing to follow his life year by year to see what his peers reported in newspapers. I hope to uncover those mysteries. Despite Alekhine's disavowal of the Nazi party, his detractors saw it as too little, too late. Alexander Alekhine became a pariah after World War II.

However, I question if his detractors would have fared much better if they had been in Alekhine's position. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, for example, springs to mind. The proverb "Judge not" comes to mind, at least until you know all the facts.

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Finished Alexander Alekhine 1923, which includes all of the games, press clippings, and images that are currently known. The year 1923 was a fascinating one. In addition to giving exhibitions and competing in tournaments throughout Europe, Alekhine made his first trip to the United States to get to know American chess players. With broad support, he also raised the estimated $10,000 needed for the prize that Capablanca was expected to set as a prerequisite for a world championship tournament. After simultaneous exhibitions in various Canadian towns, Marshall and Alekhine played a casual game and I found a couple photos that had probably became lost to history...

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Organizers Seek To Restrict Coverage Of Chess Match

“I realize why they wanted Iceland. ‘They are aware that I am going to win and they want the least possible exposure. Iceland is one place that there it is not possible even to use a television satellite. ‘Chess is a big propaganda vehicle with the Russians.’ - Bobby Fischer did not want Iceland for location:

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“Embezzling, a Terrible Organizer, or Just Plain Lying”

Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Friday, June 30, 1972

Organizers Seek To Restrict Coverage Of Chess Match

Spokesmen for AP and United Press International said they were lodging protests against any curtailment of news coverage. Joseph G. Groth, general manager of the TelePrompTer Manhattan Cable TV, said in New York: “If this capricious move succeeds, a large and interested segment of the public served by TelePrompTer Manhattan CATV will be deprived of one of the most exciting show-downs in the history of chess.” The firm has announced plans for a move-by-move analysis of each of the matches, utilizing the AP service and comment from a U.S. chess grand master. The Icelandic Chess Federation contends that TelePrompTer's use of the AP reports infringes on its property rights, the company said. The federation has sold U.S. broadcast television rights to the American Broadcasting Company. Spokesmen for Channel 13-WNDT New York, which also has announced plans for telecasts based on move-by-move reports, said it was “absolutely outrageous to attempt to stop the free dissemination of news.” “We are performing a service for the chess devotee,” the Channel 13 spokesmen said. The station's plans call for five hours of continuous coverage on each day of the match. ABC plans to use the film to which it has acquired rights on the network's “Wide World of Sports” program.

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Ron Gross Caught Fabricating Bobby Fischer's Youth Narrative

Southern California newspapers and Grandmaster Isaac Kashdan’s L.A. Times Chess column neatly documents Ron Gross’ residency between 1955-1968, being in Compton, California and 1969, Long Beach, California.

Not New York. Not Brooklyn. Not even in the same chess league as Bobby Fischer. Most of all, not Bobby Fischer’s “close friend”. Based on the misinformation spread by Ron Gross, this sort of contraction turns up in press:

“Mid-fifties. A couple of kids walk through the streets of New York. [...] only two thirteen-year-olds [...] One of them has just moved from California to New York.”

But in actuality, Ron Gross was living in Compton, California and was 18 years of age. Bobby Fischer was 11, and living in Brooklyn, New York. Thousands of miles separating them. Ron Gross Caught Fabricating Bobby Fischer's Youth Narrative

https://fischer-notes.blogspot.com/2019/03/ron-gross-caught-fabricating-bobby.html 

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Chess: Fischer Wins Again

The Guardian London, Greater London, England Thursday, January 26, 1967

Chess: Fischer Wins Again BOBBY FISCHER has just won the United States championship for the eighth time at the age of 23. His continued success when the incentive which brought the first victory is long past is a remarkable achievement. Fischer scored 9½ out of 11, conceding only three draws and finishing two points ahead of the runner-up. Larry Evans, who was himself 1½ points clear of Benko and Sherwin in third place. Reshevsky, once the undisputed king of American chess, scored only 4½ points to finish a modest eighth. Here are two of Fischer's wins from the US championship.

