New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 01 — Chess World Argues Fischer's Actions by Martin Arnold —Bobby Fischer's posture toward the world chess championship has touched off a wave of debate and discussion in New York and Moscow as well as Reykjavik, Iceland, where his match with the defending Soviet champion, Boris Spassky, is scheduled to open tomorrow. Tass, the Soviet press agency, said Fischer was motivated by “a disgusting spirit of gain.”
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New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 8 — Conferences in Iceland by Harold C. Schonberg — NYTimes. Reykjavik, Iceland, June 30—Mr. Davis arrived here this morning and immediately disappeared into a series of conferences with officials of the Icelandic Chess Federation and Fred Cramer of Milwaukee, Fischer's representative here. None of the participants was available for comment.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 20 — Chess Puzzle — Two theories have been put forward to explain Bobby Fischer's erratic behavior on the eve of the scheduled beginning tomorrow of his world championship match against Boris Spassky in Reykjavik. One view is that he is simply acting out an old chess tradition, waging psychological warfare against Spassky, creating uncertainties and tensions for the Soviet titleholder that he hopes will weaken Spassky's play when the battle actually begins.
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The Central New Jersey Home News, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 1 — Progress Seen in Negotiations For Fischer Chess Matches —Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Considerable progress was reported Friday night in 11th hour negotiations over Bobby Fischer's demand for more money from the world chess championship with Boris Spassky of Russia.
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Journal and Courier Lafayette, Indiana Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 13 — Fischer Hasn't Moved Toward Chess Match by Stephens Broening — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Organizers of the world chess championship were unable today to report any break-through in their deadlock over money with Bobby Fischer. On the eve of Fischer's scheduled challenge match with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia, officials of the Icelandic Chess Federation said they still had no assurances that Fischer would appear.
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The Guardian London, Greater London, England Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 11 — Engames People Play — Chess Correspondent, Leonard Barden, sizes up the contestants and tactics on the eve of the Spassky-Fischer world championship.
The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 7 — Bobby Fischer at the Summit by Al Horowitz — When Robert Fischer, many times United States chess champion, sits down to play the first game of his world championship match against titleholder Boris Spassky, of the Soviet Union, in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Monday, it will be the first time in 71 years that an American has participated in a face-to-face match for the highest title.
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Johnson City Press-Chronicle Johnson City, Tennessee Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 20 — Variety of Programs on Outlook — The Public Broadcasting Service and Channel 2 will carry simulated play-by-play color coverage of the first game of the Historic Spassky-Fischer World Championship Chess Tournament beginning tomorrow at 1 on Channel 2. The first game in the Reykjavik, Iceland Tournament between Chess Grand Masters Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, will take place tomorrow. The entire game, which could go as long as five hours, will be covered without interruption.
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The Charlotte Observer Charlotte, North Carolina Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 14 — Bobby Fischer's New Tactics? — Bobby Fischer is to chess what Muhammad Ali is to boxing and Joe Namath is to football. He is controversial, talented and unpredictable. Especially is he is unpredictable. Mr. Fischer is scheduled to play a 24-game world championship match with the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky on Sunday in Reykjavik, Iceland. But as of Thursday he had not shown up. In chess terms, that is comparable to having Namath absent as the New York Jets go through their pre-game warmups at the Super Bowl.
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The Orlando Sentinel Orlando, Florida Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 20 — Iceland Says It Cannot Pay Fischer Any More — Reykjavik (Reuter) Iceland's Chess Federation announced Friday it could not pay 29-year-old American Bobby Fischer more money to play his challenge match here against Russian world champion Boris Spassky. Federation Director Gudjon Ingi Stefansson was commenting on reports that the American has demanded 30 per cent of gate receipts for Sunday's match on top of an agreed share of a $125,000 purse.
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The Orlando Sentinel Orlando, Florida Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 20 — Tass Hits Fischer's Nerve War — Moscow (AP) The Soviet news agency Tass said Friday there is no certainty that the world championship chess match will be held at all and it blamed the situation on Bobby Fischer, the American who is challenging the Russian titleholder, Boris Spassky. Tass commentator Allan Starodub noted reports that Fischer is asking for more money to play and waging “a war of nerves” by not yet showing up in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the 24-game match.
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The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 3 — Organizers Haggle With Fischer Over Fee As Chess Match Nears — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—Organizers of the world chess championship reported considerable progress last night in their negotiations with Bobby Fischer's lawyer over a last-minute demand for more money by the American challenger.
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Corvallis Gazette-Times Corvallis, Oregon Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 18 — Money Conflict — Andrew Davis, second from left, attorney for United States chess star Bobby Fischer, speaks with Chester Fox, after Fox met Davis at Keflavik Airport outside of Reykjavik, Iceland, Friday. Davis arrived in Iceland from New York on a flight that was to have carried Fischer to the world chess championships set to begin Sunday with Russian Boris Spassky.
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 30 — Weekend TV: World Championship Chess Tourney Set — Chess fans will get their chance this weekend. The Public Broadcasting System, Channel 28 at 10 a.m. Sunday, will present five hours of World Championship Chess Tournament play. Russia's Boris Spassky, the champion, matches the moves of Bobby Fischer, the challenger from the United States. These two have met five times previously, with Spassky winning three and tying twice. The tournament will last 8 weeks, and is originating in Reykjavik, Iceland. For this first telecast, PBS has arranged for chess expert Shelby Lyman—who will be in a New York studio—to monitor wire reports from Reykjavik and duplicate and analyze the moves by Spassky and Fischer on a huge chess board. Channel 28 carries a half-hour review of the day's match at 5 p.m.
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The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 1 — Bobby Fischer Fails to Leave U.S. — New York, Friday. — An Icelandic Airlines flight to Reykjavik, Iceland, scene of the world championship chess match set for Sunday, left New York early today without the American challenger, Bobby Fischer aboard. Fischer, whose unpredictable behaviour has frayed nerves in official chess circles, was seen at the airport late last night.
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The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, Florida Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 14 — Superbowl of Chess — For the past several months 29-year-old Bobby Fischer has been spending about eight hours a day in rigorous physical exercise and another eight hours in deep mental concentration. Yet, unfortunately, few Americans are aware of the two-man superbowl he has been training for.
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Florida Today Cocoa, Florida Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 4A — Bobby Makes His Move — Can a lone American successfully challenge a product of the Soviet Union's time-tested chess machine? Can a perfection-seeking genius keep his cool through the grind of a 24-game championship series? Can Bobby Fischer, America's challenger, end a 25-year reign for the U.S.S.R. as world chess champions?
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Springfield Leader and Press Springfield, Missouri Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 7 — Chess Board — This is the chess board on which Bobby Fischer of the United States is scheduled to play defending Soviet champion Boris Spassky, beginning Monday. But there was no guarantee today that Fischer would show up in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the match.
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The Age Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 26 — Chess Wizard Still “Hiding” — New York, June 30.—Unpredictable chess genius Bobby Fischer remained undercover here with only 60 hours to go before the scheduled start of his world championship challenge against Russia's Boris Spassky, in Iceland.
The Call-Leader Elwood, Indiana Saturday, July 01, 1972 - Page 1 — World Chess Match — Reykjavik (UPI)-If Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in the world championship match starting here Sunday, he will become the second American to rule as world champion. A victory for Spassky, the ruling world champion from the Soviet Union of the game which has lasted since 1927 when Alexander Alekhine took the title away from the legendary Jose Raoul Capablanca of Cuba.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 31 — Iceland Chess Unit Tries To Curb News Coverage —Special to The New York Times, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 1 — The Icelandic Chess Federation pressed its efforts today to prevent television stations and chess clubs around the world from staging play-by-play reconstructions of the world chess championship matches while they are under way.
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Clarion-Ledger Jackson, Mississippi Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 38 — In Earlier Match — Boris Spassky, left, of the Soviet Union, and American Bobby Fischer, are shown in a match at the World Chess Championships in Siegen, Germany, on September 20, 1970. Spassky is reigning World Champ.—AP Wirephoto.
Clarion-Ledger Jackson, Mississippi Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 38 — American Chess Genius Meets Russian Champion In Bid For World Crown —By Mary Ellen Myrene, Associated Press Writer — When he won his first U.S. chess championship at the age of 14, Bobby Fischer observed with nearly galling relish, “I like to see ’em squirm.” Now 29 and facing Russia's Boris Spassky for the world title, Fischer remains one of the most controversial—and most successful—players in the game's history.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 31 — Fischer Seeks a Postponement by Harold C. Schonberg —NYTimes, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 1—Bobby Fischer has asked for a two-day postponement for his chess match with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, according to Andrew Davis, Fischer's lawyer.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 65 — Fischer vs. Spassky: Chess Masters Hold Their Breath by Harold Dondis, Globe Chess Columnist — Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer will be sitting down today (at least this was the plan as of yesterday) at the Sports Palace at Reykjavik, Iceland, before a breathless audience of Grandmasters, chess votaries and amateurs.
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The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 79 — Tempers Will Run Hot In Iceland by Charles Fraser — THE CHESS match which will decide who is the best player in the world looks all set to erupt into a war of nerves unheard of in this usually scholarly game. Russia's champion, Boris Spassky (right), will be accompanied by a team of tacticians, plus his own doctor and chef.
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 20 — Chess Championship Opens and Absent Fischer Asks Delay by Joe Alex Morris Jr., Times Staff Writer — Reykjavik, Iceland — The world chess championship was formally declared open Saturday night despite the fact that American challenger Robert J. (Bobby) Fischer was nowhere in sight.
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 20 — Fischer Fans Gain in Numbers, Confidence by Isaac Kashdan, Times Chess Editor — Bobby Fischer will be the challenger in Reykjavik, Iceland, when he faces world chess champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the title. It should be the other way around, in the opinion of Fischer and a growing coterie of supporters.
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The Sacramento Bee Sacramento, California Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 6 — Chess Champ — Boris Spassky, center, world champion of chess receives a toast from American Charge d'affaires Theodore Tremblay at the opening ceremony of Iceland's National Theater in Reykjavik. At left is Russian Ambassador Sergei Astayin. AP Wirephoto
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Daily News New York, New York Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 177 — Oh, Ploy! Bobby's Late and Boris Fires an Aide by Robert Byrne, Special Correspondent of THE NEWS — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 1—With barely 24 hours to go before he has to make his opening move against world champion Boris Spassky in the 24-game match to settle the world chess championship, Bobby Fischer, the 29-year-old challenger, still had not arrived here.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 52 — Spassky-Fischer World Championship Chess Tournament — Duplicated play-by-play coverage featuring chess master Shelby Lyman, chess writer Frank Brady, and experts from the Marshall Chess Club of New York.
The Observer London, Greater London, England Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 5 — Fischer non-move Baffles Icelandic Chessmen by Roy Perrott — Reykjavik, July 1 — WAITING for the elusive Bobby Fischer to arrive here to make his challenge for the World Chess Championships has become a severe test of patience as well as nerve. Some think that the 29-year-old prodigy from Brooklyn may be using delaying tactics to unsettle the Russians.
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Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 189 — Chess: Spassky Psyched and Well Studied for the Onslaught of Bobby Fischer by James Yuenger, Chief of Moscow Bureau — BORIS SPASSKY took a chess-playing psychologist along when he flew to Iceland to complete preparations for defending his world chess championship against Bobby Fischer.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 55 — Here's How to Play Chess--Then Practice, Read, Watch Pros by Richard M. Weintraub, Globe Staff — With a growing interest in the game of chess, spurred by the Bobby Fischer vs. Boris Spassky world championship match, here's a brief primer outlining the basics of the game for those who have never played.
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Pensacola News Journal Pensacola, Florida Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 47 — Chess Club Set July 13 — With interest rising in chess due to the world championship matches between American Bobby Fischer and Russian Boris Spassky, a group of Pensacolians have decided to organize a chess club. An organizational meeting is planned July 13 at John Waite's home, 1813 Maxwell St., at 7 p.m.
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Argus-Leader Sioux Falls, South Dakota Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 2 — American Chess Master Missing At Time Of Flight — New York (AP)—American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer failed to show up at Kennedy Airport here Saturday night for passage on the last commercial airline flight that could have taken him to Reykjavik, Iceland, in time for the scheduled Sunday start of his world chess title match with Russian Boris Spassky.
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The South Bend Tribune South Bend, Indiana Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 70 — ABC Sports To Telecast Chess Event — ABC Sports has acquired the exclusive rights to televise the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The coverage on ABC will be the only telecasts of the competition available in the United States.
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Playground Daily News Fort Walton Beach, Florida Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 2 — Iceland Awaits Chess Champion — Reykjavik (UPI) - Icelandic officials waited nervously Saturday for U.S. chess Grand Master Bobby Fischer, who is scheduled to start his world championship match against Russian Boris Spassky here Sunday. Chess sources said the International Chess Federation will presumably disqualify Fischer from world championship play if he fails to show up for the first game at 5 p.m.
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The Times Shreveport, Louisiana Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 6 — Fischer Arrival Still Awaited in Reykjavik — New York (UPI) — American chess champion Bobby Fischer kept his Russian opponent waiting and the world watching Saturday, less than 24 hours before the scheduled start of their world championship match 2,600 miles away in Iceland. Three times Fischer postponed his departure for Reykjavik mysteriously at the last minute, risked permanent disqualification from world championship play if he was not on a plane Saturday night.
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The Times Shreveport, Louisiana Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 50 — Chess Match Officially Open Despite Absence of Fischer by Ian Westergren — Reykjavik (UPI) — Officials Saturday formally declared play ready to begin Sunday in the world chess championship even though U.S. challenger Bobby Fischer had not yet shown up for his opening bout with champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
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Star Tribune Minneapolis, Minnesota Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 6 — Chess Group Seeks Limit On Coverage of Tourney — NYTimes News Service. Reykjavik, Iceland — The Icelandic Chess Federation was engaged Saturday in a battle to prevent television stations and chess clubs around the world from staging play-by-play reconstructions of the scheduled world chess championship matches as they are under way.
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The Arizona Republic Phoenix, Arizona Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 3 — Bobby Fischer Asks Chess Match Delay — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer's lawyer has asked to postpone the start of today's world championship chess match until Tuesday, but neither the organizers appeared willing to grant the request. Lothar Schmidt of Germany, the chief referee, said early today he didn't recognize the legitimacy of the request made by Andrew Davis, Fischer's lawyer.
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The Kingston Daily Freeman Kingston, New York Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 1 — Tuesday Deadline For Bobby Fischer — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—Bobby Fischer's time runs out at 8 a.m. EDT Tuesday. Fischer, the 29 year old Brooklyn chess genius, must turn up in Reykjavik by then or lose the right to challenge Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky for the world championship, a match that has generated wider interest than any chess game in history.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 1 — Chess Title Match Put Off Two Days On Plea by Fischer by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2—The president of the International Chess Federation has granted Bobby Fischer a two-day postponement of his world championship match with Boris Spassky, which was supposed to begin here today.
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Daily News New York, New York Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 181 — Bobby Gets It Off His Chess: Money Stalemating Game by Robert Byrne — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2—Rejecting alibis put forward by his own agents that illness caused by fatigue brought the two-day postponement of the world championship chess match, Bobby Fischer said today that he will not appear here unless his financial demands are met by the organizers.
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The Atlanta Constitution Atlanta, Georgia Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 4 — Drama — Not many years ago a chess tournament was a perfect place to be if you wanted to be completely ignored by the press and the other media. Nobody but chess players was interested. Terrible-tempered and money conscious Bobby Fischer, America's chess champion and quite possibly one of the great players in the history of the game, has changed all that.
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Fort Lauderdale News Fort Lauderdale, Florida Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 2 — Fischer, Chess Unit Deadlocked — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — The world chess championship was threatened with collapse today 24 hours before Bobby Fischer's deadline to show up or forfeit his match with Boris Spassky of Russia. Fischer, the American chess champion, was reported sticking to his demand for more money. He told the New York Daily News he wouldn't yield.
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Muncie Evening Press Muncie, Indiana Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 9 — Chessman Fischer Fails to Check In by Ian Westergren — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) - Bobby Fischer's time runs out at 8 a.m. EDT Tuesday. Fischer, the 29-year-old Brooklyn chess genius, must turn up in Reykjavik by then or lose the right to challenge Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky for the world championship, a match that has generated wider interest than any chess game in history.
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Victoria Advocate Victoria, Texas Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 1 — Chess Disaster Looms by Joe Alex Morrison, Jr., Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service. — Reykjavik, Iceland — The ballad of Bobby Fischer has already been written. Here is Iceland, the classic form of epic poem is called the saga. And Bobby Fischer himself is in the middle of creating one.
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The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 35 — Tomorrow Deadline for Fischer — New York - (UPI) - Bobby Fischer, the American chess champion who was scheduled to begin play for the world title in Iceland remained in seclusion in New York yesterday while his lawyers tried to work out better financial terms. The International Chess Federation (FIDE), which had threatened to bar Fischer, 29, permanently from world championship play if he failed to appear for the first game against Russian world champion Boris Spassky yesterday at 1 p.m. EDT, relented at the last minute and gave him a two-day extension.
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The Burlington Free Press Burlington, Vermont Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 24 — Chess King Fischer Must Decide by Tuesday — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) - Bobby Fischer was given a Tuesday noon deadline to appear for the world chess championship or forfeit his chance for the title. The ultimatum, announced Sunday by Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, meant a two-day postponement of Fischer's encounter with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia.
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The Orlando Sentinel Orlando, Florida Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer Absent; Chess Opener Postponed 2 Days —Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) - Bobby Fischer failed to appear for the opening game in his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union Sunday but the match was postponed for two days to give the American challenger one more chance to play.
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Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 5 — Chessmen Refuse Fischer's Demands — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) - The Icelandic Chess Federation refused today to meet U.S. chess challenger Bobby Fischer's demands for more money to play the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky for the world championship. “A dangerous precedent would be created if we gave in to Fischer.
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Honolulu Star-Bulletin Honolulu, Hawaii Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 7 — Bulletin — London (AP)—A British banker said today Bobby Fischer had accepted a deal worth 50,000 pounds—$130,000 at official parity—and was flying to Iceland to meet Russia's Boris Spassky for the chess world title.
El Paso Times El Paso, Texas Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 7 — Fischer Given Chess Match Extension — NYTimes, Reykjavik, Iceland - Bobby Fischer, who still has not arrived here for his championship chess match with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, has been granted a two-day extension, until noon on Tuesday, to appear here. If he does not show up by then he will be disqualified from the match, which had been scheduled to start Sunday at 5 p.m. local time.
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The La Crosse Tribune La Crosse, Wisconsin Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 17 — Chess Match Postponed — by Stephen Broening, Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) - The International Chess Federation gave Bobby Fischer two days' grace Sunday to appear for the world chess championship as a friend of the reluctant challenger flew to the United States in an attempt to coax him to Reykjavik. Fischer was believed in New York when Dr. Max Euwe, the international federation's president, announced the postponement.
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The Evening Sun Baltimore, Maryland Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 3 — British Banker Offers $130,000 Deal To Entice Fischer To Play Spassky For Chess Title — London (AP)—A British banker today offered Bobby Fischer a deal worth 50,000 pounds—$130,000 at official parity—to entice Fischer to play his Soviet rival Boris Spassky for the world title. James D. Slater, an investment banker, said in making the offer, “Fischer has said that money is the problem.
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The Charlotte News Charlotte, North Carolina Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 18 — The Chess Connection: Chess World Awaits Fischer's Arrival — It's no coincidence that foreign policy impresarios like Henry Kissinger often look upon big power negotiations as if they were moves in a giant chess match. For when contestants who really are professional chess players come to glare across the table at each other, all the world itself might as well be at stake.
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The Daily Oklahoman Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 14 — Fischer Given Two Days to Get to Iceland by Harold C. Schonberg — NY Times Service, Reykjavik, Iceland — Bobby Fischer, who still has not arrived here for his championship chess match with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, has been granted a two-day extension until noon Tuesday, to appear here. If he does not show up by then, he will be disqualified from the match, which had been scheduled to start Sunday at 5 p.m. The decision to grant Fischer an extension was made by Dr. Max Euwe of Amsterdam, President of the International Chess Federation. Euwe, the world's chess champion from 1935 to 1937, was pessimistic. “I think there will be no play at all,” he said.
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The Herald Jasper, Indiana Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 12 — Awaits Challenger — Russian champion Boris Spassky, left, chats with American chess grandmaster Robert Byrne, right, in Reykjavik, Iceland, Sunday. Byrne said he spoke with American chess champion Bobby Fischer by phone Sunday and “he said he was not fatigued and he was not sick. He won't come (to Iceland) because they (the organizers) are not meeting his financial demands.” (United Press International)
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The Record Hackensack, New Jersey Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 2 — Sets Deadline — Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, announces that American Bobby Fischer must appear by tomorrow or forfeit the match.
The News Leader Staunton, Virginia Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 8 — Chess Mates — Chess pros Boris Spassky, left, of the Soviet Union and American Bobby Fischer ponder moves in separate matches. Spassky and Fischer were to have met Sunday in Reykjavik, Iceland for the world chess championship, but Fischer failed to show up. The International Chess Federation postponed the start of the championship series until Tuesday. The American champion was believed still in New York. Dr. Max Euwe, president of the federation announced that if the American challenger failed to show up by noon Tuesday he would risk forfeiting his chance at the title.
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The Independent-Record Helena, Montana Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 3 — So Far Still Champion — Boris Spassky of Russia, present world champion, holds thumb up outside his hotel in Reykjavik, Sunday. Challenger Bobby Fischer of the U.S. has so far failed to arrive in the Icelandic capital for the championship match that had been scheduled to start Sunday. Officials gave Fischer until Tuesday noon to show up or risk forfeit. (Photofax)
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The Guardian London, Greater London, England Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 10 — Checkmate Before You Move — Whether or not Bobby Fischer has arrived/disappeared/hijacked an airliner/wrecked the Reykjavik national theater will be found by referring to our news pages. It is possible, during most emergencies, to keep leading articles up to date as the night goes on: but the strain of doing so tells on our staff, and in any case it is not safe to assume that the latest twist and turn in this new Icelandic saga is what it appears to be. Fischer is said to have an IQ of 184 ([more of a myth than fact, and Fischer himself denies ever being provided the score by Erasmus Hall, during his Dick Cavett interview, where this myth arose is anyone's guess. Bobby didn't like discussing it during that interview. In the words of Stephen Hawking, 'Only losers brag about their IQ.').
