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Bobby Fischer; chess player (1943)

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Trish Van Devere; actor (1943)

Amerigo Vespucci; explorer (1454)

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A Nonsensical Chess Gambit

The Minneapolis Star Minneapolis, Minnesota Monday, August 16, 1965

A Nonsensical Chess Gambit THE MOVES in the international chess game involving the U.S. champion and Fidel Castro are the kind that would classify as amusing if they weren't so pathetic. First our State Department said our chess champion, Bobby Fischer, couldn't go to Cuba to take part (along with other experts from around the world) in a tournament in Havana. Then Bobby said he would play in the tourney by telephone or cable. But he read a report that Cuba's premier had called the U.S. refusal to let him go to Havana as “a propagandistic victory for Cuba.” So Bobby cabled Castro saying he was withdrawing. And now Castro has denied making such a statement. A spokesman for Bobby says this opens the door for the champ to take part in the event, by telephone. What's the next move? It ought to be one by the State Department, to end the type of nonsense which started this whole thing. But State probably has “castled” and won't be budged.

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“IN 1965, a Hungarian man named Laszlo Polgar wrote a series of strange letters to a woman named Klara.

Laszlo was a firm believer in hard work. In fact, it was all he believed in: he completely rejected the idea of innate talent. He claimed that with deliberate practice and the development of good habits, a child could become a genius in any field. His mantra was “A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.”

Laszlo believed in this idea so strongly that he wanted to test it with his own children—and he was writing to Klara because he “needed a wife willing to jump on board.” Klara was a teacher and, although she may not have been as adamant as Laszlo, she also believed that with proper instruction, anyone could advance their skills.

Laszlo decided chess would be a suitable field for the experiment, and he laid out a plan to raise his children to become chess prodigies. The kids would be home-schooled, a rarity in Hungary at the time. The house would be filled with chess books and pictures of famous chess players.

The children would play against each other constantly and compete in the best tournaments they could find. The family would keep a meticulous file system of the tournament history of every competitor the children faced. Their lives would be dedicated to chess.

Laszlo successfully courted Klara, and within a few years, the Polgars were parents to three young girls: Susan, Sofia, and Judit. Susan, the oldest, began playing chess when she was four years old. Within six months, she was defeating adults.

Sofia, the middle child, did even better. By fourteen, she was a world champion, and a few years later, she became a grandmaster.

Judit, the youngest, was the best of all. By age five, she could beat her father. At twelve, she was the youngest player ever listed among the top one hundred chess players in the world. At fifteen years and four months old, she became the youngest grandmaster of all time—younger than Bobby Fischer, the previous record holder. For twenty-seven years, she was the number-one-ranked female chess player in the world.”

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History

October 17 1091 - The London Tornado of 1091 destroyed many buildings, and killed two people.

1814 - The Great Beer Flood -More than 323,000 gallons of beer burst out of the Meux and Company Brewery and poured into the streets of St. Giles, London, England. 8 people were killed.

1860 - First Open (Golf) Championship (referred to in the US as the British Open).

1919 - Radio Corporation of America (RCA) incorporated.

1931 - Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion.

1933 - Albert Einstein fled Nazi Germany and moved to the United States.

1956 - The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened in Sellafield, Cumbria, England.

1956 - Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer played a game of chess labeled The Game of the Century. Fischer beat Byrne.

1958 - An Evening With Fred Astaire premiered, it was one the first "special" programs on television, and won nine Emmy Awards.

1965 - The 1964-65 New York World's Fair closed. Over 51 million people had attended the event.

1966 - All of NBC's news programming began airing in full-color.

1973 - OPEC imposed an oil embargo against a number of Western countries.

1979 - The Department of Education Organization Act was signed into law, creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.

1979 - Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize.

1989 (Earthquake) The Lome Prieta earthquake interrupted Game 3 of the World Series

2005 - The Colbert Report premiered on Comedy Central

2007 - Storm Chasers debuted on The Discovery Channel

2008 - Ghost Adventures premiered on The Travel Channel

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Lubomir Kavalek, Czech Who Became U.S. Chess Champion, Dies at 77

Lubomir Kavalek, a chess grandmaster who fled Czechoslovakia after the 1968 Soviet invasion and, after moving to the United States, became a three-time national champion, died on Monday at his home in Reston, Va. He was 77.

His wife, Irena Kavalek, said the cause was cancer.

