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Best of Chess Fischer Newspaper Archives
• Robert J. Fischer, 1955 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1956 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1957 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1958 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1959 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1960 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1961 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1962 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1963 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1964 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1965 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1966 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1967 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1968 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1969 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1970 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1971 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1972 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1973 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1974 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1975 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1976 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1977 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1978 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1979 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1980 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1981 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1982 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1983 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1984 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1985 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1986 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1987 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1988 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1989 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1990 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1991 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1992 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1993 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1994 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1995 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1996 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1997 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1998 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1999 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2000 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2001 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2002 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2003 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2004 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2005 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2006 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2007 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 2008 bio + additional games
Chess Columns Additional Archives/Social Media

I Hate The West, Lyrics by Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc

“I Hate The West” version one, Lyrics by Sarah Wilkinson

[VERSE ONE]
I hate the west.
I hate the men
with balding crests,
thinning grey hair
and the power obsessed.

[VERSE TWO]
Feigning dementia
to fabricate leadership,
Using their platform
for real estate dealership
lip service wheelership,
spitting out washington
mealy mouthed bullyshit.

[CHORUS]
While we watchers heave at the blood curdling insanity,
of what was once our humanity.
Save your vanity, Mr. U.N.,
your false warnings of calamity,
you care not for this planet,
for me...
this is the end.
Prompt: Grim Reaper, chubby businessmen salivating,
U.S. Dollars, Palestinian Flag

“I Hate The West” version two, Lyrics by Sarah Wilkinson

[VERSE ONE]
I hate the west.
I hate the men
with balding crests,
thinning grey hair
and the power obsessed.

[VERSE TWO]
I hate the bods in their Sunday best,
singing hymns of glory to a God,
they secretly despise,
fantasize, criminalize,
so the Middle East is euthanized.

[CHORUS]
While we watchers heave at the blood curdling insanity,
of what was once our humanity.
Save your vanity, Mr. U.N.,
your false warnings of calamity,
you care not for this planet,
for me...
this is the end.

“I Hate The West” version three, Lyrics by Sarah Wilkinson

[VERSE ONE]
I hate the west.
I hate the men
with balding crests,
thinning grey hair
and the power obsessed.

[VERSE TWO]
I hate the Douglas Murray's cowering in tanks,
saluting the ranks,
lying into the mic like underhand skanks,
those BBC planks who know the truth
but won't tell it,
just fake it,
make it up and then sell it.

[CHORUS]
While we watchers heave at the blood curdling insanity,
of what was once our humanity.
Save your vanity, Mr. U.N.,
your false warnings of calamity,
you care not for this planet,
for me...
this is the end.

“I Hate The West” version four, Lyrics by Sarah Wilkinson

I hate the men
with balding crests,
thinning grey hair
and the power obsessed.

[VERSE TWO]
I hate the women
that look like Kamala Harris,
or the half hearted feminists
or the Margaret thatchers
who called Nelson Mandela a terrorist
..and hailed apartheid,
weaponised it,
maximised it,
sat with the israelis signing bomb contracts to finalise it.

[CHORUS]
While we watchers heave at the blood curdling insanity,
of what was once our humanity.
Save your vanity, Mr. U.N.,
your false warnings of calamity,
you care not for this planet,
for me...
this is the end.

“I Hate The West” version five, Lyrics by Sarah Wilkinson

[VERSE ONE]
I hate the west.
I hate the men
with balding crests,
thinning grey hair
and the power obsessed.

[VERSE TWO]
I hate the men in suits
who give no hoots
and work at Elbit,
the place of Hellbit,
that bombs kids,
revels in it,
to blast out,
bombard and cast out Gaza.

[CHORUS]
While we watchers heave at the blood curdling insanity,
of what was once our humanity.
Save your vanity, Mr. U.N.,
your false warnings of calamity,
you care not for this planet,
for me...
this is the end.

“I Hate The West” version six, Lyrics by Sarah Wilkinson

[VERSE ONE]
I hate the west.
I hate the men
with balding crests,
thinning grey hair
and the power obsessed.