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The Indianapolis News Indianapolis, Indiana Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 8 — Good Luck, Bobby! — Bobby Fischer, 29-year-old American who has startled the chess world with the brilliancy of his play, is scheduled to compete for the world's championship against the title-holder, Boris Spassky of Soviet Russia. Fischer has irked the Russians, not only by beating them regularly at what they consider their own game, but by accusing them of ganging up at international tournaments. At Curacao, in 1962, he charged thaty they consulted one another in order to defeat non-Soviet players. But Fischer really shook up the Soviets when he questioned the femininity of their sportswomen. Said Bobby, “They cheat in other sports (besides chess as well. The funniest--if you think its funny--is with their track athletes. Some women -- they take male hormones.” Determined to bring the chess title to America, Fischer said, “The Soviets have been committing international crimes for so long--spreading lies and political propaganda all over the world, cheating at sports--someone has to stop them ... I intend to teach them a little humility.” ([No source citation for direct quote provided]). If he does, more power to Fischer.
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El Paso Herald-Post El Paso, Texas Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 29 — Reykjavik, Iceland, Dr. Max Euwe, left, the president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) told newsmen in Reykjavik that the world chess championship match between American champion Bobby Fischer and Russian champion Boris Spassky has been postponed until tomorrow. Fischer has been threatened by FIDE that he will be barred from world championship play if he fails to show up for the match tomorrow. (UPI Photo)
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The Miami News Miami, Florida Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 39 — Soviets Protest Chess Delay — (AP) — The Soviet Chess Foundation, protesting the postponement of the world chess championship in Iceland, said today American challenger Bobby Fischer merits disqualification because of his demands for more money (just as Belgrade demanded an illegal 35K guarantee?) In a statement distributed by the official news agency Tass, the Soviet federation also assailed the International Chess Federation (FIDE) and its president Max Euwe.
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The Miami News Miami, Florida Monday, July 03, 1972 - Page 39 — $125,000 Bonus Offered to Lure Fischer — Reuter — Jim Slater, one of London's youngest self-made millionaires, today offered $125,000 from his own pocket to entice U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer to play against his Soviet rival Boris Spassky. Fischer has been given until noon tomorrow to sign on at the world chess championship arena at Reykjavik, Iceland.
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The Evening Sun Hanover, Pennsylvania Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 17 — The Very Late Bobby Fischer — American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer steps from plane Tuesday in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he is scheduled to meet Soviet counterpart Boris Spassky in the world chess championship. Fischer arrived 10 hours prior to his scheduled meet with Spassky after a long holdout over prize money. (AP Wirephoto)
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The Daily Times Salisbury, Maryland Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 10 — Fischer Accepts Deal For More Cash For Chess —London, (AP) — A British banker said Monday night Bobby Fischer had accepted a deal worth 50,000 pounds—$130,000 at official parity—and was flying to Iceland to meet Russia's Boris Spassky for the chess world title. Paul Marshall, a lawyer in New York for Fischer, said the 29-year-old American challenger had accepted Slater's offer of the extra prize money and would be in Reykjavik by the Tuesday noon deadline.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 1-14 — Fischer Leaves for Iceland After Briton Adds to Prize by Peter Kihss — A chess-playing London investment banker offered $125,000 yesterday to double the world championship chess purse, and Bobby Fischer, the American challenger, agreed to fly to Iceland to meet Boris Spassky for the title.
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Valley Morning Star Harlingen, Texas Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 7 — Bobby Fischer May Play Chess — Reykjavik (UPI) — Gudmundur Thorarinsson, president of the Icelandic Chess Federation, said Monday night he was 95 per cent sure U.S. challenger Bobby Fischer would arrive in Reykjavik, Tuesday morning to play world chess champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the world title. “I have it from very good sources—sources which I trust—that Fischer will come Tuesday,” Thorarinsson said.
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Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 23 — Fischer Flies To Chess Championship — $130,000 Added To Pot. New York (AP) — Bobby Fischer, who held out right down to the line for more money for his world championship chess match in Iceland, got it from a British banker Monday and flew to Iceland with only hours to spare. As Fischer was airborne from Kennedy Airport a few minutes after 10 P.M., he had just 10 hours to make the five-hour flight and prepare himself for the noon (5 a.m. Tucson time) deadline for the start of preliminary activities before beginning the match in Reykjavik with Soviet champion Boris Spassky.
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The Evening Sun Hanover, Pennsylvania Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 6 — Banker Says Fischer OKs Chess Deal — London (AP) — A British banker said Monday night Bobby Fischer had accepted a deal worth 50,000 pounds—$130,000 at official parity—and was flying to Iceland to meet Russia's Boris Spassky for the chess world title. Investment banker James D. Slater said he had received a telephone call from Fischer's lawyer saying the American challenger was flying Monday night to Reykjavik for the tournament.
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The Orlando Sentinel Orlando, Florida Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 1 — Added Prize Of $130,000 Luring Fischer To Chess? — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer was reported ready last night (Monday) to meet Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky for the world chess championship and a prize pot sweetened by $130,000 from a London banker. Paul Marshall, a lawyer in New York for Fischer, said the 29-year-old American challenger had accepted banker James D. Slater's offer of the extra prize money and would be in Reykjavik by today's noon deadline.
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The Tribune Scranton, Pennsylvania Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 2 — Report Fischer Okays Spassky Chess Match — Reykjavik (UPI)—Icelandic Radio Monday night reported American challenger Bobby Fischer had accepted a new money offer from a British banker and would be prepared to come to Iceland to play world champion Boris Spassky for the chess world championship title.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 1 — Stakes Doubled, Fischer Heading for Chess Match by Harold Dondis, Globe Correspondent — Reykjavik, Iceland — Thanks to the extra inducement of $130,000 put up yesterday morning by a wealthy British banker, reluctant Bobby Fischer decided last night to show up, after all, for his summit chess match here against Boris Spassky of Russia.
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The Press Democrat Santa Rosa, California Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 6 — The Great Chess War: Now Spassky Walks Out on Fischer —Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — Russian chess champion Boris Spassky refused today to play American challenger Bobby Fischer in a 24-game world championship match until the International Chess Federation (FIDE) punishes Fischer for “insulting me personally…and the USSR.” Match officials postponed the opening of the tournament for the second time but did not set a new starting date.
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The Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 1 — Boris Checks Chess Match — Reykjavik (AP) — Hours after Bobby Fischer ended his holdout and gave the world chess championship new life, Russian Boris Spassky put the match in doubt again today. Spassky lodged a formal protest objecting that Fischer, the American challenger, “has violated the rules of the match,” by failing to appear in Iceland for its scheduled start on Sunday.
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The Charlotte News Charlotte, North Carolina Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 4 — Fischer's Chess Holdout Is Over — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Ending his holdout which threatened to wreck the world chess championship series, American grandmaster Bobby Fischer arrived in Iceland today about 10 hours before he was scheduled to meet Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky for their first game. The 29-year-old American challenger flew from New York after accepting London banker James D. Slater's offer to match $125,000 purse put up by the Icelandic Chess Federation. Now the winner of the 24-game match will get $156,25 and the loser $93,750.
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The Windsor Star Windsor, Ontario, Canada Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 1 — White Knight Shows Up! — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — U.S. grand master Bobby Fischer, finally wooed to the board by a British banker's offer to double the prize money, arrived in Iceland today hours before the opening match in his chess showdown with world champion Boris Spassky. Fischer arrived aboard an Icelandic Airline flight from New York delayed more than one hour for him.
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The Times-News Twin Falls, Idaho Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 18 — British Banker Offers More Money for Fischer — Reykjavik (UPI) — A wealthy British investment banker offered to double the prize money Monday to convince American challenger Bobby Fischer to go through with his world championship chess match against Russian Boris Spassky. “This money is more than the 30 per cent of the gate receipts Fischer has asked for in addition to the prize money and I do hope that he will now decide to come here and play,” Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), said.
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Pensacola News Journal Pensacola, Florida Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 31 — 'I Gotta Accept It' -- Bob Fischer — New York (AP) — “It's a stupendous offer! I gotta accept it.” That is how chess star Bobby Fischer is reported by his lawyer to have reacted to $130,000 offered by a British banker if Fischer would show up in Iceland and play Boris Spassky in a world championship match. The lawyer, Paul Marshall, said Fischer planned to leave New York for Reykjavik, Iceland, Monday night.
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 7 — Fischer Ends His Boycott as Prize Money Is Doubled by Joe Alex Morris, Jr. — Reykjavik, Iceland—American challenger Bobby Fischer decided Monday night to end his boycott of the world chess championship and fly here for the first match today against Russia's Boris Spassky, the Icelandic Chess Federation president said.
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The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake City, Utah Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 16 — Television Today by Harold Schindler, Tribune Television Editor — …Tuesday when Bobby Fischer decides to stop psyching the Russians and begin destroying Boris Spassky on the chess board … Not only has Fischer managed to make chess almost as much of a household word as Spiro T. Agnew, but the young grandmaster from Brooklyn is entitled to behave in whatever fashion suits him; he managed to reach Reykjavik on his own and earned the right to be the master of his own destiny…PBS also will carry game action via telephone each Sunday for five hours during the 24-game match … See it on KUED Sundays at 1:30 p.m.
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The Star Press Muncie, Indiana Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 1 — Banker's Bid Lures Fischer to Iceland —New York (UPI) - Chess whiz Bobby Fischer, lured out of seclusion by a British banker's offer to double the world championship prize money, flew to Iceland Monday night, just hours before the start of his match with the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky. Avoiding newsmen at Kennedy International Airport, Fischer, accompanied by three associates, was driven directly onto the runway and boarded Icelandic Airways Flight 202 through a rear door.
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Edmonton Journal Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 8 — Bookies Favor Fischer — London (Reuter) — Ladbrokes, the London bookmakers, today quoted Bobby Fischer as a 5-to-2 favorite to win his world championship challenge in Reykjavik against Russia's Boris Spassky.
The Ottawa Journal Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 37 — At the Soccer Match — Reykjavik, Iceland — Boris Spassky, left, from Russia, and present world chess champion, strides towards Municipal Stadium in Reykjavik, Iceland, Monday, on his way to watch a soccer match between Denmark and Iceland. Spassky is awaiting the arrival of American Bobby Fischer to begin the World Chess Championship scheduled to start last Sunday. The match is scheduled to begin at noon on Tuesday. (AP-Journal Wirephoto by Cable from Reykjavik).
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The Jackson Sun Jackson, Tennessee Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 1 — Breaking Through the Crowd — Icelandic policemen moved back the crowd to make way for Bobby Fischer's auto as he departed Iceland's Keflavik Airport today. Fischer arrived in Iceland to meet the Russian titleholder Boris Spassky in the world chess championship series slated to begin later in the day. - (AP Wirephoto)
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Longview Daily News Longview, Washington Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 20 — American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer, center, arrives in Reykjavik, Iceland, to meet Russian champ. (AP) and Icelandic policeman clears way for Bobby Fischer's auto. (AP)
The Herald-Journal Logan, Utah Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 2 — A New Crisis For Chess — Reykjavik (UPI) — The world chess championship match between Bobby Fischer of the United States and World Champion Boris Spassky ran into a new crisis Tuesday when the Russian left a meeting with Fischer's representatives after lodging a protest over Fischer's behavior. Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), said he was not sure himself what the situation was. “What happened was that Spassky lodged a protest against the fact that Fischer did not arrive in time Sunday and he walked out of the meeting,” Dr. Euwe said. He said the Russian walkout, which he felt was ordered by Moscow, put the match in danger again. “The situation is critical. I don't know if the match will be played at all,” Dr. Euwe said.
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Daily News New York, New York Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 3 — Bobby Takes Sterling Move: He'll Play For Bundle From Briton — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 3 (Special)—Confronted with an ultimatum to show up by noon tomorrow or forfeit his bid for the world chess title, Bobby Fischer was reported tonight to have accepted a bid by a British buff of the game to almost double the pot.
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The Guardian London, Greater London, England Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 1 — Slater Saves Chess Match — Bobby Fischer, the American challenger for the World Chess Championship, last night left New York by air for Reykjavik to take part in the championship against Boris Spassky. Mr. Paul Marshall, Fischer's lawyer, said that he would do so because of the offer of the British financier, Jim Slater, to put up £50,000 to be added to the contestants' share of the gate money.
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The Springfield News-Leader Springfield, Missouri Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 3 — Soviet Chess Group Protests Postponement — Moscow (AP) — The Soviet Chess Federation, protesting the postponement of the world chess championship in Iceland, said on Monday American challenger Bobby Fischer merits disqualification because of his demands for more money.
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The Crowley Post Herald Crowley, Louisiana Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 13 — Bobby Fischer Apologizes For Delaying Chess Match — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer apologized today for delaying the start of his $300,000 chess match with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia. The American, whose dispute over prize money forced organizers to postpne the world championship round, said he had the greatest respect for Spassky as a man and as a player.
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The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston, West Virginia Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 9 — World Title Bout by Bill Smith — CHECKING ON a great event. “This is your famous sports announcer Coward Hosell coming to you from that great sports capital of the world—Reykjavik, Iceland. REYKJAVIK? That's pronounced Reykjavik! It is famous for … Well it's famous for … Well, ice for one thing. “Now it will go down in the pages of history as the great city where two men—one a champion, the other a challenger—clashed in mortal combat.
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Kingsport Times Kingsport, Tennessee Tuesday, July 04, 1972 - Page 19 — Many Lay Claim To Chess Origin — New York (UPI)—Over the centuries, Greeks, Romans, Jews, Egyptians, the Irish and the Welsh have laid claims to the invention of chess. Some even have tried to fix upon certain individuals, ranging from King Solomon to Aristotle, as the originators. …
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New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 01, 34 — Spassky, Refusing to Play, Asks Fischer Be ‘Punished’ by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 4 — The world championship chess match, moved thousands of miles, postponed and then postponed again because of the protests of Bobby Fischer, was delayed once more today—this time because the Russian title-holder refused to play.
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New York Times, New York, New York Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 34 — Mover in Finance and Chess: James Derrick Slater by Bernard Weinraub — London, July 4—Promptly at 10 A.M. a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce glides to a halt at a building in the shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral. The car door opens and Jim Slater, a lean, dapper figure steps out quickly to move into a waiting elevator that takes him to his office round of phone calls—to bankers in Hong Kong, Industrialists in South Africa, investors in Australia and, to chess experts in London.
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The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 1 — Russian Russian Delays Chess Match — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—Now it's Boris Spassky's turn to say no—and the world chess championship is off again. The Russian titleholder launched his counterattack yesterday with a stern protest, some sharp criticism, a walkout and a demand for a two-day postponement of the start of the match with American Bobby Fischer.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Tuesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 1 — It's Spassky's Turn for Temper by Harold Dondis, Globe Correspondent — Reykjavik, Iceland — The most eagerly awaited confrontation since Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier is still just that — eagerly awaited — as a tumultuous day in Iceland ended with Russian chess champion Boris Spassky throwing a temper tantrum of his own.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 15 — Political Circuit by David Nyhan — “Bobby sounded calm and reasonable,” said a man who talked to him Sunday when the chess world wondered why he hadn't yet shown up in Iceland, “his demands are entirely financial.” That's something we can all understand, right? Fischer is the Via Blue of the cranium-cracking chess set. It's the old hold-out gambit, the one they don't have in the chess books. And it worked.
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The Tampa Tribune Tampa, Florida Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 41 — Boris Vasilevich Spassky: A Cool World Champion — (UPI) Boyish Boris Spassky stays cool when those around him sweat and squirm. He sits on a Moscow stage under boiling klieg lights, surrounded by a hundred newsmen. His future is at stake. A powerful and determined man wants his job. In a soft and nonchalant voice, he says: “I do not know who will win, but I am sure it will be an interesting and important event.”
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The Tampa Tribune Tampa, Florida Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 41 — Paul Morphy: Brilliant Master —UPI — Bobby Fischer has said that the chess player he admires most is Paul Morphy, whose short but brilliant career in the mid-18th century made him the first and only American ever recognized as world champion. While Fischer's precocious ability on the board has stunned the chess world, Morphy's feats, though less well known, were even more imposing.
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Kenosha News Kenosha, Wisconsin Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 1 — Bobby Fischer Apologizes but Chess Ruckus Continues — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—American chess challenger Bobby Fischer apologized today for delaying the start of the world championship match with Russian Boris Spassky but a demand from the Soviet chess federation threatened to cancel the 24-game series.
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Daily News New York, New York Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 122 — Bobby's Acquaintances Repeat Soviet Propaganda Because They Don't Know Enough, To Know the Difference by Dave Hirshey and William McFadden — Bobby Fischer, the chess grandmaster, is in danger of losing ([very few, a minority, Americans loved Bobby, the others, were already dangling from Soviet propaganda arm]) many of whom deplore his tactics ([they deplore his aggressive stylistic approach to life, on and off the chessboard?
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The Herald Statesman Yonkers, New York Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 3 — Hartsdale Chess Master Sees Personality Dispute in Iceland by Lee Richards III — Hartsdale — “I've known Bobby Fischer since he was in knee-pants, but what I can't be sure of is what he feels about the chess championship at this moment.” On what was supposed to be the even of the long-awaited Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess championship match, Arthur Bisguier, former U.S. chess champion, sat in the small study of his Hartsdale home, puzzling over the mystery of Fischer and the patient confidence of Spassky.
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The Pensacola News Pensacola, Florida Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 2 — Keeping Track of the Moves by Fred Brown — HAVE YOU been keeping track of the moves in the world chess championship which was to have begun Sunday? It's been a riot so far. First, the American Bobby Fischer (sometimes known as the enfant terrible), says there wasn't enough money in Reykjavik, Iceland, whatever that might be, to force his presence.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 51 — Fischer Apologizes, But . . . Spassky's Turn to Stall — Reykjavik, Iceland — American challenger Bobby Fischer issued a qualified apology today for his late arrival here to play Russian Boris Spassky for the world chess title — but there was no immediate sign that it would break the deadlock holding up the start of play.
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Palladium-Item Richmond, Indiana Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 10 — The Stage Is Set, but the players are missing. Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky were to use these chairs and the table for their world championship chess match scheduled to begin Sunday in Reykjavik, Iceland's Laugardalsholl Hall, but first Fischer was late, and secondly Spassky walked out. Maybe they'll start play Thursday (AP Wirephoto)
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Kingsport Times Kingsport, Tennessee Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 14 — Russians Walk Out, Chess Championship May Be Off — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — The Russians broke off their talks with representatives of American chess challenger Bobby Fischer today, throwing serious doubts on the possibility the twice-postponed world championship match with the USSR's Boris Spassky would ever be held. “This is a very bad development and I am now very pessimistic about the match,” said Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE).
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The Orlando Sentinel Orlando, Florida Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 10 — Spassky Turns Tables, Demands Punishment — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) Russian chess champion Boris Spassky stalked out of a meeting Tuesday, charging he and the Soviet Union had been insulted by Bobby Fischer and demanding the American challenger be punished before they play for the world title.
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The Evening Sun Baltimore, Maryland Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 3 — Fischer Sorry; Chess Match Set Thursday — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)— Bobby Fischer apologized today for delaying the start of his $300,000 chess match with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia. The American, whose dispute over prize money forced organizers to postpone the world championship round, said he had the greatest respect for Spassky as a man and as a player.
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The Evening Sun Baltimore, Maryland Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 28 — The Chess War — It's hard to avoid the impression that Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky have learned something from Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. What they've learned is how to behave in a way to rivet international attention on their imminent contest for the world chess championship.
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The Record Hackensack, New Jersey Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 1 — His Turn — Boris Spassky leaving aborted Pre-Match rite.
Tallahassee Democrat Tallahassee, Florida Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 1 — Chess Makes Front Page! by Malcolm Johnson —Musing and muttering over the news— Imagine! Chess getting front page space in American newspapers—and for NOT being played, yet, in Reykjavik! But that off-and-on world title match between our Bobby Fischer and Russia's Boris Spassky has all the elements of news — international competition, suspense, big cash pot, human contrariness.
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The Burlington Free Press Burlington, Vermont Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 5 — Chess Players Call Fischer Publicity-shy, Spassky Usually Calm by Thomas Kent — (AP) Two top chess players from Connecticut and New York Tuesday described American Grandmaster Bobby Fischer as frightened of publicity and Russian Boris Spassky as a normally calm player who has seemed nervous only once; the last time he played Fischer.
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Statesman Journal Salem, Oregon Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer Finally Is Ready to Play Chess -- So Spassky Says No — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—Now it's Boris Spassky's turn to say no—and the world chess championship is off again. The Russian titleholder launched his counterattack Tuesday with a stern protest, some sharp criticism, a walkout and a demand for a two-day postponement of the start of the match with American Bobby Fischer.
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Statesville Record And Landmark Statesville, North Carolina Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 5 — Handicapped Make Unique Chess Sets — Chicago — Nuts and bolts have become works of art. Handicapped students at Elim Christian School in Palos Heights, Illinois have fashioned everyday nuts and bolts into chess sets …
The Ottawa Journal Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 4 — Computer Aid for Fischer? by Ian Westergren — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — The official Soviet news agency Tass said today American chess challenger Bobby Fischer planned to use a computer to try to beat world champion Boris Spassky ([complete with 5G, Intel inside and time travel attachment… no? because computer chess programs that could actually defeat grand masters level of play hadn't been invented in 1972.