From the mid-1960s until about 1980, Mr. Kavalek (pronounced kuv-AH-lick) was consistently among the best chess players in the world, winning more than a dozen major international tournaments. His world ranking peaked at No. 10 in 1974.

He was also one of the first and most elite players to flee the Soviet bloc for the West.

Mr. Kavalek was playing in a tournament in Poland in August 1968 when the Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to put down the rising tide of political liberalization and dissent. Ms. Kavalek, then Irena Koritsanska, was with him in Poland. It was immediately clear to them, she said. that they did not want to stay in the East.

As soon as the tournament was over, they drove back to Prague, where Mr. Kavalek paused only to gather a few things. He then jumped in his car and drove to Austria. He had a visa to enter the country, where he was expecting to take part in a tournament in a few weeks. From there he went to Munich to stay with his father, who was working for Radio Free Europe and whom he had not seen in 20 years.

Only 24 hours after leaving Poland, Mr. Kavalek was safely in West Germany.

Ms. Koritsanska left Czechoslovakia a month later for Amsterdam on a student visa. She did not return, living there for four years and seeing Mr. Kavalek from time to time.

Mr. Kavalek stayed with his father until 1970, when he emigrated to the United States with help from the United States Chess Federation. He eventually became a citizen. Ms. Koritsanska was able to join him in 1972, and they were married shortly afterward.

From the moment he entered the United States, Mr. Kavalek, who was often called Lubosh, was among the country’s top players.

In 1972, he tied for first in the United States Championship. It was a qualifying tournament for the cycle for the world championship, but Mr. Kavalek lost the playoff to Robert Byrne. He tied for first again the next year, this time with John Grefe.

In 1978, he finally took clear first.

Mr. Kavalek became a member of the biennial United States Chess Olympiad team and played for it seven times from 1972 to 1986, including three times as the top board. He played on the 1976 team that was the first American team to win the gold medal since the 1930s, though the win was tainted: The Soviet bloc countries had boycotted the competition because it was held in Israel.

Lubomir Kavalek was born in Prague on Aug. 9, 1943, the only child of Ludomir and Stephanie (Kreipl) Kavalek. His father worked in the film industry, and his mother was a nurse.

When he was 5, his parents split up and his father left for West Germany.

Mr. Kavalek was about 11 when he started playing chess. He joined a chess club in his school and took to the game instantly.

In 1962, just after he turned 19, he won the Czechoslovak championship, becoming the country’s youngest champion. He won the title again in 1968, shortly before he fled the country.

In 1965, he was awarded the title grandmaster, the game’s highest, by the World Chess Federation, the game’s governing body. At the time, there were fewer than 100 grandmasters in the world; there are now more than 1,700.

He studied communication and journalism in Czechoslovakia and, when he arrived in the United States, studied Russian literature for two years at George Washington University in Washington.

During his first two years in the United States, he worked for Voice of America. As part of his work, he covered the 1972 world championship match in Reykjavik, Iceland, between the American Bobby Fischer and the Russian Boris Spassky. He also helped Mr. Fischer analyze some of the games during the match. (They had played each other once, during a world championship qualifying tournament in 1967. That game ended in a draw.) After Mr. Fischer won and became world champion, he gave Mr. Kavalek an exclusive interview.

In 1973, Mr. Kavalek became a full-time chess professional. In addition to earning some tournament prize money, he supported himself by writing about chess, particularly in his later years. He wrote several chess books and articles for Chess Life, the official magazine of the United States Chess Federation, and British Chess Magazine. From 1973 to 1986, he was editor in chief of chess publishing for a small company, RHM Press.

He also wrote a chess column for The Washington Post from 1986 to 2010 and, after The Post canceled the column, for The Huffington Post until 2017.

Ryan Grim, who was The Huffington Post’s Washington bureau chief from 2009 to 2017, sometimes edited Mr. Kavalek’s columns. “He was a very good writer,” Mr. Grim said. “His column took very little editing.”

In addition to his wife, Mr. Kavalek is survived by their son, Steven, and a grandson.

In 1979, Mr. Kavalek tried his hand as a chess promoter, organizing an elite 10-player tournament in Montreal that featured most of the world’s top players, including Mr. Kavalek himself. The tournament was won by Anatoly Karpov, the reigning world champion.

The format was that each player faced all the others twice. In the first half of the tournament, Mr. Kavalek finished last, scoring only 1.5 points out of a possible 9. But in the second half he roared back, playing the best of anyone to score 6.5 points.

