Norman T. Whitaker
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Norman Tweed Whitaker was an American International Master of chess, a lawyer, a civil servant, and a chess author. He was convicted of several crimes, was disbarred from the practice of law, and serv
Norman T. Whitaker, 1969
Whitaker with John H. Smythe Jr
Norman T. Whitaker, mug shot, 1932
Bobby Fischer
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Robert James Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won wit
Norman T. Whitaker
…Washington, DC. He also travelled in 1956 with the New Jersey–based Log Cabin Chess Club to Cuba, playing first board for the team, ahead of 13-year-old Bobby Fischer, who was on second board. Whitaker drew a match against the elderly German Grandmaster Friedrich Samisch in 1960…
Fischer in 1972
William Lombardy (left) and Fischer analyzing, with Jack Collins (center) looking on
Fischer in Cuba, March 1956
Fischer in 1956