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The Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Thursday, July 06, 1972 —Reykjavik, Iceland (TPS) — “We like Americans here, not Russians,” the pretty telephone operator said. ([What kind of question is that? Why wouldn't a normal, free western nation “like Americans”? With 10% of your population professing Soviet Bolshevism as their party affiliation spreading myths in their Anti-American publications, I can buy how ‘You like Americans,’ or so you say. Does that include black American service men who were forbidden on your racist soil?])
“But we don't like your Mr. Fischer. We will be rooting for Spassky.” ([Of course you will root for the Soviets.])
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Albuquerque Journal Albuquerque, New Mexico Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 2 — Boris Spassky Takes Turn At Stalling — Reykjavik (UPI) — World chess champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union Tuesday took his turn at stalling the twice-postponed championship match with his unpredictable American challenger, Bobby Fischer. The Russian champion, perturbed when Fischer failed to show up for the drawing after his flight from New York Tuesday morning, delivered a protest to chess officials and stomped out of the room, followed by his advisers.
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The Des Moines Register Des Moines, Iowa Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 02 — Chess Match in Doubt; Spassky Orders Apology by Joe Alex Morris, Jr. —Reykjavik, Iceland — The stalled world chess championship was further jeopardized Tuesday by a Russian demand that American challenger Bobby Fischer apologize before his first match with titleholder Boris Spassky. The Soviets, criticizing the way the match has been handled, stepped up their attacks shortly after the 29-year-old American arrived.
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The Guardian London, Greater London, England Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 11 — Pawns In A Panto from Michael Lake — Reykjavik, Tuesday — Bobby Fischer's arrival in Iceland to play for the World Chess Championship was not the sort of stuff for which Handel wrote, “See the conquering hero comes.” The television team with the exclusive world rights to film, missed his leap from the aircraft steps into his car because the cameraman was doing up his jacket. Then Fischer found that someone had removed many of the curtains from his private villa where he was to sleep.
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Florence Morning News Florence, South Carolina Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 4 — For Chess a Capitalistic Turn — Americans, addicted as they are to more bruising sports, have difficulty whipping up a lot of enthusiasm for a chess match — even if it is the world championship match pitting against Russian titleholder Boris Spassky. If and when the match finally gets underway, it's hard to envision a contest that will exceed the drama of the preliminaries, even for avid chess fans.
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St. Cloud Times Saint Cloud, Minnesota Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 1 — About People - James Slater — At London, James Slater, the man who put up the money which apparently persuaded Bobby Fischer to fly to Iceland for the world champion chess matches, expressed dismay Tuesday when he learned the Russian champion Boris Spassky would not agree to start play.
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Florence Morning News Florence, South Carolina Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 4 — For Chess a Capitalistic Turn — Americans, addicted as they are to more bruising sports, have difficulty whipping up a lot of enthusiasm for a chess match — even if it is the world championship match pitting against Russian titleholder Boris Spassky. If and when the match finally gets underway, it's hard to envision a contest that will exceed the drama of the preliminaries, even for avid chess fans.
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The Windsor Star Windsor, Ontario, Canada Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 24 — Apology by Fischer May Be Too Late by Star Wire Services —Reykjavik, Iceland — Bobby Fischer has apologized to Boris Spassky for delaying the start of their $300,000 match, but Fischer's change of heart may have come too late to save their world championship battle. Fischer said he had the greatest respect for Spassky as a man and a player, but the championship series now hinges upon resolving the Soviet Chess Federation's demand that Fischer forfeit the first of 24 games to the reigning world champion.
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 1 — Chess Waits But The Ploys Go On: Russians Insist That Fischer Apologize Before First Match by Joe Alex Morris, Jr. — Reykjavik, Iceland—The stalled chess championship was further jeopardized Tuesday by a Russian demand that American challenger Bobby Fischer apologize before his first match with titleholder Boris Spassky. The Russians stepped up their attacks on the way the match has been handled shortly after the 29-year-old American arrived.
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 2 — Outlook for Match Brighter: Russians Prepared to Accept Chess Apologies by Fischer — (Reuters) Reykjavik—The Russians said tonight they would be ready to accept apologies for the way their world chess champion Boris Spassky has been treated by his challenger Bobby Fischer, and there seemed a real chance that the twice-postponed title match would begin Thursday.
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The Honolulu Advertiser Honolulu, Hawaii Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 31 — Chess Pains Continue — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — World chess champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union yesterday took his turn at delaying the twice-postponed championship match with his unpredictable American challenger, Bobby Fischer. The Russian champion, perturbed when Fischer failed to show up for the drawing after his flight from New York yesterday morning, delivered a protest to chess officials and stomped out of the room, followed by his advisers.
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Daily News New York, New York Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 105 — Chess Furor: Spassky's Move -- He Walks Out — Knight Errant? American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer ignores the crowd as he leaves plane at Reykjavik, Iceland, airport yesterday shortly before he was set to meet Russia's Boris Spassky. As Bobby ended his holdout, Spassky walked out. If international chess officials can sooth Boris, world championship play may start Thursday.
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The Spokesman-Review Spokane, Washington Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 1 — Soviet Temperament — Reykjavik, Iceland (NYT) — After a day of silence from Bobby Fischer, a display of temperament from the Soviet delegation, yet another postponement of the world's championship chess match, charges and counter charges, it looks as if the opening game might take place on Thursday, barring, of course, the unforeseen.
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The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 40 — Bobby Fischer may be the first holdout in the history of chess. Hard to say, because it's often difficult to tell whether a chess player is or isn't playing.
The Miami News Miami, Florida Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 29 — No Language Barrier in Iceland: Today's Heartburn by Herb Rau —Reykjavik, Iceland — For Americans, the Icelandic language is an impossibility. There are 33 letters in the alphabet, the language is similar to Danish (which is also an impossibility to American tourists), and even the popular historian Sigurdur Magnusson of Icelandic Airlines comments: “It is singular that the Icelanders should have kept alive a tongue whose fundamental significance among Scandinavian nations is equivalent to that of Greek and Latin among others.”
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Reno Gazette-Journal Reno, Nevada Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 4 — Fischer's Most Excellent Performance — American chess master Bobby Fischer has a reputation as a feisty, immature and self-centered person. ([Yes, because the Soviets weren't fond of losing their titles. Such things were said of their own champions in official Soviet media outlets, when their players failed to bring home the crowns to the USSR]).
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Wisconsin State Journal Madison, Wisconsin Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer Shows Up In Iceland, Goes to Bed; Now Boris Is Mad by Harold C. Schonberg — (NYTimes) — Reykjavik, Iceland — Bobby Fischer arrived here Tuesday morning, said nothing, and went to bed. He slept through a day that saw another postponement of his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky, a display of temperament from the Russian delegation, and a good possibility that the opening game will take place on Thursday.
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The Parsons Sun Parsons, Kansas Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 10 — Fischer Is ‘Sorry’ For Chess Delay — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer apologized today for delaying the start of his $300,000 chess match with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia. The American, whose dispute over prize money forced organizers to postpone the world championship round, said he had the greatest respect for Spassky as a man and as a player.
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The Guardian London, Greater London, England Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 1 — Spassky's Turn To Object from Michael Lake — Reykjavik, July 4. There was a further delay in the start of the World Chess Championship here tonight, but there is every likelihood that the match will start on Thursday evening, five days late. After this morning's belated arrival by the American challenger, Bobby Fischer — he spent the rest of the day sleeping in a private villa — the Soviet world champion, supported by the Soviet Chess Federation, accused Fischer and the president of the International Chess Federation, Dr. Max Euwe of “wrecking” the match.
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Edmonton Journal Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 4 — Dangerous Sport — Chess has hit the headlines, just like riots and warfare — which it increasingly resembles. As Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky posture, maneuver and vituperate in terms reminiscent of international political exchanges at the height of the cold war, the Western public is somewhat startled by the plethora of unaccustomed news bulletins tracking the tumultuous course of events.
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The Post-Star Glens Falls, New York Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 1 — Chess Match Off Until Thursday — New York (AP)—The director of the U.S. Chess Federation said Tuesday if either Bobby Fischer or Boris Spassky fails to show up for their world championship match in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thursday the title should go to the other by default. And if neither shows up, said Col. E.B. Edmondson, “the title should be declared vacant and they should start all over.”
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Hattiesburg American Hattiesburg, Mississippi Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 8 — Fischer, Spassky Chess Match to Start Thursday — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — The world championship chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky now is scheduled to start Thursday afternoon following another postponement, this one demanded by the Soviet champion.
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Fort Lauderdale News Fort Lauderdale, Florida Wednesday, July 05, 1972 - Page 2 — Fischer Chess Match May Not Be Played — Reykjavik (UPI)—The Soviet Chess Federation today demanded that the International Federation (FIDE) rule that Bobby Fischer forfeit the first game in his world chess championship match against Boris Spassky by failing to show up Sunday, FIDE president Dr. Max Euwe said.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 31 — Some Fans in U.S. Deserting Fischer by Peter Kihss — An American professor who developed the system of ranking the world's chess players said yesterday that Bobby Fischer appeared to be losing fellow players' sympathy in what he called “a war of nerves” between Fischer and the delegation of his Soviet opponent, Boris Spassky, the world champion.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 01-31 — Fischer Apologizes to Spassky; Plans for Match Still Unsettled by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 5 —Nobody in Iceland—neither the contestants in the scheduled world chess championship match, nor their advisers or assistants, nor officials of the International or Icelandic Chess Federations — knew tonight when the match would begin, or whether it would be held at all.
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The Record-Gazette, Banning, California, Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 10 — Chess Tourney to Get Started — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — The president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) said today the much-postponed match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky may finally get under way Sunday. Dr. Max Euwe, president of FIDE, said “The match will start on Sunday or at the latest Tuesday.” He said he felt the major outstanding differences had been settled at a meeting between FIDE, the Icelandic organizers and Spassky's advisers early today.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 31 — Russians Disdain Fischer For Concern With Money — Moscow, July 5—A Soviet newspaper editor buttonholed an American at a reception today and said: “It is a money-grubbing society like yours that produces a Bobby Fischer. If anything like this ever happened in the Soviet Union, the pressure of public opinion would never stand for it.”
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The Newark Advocate Newark, Ohio Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 19 — Dawdling Chessmen to Play . . . Sometime — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — International chess chief Max Euwe proposed another delay Wednesday night in the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world championship match as the maneuvering and confusion continued in Reykjavik. There was no immediate response from Fischer or the Russians, and it was not known whether the twice-postponed match would start today.
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The Lincoln Star Lincoln, Nebraska Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 15 — Start Of World Chess Championship Reset — Reykjavik (UPI) — The Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer, world chess championship match will open Sunday or Tuesday at the latest, the president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) said early Thursday. FIDE President Dr. Max Euwe said he felt the major outstanding differences had been settled at a meeting between FIDE, the Icelandic organizers and Spassky's advisers ending early Thursday.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts, Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 53 — Fischer Contrite, Chess Match Set (Starts Sunday or Tuesday) by Harold Dondis, Globe Staff —Reykjavik, Iceland — Another in the endless lines of hurdles has been crossed and the world chess championship will start either Sunday or next Tuesday. Lothar Schmid, arbiter of the match said the draw of lots to decide who is to play white in the first of the 24 games in the $250,000 match will be held at 8 p.m.
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Redlands Daily Facts Redlands, California Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 7 — Fischer Apologizes, Chess Match May Start on Sunday —Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — American chess challenger Bobby Fischer apologized in writing to the Soviet's Boris Spassky today for delaying the start of their scheduled 24-game world championship match and suggested they get on with the twice-postponed tournament without delay.
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The Danville Register Danville, Virginia Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 1 — Further Postponement Suggested: Fischer Apologizes For Chess Delay But Russians Want It in Writing — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer apologized Wednesday for delaying the start of the $250,000 world championship chess match, but the Russians demanded apologies in writing. With the confrontation threatening never to reach the checkered board, President Max Euwe of the International Chess Federation—FIDE—took some of the blame and suggested a further postponement until next week for the dust to settle.
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 22 — Chess Match Could Start Next Week; Russ Seek Game Point by Joe Alex Morris, Jr. — Reykjavik, Iceland — The president of the International Chess Federation sharply condemned American challenger Bobby Fischer Wednesday. But after a midnight conference he said that the controversial world championship match probably could start Sunday or Tuesday.
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The Anniston Star, Anniston, Alabama Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 5 — Fischer Irks Icelanders by Joe Alex Morris, Jr., Star-The Los Angeles Times — Reykjavik, Iceland — “We like Americans here, not Russians.” the pretty telephone operator said ([they do not like Russians, but they love the Soviet Union and its Anti- American bigotry. They also, do not like black personnel and have a secret agreement with U.S. Military to limit the number of black Americans, allowed to serve on the NATO base at Keflavik.])
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The Arizona Republic Phoenix, Arizona Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 10 — New Delay in World Chess Title Match Suggested after Fischer Apologizes to Champ —(UPI) Reykjavik — Bobby Fischer surprised even his own advisers yesterday by formally apologizing to Russian Boris Spassky for delaying their world championship chess match. But the president of the International Chess Federation admitted he was in the wrong, too, and said he would ask for a one-week postponement.
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The Minneapolis Star Minneapolis, Minnesota Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 22 — Fischer Apologizes; Chess Start Scheduled — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer sent a written apology to Boris Spassky today. Organizers of the world chess championship match said the two will meet for their first game Sunday night. The American challenger, in a letter delivered by hand this morning to the world chess champion from the Soviet Union, apologized for his “disrespectful behavior.”
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Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 1 — Strict Rules Guide Chess Championship —Reykjavik (UPI) — A world chess championship match is played under strict and detailed rules issued by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The match includes 24 games with the winner getting one point for each game won. In a draw, the players get half a point each.
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Dayton Daily News Dayton, Ohio Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 12 — Getting Rooked — Interoffice communication from Carl V. Roberts of The Daily News news desk: “Si: The Fischer-Spassky chess hoopla sort of makes you yearn for an old-time, honest drum beater like the late flight promoter, Tex Rickard, doesn't it? “It makes me laugh to see the straight-news types, who scoff at sports page gullibility, going for this buildup--hook, line and sinker.
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The Pensacola News Pensacola, Florida Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 23 — USO Sponsors Chess Tourney — Panhandle chess players will have an opportunity to test their skill Saturday, one day before world chess championship to be played in Reykjavik, Iceland. The Pensacola USO is sponsoring an all-day civilian-military chess tournament …
The Courier-News Bridgewater, New Jersey Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 30 — Sports: Another Holdout by John Belis —Did you ever think you'd see the day when a chess player was a holdout? Bobby Fischer, the American chess wizard, proved that anything can happen when he failed to show up on time this week for his world championship match against titleholder Boris Spassky of Russia.
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The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 3 — Match Widens Interest in Chess by Andrew C. Miller — A month before Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky arrived in Iceland for the international chess championships, chess devotees at The Chess House here were hashing over the match. “Interest in the game as a whole is mushrooming,” said Jack Winters, the proprietor of the new chess store and playing room at 3909 Main.
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York Daily Record York, Pennsylvania Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 32 — Fischer 'Sorry' But Match Still Uncertain — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer apologized. He told Boris Spassky and the Soviet people Wednesday he was sorry if he insulted them by disrupting the world chess championship. But the word from Moscow was tough, and Thursday's scheduled start of the matches remained uncertain.
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The Guardian London, Greater London, England Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 2 — Apology Brings Truce in the Chess Cold War from Michael Lake — Reykjavik, July 05 — The world chess championship, fraught with fury and recrimination, looks like getting off to a start once again — but perhaps not until Sunday or even Tuesday — because the Soviet champion, Boris Spassky, is so distressed by the uproar over the behavior of the challenger, Bobby Fischer.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 26 — Chess On Tube? It Must Be Real by Leigh Montville — The headline on the wall of the Boston Chess Shop explained the situation better than anything. SPASSKY'S MOVE— HE WALKS OUT The words were black and bold and from an unexpected source. The New York Daily News had discovered chess. The New York Daily News? Yes, by God, the New York Daily News. The crookedness of Fun City had been pushed inside with the Treasury balance. Chess had commandeered the front page and the big headlines.
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Albany Democrat-Herald Albany, Oregon Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 4 — Even Chess Is Bloody — Eugene's U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials aren't the only big athletic events this week. Just look at what's happening in Iceland. Yes, the jousting and warm-ups there apparently give almost as good as show as the Olympic trials. The chess match won't begin until Sunday at the earliest. But it seems American chess champ Bobby Fischer has been prepping like an Olympian for his series with world titleholder Boris Spassky of Russia.
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The Journal Herald Dayton, Ohio Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 4 — Chess Anyone? . . . Fischer and Spassky Display Gamesmanship — Things almost never go smoothly when East and West try to get together over a table. This time Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union are the negotiators, and chess is the name of the game. At stake is someone's version of the world championship and total prize money of $250,000.
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Pacific Daily News Agana Heights, Guam Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 19 — Russians Ask Fischer To Apologize — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—In Iceland yesterday U.S. chess champ Bobby Fischer and Soviet world champion Boris Spassky drew lots to see who gets first move in their world chess championship match. Fischer finally agreed to come to Reykjavik, Iceland, for the match, but only after a British banker offered to double the prize money.
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The Daily Tribune Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 20 — Big Chess Match on for Tuesday — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer lost the draw Thursday night, giving Boris Spassky the first move, and the world championship chess match will finally start next Tuesday. Unless the American challenger or the Soviet champion pleads illness and gets another postponement.
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The Leaf-Chronicle Clarksville, Tennessee Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 8 — Around the Circuit with Gene Washer, Sports Editor — Bobby Fischer has made a strategic move similar to castling and the world chess championship hasn't even begun yet. In addition to make a full and penitent apology to Boris Spassky today, Fischer's entire moves for the past month have brought more attention to the world chess championship than Red China did to ping pong.
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Star Tribune Minneapolis, Minnesota Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 8 — The Pre-Match Play-by-Play — Let's see whether we're up to date on the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky thing. Fischer went to the International Chess Federation's Q4, then sat there, refusing to move farther. While Spassky paced angrily back and forth from his QB3 to his QB4, James Slater, the British financier, moved $130,000 to Fischer's KR1, where it was locked in the keep.
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 1 — African Chess: It's Centuries Old and Still on the Boards by Stanley Meisler — Nairobi, Kenya — The game is known as mweso in Uganda and bao in Tanzania and ayo in southern Nigera and mongola in the Congo and African chess in the toy shops of New York and Beverly Hills. It is the most popular game in Africa and has been so for centuries…
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The Daily Journal Fergus Falls, Minnesota Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 4 — The Bobby and Boris Show — Finally, the long-awaited confrontation had been set. The chess world was holding its breath. Bobby Fischer, America's prodigy and grandmaster, had played his way into a match with Boris Spassky, the Russian who is the present world titleholder. Could the brilliant American handle the experienced Spassky? There were overtones in the competitive lineup of country against country, almost like the days of the space race when the U.S. and the Soviet Union each toiled to be Number One.
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The News-Palladium Benton Harbor, Michigan Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 2 — Anyone For Chess? — The time line between a sport turning from an amateur into a professional status or a combination of both is the marketplace rule of thumb of how many people will pay to watch the activity or bet on its outcome. In the U.S. the oldest professional sports probably are horse racing. Professional boxing and baseball came on the scene a century ago.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 1-32 — Chess Match Starts Tuesday; Spassky Wins Draw, 1st Move by Harold Dondis — Reykjavik, Iceland — With the nerve-rasping preliminaries of psychology and diplomacy cleared away, Russia's Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer, the reluctant American, are set for the chess match of the century. That much was settled yesterday, but in keeping with the patient patterns of the ancient game, Boris and Bobby aren't exactly rushing into anything, even now.
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Times Colonist Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 14 — Chess Match Financier Led Chequered Career — London (CP) — Jim Slater, the millionaire investment banker whose $125,000 contribution saved the world chess championship from an early collapse, is a master of the game himself. Slater, 43, is already a legendary figure in British financial circles after an astonishing rise during the 60s from an obscure position in industry to chairman of Slater Walker Securities—an international investment banking firm.
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Red Deer Advocate Red Deer, Alberta, Canada Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 1 — Bobby Fischer's Chessmen — 'They're the same chessmen Bobby Fischer uses!'
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The Decatur Herald Decatur, Illinois Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 6 — Bobby, Boris and Leo — THE MOVES of the players themselves are getting as complicated as any chess strategy. First the American, Bobby Fischer, balked at getting to the world chess championship match in Iceland. Then the Russian, Boris Spassky, decided to protest Fischer's delay of the match by delaying it further.
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The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, Florida Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 14 — B & B On The Rocks — Considering that cold war going on between Bobby and Boris, it seems appropriate that they will square off — or might square off — or might not square off — in Iceland. American Bobby Fischer, who obviously doesn't want to get rooked either by his chess opponent or by the purse that goes along with the 24-game match, riled up Russian Boris Spassky by showing up late and not appearing for the draw to determine who would play white in the first game.
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St. Joseph News-Press/Gazette St. Joseph, Missouri Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 10 — Status Symbol — For a status symbol it is hard to beat the announcement: “I can't be with you tomorrow afternoon as I have to watch that chess championship game on TV.”
Philadelphia Daily News Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 31 — Checks and Mates — Another note from the world of culture (see above editorial): While the world awaits the start of the will they, won't they Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world championship chess match let's take a look at the stakes. There's the title, of course. And then there's that loot. With the pot increased at Fischer's insistence, the winner will get $156,250 and the loser $93,750.
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The Star Press Muncie, Indiana Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 19 — Multiple Chess Exhibition Set at Muncie Mall — The Ball State Chess Club will conduct a multiple match chess exhibition at the Muncie Mall from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday…
The Miami News Miami, Florida Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 51 — Chess Match Starts Sunday — Reykjavik, Iceland — The chess match of the century between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer is on at last, with the drawing of lots tonight and play expected to start on Sunday. Tournament officials said the Soviet champion and his American challenger were expected to appear in person at the exhibition hall here tonight to draw lots to decide which shall play white in the opening game.