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How The Queen’s Gambit Created an Authentic Portrayal of Chess Mastery

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Netflix’s stylish drama The Queen’s Gambit might just be the surprise hit of the fall. As adapted by a 1983 Walter Tevis novel of the same name, the show’s storytelling is on point, its production design spectacular, and star Anya Taylor Joy’s outfits…truly staggering.

But the real key to The Queen’s Gambit appeal is its focus on one of the world’s oldest and most popular games: chess. Thanks to the show (and also probably the global pandemic), chess is having a bit of a moment right now. According to eBay, the retail site saw a remarkable 273% surge in sales of chess sets in the first 10 days of the Netflix series’ release.

This makes some sense given how The Queen’s Gambit is able to make the classic game feel fresh, kinetic, and damn near sensual. There’s no doubt that the series’ treatment of chess highlights the game’s excitement and intellectual rigor involved. But is that necessarily the most accurate representation of it? Well, according to Netflix’s production notes and Den of Geek’s interviews with several of the show’s stars, that answer is a resounding “yes.” It turns out you don’t spark a 273% sales surge in a game without treating the  playing of said game rather seriously.

In a press release prior to The Queen’s Gambit’s release, Netflix assured critics that the show’s creative teams key objective with chess “was to ensure that if a chess pro sat down to watch the series, they wouldn’t be taken out of the story because of the inaccuracy of any moves.”

To that end, the series brought in two very notable chess experts: longtime chess coach and expert Bruce Pandolfini, and Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. Pandolfini is no stranger to advising creative enterprises on their chess skills as he served as an advisor on 1993 chess drama Searching for Bobby Fischer and even helped Tevis with the original Queen’s Gambit novel back in the ‘80s.

Per Netflix, every time someone moves a chess piece on screen, the move was architected by Pandolfini himself.

“We had to create the chess positions first, and we started with a base of about 100 positions,” Pandolfini said in a statement. “I think it mushroomed to close to 500 different chess positions by the end. That’s more than any other project that’s dealt with chess before.”

In the streaming era, where content exists indefinitely on servers (or at least until Al Gore blessedly pulls the plug on his infernal creation), it’s particularly  important to get things right the first time. It would appear that that’s exactly what The Queen’s Gambit did with its approach to chess. 

Of course, bringing in a chess expert to choreograph scenes is one thing. It’s another thing entirely to coach chess novice actors into playing with purpose. In interviews with Den of Geek, the cast revealed how they learned to project authority while playacting this most difficult game. 

For Taylor-Joy, it was helpful to equate chess with something that she was already quite good at. 

“I saw the whole thing as a dance,” Taylor-Joy says. “I used to be a dancer, and I saw learning the choreography as dance, but just with your fingers. That’s how I got through the whole thing, ‘cause I was not a great chess player when we first started doing this, and by the end of it, I had to pull up my bootstraps.”

Her co-star Thomas Brodie Sangster (who plays Benny Watts) adopts a similar metaphor. 

“It seems silly but it’s kinda like riding a horse–it doesn’t really matter if you can ride a horse, it’s more about if you can get on the horse and get off the horse and look cool doing it,” he says.

Brodie-Sangster and other fellow co-star Harry Melling (Harry Beltik) say that showrunner Scott Frank encouraged them to choose a real-life chess pro to model their respective games after. Brodie-Sangster went with Bobby Fischer while Melling opted for current world champion Magnus Carlsen.

“That was really fascinating, starting from ground zero really, working out how these people operate, and what makes them tick,” Melling says.

According to Brodie-Singer, that dedication to matching real life chess experts extends into the games themselves.

“Every game in the show is based on a real game, if you’ve got a really keen eye you can probably recognize games from across the history of chess,” the actor says.

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In fact, Pandolfini confirmed in an interview with Indiewire that many moves throughout the series were lifted from real life matches. That adds another level of authenticity that the online chess community is starting to pick up on, like Croatian chess expert and YouTuber Antonio Radić.

Of course, most viewers don’t need to know how Elizabeth Harmon’s match against Vasily Borgov stacks up to 1965’s Alexsandar Matanovic v. Leonid Stein. But some viewers do. And the key to making a good chess series is to make sure that both kinds of viewers are accommodated. 

By the end of The Queen’s Gambit’s seven episodes, however, all the novices have certainly become experts. Now if you’d excuse us, we have some chess boards to buy.