[VERSE TWO]
I hate the poppy that says
it remembers the dead,
as tears are shed,
while killing ever more children,
turning them red,
in their bed,
while sleeping,
unknowing their souls are leaving.

blood seeping,
crying and weeping
for help that never comes,
just more war drums,
money and profit and yeah
cough it,
that racist hate for anything not Ukrainian,
or anyone darker
than this side of the Mediterranean.

[CHORUS]
While we watchers heave at the blood curdling insanity,
of what was once our humanity.
Save your vanity, Mr. U.N.,
your false warnings of calamity,
you care not for this planet,
for me...
this is the end.

“I Hate The West” version seven, Lyrics by Sarah Wilkinson

[VERSE ONE]
I hate the west.
I hate the men
with balding crests,
thinning grey hair
and the power obsessed.

[VERSE TWO]
I hate the governments
who haw haw at the poor poor
and sign the papers to arrest
the labourers who advocate peace,
and feast on profits of munitions and lease
the reaper to destroy the east,
to genocide the keepers of humanity,
who strive to save the sanity
of the west.

[CHORUS]
While we watchers heave at the blood curdling insanity,
of what was once our humanity.
Save your vanity, Mr. U.N.,
your false warnings of calamity,
you care not for this planet,
for me...
this is the end.

“I Hate The West” version eight, Lyrics by Sarah Wilkinson

[VERSE ONE]
I hate the west.
I hate the men
with balding crests,
thinning grey hair
and the power obsessed.

[VERSE TWO]
Left in ruins
so the oil can be thieved,
stolen gas retrieved,
and white lives relieved
to live warmer,
ignore the Palestinian trauma
that even the coroners won't believe,
let alone grieve.

[CHORUS]
While we watchers heave at the blood curdling insanity,
of what was once our humanity.
Save your vanity, Mr. U.N.,
your false warnings of calamity,
you care not for this planet,
for me...
this is the end.

I hate the West, rap music by Sarah Wilkinson
I hate the west,
I hate the men with balding crests,
thinning grey hair
and the power obsessed.

Feigning dementia to fabricate leadership,
Using their platform for real estate dealership
lip service wheelership,
spitting out washington mealy mouthed bullyshit.

I hate the Douglas Murray's cowering in tanks,
saluting the ranks,
lying into the mic like underhand skanks,
those BBC planks who know the truth
but won't tell it,
just fake it,
make it up and then sell it.

I hate the women
that look like Kamala Harris,
or the half hearted feminists
or the Margaret thatchers
who called Nelson Mandela a terrorist

..and hailed apartheid,
weaponised it,
maximised it,
sat with the israelis signing bomb contracts to finalise it.

I hate the men in suits
who give no hoots
and work at Elbit,
the place of Hellbit,
that bombs kids,
revels in it,
to blast out,
bombard and cast out Gaza.

I hate the white man,
said Roy Harper,
i hate the man who set him loose,
who invented the noose
to lynch the people
who cried injustice.

I hate the poppy that says
it remembers the dead,
as tears are shed,
while killing ever more children,
turning them red,
in their bed,
while sleeping,
unknowing their souls are leaving.

blood seeping,
crying and weeping
for help that never comes,
just more war drums,
money and profit and yeah
cough it,
that racist hate for anything not Ukrainian,
or anyone darker
than this side of the Mediterranean.

I hate the governments
who haw haw at the poor poor
and sign the papers to arrest
the labourers who advocate peace,
and feast on profits of munitions and lease
the reaper to destroy the east,
to genocide the keepers of humanity,
who strive to save the sanity
of the west,

I hate the bods in their Sunday best,
singing hymns of glory to a God,
they secretly despise,
fantasise criminalise,
so the Middle East is euthanised.

Left in ruins so the oil can be thieved,
stolen gas retrieved,
and white lives relieved
to live warmer,
ignore the Palestinian trauma
that even the coroners won't believe,
let alone grieve,
while we watchers heave
at the blood curdling insanity,
of what was once our humanity.

Save your vanity, Mr. UN,
your false warnings of calamity,
you care not for this planet, for me..
this is the end.

'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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