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The Bangor Daily News Bangor, Maine Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 33 — Speaking of Sports by Owen Osborne — Not since the ping pong match with the Chinese has an international match caused such a stir. The Olympics have taken a back seat. The Wimbledon finds people asking, “Who's Wimbledon?” The world trembles in anticipation. A Yank and a Russian have a chess match. We're not quite sure hour it has affected your life but for some, they've even lost interest in soap operas.
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The Record Hackensack, New Jersey Thursday, July 06, 1972 - Page 14 — Champion — Kenneth Regan, 12, of Paramus has won the Class A championship in the Atlantic Open Chess Tournament. It's the highest amateur class in U.S. Chess Federation ranking. Kenneth is also New Jersey junior champion.
The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 1-32 — Chess Match Starts Tuesday; Spassky Wins Draw, 1st Move by Harold Dondis — Reykjavik, Iceland — With the nerve-rasping preliminaries of psychology and diplomacy cleared away, Russia's Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer, the reluctant American, are set for the chess match of the century. That much was settled yesterday, but in keeping with the patient patterns of the ancient game, Boris and Bobby aren't exactly rushing into anything, even now. The two masters allowed, with courtly deliberation, that they will be prepared to make the first moves on the board next Tuesday at 1 p.m. EDT).
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New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, July 7, 1972 - Page 01,14 — Chess Play Will Start Tuesday; Spassky Wins Draw for White by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 6 — After months of bickering and battling, protests and postponements, the world championship chess match formally began today. The champion, Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, and the American challenger, Bobby Fischer, met, shook hands and drew for the right to play white, and make the first move in the first game, now scheduled to begin Tuesday.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, July 7, 1972 - Page 14 — Chess Is Game of Skill — With Some Luck by Richard Roberts — Unlike poker, craps, Monopoly, bridge or love, chess is absolutely devoid of the element of chance. Or so most people think. It is a game of skill, all skill and nothing but skill; cool, absolutely, totally logical. A game in which two minds meet and clash in a never-never land of pure reason. And so it is—up to a point.
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Tucson Daily Citizen Tucson, Arizona Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 7 — Fischer Hopes To Pass Spassky Some Bad Checks — Reykjavik (UPI)—Bobby Fischer's big dream comes true Tuesday when he sits down at the checkered board to play world chess champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The American chess genius considers the 24-game world championship match a mere formality. He has said time and again that if he just gets a shot at the 35-year-old champion, he is certain of defeating him.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, July 7, 1972 - Page 14 — Text of Fischer's Apology — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 6 (UPI) — Following is the text of Bobby Fischer's letter to Boris Spassky: Dear Boris, Please accept my sincerest apology for my disrespectful behavior in not attending the opening ceremony. I simply became carried away by my petty dispute over money with the Icelandic chess organizers.
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Pensacola News Journal Pensacola, Florida Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 38 — Repentant Bobby Fischer Offers His 'Sincerest Apology' to Spassky — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—Repentant Bobby Fischer offered his 'sincerest apology' in writing to Boris Spassky on Thursday for “disrespectful behavior” that threatened to torpedo their $300,000 match for the world chess championship.
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Daily News New York, New York Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 250 — Bobby and Boris Show Tuesday — Reykjavik, July 6 (UPI) — The world chess championship match between Bobby Fischer of the United States and Soviet world champion Boris Spassky will start Tuesday with Spassky playing the white pieces and making the first move in the opening game. The drawing followed Fischer's written apology to Spassky for his “disrespectful behavior” in delaying the match.
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The Chico Enterprise-Record Chico, California Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 6 — Fischer, Spassky Agree: Chess Competition to Begin Tuesday —Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — After two weeks of behind-the-scene diplomacy and much talking, Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky have agreed to get down to their real business —playing chess. The match for the world title now held by the 35-year-old Russian will begin Tuesday in the Icelandic capital.
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The Paducah Sun Paducah, Kentucky Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer Apologizes; Chess Match Will Begin Tuesday by Stephens Broening — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer apologized in writing Thursday to Boris Spassky for “disrespectful behavior” that threatened their world championship chess match. Subsequently, Moscow's Tass news agency said “all demands of the Soviet delegation have been satisfied.”
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The Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 18 — Your Move, Boris — Bobby Fischer, the chess wizard from Brooklyn, is catching a lot of flak these days. He's being called a “money-grubber” for demanding a bigger cash prize for his world championship match with the title-holder, Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. Also, he is being put down for “bad sportsmanship” and “sullying the lofty game of chess” by arriving two days late for the contest in Reykjavik, Iceland, which upset Spassky [to] no end.
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The Morning Call Allentown, Pennsylvania Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 1 Boris Spassky Signals for Photographers to Stop Taking Pictures in Reykjavik. (AP)
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The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 3 — Chess Masters Meet to Determine Who Moves First — As world champion Boris Spassky draws, Bobby Fischer watches closely. (AP Wirephoto)
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The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 3 — Fischer's Apology Is Accepted; Chess Matches Start Tuesday — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI). — After more than a week of psychological warfare ([From the Soviet Empire's side. Fischer knew the value of the match and the Soviet attempted to strong-arm a devaluation to approximately HALF the value, {i.e., Australia offered bid at $225,000, Mexico's bid at $175,000} as part of their “psychological warfare” campaign against Fischer.
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Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 38 — Russian World Champion to Make First Move: Spassky Drops His Demand for Forfeit, Chess Match With Fischer Begins Tuesday — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — Russian Boris Spassky has agreed to drop his demand that American Bobby Fischer be penalized one game for delaying the start of the world championship chess match, U.S. chess sources said today.
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The Record Hackensack, New Jersey Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 4 — Spassky Will Play First Tuesday — LA Times News Service. Reykjavik, Iceland—The world chess championship competition formally opened last night after a five-day delay and a comedy of errors which often threatened to reduce the noble sport to a $250,000 farce. The opening ceremony was as unorthodox as the preliminaries were unprecedented. It consisted of a draw for the right to play white, or first, in the opening game between defending world champion Boris Spassky of Russia and American challenger Bobby Fischer.
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Chippewa Herald-Telegram Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 1 — Go Get Him, Bobby! — “The number of times we have pulled for a Russian over an American can be chalked up with a zero,” the Wisconsin State Journal said in its editorial columns yesterday. But regardless of this admirable record, the Madison newspaper is admittedly pulling for Russian Boris Spassky in the world championship of chess over American Bobby Fischer.
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The Guardian London, Greater London, England Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 4 — Spassky and Fischer Brought to Heel for Opening Game from Michael Lake — Reykjavik, July 6 — The International Chess Federation today took a firm grip on the Spassky-Fischer world championship and issued clear instructions for the contest to begin. The relief in Reykjavik was immediate and infectious. The game of chess once more became a respectable contest between two great minds instead of a vicious tiff.
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Rutland Daily Herald Rutland, Vermont Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 1 — The Seconds — Times News Service. Reykjavik, Iceland—At the eye of the storm that has been swirling all week around Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky is a group of quiet men whose mission it is to soothe the protagonists, fight for their man with the International Chess Federation, interpret rules and rulings, act as seconds, and in general act for him as best they can.
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Philadelphia Daily News Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 18 — Local Expert Likes Fischer by Lee Daniels — Dr. Leroy Dubeck, president of the American Chess Federation, thinks U.S. chess phenom Bobby Fischer will win the world's chess championship in twenty games. The match, in which Fischer is to face champion Boris Spassky, of the Soviet Union, is scheduled to begin Tuesday in Reykjavik, Iceland, after being postponed once for Fischer and again for Spassky in separate disputes.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Fort Worth, Texas Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 9 — Chess Match to Finally Get Going — Reykjavik (Reuter) — Russian title holder Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer, having ended their battle of nerves, now begin the task of disciplining their minds in preparation for next week's opening game in the world chess championship. The two players, men of contrasting personalities, have five days in which to achieve the mental equilibrium essential in top flight chess.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 12 — Coach Rates Fischer As Sure Winner —University Park, Pa. (AP) — The coach of Pennsylvania State University's chess team predicts “Bobby Fischer is going to be the world's new chess champion.” Donald Byrne, who said he has played Fischer six times — losing four and drawing two—said the American challenger should handily defeat Boris Spassky, the Russian world title holder, in the championship match at Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Victoria Advocate Victoria, Texas Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 19 — On The Line — World chess champion Boris Spassky, of the Soviet Union signs autographs for children in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thursday, after a tennis match with his compatriot Jivo Nei. Spassky is scheduled to defend his title against American grandmaster Bobby Fischer (AP).
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The Town Talk Alexandria, Louisiana Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 6 — The Readers Write: World Chess Non-Championship — Editor, Town Talk: It's true, the U.S. Chess Federation didn't ask me when they were looking for someone to refuse to play Boris Spassky, the Russian who is world chess champion. But then, Bobby Fischer was already hiding out in New York City, or California, or somewhere in-between.
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The Indianapolis News Indianapolis, Indiana Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 5 — 'Psst, Boris: Hoosier Won' by Philip Allen — Even if Bobby Fischer loses to Boris Spassky in the world championship match next week in Reykjavik, Iceland, Fischer already has captured the imagination of Hoosier “wood pushers” With all the pregame publicity, Fischer has popularized the ancient game that stresses intuitive ability, concentration and a powerful memory.
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Oakland Tribune Oakland, California Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 22 — World Chess Championship — If baseball this year could survive both the players' strike and the Vida Club cause celebre, perhaps chess will yet recover from the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky ordeal. The uncompromising genius of the two acknowledged chess masters have at last apparently been mollified and the oft-postponed World Chess Championships are scheduled to get under way in Reykjavik, Iceland Tuesday.
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Daily News New York, New York Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 326 — Spassky to Go 1st Tuesday by Robert Byrne — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 6 — Bobby Fischer, debonair in a pale green suit, pointed to Boris Spassky's closed left hand tonight ([other reporters claim it was the right hand)] and discovered he had selected the black pawn concealed in it. That meant that Spassky, who smiled slightly as he opened his hand, will have the first move in the first game Tuesday of the 24-game world championship match.
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The Town Talk Alexandria, Louisiana Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 21 — Chess Club Members Here to 'Compete' Against Players in World Title Match — The Cenla Chess Club will hold world championship instant-replay matches while the Fischer-Spassky Tournament for the chess championship of the world is going on, Tom Heston, club president, said today. One player in a game will be allowed to use a cribsheet with the moves made by either Fischer or Spassky in their battle for the chess title. The other will use nothing but his own brains to respond.
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The Gastonia Gazette Gastonia, North Carolina Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 12 — College Professor Remembers Playing Champ of Chess by Tom Williams — Although Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union have decided on whom will make the first move in a $400,000 world championship chess match, one professor at Gaston College remembers the time when he played the national chess champ of Turkey to a stalemate… ★
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The Pensacola News Pensacola, Florida Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 5 — Games People Play — Bobby Fischer is still wondering if he'll move the king or queen in Iceland but USO is getting it all together and having a chess tournament Saturday … Players from Pensacola, Fort Walton Beach, Eglin and USS Lexington are expected to pay a $1 entry fee at USO by Friday night … Who knows, Fischer's successor may be in the tournament.
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Fort Lauderdale News Fort Lauderdale, Florida Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 88 — ABC Sports has acquired the exclusive rights to televise the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, it was announced today by Roone Arledge, president of ABC Sports. The comprehensive coverage on the Television Network will be the only telecasts of the competition available in the United States.
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Fort Lauderdale News Fort Lauderdale, Florida Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 4 — It's Our Opinion: On Again, Off Again Chess Match Serves As Light Touch Amid Gravity — What started out as a healthy feud has turned into an international incident. The lines seem to be drawn, and the worst could happen. Involved once again are the Soviet Union and the United States. The outcome of the conflict could be a crucial matter between the two giants. What are we talking about? The world championship chess match in Reykjavik, Iceland, of course.
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The Brandon Sun Brandon, Manitoba, Canada Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 6 — World Chess Championship: Play Will Begin Tuesday — Reykjavik, Iceland (CP) — World chess champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States agreed Thursday night to begin their long-disputed world championship match Tuesday. The chess match became a reality when the Soviet champion and his American challenger met face to face to draw lots on who should play white in the opening game of the 24-game series.
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The Morning Record Meriden, Connecticut Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 6 — The Ruckus in Reykjavik — There is plenty of hot water in Reykjavik these days and not all of it is in the city's famed thermal springs. A good deal of heat has developed around the world championship chess matches impending between Boris Spassky, Soviet Union, title holder, and Bobby Fischer, his American challenger.
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The News Paterson, New Jersey Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 13 — Even in Chess There's a Quarterback Option Play by Walt Keogh —Editor's Note—With a growing interest in the game of chess, spurred by the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world championship match, here's a brief, somewhat light primer outlining the basics of the game for those who have never played. You should see the moves these two pros can make.
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The Capital Times Madison, Wisconsin Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 37 — Chess Championship Highlights on Channel 27 — Highlights of the World Championship Chess Tournament between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union will be telecast on ABC's “Wide World of Sports” Saturday at 4 p.m. on Channel 27. The championship games, which will run a maximum of eight weeks, are being held in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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The Montgomery Advertiser Montgomery, Alabama Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 4 — The Chess War — IN THE LONG cold war between American chess player Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, the world has seen in microcosm just how difficult international diplomacy is. There have been charges of capitalistic chicanery against Fischer, wounded pride on both sides, silly arguments, disputes over protocol and agenda, boycotts, etc.
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Press-Telegram Long Beach, California Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 51 — Chess May Never Be Quite The Same by Loel Schrader — Throw away your rooks and your pawns, your bishops, knights, queens and kings. Chess will never be the same, not with television moving into the act. Television devours a sport, chewing it and shaping it to the limitations of its appetite, then spits it out, lifeless and devoid of soul.
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The Lowell Sun Lowell, Massachusetts Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 6 — Letters To The Sun: Blaming the Russians — Lowell — Recent press coverage of Robert Fischer, an American, in his challenge for the title “World Chess Champion” has struck this American as biased. Fischer, after all, is an individual, materially disadvantaged, a challenger unsupported by any group or government, bargaining against…
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The Brattleboro Reformer Brattleboro, Vermont Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 4 — World Chess — 'Mr. Fischer seems to be ready now … Shall we commence, Mr. Spassky?'
Statesman Journal Salem, Oregon Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 4 — Free Punch? — A few days ago, the Statesman chided Bobby Fischer for his poor sportsmanship in refusing to honor his earlier agreement to participate in the World Chess Championship in Iceland ([Not true. Fischer never made any formal, signed contract with the organizers, beyond a simple, agreement to play “under protest.”])
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The Miami Herald Miami, Florida Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 114 — Scratch Chess As A 'Game' — THESE days, not even so cerebral and sedentary a game as chess can be played without a thunderclap or two. Chess had seemed so noble a pastime, suited to long periods of staring and thinking, conducive to grand strategies and great wars within but a nutshell of space. Armies could be sacrificed even while a yawn was savored and extended to its satisfying limit.
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The Akron Beacon Journal Akron, Ohio Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 30 — OK, Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, let's see you top this for a record chess match—In 1926, Lawrence Grant and Dr. Munro LacLennan started a match at Aberdeen University in Scotland. And it's still going on. The rivals make one move a year—by postcard. That's what I like about chess, fast moving and exciting!
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The Windsor Star Windsor, Ontario, Canada Friday, July 07, 1972 - Page 8 — Long-Awaited World Chess Championship — The long-awaited world chess championship match set to begin Sunday between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky even has Windsorites involved. Or at least those Windsorites who shop at Smith's of Windsor. A bell was rung with the announcement that the argument over money was settled when British financier James Slater offered to sweeten an already record pot with a donation of £50,000—roughly $130,000.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 22 — Chess Champions' Aides Fill Many Roles by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 7 — After a week of confusion over the championship chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, Reykjavik is returning to its normal activities. When the champion and his challenger met last night to draw for the first game on Tuesday, and the match was declared officially under way, there was a huge collective sigh of relief.
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Press and Sun-Bulletin Binghamton, New York Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 5 — Master Bobby Fischer Defended: It's Hard to Judge Chess 'Genius' by Tom Muller — The criticism of American chess master Bobby Fischer for his actions at the world chess championship is unwarranted because “geniuses are not properly judged by the ordinary mortal's standards.” That is the opinion of Harold C. Evans of Binghamton, a former president of the New York State Chess Association and former New York State Amateur Chess Champion.
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Daily Press Newport News, Virginia Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 4 — Bobby Fischer “Antics” — Bobby Fischer jeopardized his chances at wresting the world chess championship away from the Russians by delaying the start of the matches in Iceland and in the process made himself the villain of the piece. ([Among the very long list of offenses of villainy by Eastern organizers who were unleashing a flood of false reports in earlier months to support their plots to disqualify Bobby Fischer, and replace with Tigran Petrosian, along with their refusal to any direct communication to iron-out pre-match details…
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The Evening Sun Baltimore, Maryland Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 3 — Blood-Thirsty Chess: Check These Moves, Mate — New York (AP) —The insulted egos and white-knuckled tensions before the Fischer-Spassky chess match may seem to be a blazing battle, but pale beside the tales of blood-thirsty games in Medieval Iceland. Chess boards in the 12th and 13th Centuries were often the center of treachery, revenge, intrigue and murder, according to sagas of the time.
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The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 4 — Disputes Left Match in Doubt Before Drawing —Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Disputes all day Thursday left in doubt until an hour before they drew lots that Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer would play for the world chess championship, informed sources reported yesterday. Telephone calls from the camp of the Russian champion and the American challenger confirming that play would start Tuesday reached the organizers at about 7 P.M., or 50 minutes before Mr. Spassky reached the playing hall for the draw.
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The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 4 — Slater Plays Business as Chess -- Fanatically — London (AP)—James Slater, the British businessman who helped finance the Fischer-Spassky chess championship duel, built up a worldwide business empire with the skill of a chess master whittling away an opponent's defenses. “Chess and investment both require the same mixture of science and art, intuition and analysis,” he once said. Mr. Slater should know—he is a chess fanatic who once was expected to be a schoolboy champion.
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The Morning News Wilmington, Delaware Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 48 — Pre-Draw Deal Saved World Match — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—Boris Spassky gave up his demand that Bobby Fischer forfeit the first game of their world championship chess matches in return for Fischer's agreement to postpone the game until Tuesday, U.S. chess sources said yesterday.
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Evening Standard London, Greater London, England Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 7 — Chief Chess Arbiter Flies Home — Reykjavik, Saturday. New complications which might further delay the start of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess match arose today when the chief arbiter left Reykjavik. Lothar Schmid, a West German Grand Master picked by the International Chess Federation as arbiter said he was going home because his son had been injured in a traffic accident.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 8 — The Chess Match (Yawn) Is Set — The world championship chess match at long last is set to start Tuesday ([these arrangements would have been worked out long before, if Eastern and European organizers had bothered to consult, man-to-man, with Bobby Fischer during the Spring season of 1972, but they refused]), and one wonders how even the greatest chess enthusiasts, by now can really much care.
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Spokane Daily Chronicle Spokane, Washington Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 20 — New Chess Woes Crop Up — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—The Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess championship match, already delayed for nine days, ran into new problems today when the chief arbiter left Iceland. U.S. chess sources said Fischer, the 29-year-old American challenger, is “at peak form and raring to go” into the first game Tuesday against the world champion, Russia's Spassky.
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The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 26 — Seeing Spots? — By way of warning for Bobby Fischer, U.S. chess superstar scheduled to meet his Russian counterpart Tuesday; Soviet Life reports the creation by a dedicated artisan in that country of a set of microscopic chess pieces, paralleled in size and detail only by another Soviet first—a supply of “horseshoes” for fleas.
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The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 26 — The Moves Began Before the Match — After much fancy international footwork and three postponements, the great world chess championship between America's Bobby Fischer and Russia's Boris Spassky is finally (or should one say tentatively?) to begin Tuesday. The inclination of the average onlooker is to conclude that both principals, to differing degrees have forfeited some of the public respect heretofore accorded them for their supremacy in this sport of mental acuity.
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The Californian Salinas, California Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 2 — New Complications Arise In Fischer-Spassky Match — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—New complications, which might further delay the start of the world chess championship match between Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and American Bobby Fischer, arose today when the chief arbiter left Iceland. Lothar Schmid, a West German grand master picked by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) as arbiter, flew home this morning and said he would not return until next Thursday—when the second game is scheduled to be played.
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The Guardian London, Greater London, England Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 11 — Pawns In Time by Michael Lake in Reykjavik — THERE was a breathless moment last night when the two greatest chess players in the world faced each other over the table on the stage — where the world's championship is to begin on Tuesday — and both of them lifted a pawn. At this instance the air seemed to quiver.
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Edmonton Journal Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 2 — Fischer, Spassky Rest Up for Match Start Tuesday — Reykjavik (Reuter) — Bobby Fischer, U.S. challenger for the world chess title, and Soviet defending champion Boris Spassky plan to spend most of their time resting to get in mental trim for the start of their match on Tuesday. While Spassky leaves his hotel only for two daily games of tennis on a court specially set up for him, the American chiefly occupies himself with sleeping and studying chess, sleeping, eating and sleeping some more, according to his second, Rev. William Lombardy.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 25 — Iceland Quiet as Chess Kings Hibernate — Reykjavik, Iceland—Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer settled down yesterday to five days of preparation for their world chess title clash, which begins on Tuesday. Disputes all day Thursday had left the opening of the match in doubt until an hour before they drew lots. Spassky won the draw giving him the first move. The young American challenger spent most of the day resting and studying in the luxury villa rented for him, while across the capital Spassky emerged from his hotel suite only for the games of tennis which are part of his daily routine.
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Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 26 — Comments — “Ping Pong brought America and China together, chess is keeping Russian and America apart,” noted Harry Herschfield. Publicist Bernie Kamber said Bobby Fischer's press agenting and promotion of himself and chess was greatest in world history — and he's
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Muncie Evening Press Muncie, Indiana Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 1 — Check! — Chess experts Bobby Fischer of the U.S. and Boris Spassky of Russia may make more money in their world's championship match next week, but these boys are just playing for fun, in an all-day chess tournament at the Muncie Mall, Murry Newcomb (left), Northside High School student, faces two young opponents, Bryan Ramsey, 7, (second from left) and Kip Rupprecht, 12. A couple of other youngsters look on.