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Opinion: Enemies in war, friends in sports. Koreas are not the only one

Call it the effect of salvos between Trump and Kim Jong-un or maybe some good sense prevailed, as a welcome gesture, North and South Korea agreed on Wednesday to march their athletes together under one flag at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics next month and to field a joint women’s ice hockey team.

  Though it is a small event but a seminal one. It may certainly pave the path for a possible political reconciliation between these two nations. The event is significant for the world as it is the sign of ebbing madness of Kin Jong-un who appeared hell-bent to go for a skirmish with the USA and pushing the world to the danger of nuclear war. 

  Sports and politics, diplomacy and animosity have been in a close relationship for decades, more of a love-hate relationship. Sports, by and large, have been great healer and reconciler. At times it has set the tone for a larger peace narrative. Remember, how in 1987  Pakistan’s premier Zia-ul-Haq flew to Jaipur to catch the action of India-Pakistan Test match after BCCI extended invitation to him. Zia claimed that his objective was to restore communication and release tension. Later that year, India and Pakistan jointly organised the ICC Cricket World Cup.

  Sports breaks the barrier, brings good sense, embarrasses flag bearers of hatred and serve as the epitome of great human values. In the 1936 Berlin Olympic, Hitler was determined to showcase Germany's might to the world. However, it was an American black athlete Jesse Owens who stole the show by winning four Gold Medals in Athletics. 

  Later, Owens revealed something very interesting. In the Long Jump event, Owens was committing regular foul jumps and the threat of omission was looming. Luz Long, a German white, who himself was competing in the Long Jump, went over to Owens and gave him a technical tip. The tip was dead right; as Owens went on to win Gold Medal whereas Luz Long finished second. Long’s goodwill gesture had cost him the Gold Medal. After the competition is over, Long strolled back to the dressing room arm-in-arm with Owens in front of Adolf Hitler. Long knew that this gesture would not go well with Nazis but it is the sportsman spirit, which prevailed.

  I remember how spectators during the opening ceremony of 1992 Barcelona Olympics were in tears when the unified Germany team came out for a parade. It was a historic moment and it was possible due to Germany's unification in 1990. 

  When the relationship between India and Pakistan had spoiled badly after the 1965 and the 1971 wars, it was cricket which played a major role in smoothening things. After Cricket Control boards of both nations took initiative, India toured Pakistan in 1978 for a historical Test series after 17 years. Incidentally, it was debut series of the legendary Kapil Dev. 

  If sports have been a great healer and reconciler, it has been one of the biggest sufferers of the political and diplomatic slugfest.

During the peak of Cold War, sports became a playground for supremacy. Egos of USA and USSR were clashing in the sports arena, turning it into a battleground. USSR with allies like GDR (better known as East Germany) was giving a tough fight to the USA (with West Germany) at Olympics. It was a matter of huge pride for them that who stood where in the medal tally. 

  The passion for competition reached a level when Boris Spassky from the USSR met Bobby Fisher of USA for the World Chess title at Reykjavik (Iceland) in 1972; both countries treated it as a pseudo war. It received unprecedented media attention across the world. It reached to such a level that, reportedly, the US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger phoned reluctant Bobby Fischer from Washington and said “America wants you to go over there and beat the Russians. Go to Iceland.” It became a fight for pride for two superpowers. Fisher won and the whole US rejoiced as Chess was a game which Soviet had ruled till then.

  The animosity hurt sports festivals badly. The USSR hosted Olympic Games in 1980, which the USA and allied countries boycotted. Four years later, the USSR and allies settled the score by boycotting the 1984 Olympic Games held at Los Angles USA.

  Would wrap this discussion with mention of iconic Cuban boxer Teofilo Stevenson. Teofilo won Gold Medals in boxing in 1972, 1976 and 1980 Olympics. Teofilo was eying his fourth Gold Medal in 1984 Olympics but Cuba boycotted the game. Teofilo started preparing for the 1988 Olympics. The 1988 Olympics was hosted by South Korea. North Korea boycotted the game. To show its solidarity with North Korea, Cuba boycotted the games. Teofilo broke. He gave up and took retirement. 

  This year's Winter Olympics has come as a great messenger of peace and reconciliation. In spite of whatever pain and damage politics and diplomacy have inflicted on sports and sportspersons, sports, as usual, is playing its part to bring harmony to this globe.

  (Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the views of ZMCL)  

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Bobby Fischer. Chess Champion APK

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All 940 games played by the legendary World Champion, 217 of them with commentary. 180 exercises: play like Fischer and play against Fischer.