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Chess Series Moves Into Three-Way Tie

Redlands Daily Facts Redlands, California Saturday, July 23, 1966

Chess Series Moves Into Three-Way Tie SANTA MONICA (UPI) —Boris Spassky of the USSR and Bent Larsen of Denmark played to a draw after 80 moves Friday night in the final game of the fourth round of the Piatigorsky Cup International Chess Tournament. The draw drew Spassky into a three-way tie for first place with U.S. champion Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Miguel Najdorf of Argentina with 2½ points.

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Fischer Wins 3rd Distance Chess Game

Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona Wednesday, September 01, 1965

Fischer Wins 3rd Distance Chess Game NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer won his third long-distance game of the Capablanca Memorial Tournament Tuesday night in a game that one expert said “will go down in chess history.” The 22-year-old champion beat his opponent, Gueorghia D. Tringov of Bulgaria, in 22 moves. “The game was a master-piece,” said Saul Rubin, president of the Marshall Chess Club. Fischer is cabling his moves from the club to the tournament headquarters in Havana, because the State Department refused to grant him a visa to visit Cuba. Rubin said Fischer's game was “extremely brilliant and complex.” At one point, he said, Tringov did not believe one of Fischer's moves and had to telephone New York on the chess “hot line” to confirm it. “He thought it was a losing move, but really it was a winning move,” Rubin said. Fischer has started five games, and won three. One was a draw. Another, the fourth one he started, has been postponed twice.

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U.S. Champ Again Wins In 22-Move 'Masterpiece'

The Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky Wednesday, September 01, 1965

U.S. Champ Again Wins In 22-Move 'Masterpiece' From AP and L.A. Times-Washington Post Service Dispatches NEW YORK (AP) — U.S chess champion Bobby Fischer won his third long-distance game of the Capablanca Memorial Tournament last night in a game that one expert said “will go down in chess history.” The 22-year-old champion beat his opponent, Gueorghia D. Tringov of Bulgaria, in 22 moves. “The game was a masterpiece,” said Saul Rubin, president of the Marshall Chess Club. Fischer is cabling his moves from the club to tournament headquarters in Havana because the State Department refused to grant him a visa to visit Cuba. Rubin said Fischer's game was “extremely brilliant and complex.” At one point, he said, Tringov did not believe one of Fischer's moves and had to telephone New York on the chess “hot line” to confirm it. “He thought it was a losing move, but really it was a winning move,” Rubin said.

Fischer Wins 3 Of 5 Games In five games so far, Fischer has won three, against Heinz Lehmann of West Germany, former world champion Vassily Smyslov of the Soviet Union, and Tringov. He had a draw against Romania's Victor Cioaciltea. His fourth game. against Belgium's Alberic O'Kelly, was adjourned yesterday until Friday after 54 moves had been played. Smyslov, 44, resigned in his game with Fischer after an overnight adjournment. Speaking in English over a direct telephone line which supplements the teletype used for moves, he congratulated the surprised American on winning. Earlier Smyslov had proposed a draw on his 24th move, but Fischer declined and went on to build up a stronger position.

Smyslov and Fischer had met before, during a challengers' tournament in Yugoslavia in 1959. Each won a game and two games were tied. Here is Fischer's victory:

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Russian Beats Briton In Chess

The Miami News Miami, Florida Tuesday, August 31, 1965

Russian Beats Briton In Chess HAVANA, Cuba i AP — Vassily Smyslov of Russia defeated Robert Wade of Britain in a fourth-round match last night and took over a share of the lead in the Capablanca Memorial Chess Tournament. Smyslov defeated Wade after 31 moves. A telephoned match between the U. S. grandmaster, Bobby Fischer of New York, and Alberik O'Kelly of Belgium was adjourned after the 41st move and will be completed today.

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