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The Morning News Wilmington, Delaware Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 22 — Courtly Charisma — The chill July weather has produced some heated competition in events usually treated coolly by the bulk of the populace. After a series of unlikely gambits Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union have apparently agreed to spend a month or so facing each other across a chess table, a meeting that drew advance press coverage enough to rival a summit coverage. The interest in the meeting of chess titans was as unlikely as the enthusiasm which greeted the tennis match between Evonne Goolagong of Australia and Chris Evert of the United States played in London…
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The Daily Reporter Greenfield, Indiana Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 6 — Checkmate — American Bobby Fischer and Russian Boris Spassky have apparently ended their war of nerves and will now sit down to the main event — the chess world championship. Fischer is seeking to become the first non-Russian in many years to hold the title. His chances appear to be good. The maneuvers and threats of not showing up by both players beforehand appear to be no more than attempts to upset the other. It also added some excitement to a drab sport and attracted a lot of attention.
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The News Paterson, New Jersey Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 18 — What a Line! by Rudy Neuman — Genius Bobby Fischer is one of few High School dropouts who can chuckle at that billboard slogan: “Drop Out Now … Pay Later.” The 29-year-old Erasmus High (NYC) quitter stands to make as much as half a million the the much publicized world championship chess showdown…
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The Progress Clearfield, Pennsylvania Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 4 — The War — Mr. Bobby Fischer and Mr. Boris Spassky finally proclaimed a truce in the U.S.-Soviet chess conflict, which was fought in Iceland, Long Island, Moscow and especially in the newspapers. The temporary truce will end Tuesday at the start of a series of quiet battles in which the American player will counter Mr. Spassky's moves with protective reaction strikes against the Soviet pawns . . . Impartial observers will see to it that neither side rooks the other out of a move . . .
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Iowa City Press-Citizen Iowa City, Iowa Saturday, July 08, 1972 - Page 6 — The Real Game — If Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky ever sit down to play for the world chess title, the moves on the board will be elementary compared with those which preceded the match. Even now, with play scheduled to begin Tuesday and Spassky having won first move, only someone who would leave his king unprotected would wager much on play actually starting.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, July 09, 1972 - Page 172 — Chess: Apology From a Knight Errant by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik—On-again, off-again. For days the participants in the Spassky-Fischer world championship chess match maneuvered into positions more complicated than the Dragon Variation of the Sicilian Defense. Now—though no game has yet been played—it appears to be officially on. Bobby Fischer, the 29-year-old American challenger, was not here for the scheduled start last Sunday, and the opening was postponed for two days.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, July 09, 1972 - Page 30 — Referee To Miss First Chess Game. Goes Home to Injured Son - Will Officiate Thursday by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 8—Lothar Schmid, the referee of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer championship chess match, will not be able to officiate at the first game on Tuesday. Mr. Schmid today flew to his home in Bamberg, Germany, upon receiving news that his 10-year-old son had been injured in a bicycle accident.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, July 09, 1972 - Page 88 — ‘Chess, Anyone?’—In Queens, That Is By Julia Schreier — As Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky prepare to lock horns in Iceland this week, the whole chess world will be watching. Among the most engrossed spectators will be the 40 members of the Queens Chess Club...
New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, July 09, 1972 - Page 30 — Fischer Furor Sparks Big Run on Chess Sets — Bobby Fischer may have created controversy in Iceland, but in chess stores and studios he is also creating sales. According to store buyers and studio managers, the world championship match, has generated increased demand for chess books, sets and lessons. Here is a rundown on some of the items most widely recommended by the experts…
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The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Sunday, July 09, 1972 - Page 31 — Green Light In Big Chess — Reykjavik, Sat (AAP). — There was no major obstacle to endanger the start of the world championship chess match, US chess sources said yesterday. They said Boris Spassky had given up his demand that Bobby Fischer forfeit the first game in return for Fischer's agreement to postpone the game until Tuesday.
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The Charlotte Observer Charlotte, North Carolina Sunday, July 09, 1972 - Page 8 — Fischer, Spassky Set To Do Battle by Bob Quincy — Two men with viewpoints and a dedication to excellent have made a chess match the most exciting “sports” event of the week. Chess, indeed, is a game. In the past month it has become a sport, commanding headlines the size written for Wimbledon tennis and Olympic qualifications.
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Battle Creek Enquirer Battle Creek, Michigan Sunday, July 09, 1972 - Page 16 — Fischer's First Moves — Most everyone is down on Bobby Fischer these days. Chess buffs around the world are impatient with the 29-year-old U.S. grand master for his behavior in demanding more cash before playing the Soviets' Boris Spassky for the world championship. And somehow Fischer's attitude runs counter to the American “for-the-love-of the-game” philosophy of participation in sports.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Fort Worth, Texas Sunday, July 09, 1972 - Page 118 — W.W. Norton and Company has two books riding heavily on developments in this week's news. As Bobby Fischer enters World Chess Championship play Tuesday, chess writer Svetozar Gligoric will be writing the play-by-play for a book scheduled by the firm in August. The type will be set as the play proceeds.
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Kingsport Times-News Kingsport, Tennessee Sunday, July 09, 1972 - Page 30 — Bobby Fischer A Little Cocky — You have to hand it to Mr. Bobby Fischer. He is the first player of chess who made the headline writers take note of him. He is putting chess on the map and people who do not know a pawn from a bishop or a knight from a castle, are following his career. The Great International Chess Match is getting more build up than the Olympic Games. There has been nothing like it since the days of the heavyweight championship fights.
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The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, Florida Sunday, July 09, 1972 - Page 47 — Fischer a Bush-League Capitalist by Jim Fiebig — Phoenix — Bobby Fischer's successful demand for higher stakes before agreeing to meet Russia's Boris Spassky for the world champion chess title has Soviet citizens calling him a “money-grubbing capitalist.” That changes the complexion of the 24-game match. What originally would have been just another championship series is now an intellectual showdown between Soviet communism and good old American money-grubbing capitalism.
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The Star Press Muncie, Indiana Sunday, July 09, 1972 - Page 42 — Chess Club Members Prove You Got to Work Within the System by Susan Bonnell —Chess is a game with systems of plays and anyone who knows the systems can beat anyone who doesn't know them. With this basic statement as their assurance the Ball State Chess Club challenged anyone willing to engage in a game of chess on the concourse of the Muncie Mall Saturday and beat almost everyone who took them on.
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The Observer London, Greater London, England Sunday, July 09, 1972 - Page 40 — Masterstroke — Our chess correspondent, Harry Golombek, who has taken over from Dr. Max Euwe the frightful responsibility in Reykjavik for solving any future problems likely to prevent Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer actually getting to the chess board, was telling us about the status of chess correspondents abroad.
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Newsday (Nassau Edition) Hempstead, New York Sunday, July 09, 1972 - Page 178 — Sports - World Chess Championship — Move-by-move coverage of the competition between Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of Russia, emanating from Iceland. A mock chess board will reflect the play-by-play status of the match, with expert commentary by chess master Shelby Lyman. Extended afternoon coverage will be provided, as well as brief evening wrap-ups. (3 hrs.)
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The Daily Advertiser Lafayette, Louisiana Sunday, July 09, 1972 - Page 26 — What do you know about chess? Not very much? The publicity given the Fischer - Spassky match may encourage members of your household to learn the game. While watching Tuesday's evening news filled with the chess controversy, one local woman commented, “I've always wanted to learn how to play chess.” And her husband, the man she thought she knew everything about replied, “Well, why didn't you ask me to teach you?” (So she didn't really know everything.) We guess this chess match is encouraging a better knowledge of husband and wife — at least in one case.
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The Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky Sunday, July 09, 1972 - Page 46 — To Russia from America by Merrill Dowden — What surely must rate as one of the most exquisite chess sets ever created was presented as a gift of state to the SOVIET people by President and Mrs. Nixon on their recent visit to the USSR. ([The Racist Impeachable traitor Nixon is notably absent of any such honors to our champion following Fischer's victory, not affording so much as a dinner invitation!])
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New York Times, New York, New York, Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 19 — Fischer's Favorite Chair Flown To Reykjavik for Chess Contest — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 9 (UPI)—Bobby Fischer's favorite chair arrived by air freight from New York today to help assure his comfort in his match against Boris Spassky for the world chess championship. The players must still give their official approval of the playing conditions, but Spassky said yesterday before going salmon fishing that he would not argue about the conditions or the selection of a board and a chess set.
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The Daily Chronicle De Kalb, Illinois Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 3 — Fischer's Chess Chair Arrives — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — The Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess match can begin—Fischer's favorite chair has arrived. The swivel chair in metal and black leather was flown from New York to Iceland and put on the stage in the Reykjavik chess hall Sunday. Spassky's Russian advisers arrived shortly after the much talked about chair and studied it suspiciously. Then they left without comment.
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The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 20 — Will Chess Become Great Spectator Sport? by Joel Tiumak — Chess has all the ingredients of a great spectator sport — for the edification of sceptics who view tomorrow's television re-creation of the Fischer-Spassky world chess championship without much fervor. True, there are some drawbacks — but if you're objective, you cannot fail to see that chess is on its way competing with football, baseball, basketball and tennis as one of America's top sports attractions.
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The Herald Statesman Yonkers, New York Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 30 — Fischer: A Muhammad Ali of Chess, But With Less Talk by Kathie Beals — When Bobby Fischer, challenger of world champion Boris Spassky, played against members of the Westchester Shore Chess Club last January, new memberships increased five-fold and many of the recruits were teen-agers. Now the club numbers more than 100 as against 30 a year ago.
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Dayton Daily News Dayton, Ohio Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 43 Spassky Tried Money Gambit by Robin Adams Sloan — Question: I know that Bobby Fischer, the chess great, can be pretty difficult about money, but what about the Russian Boris Spassky? Does he play for the glory of Russia?—D.G., Painesville, Ohio. Answer: Spassky is just as prickly as Fischer about money. The 35-year-old Soviet player just caused a huge scandal by splitting with his long-time coach, claiming creative and business differences.
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Pensacola News Journal Pensacola, Florida Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 26 — Skratulia Wins Chess Tourney — John Skratulia of Keesler Air Firce Base (Miss.) was the winner of the Pensacola USO sponsored chess tournament Saturday. Runnerup in the all-day event was John Christinson, also of Keesler Air Force Base.
Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 1 — U.S. Chess Master To Analyze Match by Dr. Leroy Dubeck, President, U.S. Chess Federation — THE CHESS MATCH between grandmasters Robert Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union will commence in Reykjavik, Iceland, either tomorrow or Thursday. Commentators have referred to this as the match of the century.
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Council Grove Republican Council Grove, Kansas Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 1 — Can't Agree On Chess Board — (AP) With the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky chess match due to get underway belatedly Tuesday, workmen are rushing to finish the board on which they'll play. Sigurdur Helgason, a stone mason in Reykjavik, Iceland, did not leave the job until the last minute. But the first board he made was considered too shiny and the second too light.
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El Paso Herald-Post El Paso, Texas Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 2 — Fischer 'Unhappy' With Conditions - Chess Match Set for Tomorrow Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — Challenger Bobby Fischer expressed dissatisfaction today with some of the arrangements in the hall where his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union is scheduled to begin tomorrow. “Fischer does not like the lighting, the board and the pieces, the location of the television cameras and some other minor details,” said Fred Cramer, vice president of the U.S. Chess Federation.
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Star-Phoenix Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 2 — Fischer Unhappy — Reykjavik (Reuter) — Chess genius Bobby Fischer paid a surprise visit early today to the hall where he will play Boris Spassky for the world chess championship and emerged after a two-hour inspection apparently unsatisfied with a number of arrangements.
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Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 2 — Shades of Boris and Bobby — While Bobby Fischer was preparing to meet Boris Spassky in Iceland for the match that will decide the world's chess championship a less publicized tournament was taking place in Chicago to decide a lesser but still worthy prize. The tournament was the semi-annual Greater Chicago High School Chess Championship and it took place over two days Saturday and yesterday in an airless hall overlooking the tracks at 538 S. Wabash Ave.
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Orlando Evening Star Orlando, Florida Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 12 — 'Pass The Check, Mate' — A 100 Proof Spoof, Star Satire, by Emmett Peter — On the very eve of the so-called world chess championship in Iceland, it can be revealed there is no such person as Bobby Fischer. The “eccentric” young American chess master and all the circumstances of the challenge and match are figments of the imagination of an eccentric, reclusive American writer.
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The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 6 — Technicians Take Turn Before First Chess Move — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—Sigurdur Helgason cuts up his days into neat marble squares. A stone mason whose business usually runs to gravestones, Helgason has been in the chess board trade the last few weeks. Today he's on his fourth chess board, the one on which Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky will play for $300,000 in prizes. The first board Helgason made was too shiny for Fridrik Olafsson, an Icelandic grandmaster acting as technical adviser to the organizers.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Fort Worth, Texas Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 22 — Fischer Gets Special Chair — Reykjavik (Reuter) — The world chess championship is expected to get under way Tuesday now that a special chair for U.S. challenger Bobby Fischer has been flown in from New York. ([So-called western journalists seem more mentally distressed by Bobby fetching his own chair from N.Y., suitably built to accommodate his 6'2" stature, than the suspicious Soviets who reportedly looked it over and left with no comment.])
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The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake City, Utah Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 18 — Television Today — And in far-off Iceland, Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky are beginning to circle the chessboard for the kill. Bobby is confident, and the world waits for the answer: Is Boris good enough? Match play begins Tuesday with Spassky making the first move. ABC will cover the battle of intellects on Wide World of Sports next Saturday and each succeeding Saturday until one of the two grandmasters has been defeated.
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The Times Streator, Illinois Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 4 — The Day Arrives — After a tremendous publicity build-up the world championship chess game is scheduled to begin tomorrow—if there is not some other excuse devised to stall it longer. One could understand the reams of publicity coverage, if the match were to be played in an American stadium with 75,000 watching, but it is being played at Reykjavik, Iceland which is about as far off the beaten path as possible to go ([and strategically selected by Moscow's propaganda think tank.])
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The Leader-Post Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 23 — Fascinating Game of Chess — If you were to have asked a group of average citizens only a few days ago what was the most mind-bending global drama afoot that day, the answers might have ranged all the way from the French nuclear tests in the South Pacific, to the pollution crisis, to the bloody military tug-of-war still proceeding in battered Vietnam.
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Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, New York Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 32 — Ted Williams, manager of Texas Rangers — Asked to comment on current events he said: “I hope that Fischer beats that (censored) Russian (in chess).”
New York Times, New York, New York, Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 32 — Play May Be Televised — Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky match will be covered on television by W.N.E.T. Channel 13 and by the Teleprompter Corporation on Cable Channel 10, barring legal troubles. Both channels have been planning to re-create the play in Reykjavik, Iceland, by having a chess expert in a local studio make the moves on a large board, using move-by-move information from the wires of The Associated Press.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 32 — Chess Champions Poised for Match by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 10—Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, like two high-strung athletes—which in a way they are—tapered off their training today and are ready to face each other tomorrow for the chess championship of the world. The match is to begin at 5 P.M.—1 P.M. New York time—in Exhibition Hall.
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The Bismarck Tribune Bismarck, North Dakota Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 10 — Minnesotan Beat Fischer at Chess — Minneapolis, Minn. (AP) — A suburban Hopkins man who beat Bobby Fischer at chess says it was the first game Fischer lost “that he didn't cry.” Milton Otteson, a three-time Minnesota champion, recalled Monday that he played Fischer in 1957 in the Western Open in Milwaukee. Fischer was only 14 at the time.
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Kenosha News Kenosha, Wisconsin Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 8 — Spools, Knobs and Spoons Accorded Royal Stature by Margo Hammond — While Bobby Fischer was deliberating about chairs, chess boards and chess sets before his $250,000 match today, he might have looked to Kenosha for one of the more colorful chess sets around. Carol Karps, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Karps, 3127 60th St., has made one out of wooden spools, door knobs and spoons.
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The Times-News Twin Falls, Idaho Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 5 — Another demand made before chess play starts — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — The $250,000 world championship chess match between American Bobby Fischer and Russia's Boris Spassky was still go today, but Fischer made a last minute demand to stop televising the first of the 24-game series. “There will be no TV filming tonight, but we hope some other arrangements can be made so they can film later during the match,” said Fred Cramer, vice president of the U.S. Chess Federation.
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The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 2 — No Cameras At Matches — Reykjavik —(UPI)— The film and picture rights for the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess match have been bought by an American company and all other still and film photographs are banned from the hall. Chester Fox, Inc., of New York bought the rights from the Icelandic Chess Federation.
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The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 2 — Moves Listed In World Chess Play — Reykjavik (Iceland) — (AP) — Here are the moves of defending champion Boris Spassky and challenger Bobby Fischer in the opening game of their 24-game match for the world chess title. ★
The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 2 — Fischer Late for 1st Move — Reykjavik — American chess challenger Bobby Fischer showed up eight minutes late today for the start of the $250,000 world championship match with Russia's Boris Spassky. Spassky, the reigning world champion and playing white, had already made the first move — the queen pawn — before Fischer walked into the sports arena.
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The Honolulu Advertiser Honolulu, Hawaii Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 23 — Chess? It's Booming With Fischer by Ken Kobayashi — Bobby Fischer: The Great American Hope. He can bring to America a world championship that the Soviet Union has dominated for 35 years (and some say always will should he lose). And he can bring to chess what Ali brought to boxing, Palmer to golf, Namath to football: a hero image which would add flesh to that intellectual game and give it the popularity boost chess players have been long yearning for.
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Spokane Daily Chronicle Spokane, Washington Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 16 — Who Gets It? — Moscow (AP) — What can Russian Boris Spassky do with the money he gets for playing Bobby Fischer in the world chess championship in Iceland? The winner will get something in the neighborhood of $180,000, including a cut on the sale of television and movie rights. The loser will take home around $120,000. The normal procedure for a Soviet citizen who comes into a wad of dollars is for him to exchange them for certificates that enable him to buy in special Soviet stores.
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The Fresno Bee The Republican Fresno, California Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 3 — Fischer Arrives Late For World Chess Match Start — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — The world championship of chess got under way today without Bobby Fischer, the American challenger. He showed up seven minutes after Russian titleholder Boris Spassky made the first move. It seemed another one of those psychological ploys that chess masters often use in an attempt to unsettle their opponent…
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Standard-Speaker Hazleton, Pennsylvania Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 1 — Finally, Chess Match On — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — American Bobby Fischer and Russian defending champion Boris Spassky finally squared off today for the world championship of chess—the riches and most publicized match of all time. Spassky had the first move. The match is 24 games and could last two months. Fischer needs 12½ points to win; Spassky 12, or a draw, to retain his title.
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Wisconsin State Journal Madison, Wisconsin Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 8 — He Objects to Journal's Support of Soviet “Anti-American” Political Invective and Smear Campaign — Sirs — I am happy to see that The Wisconsin State Journal has decided to back Boris Spassky in the up-coming chess match of the century. I was becoming worried that I might agree with something the Journal supported. It is evident that you fail to realize that chess is and always has been Bobby Fischer's (sic) profession, and that only he can judge how much this tournament is worth to him.
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Wisconsin State Journal Madison, Wisconsin Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 8 — Chess Match Merits Front-Page Coverage —Sirs—Recently I have overheard criticism of The Wisconsin State Journal for giving front-page coverage to the Bobby Fischer affair. I am glad to see chess at last receiving the attention it deserves.
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The Missoulian Missoula, Montana Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 13 — Let The Match Begin — American Bobby Fischer, left, and Russian Boris Spassky will square off in the World Chess Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland, Tuesday at 1 p.m. EDT. Fischer, the challenger, drew black, leaving Spassky, the present champion, with white and the first move (AP Photofax)
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The Honolulu Advertiser Honolulu, Hawaii Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 23 — Fischer Gets Experts' Nod by Ian Westergren — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — Despite some last minute complaints about the playing conditions, Bobby Fischer was reported in a “Go, go, go” mood for the first game of his World Championship chess match with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union today. “Fischer does not like the lighting, the board and the pieces, the locations of the television cameras and some other minor details,” said Fred Cramer, vice president of the U.S. Chess Federation.
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Florence Morning News Florence, South Carolina Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 2 — Fischer's Demands Met; Chess Tourney Set Today — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer didn't like the site, the money or living with the Chinese. ([Neither did the Soviets. That huge $225,000 bid by Australia and Mexico's $175,000 sent shivers up the Soviet's Draconian authoritarian spines … “Chinese???”. It's a historical fact, the Icelanders are feverishly racist, and forbid entry of anyone considered a darker shade of brown, for “fear of living with” them.])
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The Herald Statesman Yonkers, New York Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 8 — Fischer-Spassky Chess Duel Opens-Finally — American challenger Bobby Fischer and Russian defender Boris Spassky finally begin play today in the richest and most publicized world chess championship of all time — unless some new snag develops. Last minute adjustments were being made on the stage of Reykjavik Iceland's 2,500 seat sports hall.
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Star Tribune Minneapolis, Minnesota Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 1 — Chess Parallels Other Sports, with 'Line', 'Backfield' — How grown men can agonize for hours over funny-looking pieces on a checkerboard is beyond many people. Due to the genius of Bobby Fischer, the U.S. champion, the world chess championships that start today in Iceland are drawing nationwide attention. In many ways, though chess parallels more popular games and sports
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Valley Morning Star Harlingen, Texas Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 8 — What Is A Sport? by Bob Lapham — JUST WHAT are these things human beings go for that they refer to as sports? “I'll tell you one thing … if I don't smell no sweat, it aint no sport,” one erudite advocate of the Jock Jungle's more basic philosophies might answer. And maybe he's right. But the word “competition” is the backbone of “sport”, since that's what it is all about.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 33 — Fischer, Spassky Play Chess -- Finally — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Unpredictable American challenger Bobby Fischer turned up late for the opening of the world chess championship today, but made his first move in response to title-holder Boris Spassky's opening play. The 29-year-old American was not in the hall when Spassky formally opened the 24-game match by moving his white pawn to queen four.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 33 — Chess Move by Move — Reykjavik, Iceland — Here are the moves of defending champion Boris Spassky and challenger Bobby Fischer in the opening game of their 24-game match for the world chess title. The opening was curious blend of unusual Manhattan defense with ubiquitous Nimzo-Indian.