This course is in the series Chess King Learn (https://learn.chessking.com/), which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middle game, and endgame, split by levels from beginners to experienced players, and even professional players.

With the help of this course, you can improve your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and consolidate the acquired knowledge into practice.

The program acts as a coach who gives tasks to solve and helps to solve them if you get stuck. It will give you hints, explanations and show you even striking refutation of the mistakes you might make.

The program also contains a theoretical section, which explains the methods of the game in a certain stage of the game, based on actual examples. The theory is presented in an interactive way, which means you can not only read the text of the lessons, but also to make moves on the board and work out unclear moves on the board.

Advantages of the program: ♔ High quality examples, all double-checked for correctness ♔ You need to enter all key moves, required by the teacher ♔ Different levels of complexity of the tasks ♔ Various goals, which need to be reached in the problems ♔ The program gives hint if an error is made ♔ For typical mistaken moves, the refutation is shown ♔ You can play out any position of the tasks against the computer ♔ Interactive theoretical lessons ♔ Structured table of contents ♔ The program monitors the change in the rating (ELO) of the player during the learning process ♔ Test mode with flexible settings ♔ Possibility to bookmark favorite exercises ♔ The application is adapted to the bigger screen of a tablet ♔ The application does not require an internet connection

The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version is fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics: 1. Combinations 1.1. Play like Fischer 1.2. Play against Fischer 2. Games 2.1. 1955-1957 2.2. 1958-1959 2.3. 1960-1961 2.4. 1962-1963 2.5. 1964-1965 2.6. 1966-1968 2.7. 1969-1971 2.8. 1972-1992

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Three vintage TV shows from three different genres — and which began airing during three different decades — have been released this week in complete-series DVD sets.

And in the spirit of full disclosure, I’ve been around long enough to remember all three. Yikes!

First up is “Take a Good Look: The Definitive Collection” (Shout!, 1959-61, b/w, seven discs, 49 episodes).

An eccentric game-show spoof created by and starring Ernie Kovacs, “Take a Good Look” has been somewhat available in random excerpts floating around the internet — but now every single complete episode known to exist has been collected in this set (four are considered lost).

Kovacs, with his prominent mustache and ever-present cigar, was a truly inventive comedian whose style of humor was perhaps ahead of its time. His obtuse and surreal skits might fit quite well with some 21st-century comic sensibilities. It’s really not difficult to picture Kate McKinnon or Kristen Wiig or Will Ferrell fitting into Kovacs’ absurdist stock company.

Kovacs particularly excelled at blackouts, pantomime sketches that last only a few minutes, using skills he experimented with on some no-budget NBC shows from 1955-56, and which he further honed in this off-the-wall two-season quiz show.

He conceived the show as a spoof of such popular quiz programs of the era as “I’ve Got a Secret,” “To Tell the Truth” and “What’s My Line?”

Each episode has a three-celebrity panel, with movie star Cesar Romero, “Dragnet” actor Ben Alexander, comic/voice actor Hans Conried and Kovacs’ wife, singer Edie Adams, as rotating regulars. (Also on hand as fill-ins are Carl Reiner, Tony Randall, Janet Leigh, Mort Sahl, Jack Carson, Jane Wyatt, Jim Backus, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Mormon actress Laraine Day.)

Their task is to identify guests that have achieved a modicum of fame (but whose faces are generally unfamiliar) — ranging from silent-film director Mack Sennett to 1959 Miss America Mary Ann Mobley to jet pilot Scott Crossfield (who shows up in two episodes!) to chess champ Bobby Fischer to former child actress Jean Darling to a lot of baseball players, and many more.

To assist the panel, Kovacs hosts each half-hour episode and introduces several skits (some filmed) that ostensibly offer “clues” to the guests’ identities. And yes, Kovacs fans, his regular characters, such as Percy Dovetonsils and the Nairobi Trio, make appearances. (He also does comic commercials for the show’s sponsor, Dutch Masters cigars.)

Of course, whether the skits actually suggest intelligible hints is up for debate, and it’s amusing to see the panelists scratching their heads or joshing Kovacs about these goofy playlets.

It’s often silly, sometimes hilarious and always an interesting time capsule as early shows are quite primitive and unrehearsed, giving way by the second season to a more polished veneer — even if the skits are no less indecipherable.