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The Sedalia Democrat Sedalia, Missouri Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 1 — Late Again, Fischer Now Plays Chess — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — The World Chess Championship began today without Bobby Fischer, the American challenger. Champion Boris Spassky of Russia arrived exactly on time at 5 p.m., waited a minute, then calmly pushed his queen's pawn forward two spaces. Referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany pushed the button on the time clock and the match had begun. Fischer sometimes chooses to be late to tournaments and matches. It was not known where he was. Then seven minutes after Spassky began the game, Fischer appeared from offstage left.
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Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, New York Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 17 — 'Best Games Ever' — While most people were dismayed and surprised by Bobby Fischer's on-again, off-again antics before his world championship ([I'm not, after reading the newspapers and learning of the Soviet antics, as Fischer's friend Ken Smith called it “old hands”.
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The Daily Reporter Greenfield, Indiana Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 6 — Sports Whirled: Bobby and Boris By Paul Nussbaum, Reporter Sports Editor — Today, hopefully, finally, the world's super chess match is going to begin with Russia's Boris Spassky and the United State's Bobby Fischer facing each other in Reykjavik, Iceland. Despite all the pre-competition excesses — Fischer's demands for more money and a different chair, Spassky's request that the postponed first match be forfeited to him — the scheduled 24 game work championship should be worth the wait and the expense (Fischer and Spassky are playing for $250,000).
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The Vincennes Sun-Commercial Vincennes, Indiana Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 4 — Youth Revolt? — The mention of chess invokes visions of bearded patriarchs bending over checkered boards in gilded drawing rooms. The high rank for chess players of “grand master” status has some indication of old age. Yet the focus of the chess world today is on the world championship match between Bobby Fischer, age 28, and the defending champion Boris Spassky, age 35, while the British financier and chess wizard who bankrolled the match out of its early controversy is Jim Slater, age 43.
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The Index-Journal Greenwood, South Carolina Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 9 — South Carolina Chess Champion Thinks Fischer Should Beat Spassky by Jim Cornwell — American interest in chess is growing, largely through the sparks generated by the Fischer-Spassky match slated to begin in Iceland. Chess expert Otto Estenger of Greenwood speaks with some knowledge of the game as South Carolina's champion. Estenger believes that Fischer should win.
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The Holland Evening Sentinel Holland, Michigan Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 1 — Chess Match Uses Chairs From Zeeland —Zeeland — Thanks to a Zeeland firm, the international chess match in Iceland will continue with matched chairs. Herman Miller Inc. is supplying a matching conference chair for use by the Russian chess player, Boris Spassky. The chair is to be flown from New York by Icelandic airlines to Iceland with arrival scheduled at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, Iceland time.
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The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 14 — The Right Move at Reykjavik — By the time Russian Chess Champion Boris Spassky makes the first move today, all the tempestuous antics leading to his 24-game match with Bobby Fischer, the American challenger, will have been forgotten. The two men will go on, one hopes, in silence. For that is the way good chess was meant to be played.
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The Orlando Sentinel Orlando, Florida Tuesday, July 11, 1972 — 'Dynamic Duo From Daytona' Clear Palm Beach Chess Boards by Michael Castengera — Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky look out. There are other chess players on the way to the top. Two Daytona Beach chess players, calling themselves the 'Dynamic Duo from Daytona' recently won first and second place in the Florida experts tournament in Palm Beach [...] The two anticipate a second and first scoring again, but almost as important for them is the coming chess competition between Bobby Fischer, of the United States, and Boris Spassky of the U.S.S.R.
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Wisconsin State Journal Madison, Wisconsin Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 29 — Let's Hear It For Fischer! — Today we present our semi-annual awards for exceptional performances in the field of athletic endeavor, or imagination in the art of making a buck. United States chess master Bobby Fischer walked off with our two most prestigious citations. First, Bobby gets the P.T. Barnum Tub-Thumping Trophy for superb advance work in publicizing his world championship match against Boris Spassky.
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Orlando Evening Star Orlando, Florida Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 32 — How Did Iceland Get The Match? by Melvin Durslag — Los Angeles — The first question to be asked is how Iceland put the gaff on the World Chess Championship. ([Easy answer: Soviet strong-arm tactics! and their worldwide network of saboteurs are putting the “hush” on the fact it has one of the longest histories in the world of being staunchly Pro-Soviet, Anti-American, and Racism that would make Hitler blush with pride. Not a word mentioned in American papers that Iceland's professional class sympathized with the Nazi regime during the WWII era.]) Only about a fourth of the country is habitable, and the population runs less than a quarter-of-a-million.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 2 — Spassky's Taxable Winnings — Q — If the Russian Spassky wins the chess championship of the world when he plays against the American Fischer, how much of the prize money will he be allowed to keep? — M.A. Belmont. A — Boris Spassky goes into the match as world champion. If he keeps the title, he will be a rich Russian.
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The Daily Capital News Jefferson City, Missouri Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 4 — Breathless Chess Match — The on-again, off-again, on again international chess match has left us a little breathless awaiting its ultimate outcome. Throughout the preliminary ballyhoo, the ([protest and boycotting]) of American challenger ([over multiple Soviet offenses, ploys and manipulative off-the-board tactics]), Bobby Fischer, have been making headlines on an almost daily basis.
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The Argus Moline, Illinois Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 18 — Popularity of Tennis — The popularity of the sport hasn't been damaged in recent weeks by complimentary remarks from stars in other fields. Jack Nicklaus, considered the world's premiere golfer, recently told a writer that when he gets up-tight, he plays tennis to relax. “I wouldn't play golf if I didn't get paid,” he said, “but I'd play tennis.”
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Lancaster New Era Lancaster, Pennsylvania Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 46 — Spassky's Next Move Sealed in Envelope — Boris Spassky, left, hands sealed envelope containing his next play to Lothar Schmid, chess referee, at end of Tuesday's session, for continuation of the chess game today as Bobby Fischer waits.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 48 — A Fischer-Spassky Chair by Rita Reif — A mate to Bobby Fischer's chess chair was flown to Iceland last night so that Boris Spassky could, if he wanted, have the same swivel-based, leather-covered Charles Eames design that the American chess challenger played in during yesterday's opening game for the world championship.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 26 — TV Here Brings New Dimension To Chess Contest and Kibitzing — The switchboard at educational television station WNET, Channel 13, was jammed yesterday by chess enthusiasts intent on kibitzing the studio-recreated play of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer game. “We stopped counting the calls when they passed the 300 mark,” a station spokesman said.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 1,26 — Edge Is Given to Spassky In Adjourned First Game by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 11—The first game of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky match for the world chess championship was adjourned tonight after 40 moves. Although the consensus of experts gave the Soviet champion the edge, it was felt that his American challenger still had good chances for a draw.
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The Bismarck Tribune Bismarck, North Dakota Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 2 — Additional Chess Prize Money Placed in Check — London (AP) — British financier James Slater has been stalled in his efforts to get the $120,000 prize money he put up for the world chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in Iceland. Under Britain's foreign exchange control regulations, he cannot get the money out of the country until the Bank of England says so.
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The Times-News Twin Falls, Idaho Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 14 — American firm buys film rights —Reykjavik (UPI) — The film and picture rights for the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess match have been bought by an American company and all other still and film photographers are banned from the hall. Chester Fox Inc., of New York bought the right from the Icelandic Chess Federation for an undisclosed sum of money.
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The Oshkosh Northwestern Oshkosh, Wisconsin Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 13 — Fischer's Brashness Admired —by Milton Richman, New York (UPI) — “Do you play chess?” “No,” said Wes Parker, first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers and owner of one of baseball's more active minds, “but I'm interested in the game.” “You mean the world championship going on in Iceland now?” “Yes, I'm following it.” “Because of this guy Fischer?” “He's the main reason, I suppose.”
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The Times Shreveport, Louisiana Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 2 — Spassky Repels Fischer Assault in 1st Chess Game by Stephens Broening — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—Bobby Fischer made his opening assault on the Soviet chess fortress Tuesday night, but world champion Boris Spassky repelled it and left the American with a tough fight for a draw when their first game was adjourned. The first game of history's richest world chess title match was called after 40 moves and 3 hours and 34 minutes of play.
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The Times Shreveport, Louisiana Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 2 — Moves in First Spassky-Fischer Chess Match — Boris Spassky (left) and Bobby Fischer are shown at chess table in Reykjavik, Iceland, during the first game of their battle for the world chess title. The game was adjourned after 40 moves and will resume at noon today. (AP Wirephoto by cable from Reykjavik.) Here are the moves of defending champion Boris Spassky and challenger Bobby Fischer in the opening game of their 24-game match for the world chess title.
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Lansing State Journal Lansing, Michigan Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 14 — Spassky Rated Edge: Fischer's Risky Move Changed Chess Picture by Stephens Broening —Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Defending champion Boris Spassky was favored by the experts to beat American challenger Bobby Fischer in the opening game of the world chess match when play resumes this afternoon. The opener of the richest chess competition in history adjourned Tuesday night after 4 hours and 34 minutes of play and 40 moves by each player.
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The Morning Record Meriden, Connecticut Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 3 — Local Chess: Quiet But Persistent by Gertrude Sternberg — Trying to find out how much real concern and botheration the Spassky-Fischer chess matches, which may or may not be about to begin …
The Press Democrat Santa Rosa, California Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 12 — Russian Spassky Favored in First Match — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — Caught in a hopelessly drawn game, American challenger Bobby Fischer took a chance to bring some life into his first world chess championship game. In that moment, Boris Spassky proved why he is the world champion in the noblest of games. He immediately pounced on Fischer's bishop—left trapped after capturing one of the Russian's pawns—and the game turned distinctly in Spassky's favor. Spassky asked for adjournment after 40 moves and 4½ hours play.
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The Spokesman-Review Spokane, Washington Wednesday, July 12, 1972 Page 8 — Quiet In Russia — Moscow (AP)—Moscow's Central Chess Club, usually buzzing with kibitzers for big chess matches, was quiet Thursday night as the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky began defense of his world title against America's Bobby Fischer. No arrangements had been made to get a move-by-move report on the match in far-off Reykjavik, Iceland. Soviet grandmasters, masters and millions of ordinary chess fans were waiting until today for an account of the play.
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The Sacramento Bee Sacramento, California Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 13 — Fischer Concedes: Spassky Takes First Game In Title Series — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — World champion Boris Spassky won the first game Wednesday in his world title chess series against American Bobby Fischer. Fischer, in a hopeless position, resigned. He stood up, folded his score sheet and walked out of the Reykjavik sports palace. The decision confirmed the judgment of the experts who considered Fischer was in a difficult position when the game was adjourned after 40 moves Tuesday night.
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The Bismarck Tribune Bismarck, North Dakota Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 2 Spassky Wins Opener: Fischer Pulls Chess Blunder — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — World champion Boris Spassky won the first game Wednesday in his world title chess series against American Bobby Fischer. Fischer, in a hopeless position, resigned. He stood up, folded his score sheet and walked out of the Reykjavik sports palace. The decision confirmed the judgment of the experts who considered Fischer was in a difficult position when the game was adjourned after 40 moves Tuesday night.
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Press and Sun-Bulletin Binghamton, New York Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 12 — Immersed — Concentrating, Brooklyn's Bobby Fischer studies the chessboard Tuesday while Soviet opponent Boris Spassky, left, awaits his move. The first game of 24 in the world chess title match, was continued this afternoon.
Messenger-Inquirer Owensboro, Kentucky Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 10 — A Hand Shake Between Boris Spassky (left) and Bobby Fischer came seven minutes after Spassky made the first move to open the World Chess Championships in Reykjavik, Iceland, Tuesday. Fischer, arrived late for the match due to being held up in traffic because the Icelandic Chess Federation was failing to deliver on its promise of offering official police protection. This is the SECOND of such reports of Icelandic police failure, which have made its way to western newspapers.
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The Province Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 2 — It's Spassky's Move — Here are the moves of Spassky and Fischer in the opening game of their 24-game match, Spassky-white, Fischer-black.
Hartford Courant Hartford, Connecticut Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 65 — Spassky, Fischer Adjourn Chess Match to Today —Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)— World champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union capitalized on an error by U.S. Grand Master Bobby Fischer and gave him only hope for a draw Tuesday night when the opening game of the world championship chess match was adjourned after 4½ hours of play.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 23 — He's Only A Pawn But He Takes Up Fischer's Lead by Jeremy Heymsfeld — “So you want to learn about chess. “What do you know about it?” “Nothing.” “Oh.” Leroy Dubeck, associate professor of physics at Temple University, president of the U.S. Chess Federation and 36th-ranked player in this country, sighed. He had hoped to eat a quiet lunch at his Cherry Hill home contemplating the world championship which finally opened yesterday in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, Florida Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 23 — ‘I Saw Greatness in Him’. Fischer's Former Teacher Rooting for Pupil. By Bill Schnitt, Post Staff Writer — Carmine D. Nigro, a retiree living in West Palm Beach, predicts his former chess pupil Bobby Fischer will wrest the world chess championship from Russian Boris Spassky. “Bobby's a genius — there's no question about it,” says Nigro. “He's the greatest player that ever lived.”
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The Arizona Republic Phoenix, Arizona Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 4 — Chess Club Schedules Rating Play — The Phoenix Chess Club will hold its summer rating tournament July 21-23 at the adult center, 2240 W. Citrus Way…
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The Arizona Republic Phoenix, Arizona Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 4 — Russian Gets Chess Jump on American — (UPI) Reykjavik, Iceland — World champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union capitalized on an error by U.S. grand master Bobby Fischer and gave only hope for a draw tonight when the opening game of the world championship chess match was adjourned after 4½ hours of play.
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The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 2 — Spassky, Fischer Adjourn Championship Chess Match: Expert says Spassky Has Better Position by Isaac Kashdan — Los Angeles (AP) — The Soviet titleholder, Boris Spassky, has good prospects for a win in the first game of his world championship chess match with Bobby Fischer. After 40 moves and five hours of play, Mr. Spassky is a bishop ahead.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 26 — Money-Grubber or No, Fischer Is a Chess Genius by J.A. Livingston, Inquirer Economics Columnist — “Product of a money-grubbing society.” That's how a Soviet editor characterized Bobby Fischer for his failure to appear on time for his chess match with Boris Spassky. Inference: ([Soviet-Bolshevism]) “Communism(TM)” is beautiful, capitalism is degrading— it destroys human beings.
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Newsday (Nassau Edition) Hempstead, New York Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 85 — An Analysis — Since Fischer is known for his predilection for the Grunfeld Defense, it was a little surprising that he drifted into the Nimzo-Indian opening. Maybe he feared use of the Grunfeld again after his loss to the world champion at the Siegen Olympiad in Germany in 1970. At first the experiment appeared rewarding at least as far as the draw was concerned.
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Newsday (Nassau Edition) Hempstead, New York Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 85 — First Game: It Looks Like Spassky's —Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—Bobby Fischer made his opening assault on the Soviet chess fortress last night, but world champion Boris Spassky repelled it and held the only chance of victory after 3½ hours' play when the first match was adjourned until today.
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Newsday (Nassau Edition) Hempstead, New York Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 85 — Board at Adjournment in First Chess Clash — When the players adjourned after 40 moves each, this was the view from Fischer's side; A king and five pawns (black) against Spassky's king, three pawns and a bishop (white). UPI Photo.
Delaware County Daily Times Chester, Pennsylvania Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 2 — Delco Expert Says Fischer in Trouble — “I would like to see Bobby Fischer win the match, but he's starting at a significant disadvantage,” said Lawrence J. Schramm Jr., one of Delaware County's foremost chess fans…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Missouri Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 26 — Spassky Wins Opener With Poisoned Pawn — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 12 — World champion Boris Spassky won the first game in his world title chess series against American Bobby Fischer. Fischer, in a hopeless position, resigned. He stood up, folded his score sheet and walked out of the Reykjavik sports palace.
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The Post-Crescent Appleton, Wisconsin Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 2 — Little Excitement in First Match by Isaac Kashdan — Los Angeles (AP)—Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky had good prospects for a win when the first game of the world championship chess match between the Russian and Bobby Fischer of the United States was adjourned Tuesday. Actually, until near the end, it was one of the dullest championship contests on record.
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Lancaster New Era Lancaster, Pennsylvania Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 46 — Spassky Reduces Fischer's Forces —Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — With Bobby Fischer struggling to escape with a draw, Boris Spassky resumed play here today in their adjourned first game, further reducing Fischer's forces with a pawn exchange. The opening game of the world championship was adjourned Tuesday night after 40 moves. Fischer and the defending champion from Russia left the table with the American in a difficult position.
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The Lexington Herald Lexington, Kentucky Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 14 — Opening Move, and Bobby's Missing Due to Failure of Icelandic Police to Clear Passage Thru Traffic — Boris Spassky, defending world chess champion from Russia, makes his opening move Tuesday in this year's championship match with challenger Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik, Iceland. Fischer wasn't around to see it, arriving seven minutes later but in plenty of time to make his first move. (AP Wirephoto).
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The Charlotte Observer Charlotte, North Carolina Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 1 — Chess Match Is Adjourned With Spassky In The Lead — Reykjavik, Iceland — The first game of the world chess championship adjourned Tuesday night with defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union holding a formidable lead over challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States. After 4½ hours and 40 moves, Spassky held the only chance for victory in the first of the 24 games. The most Fischer can reasonably hope for is a draw when the game is completed today at 1 p.m. EDT.
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The Spokesman-Review Spokane, Washington Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 7 — Checking on the Grandmasters — Spokane Chess Club champion Peter Torkar, left, and Richard Totusek play out the move of the Fischer-Spassky world championship chess match. The board shows the adjourned position of Tuesday. Game will be concluded today in Iceland.
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Livingston County Daily Press and Argus Howell, Michigan Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 23 — Double Dribble — In chess, Bobby Fischer of the U.S.A. and Boris Spassky of Russia are finally beginning their world championship match. This most intellectual of games demands both physical and mental conditioning. The two geniuses will be playing the best of a 24 game series. On Sunday afternoon, ABC plans to televise the highlights of the first three games.
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The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 2 — 1st Game to Spassky -- Fischer Protests TV — Reykjavik — (UPI) — World chess champion Boris Spassky of Russia defeated Bobby Fischer in the first game of their $250,000 championship match today, putting the unpredictable American one point behind in what could be a 24-game series.
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Evening Standard London, Greater London, England Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 13 — Spassky's Next Move—Sealed Up by Leonard Barden — BORIS SPASSKY slept peacefully in Reykjavik last night while his seconds Ewfim Geller and Ivo Ney analysed the unfinished end game in the world chess match. Seconds in international chess are on the payroll just so that a player can rest and be shown the winning or drawing moves before the game is resumed.
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Dayton Daily News Dayton, Ohio Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 2 — Fischer Walks Off Stage In 2nd Chess Meeting — Reykjavik, Iceland —(UPI)—Unpredictable American chess challenger Bobby Fischer made three swift moves in the second round of his first game with world champion Boris Spassky today, then stalked off the stage. There was no immediate indication where Fischer went or if he would return.
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The Windsor Star Windsor, Ontario, Canada Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 28 — Fischer Can Only Get A Draw: Spassky first game victory possible by Harry Golombek, Special to The Windsor Star —Reykjavik—The first game in the World Chess Championship match between champion Boris Spassky and challenger Bobby Fischer was adjourned Tuesday in a position which holds out unclear winning possibilities for the champion, but only drawing chances for Fischer.
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Longview Daily News Longview, Washington Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 13 — Larger Than Life — World champion Boris Spassky and challenger Bobby Fischer are dwarfed by the giant screen above them as they meet in Reykjavik, Iceland, Tuesday for the world's chess title. The board shows the moves as they are made and the clocks record the time left for each player. (AP Wirephoto).
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The Windsor Star Windsor, Ontario, Canada Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 30 — Running at a Draw by Jack Dulmage, Sports Editor — WELL, THEY ARE OFF and running at Reykjavik. And Boris Spassky is still ahead. Spassky was ahead before they started the clocks because he requires only 24 draws to keep his world chess championship while Bob Fischer must do better if he is to take the title from him. This could be a long, drawn-out affair involving a lot of draws. Russian players, working behind an edge, are known to play for drawn positions.
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Battle Creek Enquirer Battle Creek, Michigan Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 9 — Michigan Chairs Offering Comfortable Chess Tourney — Zeeland (AP) — Thanks to a pair of unusual Michigan chairs, Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky will have a comfortable world's championship chess match. The chess champions began their match in Iceland Tuesday seated in identical Herman Miller chairs. Fischer had ordered a metal and black leather chair flown in from New York Sunday.
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The Honolulu Advertiser Honolulu, Hawaii Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 44 — Chess Cartoon — Fails to elaborate on the finicky, overbearing demands and complaints of European organizers who refused for months to sort out details before match. Belgrade's illegal demand of 35K USD “guarantee” refused by USCF! Australia's legal $225K bid snubbed by Russia, threatening they ‘would not play’.
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The Independent-Record Helena, Montana Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 20 — Deep In Thought — Bobby Fischer, hands to his face and the side of his head, was deep in thought during the opening session of the world chess championship. (Photofax)
The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 12 — Letters To The Editor: 'Stifle That Yawn' — In your editorial of Saturday, July 8 — The chess match (yawn) is set — you wondered if chess enthusiasts care about the world championship chess match between Spassky and Fischer. As a director in one of the many mushrooming chess clubs in the area I can assure you that the chess community is looking forward to this once-in-a-lifetime match with great excitement.
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Daily News New York, New York Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 321 — Boris Grasps Edge; Bobby Calls Recess by Robert Byrne — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 11—Bobby Fischer is in trouble. The brilliant 29-year-old challenger for Boris Spassky's world chess crown adjourned tonight the first game of the 24-game title match with the Russian holding the advantage of a bishop for two pawns. A stiff uphill battle faces Fischer when the game is resumed tomorrow at 5 p.m. (1 p.m. New York time) in the Laugardalshoell, Reykjavik's sports exhibition palace.
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Daily News New York, New York Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 288 — Few Men Left, Bobby and Boris Adjourn Game —Reykjavik, Iceland, July 11 (UPI)—After 4½ hours of play, the first game of the 24-game chess match between world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and Bobby Fischer was adjourned. Forty moves were made before adjournment. Rules call for the game to be completed tomorrow.
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Wisconsin State Journal Madison, Wisconsin Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 12 — Fischer Was Making Psychological Move — Sirs—It is certainly the prerogative of The Wisconsin State Journal to support whomever it wishes in the world championship chess matches, and I won't say a thing about that. But the editorial in the July 6 edition shows that the newspaper has at least one editorial writer who knows very little about championship chess matches.
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The Guardian London, Greater London, England Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 20 — Cautious Start In Iceland by Leonard Barden —The first game of the world chess championship match in Iceland was ambling towards a peaceful draw last night although, Fischer may have to struggle. The game was adjourned after 40 moves and five hours' play. Fischer gambled in a drawn position by sacrificing a bishop for two pawns.
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The Des Moines Register Des Moines, Iowa Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 8 — 'Fischer Will Win Where It Counts' — To the Editor: Regarding the recent articles on the Fischer-Spassky protocol fiasco in Reykjavik: Certainly the personality game the Icelanders (and others) expect from the two contenders will hardly affect the outcome for the world chess title. Spassky can arrive on time for the ceremonial puppet shows, swap trinkets with the local heads-that-be, and further his public image (and Russia's) with smiles of mock sincerity.
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The Guardian London, Greater London, England Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer's Opening Gambit — Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer finally made it to the world championship chessboard tonight and there was an almost palpable sense of relief throughout the auditorium at the sports stadium here that chess had at last taken over from the ballyhoo.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel Santa Cruz, California Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 2 — Spassky Wins Opener —Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—World champion Boris Spassky won the first game Wednesday in his world title chess series against American Bobby Fischer. Fischer, in a hopeless position, resigned. He stood up, folded his score sheet and walked out of the Reykjavik sports palace.
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Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 56 — Letters To The Editor: Bobby's Antics — Editor the Star: We were amused to read your recent editorial deploring the antics of Mr. Robert Fischer on the eve of his epic battle for the world chess championship. Perhaps to an outsider, Bobby's conduct appears inexcusably coarse and unsportsmanlike, but it is this same high-handed arrogance which has catapulted him to within a hairsbreadth of breaking the 25-year long Russian stranglehold on world chess.
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The Columbus Telegram Columbus, Nebraska Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 7 — Bobby versus Boris — It's hard to make front-page news out of brain waves, but precisely that trick appears to have been accomplished by an American and a Russian. Their names are Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. Envision, if you will, two men seated. Between them is a small square board. On the board are figurines, some of which are alike and some of which are different. From time to time each of the two men reaches over and moves one of the figurines.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 31 — Schmid Makes No Moves, But Rules Chess Match — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 12—Last Thursday, as soon as Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer shook hands, Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, turned to Lothar Schmid. “Now,” he said, “it is all yours.” Dr. Euwe, who had suffered through harrowing negotiations, postponements and protests, who had mediated, cajoled and apologized, was bowing out.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 31 — Amusement and Then Sadness Reign at Marshall Chess Club by Martin Arnold — The blunder he made in the first game doomed Bobby Fischer so magnificently that the members and visiting kibitzers at the Marshall Chess Club actually laughed when he made it Tuesday. But by yesterday, when they were again filling into the old brownstone at 23 West 10th Street, the laughter had turned to a certain sadness that the great Bobby — the mighty Casey — had impetuously (could there be any other explanation?) struck out.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 31 — Fischer Walks Out, Comes Back, Loses by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 12 — Bobby Fischer lost the first game of his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky tonight after staging a 35-minute walkout. Later, Fischer was reported to have said that he might not play tomorrow's scheduled second game.
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The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan, Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer Wants Cameras Expelled — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer today was reported threatening to break off his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky unless all move cameras are removed from the playing hall. “It's quite serious. He may not play at all,” said a member of Fischer's entourage who asked not to be identified.
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The Atlanta Constitution Atlanta, Georgia Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 6 — Georgian Lost to Fischer by Bob Geurink — A Milledgeville textile executive who looks at his opponents “like a snake” was beaten by U.S. champion Bobby Fischer in Argentina back in 1959. That's from Richard Haas, president of the Southern Chess Association last year. He said Wednesday that Milledgeville's Ruben Shocron won the association's tourney last July 4 and said Shocron looked like this as he beat a field of 156 others:
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Evening Standard London, Greater London, England Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 6 — That Move—Was There More To It? by Leonard Barden —THE fatal pawn snatch on move 29 which cost Bobby Fischer his first game with Spassky will be a talking point among chess Grand Masters for years to come. Spassky trapped Fischer's bishop which made the capture simple by a spider's web net operation to be found in any elementary textbook.
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Albany Democrat-Herald Albany, Oregon Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 1 — Bobby's Boycott Results in Forfeit; Disqualification Looms for Yank — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer forfeited his chess game with world champion Boris Spassky of Russian on Thursday by failing to appear at the playing hall. Fischer boycotted the game because he objected to the presence of movie cameras in the hall. The forfeit gave Spassky, who beat Fischer on Wednesday, a 2-0 lead in the scheduled 24-game series.
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The Missoulian Missoula, Montana Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 16 — Spassky-Fischer Chess Moves — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Here are the remaining moves of the adjourned first game of the world championship chess match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer.
The Charlotte News Charlotte, North Carolina Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 11 — Fischer Biggest Gambit by Bill Ballenger —Sixteen years ago, at age 13, a tousled kid in a striped tee-shirt burst on the stage of international chess. In an interview in a national news magazine “The Kid” told his interrogators that his destiny was to become the greatest chess player in the world. That was Bobby Fischer, at that time a truant from the public schools of New York.
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The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 33 — Knights and Rooks by Dick Nolan — In The Examiner's magnificent wire room cascades of news, data, commentary and statistics stream in an endless flow from the pulsing Teletype machines, chunka-chunka-chunka-rappity - tap - tap - tap. Nothing of slightest note happens anywhere without word of it inching into the wire room letter by letter, line by line. So, in the middle of the fascinating Democratic convention, what are impatient Examiner readers phoning our wire room about? The Spassky-Fischer chess match, is what.
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Hattiesburg American Hattiesburg, Mississippi Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 14 — Fischer Boycotts Chess Tournament — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer informed the organizers of the world chess championships today, that he is boycotting further play unless three hidden movie cameras are removed from the hall. A call was made to the organizers at 10 minutes before the scheduled start of Fischer's second game with Boris Spassky of Russia. It said Fischer wasn't coming.
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The Province Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 2 — Soviet Nit-Picks From Obsolete Contract Fischer Never Signed, Hoping To Blow Fischer's Concentration —(UPI—Reuter) Reykjavik, Iceland—Unpredictable Bobby Fischer, one game down in his bid for the world chess championship, threatened early today to stay away from the second game unless all television cameras were removed from the auditorium.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 31 — Experts Expected Fischer Defeat at Adjournment by Isaac Kashdan — Los Angeles, July 12 (AP) — When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky resumed play in the second session of their first match game for the world chess championship. It was clear to the experts that Spassky should win. Fischer continued the game today for 15 more moves, then resigned. He might have carried on for a few more moves, or resigned earlier.
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The Arizona Republic Phoenix, Arizona Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 4 — Russian Beats Fischer in First Game —(UPI) Reykjavik, Iceland — World Chess Champion Boris Spassky of Russia defeated Bobby Fischer in the first game of their $250,000 championship match yesterday, putting the unpredictable American one point behind in what could be a 24-game series.
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The Arizona Republic Phoenix, Arizona Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 4 — Chessmen Huddle Across U.S.--Experts Analyze Dilemma of Fischer — (AP) New York — Bobby Fischer's clock was running out of time when a fellow member asked the Marshall Chess Club's champion player how things were going for the world championship challenger. “It looks bad,” said George Kane, 23, vainly seeking a solution to Fischer's dilemma.
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The Charlotte Observer Charlotte, North Carolina Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 8 — Kibitzers Puzzle Over Fischer's Fatal Move No. 29 by Jim Mitchell, Observer Staff Writer — Charlotte chess fanatics played out the first of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer championship chess matches Wednesday night and they just couldn't understand how Fischer had made the move that cost him the game.
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Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 5 — Analysis by Expert: Fischer's Attention to Distractions Seen as Advantage for Spassky by Dr. Leroy Dubeck, President, U.S. Chess Federation —It is apparent that Bobby Fischer blundered on his 29th move and the loss of his bishop for two pawns led eventually to the loss of the game. Yesterday, Fischer apparently was upset by the position of a TV camera.
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Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 5 — Fischer Threatens Walkout Over TV — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—Bobby Fischer, already one game down in his drive for the world chess championship, today threatened to walk out on the second match with titleholder Boris Spassky unless all television cameras are removed from the hall. Fischer's demands were presented by Fred Cramer, a vice president of the U.S. Chess Federation, at a closed meeting with representatives of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), the Icelandic organizers and representatives of U.S. companies owning the television rights to the match, international chess sources said.
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The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 1 — Russians Happy — Moscow (AP)—The Soviet press today cautiously savored Boris Spassky's victory yesterday and awarded him a psychological edge. Tass said “observers” in Iceland had noted that “Fischer brought off victories in all the preceding opening games in the tournaments of contenders.
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Canarsie Courier Brooklyn, New York Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 10 — They're Checking Mates For Chess — Now that world interest has turned to Iceland for the Fischer-Spassky chess showdown, Canarsiens too have caught the chess mania. Since the beginning of this month, Canarsiens by the dozens have been studying classic moves. The area between Rockaway Parkway and E. 102nd St. on Seaview Ave. is a good example “Grandmaster” Steven Gold has declared that he will face anyone in the area.
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The Jackson Sun Jackson, Tennessee Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer Forfeits Second Game To Spassky — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer forfeited his chess game with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia today by failing to appear at the playing hall. Fischer boycotted the game because he objected to the presence of movie cameras ([more specifically the noisy and visible camera-men crews, knowingly making a distraction to disrupt Fischer's focus and concentration, resulting in matches being thrown in favor of the Soviet]) in the hall.
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The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 4 — Chess: Fischer the Underdog — Reykjavik, Wednesday. — Bobby Fischer, the fiery U.S. challenger for Boris Spassky's world chess title, found himself the underdog when the opening game was adjourned last night. The Soviet title-holder withstood a final test of nerves—Fischer came to his place at the chessboard seven minutes after Spassky had made his opening move—and went on to exploit a risky capture by the American.
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Public Opinion Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 28 — Championship Match Cartoon
The Dispatch Moline, Illinois Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 2 — Fischer Refuses To Play Chess Before TV Cameras — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—Bobby Fischer's representatives met with officials of the TV company broadcasting the $250,000 world chess championships today to try to prevent the challenger from walking out. Fischer, who held up the first game for 35 minutes Wednesday because he objected to its being filmed on closed circuit television, said he would not show up for today's game with the world champion Boris Spassky of Russian unless all the TV cameras were removed from the hall.
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The Times Shreveport, Louisiana Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 4 — Bobby Fischer Returns to the Laugardalsholl Hall Wednesday to continue unfinished chess game against Boris Spassky. The game was won by Spassky. (AP Wirephoto)
The Chico Enterprise-Record Chico, California Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 3 — Fischer Forfeits Second Chess Match to Spassky — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—Bobby Fischer forfeited the second game of his world championship chess match with Russian Boris Spassky today. Fischer failed to show up for the game and an aide said he was asleep. The forfeit give Spassky a 2-0 lead in the match. He needs only 12 points to retain his title while Fischer needs 12½ to win. The next Scheduled game is Sunday.
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The Orlando Sentinel Orlando, Florida Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 4 — Spassky Team Finds Fischer Flaw by Harry Golombek — Reykjavik — Although when play was adjourned Tuesday night after 40 moves the result seemed unclear and champion Boris Spassky's winning possibilities uncertain, an overnight analysis by his assistant trio of grandmasters—Efjim Geller, Nikolai Krogius and Nej — showed that challenger Bobby Fischer's position was not really tenable in the first game of the world chess championship.
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The Kansas City Times Kansas City, Missouri Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 40 — Play by Play — Following the first game of the Fischer-Spassky world championship chess match as the moves came over the news wires yesterday were two players who had set up a small chess board outside The Star newsroom. At left is John Tomas, Chicago, who is visiting here and who said he was a 4-time Nebraska state chess champion, and Elliot Winlow, 4012 McGee, Missouri state chess champion.
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Newsday (Nassau Edition) Hempstead, New York Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 119 — Chess Makes Its Move — Chess players never had it so good. For all those years hardly anybody in the United States knew or cared about the game they play so passionately. Now suddenly it's all over the newspapers and television, very big. “Bobby Fischer has done a great thing for American chess,” said Howard Osterman, a bearded CCNY student.
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The Age Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 11 — A Bishop Puts The Champion Ahead by Bill MacLean of the Melbourne Chess Club — When Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in 1970 he played one of his favorite defenses — the Gruenfeld defence. But with his second move in this first game he showed he would test Spassky's preparation by adopting the Nimzo-Indian defence and played pawn to king three.
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The Record Hackensack, New Jersey Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 5 — One Down — Boris Spassky, left, and Bobby Fischer shake hands after the Russian won the first game. (AP Photo)
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Alabama Journal Montgomery, Alabama Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 18 — State Chess Players Keep Close Tabs On Title Match by Hoyt Harwell — The relatively few chess players in Alabama, happy over the surge of interest in the game, are keeping a close watch on the world chess match for various reasons. And most of them are pulling for American Bobby Fischer in the match in Iceland against Russian Boris Spassky.
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 17 — Fischer Defense Fails in Face of Bishop. Pawn Held Down. by Isaac Kashdan — World chess champion Boris Spassky won as expected Wednesday in the adjourned session of his first chess game with challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States. Fischer continued the game for an additional 15 moves, then resigned. There was no longer any hope for a draw. Spassky's task was not particularly difficult.
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Daily News New York, New York Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 53 — Opener Goes To Spassky in 56 Big Moves by Robert Byrne —Reykjavik, Iceland, July 12—Boris Spassky, 35, world chess champion, won the opening game of his 24-game title match with challenger Bobby Fischer in 56 moves here in the Laugardalshoell Sports Palace tonight.
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The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston, West Virginia Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 4 — Chess Is War; All Is Fair by Jack Seamonds — “Atta babe, Bobby, put one over the ‘ole left field wall.” A raucous, lung-stretching roar, aimed, you imagine, at some limber, gum-popping, bat-swinging Casey as he strolls to the home plate. Like, 9 to 9 in the top of the ninth, or something like that.
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The World Coos Bay, Oregon Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 5 — Fischer Doesn't Show Up — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — American chess champion Bobby Fischer failed to show up at the scheduled starting time today for his second game in the $250,000 world championship match but he had one hour to beat the clock. His aides said he was still asleep. If he does not show up by 6 p.m. (2 p.m. EDT) he forfeits the game to world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
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The Journal Times Racine, Wisconsin Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 1 — Boycotts Chess Match Over Disruptive Camera Men — American Bobby Fischer peered through his fingers during his first chess game Wednesday with Russia's Boris Spassky in Iceland. Fischer lost the contest. They were scheduled to play again today, but Fischer informed the organizers of the world chess championship that he is boycotting further play unless three hidden movie cameras ([this report, oddly, makes no mention of the disruptive camera man who was located on the roof, training a camera on Fischer, that was trespassing and ejected by police at the request of the official Fred Cramer. Detailed by international chess master Harry Golombek, see “Spassky Team Finds Fischer Flaw” by Harry Golombek]) are removed from the hall.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 39 — The Public Speaks: Is Chess Becoming Popular in the U.S.? — How You Voted. Yes: 75% No: 25%. Sample ‘Yes’ Comments. “It took Bobby Fischer to make it popular” … “We're finally catching up with the rest of the world” … “It's about time” … “Especially if Fischer beats the Russian” … “It's a worthwhile game and should be played by everyone” … “It's one sport that is inexpensive to play” … “I think it has always been popular.”
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Clovis News-Journal Clovis, New Mexico Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 8 — Station Attendant Remembers Long-Ago Chess Competition — Los Lunas, N.M. (UPI)— A Los Lunas gas station attendant teaches a small chess class, used to write a chess column and remembers a pickup chess club in this small central New Mexico community. But Guilles Levesque vividly remembers a pickup chess match he got into some 20 years ago while stationed at Bolling Field, near Washington, D.C. “I was just sitting in the Officers' Club when this young fellow, who looked about 8 or 9-years-old, came in and asked me if I played chess,” Levesque said. “I told him I played at it, so we played a game.”
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Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona Thursday, July 13, 1972 - Page 58 — Rehashed Soviet Anti-American Invective to Turn Public Interest and National Support Base Away From Fischer's Defeat of USSR — Fails to elaborate on the finicky, overbearing demands and complaints of European organizers who refused for months to sort out details before match. Belgrade's illegal demand of 35K USD “guarantee” refused by USCF!
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AP Wirephoto via cable from Reykjavik — Victor by Forfeiture — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 14, 1972. Victor by Forfeiture - Boris Spassky of the U.S.S.R. leaves Laugardalsholl hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thursday after Bobby Fischer failed to appear for the second game of the world chess championship match. Fischer's forfeiture gave Spassky a 2-0 lead in the scheduled 24-game match. All attempts to get Fischer to appear at the chess table failed, incuding an appeal based on his responsibility as a 'folk hero of the Americans.' The next game is scheduled for Sunday.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 29 — Counsel for Fischer Will Fight Forfeit by Martin Arnold — Bobby Fischer's attorney flew last night to Iceland to try to get chess officials to lift yesterday's forfeit against the American grandmaster. If he does not succeed, the attorney said, he will sue to force them to lift the forfeit. The attorney, Andrew Davis, said that he did not know whether Fischer would agree to continue in the world championship chess match with Boris Spassky if the forfeit—imposed because Fischer failed to show up for the game—is allowed to stand. He left last night at 9:30 on an Icelandic Airlines flight from Kennedy International Airport.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 1-29 — Fischer Stays Out, Forfeits 2d Game; Appeal is Expected by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 13—Bobby Fischer remained in his hotel room today, refusing to show up for his scheduled game with Boris Spassky. He was declared the loser by forfeit and the score of this strange world championship chess match became 2 to 0 in favor of the Soviet titleholder.
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The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 2 — Cameras Bug Him: Fischer Stays Away, Forfeits 2nd Match —Reykjavik, Iceland — (AP) — Bobby Fischer forfeited yesterday's chess game with world champion Boris Spassky. He stayed in his hotel room, because of disruptive cameras crew men in the playing hall. His balk for the second in a 24-game schedule left the score 2 to 0 in the Russian's favor.
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Austin American-Statesman Austin, Texas Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer's Chess Appeal Rejected by Officials — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—An appeals committee rejected today Bobby Fischer's protest against his loss of Thursday's world championship chess game by forfeit. The four-man committee supported the decision of chief referee Lothar Schmid to award the game to Boris Spassky because Fischer failed to appear…
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The News and Observer Raleigh, North Carolina Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 3 — Soviet Chess Master Boris Spassky Waits in Vain While Fischer Boycotts Disruptive Camera Men — Soviet chess master Boris Spassky waits in vain for Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik, Iceland.
The Windsor Star Windsor, Ontario, Canada Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 13 — Fischer Charges Conspiracy As He Forfeits Second Game by Ian Westergren — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — Charging there was “a conspiracy against me,” U.S. grand Master Bobby Fischer locked himself in his hotel room Thursday and refused to come out for the second game of the $250,000 world championship chess match, forfeiting the game to Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
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The Odessa American Odessa, Texas Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 4 — Chess Match May At End by Isaac Kashdan — The forfeit by Bobby Fischer in the second game of the world championship chess series with Boris Spassky probably signals the end of the long-awaited encounter. The dispute regarding the ([disruptive operators]) of the television cameras was the latest in a long series of ([entirely avoidable from the Icelandic/Soviet end]) controversies that has plagued the match organizers for months.
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The Atlanta Constitution Atlanta, Georgia Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 2 — $100,000 Silver, Gem-Studded Chess Set to Be Displayed — A sterling silver chess set, studded with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires and valued at $100,000, will be displayed at the Atlanta Merchandise Mart next week…
Star Tribune Minneapolis, Minnesota Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 10 — Bobby Fischer Phenomenon — Bobby Fischer is the greatest phenomenon for the propagation of chess interest since Lewis Carroll's “Through the Looking-Glass.” Minnesota has several player who have achieved, or are approaching, master status in chess. Former state chess champion Milton Otteson once beat Bobby Fischer in a tournament chess game.
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 7 — Fischer Boycotts Second Game; Committee to Rule on Forfeiture by Isaac Kashdan — Bobby Fischer apparently forfeited the second game in the $250,000 world chess championship match Thursday when he failed to appear at the auditorium in Reykjavik, Iceland, because of a dispute over ([men disruptively operating]) movie cameras.
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Chippewa Herald-Telegram Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 2 — Off the Beat by Holly Meier — Idols die hard, whether you are 5 or 50! And that's why I can't believe that Bobby Fischer — who is the greatest chess talent in the world — will deliberately let the championship go down the drain because of the advertised petty differences between him and the people staging the match in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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The Decatur Herald Decatur, Illinois Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 3 — Looking Like a Young Bobby Fischer — Depending On personal taste, youngsters could select quiet contemplative or raucous slapstick sport at Thursday's Play Day held in Hess Park. Danny Bartels, 10, middle, in top photo, chose to concentrate on chess, looking like a young Bobby Fischer, would champion chess player. Watching Bartels' deliberate moves are John Peters, 12, left, and Betsy Garren, 11, right.