Then there’s “Green Acres: The Complete Series” (Shout!/MGM, 1965-71, 24 discs, 170 episodes, audio commentaries on pilot and final episodes, 1966 excerpt of “The Merv Griffin Show,” featurette, photo gallery, six audio episodes of “Granby’s Green Acres” radio show).

This is one of the more popular “rural comedies” of the 1960s — a trend that began with “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “Petticoat Junction.”

But “Green Acres” is unique among them. Adapted from the short-lived radio show “Granby’s Green Acres” (and owing something to the 1947 film “The Egg and I”), "Green Acres" has a lawyer (Eddie Albert) buying a rundown farm near Hooterville (the location of “Petticoat Junction,” whose stars make guest appearances throughout season one).

The expected sitcom formula portrays him as a hapless farmer while his wife (Eva Gabor) never quite adapts to rural life, and eccentrics surround them on every side. But what makes this show stand is its penchant for absurdity, which becomes more pronounced as the series progresses.

Obviously, the best known of these three is “Dynasty: The Complete Series” (CBS/Paramount, 1981-89, 57 discs, 217 episodes, featurettes, 1985 “Entertainment Tonight” excerpt).

The show was conceived by ABC to challenge "Dallas," the juggernaut prime-time soap opera on CBS, and quickly took on a life of its own, developing a fan base that still can’t get enough.

The focus is on the fabulously wealthy but highly dysfunctional Carrington family, headed by oil tycoon Blake (John Forsythe) and his new wife Krystle (Linda Evans) — but it really comes to life with the addition of his former wife Alexis (Joan Collins) in season two (who technically makes a veiled appearance in the final episode of the first season).

Among the stars that came and went during the show’s nine seasons are Pamela Sue Martin, Lloyd Bochner, Heather Locklear, Catherine Oxenberg, Michael Nader, Diahann Carroll, Emma Samms and Rock Hudson. (And there was a two-season spinoff series, “The Colbys.”)

A reboot of “Dynasty" is now airing on The CW with a fairly unknown cast that hopes to recapture the original’s magic.

Chris Hicks is the author of "Has Hollywood Lost Its Mind? A Parent’s Guide to Movie Ratings." He also writes at www.hicksflicks.com and can be contacted at hicks@deseretnews.com.

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Birthdays 3.9

Beer Birthdays

William Cobbett (1763)

Daniel Curran

Five Favorite Birthdays

Juliette Binoche; actor (1965)

Bobby Fischer; chess player (1943)

Modest Mussorgsky; composer (1839)

Granville Redmond; artist (1871)

Socrates (469 BCE)

Famous Birthdays

Samuel Barber; composer (1910)

Barbie; Mattel doll (1959)

Luis Barragan; Mexican architect (1902)

John Cale; pop singer (1942)

Bert Campaneris; Oakland A's SS (1942)

Ornette Coleman; jazz saxophonist (1930)

Yamila Diaz-Rahi; Argentine model (1976)

Linda Fiorentino; actor (1960)

Eddie Foy Sr.; actor, dancer, entertainer (1856)

Martin Fry; pop singer (1958)

Yuri Gagarin; cosmonaut (1934)

Will Geer; actor (1902)

Charles Gibson; television host (1943)

Mickey Gilley; country singer (1936)

George Granville; English politician (1666)

Brian Green; actor (1962)

Glenda Jackson; actor (1936)

Raul Julia; actor (1940)

Paul Klipsch; engineer (1904)

Emmanuel Lewis; actor (1971)

Jeffrey Osborne; rock musician (1948)

Lloyd Price; songwriter (1933)

Vita Sackville-West; English writer (1892)

Keely Smith; singer (1932)

Mickey Spillane; writer (1918)

Leland Stanford; railroad builder (1824)

Robin Trower; rock musician (1945)

Trish Van Devere; actor (1943)

Amerigo Vespucci; explorer (1454)

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Fischer Tied for Chess Lead After Draw on 47th Move

The San Bernardino County Sun San Bernardino, California Tuesday, August 31, 1965

Fischer Tied for Chess Lead After Draw on 47th Move HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Bobby Fischer, the United States' 22-year-old grandmaster, tied with Romania's Victor Cioacaltea yesterday in a third round game in the Capablanca Memorial Chess Tournament. Fischer, denied permission to visit Cuba by the U.S. State Department, is participating in the international tournament by telephone and telegraph. Fischer is in New York. His moves, and those of his opponent, are wired to and from Havana. Cioacaltea was on the verge of victory several times, but Fischer firmed up his game and reversed his bad position by the 41st move. The game was adjourned as a tie after the 47th move. The deadlock left Fischer in a three-way tie for first with Jolmov of Russia and Donner of the Netherlands. Each has 2½ points. Fischer had won both of his earlier games. The fourth round of the 30-day tournament was to be played later yesterday but probably will not be completed until today.

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U.S. Chess Champ Fires His Referee

The Times Shreveport, Louisiana Monday, August 30, 1965

U.S. Chess Champ Fires His Referee NEW YORK (UPI) — U. S. Chess champion Bobby Fisher fired his referee Sunday an hour before he resumed his long-distance play in the Capablanca Memorial Chess tournament in Havana, Cuba. The referee, Frank Brady, 31, said he received a long-distance call shortly before 2 p.m. from Fischer's attorney in Massachusetts who said that the young chess master didn't want him around. I talked to Bobby later and he said he felt it would disturb his concentration if I was in the same room with him,” Brady said. “The problem is with the book I wrote about him. He didn't like it.” Fischer, 22, began play at 3 p.m. via cable to Havana with Romania's Victor Ciocâltea in the third game of the 22-game tournament. He is competing by cable because the State Department refused his permission to go to Cuba. Brady said the “boy wonder” had read his book, “Profile of a Prodigy,” in galley form and “He didn't like it then. In fact, I was surprised when he called me last Thursday to ask me to be the referee.” A variety of referees sat in on the first week of play and Brady was on hand only Thursday night when Fischer defeated Russia's former world champion, Vassily Smyslov, who conceded after 43 moves. Brady said, “My book came out last week and I think Bobby re-read it and decided to fire me because he doesn't like people tampering with his private life.”

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Fischer Wins 2nd Game in Chess Meet

Wow... journalistic instincts hard at work here:

Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan Sunday, August 29, 1965

Fischer Wins 2nd Game in Chess Meet (C) New York Times Service NEW YORK -Bobby Fischer, who used to cry when he lost a chess game. has won his second game by teletype in the Capablanca Memorial Tournament being held in Havana, Cuba. Fischer, called the Mozart of chess, conducted the game by teletype because of a propaganda fight with Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. Below is Fischer's second-game victory over Russia's former world champion Vassilly Smyslov.

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Bobby Fischer at Capablanca Memorial Tournament

Bobby Fischer would not have been drafted in U.S. Military. See this publication from the Worldwide Church of God,

MILITARY SERVICE and WAR by Herbert W Armstrong “Here is the biblical teaching and commands of God on military service, killing and WAR. … At the outset, bear in mind that in the United States, for example, the Selective Service and the military authorities deal with “conscientious objectors” according to the genuine sincerity of the individual, as they, not the individual, determine his sincerity.” https://www.hwalibrary.com/cgi-bin/get/hwa.cgi?action=getbklet&InfoID=1326297208&byGraphicList=byList&page=&return=bklets

The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Sunday, August 29, 1965

Bobby Fischer at Capablanca Memorial Tournament Frank Brady, former editor of the magazine Chess World, has written a book on Bobby Fischer called “Profile of a Prodigy,” reputedly a comprehensive portrait of this controversial figure and containing 75 of his games. The book is to be released at the end of this month. The book is already a little incomplete, for the controversial Bobby Fischer is again in the news. Bobby is not in the army as previously reported, though we were informed that he had expected to be drafted. Recently he applied for a visa to play in the Capablanca Memorial tournament in Cuba, partly on the theory that he would also function as a journalist. His application was denied. Fischer then arranged to participate by telecommunication. Fidel Castro promptly announced a diplomatic victory. Fischer, irritated that his name was being used for political reasons, thereupon withdrew from the tournament, indicating by cable that he would nevertheless participate if the Cuban government publicly conceded that his participation is non-political. However, the latest report is that Fischer is playing.

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U.S. Chess Champ Teletypes His Moves

Dayton Daily News Dayton, Ohio Sunday, August 29, 1965

U.S. Chess Champ Teletypes His Moves BOBBY FISCHER, U.S. chess champ since the age of 14, was playing his matches via teletype last week. The reason: He was refused permission to journey to the tournament site in Havana because of State department restrictions. Staying home in New York, the moody, 22-year -old won two games. The critics concede Fisher is a chess genius (he has virtually no outside interests) and one observer called him a “killer” at the game.

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