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The Post-Crescent Appleton, Wisconsin Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 2 — Even little Oscar de la Fuenta's Moves Aren't Safe from Being Used in the Soviet's Propaganda War — Instead of focusing on young Oscar Fuenta's day in the limelight and chess exhibition, Soviet hacks for hire, lackeys speckled throughout worldwide media were busy manufacturing an all-out smear and defamation campaign against Robert Fischer…
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The Age Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 12 — Spassky Moves Into The Lead Commentary by the Melbourne Chess Club — World chess champion, Boris Spassky, finished off the first game of the 24-game match in flawless fashion. He took a 1-0 lead over American challenger Bobby Fischer when he won the adjourned first game of the world chess title series on the 56th move.
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The Hanford Sentinel Hanford, California Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 1 — They Play Chess in Hanford, Too — Although the big money and international intrigue was missing, Hanford's James Walker (left) and Patrick Pugh (right) were enjoying a lively game of chess of their own Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile in Reykjavik, Iceland, America's controversial Bobby Fischer was cheated out of a game by Icelandic officials.
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The Hanford Sentinel Hanford, California Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer May Get Request — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — The organizers of the $250,000 international chess championship said today they might give in to Bobby Fischer's request to remove closed circuit television equipment from the chess hall, but flatly refused to overturn Referee Lothar Schmidt's decision awarding the second game to Russian Boris Spassky.
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The Pantagraph Bloomington, Illinois Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 4 — Fischer's Moves Purposeful — Editor, The Pantagraph, I read with interest your comments on the world's chess championship and the American master, Bobby Fischer. There are some important aspects of the game of chess as well as some aspects of Fischer's personality that you may have overlooked.
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Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 1 — Export of Prize OK'd — London—(UPI)—Investment banker James Slater has Bank of England permission to export his $125,000 contribution to the prize money in the international chess championships in Reykjavik, Iceland, banking sources said Tuesday. Slater was unavailable for comment. British law requires Bank of England approval for any resident of the United Kingdom to export more than $750 in one year.
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Enterprise-Journal McComb, Mississippi Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 9 — Spassky and Fischer Posed in First Match — Dwarfed by giant screen above them.
The Charlotte Observer Charlotte, North Carolina Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 7 — Chess Is Politics, War Condensed Under Rigid Rules —Washington Post-Los Angeles Times News Service Washington—When you know the moves in chess you're almost in the same position as someone who knows the functions of the players on a football team: you don't know much of anything. It is simple enough to learn the moves, but then you discover the real question is “which move when?”
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The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 2 — Chess Row: Fischer Risks Heavy Loss —Reykjavik, Iceland — (AP) — Bobby Fischer charged today that tournament organizers seemed to “upset and provoke me” deliberately ([Well Mr. Fischer, you are trapped in the Soviet's hand-picked, Anti-American Racist haven, so of course they are. That's why Russia selected Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Edmonton Journal Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 61 — Iceland Match Sparks 'Rush' on Chess Sets — Unlike the hula hoop, the yo-yo, or even Monopoly, chess is the sort of pastime that seems to be immune to fads. Nevertheless, interest in chess has picked up in Edmonton in recent weeks — starting about the time the Fischer-Spassky match in Iceland began to receive publicity. Downtown stores selling board games report what might be described as a “rush” on chess sets beginning about a month ago. (In the chess-set business, a rush is a sudden sale of more than two or three sets at any time other than Christmas).
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Red Deer Advocate Red Deer, Alberta, Canada Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 17 — No Matter What, Spassky's Rich — Moscow (AP)—No matter what, Boris Spassky is going to return to his Communist homeland a rich man, even by capitalist standards. But the Soviet government and the National Chess Federation have apparently yet to decide whether the Russian chess champion can keep the earnings from his Reykjavik encounter with American challenger Bobby Fischer. Viktor Baturinsky, director of the Soviet Chess Club, said the allocation of Spassky's prize money “has not been decided.”
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Alton Evening Telegraph Alton, Illinois Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 3 — SIU Professor Tackles 21 Chess Players by Pat St. Clair. Telegraph Staff Writer — Dr. Cameron Meredith, a psychology professor at Southern Illinois University, played 21 games of chess simultaneously for five hours Wednesday evening at Hayner Public Library and managed to win about half.
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Beckley Post-Herald Beckley, West Virginia Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 4 — Fischer's Moves Put Chess in Headlines — After months of moves by Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union over where, when and how to hold a chess match as well as the how much — the match itself will be anticlimax. If he has done nothing else, Bobby Fischer has done more for chess than any man since Lewis Carroll.
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 1 — Chess Session — Chester Fox, who holds the filming rights to world championship chess games, meets with Bobby Fischer, right, to discuss the U.S. challenger's complaints about movie cameras.([“Under agreed rules of the match, [Fischer] had the right to object and to demand removal of the cameras if they disturbed him.” -Col. Edmondson, USCF])
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Belvidere Daily Republican Belvidere, Illinois Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 4 — She Loses Head Over Chess Game — The BDR newsroom may seem a long distance from Reykjavik, Iceland, but Tuesday when Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky squared off for the first game in their world championship match, we were there. Actually, in all honesty, we really weren't physically there, but with the use of a chess board and the AP wire machine, we followed enthusiastically as each move was made.
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The Miami Herald Miami, Florida Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 24 — Boris May Live in Style — Win or Lose ([Depending, of course, if his performance appeases Soviet whims… or Nyet]) — Moscow — (AP) — No matter what, Boris Spassky is going to return to his Communist homeland a rich man, even by capitalist standards. But the Soviet government and the National Chess Federation have apparently yet to decide whether the Russian chess champion can keep the earnings from his Reykjavik encounter with the American challenger Bobby Fischer.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 5 — Action Line — Q: I recently moved to Philadelphia and love to play chess. Do you know of a club where I could play? —Howard Carrasco, Philadelphia. Become a member. The Awbury Chess Club, Ardleigh and Haines sts., in Germantown has extended you an invitation to join. The 20-member club is headed by Thomas J. Arouni, city chess chairman for the Department of Recreation.
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The Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Friday, July 14, 1972 - Page 13 — Here It is Folks — The famous chess chair, Bobby Fischer wouldn't move a pawn until this Herman Miller chair, designed by Charles Eames, was flown to Reykjavik, Iceland, for the match with Boris Spassky for the world's chess championship now in progress. Fischer paid a wholesale price of $471.60 ($524 retail) for it. Mrs. Cheryl Janusek of West Mifflin “models” the chair at Hende-Jon Galleries, Ross Street.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 19 — Fischer's Appeal On Forfeit Fails Chess Panel Upholds Ruling Giving Second Game in Match to Spassky by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 14—A four man committee voted today to uphold the decision of Lothar Schmid, the referee in the world chess championship match here, that Bobby Fischer, the American challenger, had forfeited yesterday's game to Boris Spassky, the Soviet titleholder.
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Philadelphia Daily News Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 2 — Is Robert Fischer and Chess Lovers Getting Rooked by Soviet Schemes? Fischer Cools It in Iceland — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—The organizers of the troubled Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world chess championship match fear that the $250,000 match for the world title is already over ([and that's how the Soviets wanted it]), informed chess sources said today.
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Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 172 — A Blackout on Chess Coverage From Moscow, Too? Citizens Back Criticism — Either way, the average Russian privately agrees with his government controlled (censored) newspapers. For months the Soviet press has criticized the American challenger as “a money grubbing businessman”.
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The Honolulu Advertiser Honolulu, Hawaii Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 29 — Business is Hopping at Chess Counter — New York — (UPI) — Bobby Fischer may be a nuisance to international chess officials but he's a real bonanza to makers of chess pieces and boards and instructors in the ancient game. Stores in New York City, where there is a big foreign-born population, reported sales of chessmen and boards and books about chess began soaring weeks before the match between Fischer and the Russian world champion, Boris Spassky, started.
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The Marion Star Marion, Ohio Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 1 — Chess Title Match May Be Off Again: Iceland/Soviets Threatening Prize Money — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Organizers of the world chess championship have made a new concession to Bobby Fischer ([which is not “New” because it was already in the rules, as stated by Col. Edmondson, “Under agreed rules of the match, [Fischer] had the right to object and to demand removal of the cameras if they disturbed him.”]), but the competition still appears to be on the brink of collapse.
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The Ottawa Citizen Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 4 — Chess Match Still in Doubt — Reykjavik (Reuter) — Bobby Fischer, U.S. challenger for the world chess title, kept everyone guessing about his intentions today with the third game in his match against the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky a day away. Whether or not he plans to continue the match—two games down and with Spassky playing white on Sunday—is unclear not only to the organizers and the public but, it also seems, to Fischer's own lawyers, friends and advisers here.
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Austin American-Statesman Austin, Texas Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 40 — Chess King — Chess champion George Koltanowski analyzes the Spassky-Fischer World Chess Championship in a series of weekly half-hour reviews beginning Sunday at 5:30 p.m. on KLRN-TV, Channel 9. Koltanowski set the world record in simultaneous blindfolded chess play in a 1937 exhibit in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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The Des Moines Register Des Moines, Iowa Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 16 — Fischer Walks Alone — Bobby Fischer, the American chess expert, strolls out of his hotel in Reykjavik, Iceland, at dawn Friday after talks with Chester Fox, who holds the filming rights to Fischer's world championship series with Russia's Boris Spassky. Fischer boycotted Thursday's game because of the presence of cameras ([and disruptive men operating the cameras, in crews up to three men.])
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The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 4 — Try to Lure Fischer: Closed-Door Chess Proposal — Reykjavik, Iceland — (UPI) — In a desperate attempt to get American challenger Bobby Fischer to continue his world chess championship match against Boris Spassky, the match committee proposed today that the match be played in a closed room with only the players and judges present.
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Star Tribune Minneapolis, Minnesota Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 6 — Chess Officials May Bar TV to Save Match — The Rev. William Lombardy, Fischer's second, discounted rumors that the American chessmaster was flying home. “I haven't heard anything about that and I hope it's not true,” Father Lombardy said. “Everything is still up in the air. We have settled nothing so far.” In a seven-page letter to Schmid, Fischer said he was told that the cameras would be silent and invisible but “nothing could have been farther from the facts.”
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The Leader-Post Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 11 — Chess Championship Game May Be Moved — Reykjavik, Iceland (Reuter) — The organizers of the trouble-hit world chess championship Saturday offered to move the match temporarily into a secluded back room of the playing hall to ensure that American challenger Bobby Fischer continues play.
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Tucson Daily Citizen Tucson, Arizona Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 18 — Justifiable Walkouts Over Organizers' Many Mischiefs, Frequent in Fischer's Career — New York (AP)—So Bobby Fischer has walked out on another chess match. So what else is new? Any ideas that the chess wizard of the checkered board had mellowed or outgrown his refusal to compromise on his demand for higher standards were dashed Thursday when he failed to show up for his game against world champion Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Tulare Advance-Register Tulare, California Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 6 — Another Chess Game Awaiting a Decision
The Brattleboro Reformer Brattleboro, Vermont Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 4 — Quotes — I have a very high opinion of Fischer as a chess player. He is a great player. The world of chess would be very boring without him. — Boris Spassky, world chess champion, in training in Moscow for match against U.S. challenger Bobby Fischer.
The El Dorado Times El Dorado, Arkansas Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 4 — Pro Fischer — On Wednesday, July 12, I was shocked by an article on your editorial page. Under the column “The News-Times Forum” appeared an editorial which was obviously written to win awards for poor taste. Perhaps if the author had collected his wits before setting his pen to the paper this article would not have been so supercilious or so abounding in ignorance.
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The Star Press Muncie, Indiana Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 16 — WIPB Program to Review Fischer-Spassky Match — Each Monday at 6:30 p.m. for as long as the match continues, chess champion George Koltanowski and reporter Jim Benet will review the previous week's games and events in the controversial world championship chess match between Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
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The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 6 — Heading for Reykjavik, I suppose? — ([The Soviet Union unduly mixing Chess with Politics, and dragging Robert Fischer into the NATO squabble rife with bitter Anti-American hostility, but the papers are guilty of keeping Americans in the dark about this history of Keflavik.
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Honolulu Star-Bulletin Honolulu, Hawaii Sunday, July 16, 1972 - Page 85 — 'We Take You Now to Reykjavik' —Washington (UPI) — “Good evening. This is Frank Gifford, along with Don Meredith and Howard Cosell, bringing you, live and in color, the World Championship Chess Match. We'll be back with the exciting second year of play in just a moment. But first, this message…
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Honolulu Star-Bulletin Honolulu, Hawaii Sunday, July 16, 1972 - Page 85 — Third Chess Game Will Start Today — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — Chief arbiter Lothar Schmid said last night television cameras cannot be removed ([Really?! Is that so? This is no doubt why Robert Fischer called Schmid, a “liar” because according to the man who helped draft the rule, “Under agreed rules of the match, [Fischer] had the right to object and to demand removal of the cameras if they disturbed him.” -Col. Edmund Edmondson, USCF])
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Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Sunday, July 16, 1972 - Page 6 — Private Spassky-Fischer Chess Match Proposed — Reykjavik (UPI) — In a final attempt to get Bobby Fischer to return to the chess board, the world championship match committee proposed Saturday that Sunday's game in his contest with Russia's Boris Spassky be played privately with only the players and judges present.
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Kingsport Times-News Kingsport, Tennessee Sunday, July 16, 1972 - Page 29 — Chess - Isolation May Save Match — Reykjavik (UPI) — In a final attempt to get Bobby Fischer to return to the chess board, the world championship match committee proposed Saturday that Sunday's game in his contest with Russia's Boris Spassky be played private with only the players and judges present. That way the American challenger would escape the TV cameras in the chess hall.
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Star Tribune Minneapolis, Minnesota Sunday, July 16, 1972 - Page 63 — Cable Options — “…The imported stations' material will generally be second rate, agreed. But the broadcasters' worries come with cable potential to serve many audiences with programs of ‘limited base appeal.’ Some systems are carrying all the Fischer-Spassky chess matches, an impossibility for broadcast stations, yet entirely possible when you have 20 to 50 channels available. Cable's strength is in “narrow casting” to specialized audiences, and this strength will be only slightly diminished by lack of polish…”
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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Lubbock, Texas Sunday, July 16, 1972 - Page 41 — ★ — “I never thought I would live long enough to say that a World Championship Chess match would be more unpredictable than a Democratic National Convention. But this was the case this year. Bobby Fischer, the American chess wizard, is an individualist and he kept everyone guessing from day to day.”
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Argus-Leader Sioux Falls, South Dakota Sunday, July 16, 1972 - Page 15 — Chess Being Promoted by Enthusiasts in Sioux Falls by Gary Deguise, Argus-Leader Staff Writer — Quiet … nothing but quiet for over four hours. Then, white makes a move and “checkmate.” The audience and players sigh with relief. They are all totally exhausted from concentrating constantly for those four hours.
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The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland Sunday, July 16, 1972 - Page 127 — International Chess Championship, Reykjavik Iceland — “Of course, in the old days it was Icelandic Vikings who were noted for their power plays, extortion and trampling of sovereign rights…”
Newsday (Nassau Edition) Hempstead, New York Sunday, July 16, 1972 - Page 122 — It's All Just A Game Anyway by Alan E. Pollock — Wouldn't it be a sensible idea if the outcome of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was decided once and for all at the present world championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky? Just think of it.
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Florida Today Cocoa, Florida Sunday, July 16, 1972 - Page 2C — It's Johnson's Move On NY's Chessboard — West Long Branch, N.J.—A long time before chess came into the public line light with the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky matches, the New York Giants had their own version of the championship played between running back Ron Johnson and tight end Bob Tucker…
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The Robesonian Lumberton, North Carolina Sunday, July 16, 1972 - Page 11 — Soviet Sore Losers — If President Nixon is serious about improving relations with Russia, he'd better make sure that Bobby Fischer doesn't win that chess match. The Russians take the game rather seriously …
San Antonio Express San Antonio, Texas Sunday, July 16, 1972 - Page 9 — Match Inspires New Chess Game — Nixon-McGovern. Match Inspires New Chess Game. Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago — Chess sets are registering a boost in sales here, thanks to the big match. Not the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky match in Iceland, but the really big one right here at home—the George McGovern—Richard M. Nixon contest.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Missouri Sunday, July 16, 1972 - Page 44 — Chess; Finnish Style — Chess is played as an outdoor sport during Finnish summers with modern-design pieces weighing eight pounds each. The game can be played as late as 3 a.m. during this northern country's lengthy summer days. (AP Wirephoto)
Honolulu Star-Bulletin Honolulu, Hawaii Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 14 — Here It Is Again On Instant Replay — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—The moves in the third game of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess championship.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin Honolulu, Hawaii Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 14 — Fischer Wins Third Game, Trails, 2-1 — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—American chess challenger Bobby Fischer won the third game today in the $250,000 world championship match against Russia's Boris Spassky. Spassky, who still holds a 2-1 edge in the possible 24-game series, quit on the 42nd move.
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The Daily Herald Provo, Utah Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 9 — Fischer May Win This One — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — For a final 30 seconds Bobby Fischer towered over the chess board. Then he allowed himself a rare smile, collected his pencils and walked out of the room Sunday after one of the most dramatic days in world championship chess. Minutes earlier world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union had completed his 41st move and left the room, pensive and worried.
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The Daily Herald Provo, Utah Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 9 — Chess Game Returns To Main Sports Hall — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — Referee Lothar Schmid today upheld a protest from champion Boris Spassky and moved the adjourned third game of the $250,000 world chess championships back into Reykjavik's main sports hall, despite American challenger Bobby Fischer's earlier objections to it. The Rev. William Lombardy, Fischer's second, said the 29-year-old challenger would be at the board when the game was scheduled to resume today.
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The Town Talk Alexandria, Louisiana Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 15 — Fischer Takes Lead In 3rd Chess Game by Jim Ward, — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — For a final 30 seconds Bobby Fischer towered over the chess board. Then he allowed himself a rare smile, collected his pencils and walked out of the room Sunday after one of the most dramatic days in world championship chess.
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The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 18 — A Daring Move Wins for Fischer — Reykjavik, Iceland — (AP) — Bobby Fischer scored his first victory in the world chess championship against Boris Spassky today with a move he had sealed in an envelope. Spassky, Russian titleholder, resigned the third game playoff before Fischer showed up. Fischer had sealed his 41st move in the envelope yesterday after Spassky called for an adjournment.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 22 — ★ — Ch. 2 is picking up completion of the Spassky-Fischer chess match of yesterday this afternoon at 1, but a decision on whether they have enough donations to continue simulated coverage of the remaining competition was being delayed until sometime today… The money goal had been $3500…
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The Pocono Record Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 11 — Chess Master Recalls Duels With Fischer By Bruce Posten —Canadensis — Arthur Feuerstein, a 36-year-old Brooklyn native, had the distinct honor of playing and beating United States Chess Champion Bobby Fischer in the U.S. Junior Chess Championship in 1956. Feuerstein, vacationing at Spruce Hill Farms in Canadensis, has known Fischer since his early high school days and has played in several tournaments with the professional.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 25 — Fischer Turns Unorthodox Move Into an Attack by Al Horowitz — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 16 — For the second time in two games, the American challenger for the world chess title has made a move that set match-watchers on their ear. Unlike the unexpected move in the first game,however, this one turned out to be the precursor of a powerful attack.
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The Record Hackensack, New Jersey Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 3 — Spassky Objects to Playing Series in Backstage Room — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—World chess champion Boris Spassky of Russia today protested against the playing conditions in a back-stage table-tennis room for the 24-game playoff against American Bobby Fischer. Referee Lothar Schmid called an emergency meeting to discuss the latest snag in the on-again—off-again $250,000 world championship match.
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The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 2 — Fischer Leads in 3d Game from Wire Services — Bobby Fischer returned to the chess board yesterday in a game that was adjourned with the American challenger apparently holding the edge over the Russian world champion, Boris Spassky. If Mr. Fischer wins when the game resumes today—and there are few chess experts here who doubt that he will—it will put him back in the running for the championship.
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The Morning Call Allentown, Pennsylvania Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 5 — Fischer Holds Edge in 3rd Chess Game — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — The third game of the world chess championship adjourned Sunday night after 5 hours and 18 minutes of play with challenger Bobby Fischer apparently holding the edge. The Rev. William Lombardy, Fischer's second and an American grandmaster, said Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky was “in a bad position.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 1, 25 — Fischer Presses His Lead As 3d Game Is Adjourned by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, July 16 — Bobby Fischer decided to play the scheduled third game of the world championship chess match with Boris Spassky. The game was adjourned after five hours in a position favorable to the American challenger.
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Fitchburg Sentinel Fitchburg, Massachusetts Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 8 — Fischer Remembered As “Courteous, Friendly, and Carried Himself As a Perfect Gentleman” — Fitchburg, Massachusetts (AP) Bobby Fischer, the American chess grandmaster playing for the world championship in Iceland, is remembered as “a perfect gentleman” by men who played him in 1964. The remembrance came from Fischer's appearance in March 1964 (for a $250 honorarium) at the Wachusett Chess Club.
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The Bangor Daily News Bangor, Maine Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 6 — Game Adjourned, Fischer Leading by Ian Westergren — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—The third game of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world chess championship match was adjourned Sunday with the American challenger one pawn ahead after 40 moves. Fischer and the world champion began the third game of their $250,000 challenge match Sunday in a small room with only the judges present.
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Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 4 — Chess Federation To Appeal Forfeit by Dr. Leroy Dubeck, President U.S. Chess Federation — Bobby Fischer's move 11 in game three was an opening innovation which undoubtedly surprised Boris Spassky. The adjourned position should be an easy win for the American grandmaster. This would mean that Spassky would lead two points to one.
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The News Journal Wilmington, Delaware Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 2 — Edge Bobby's--But Will He Play in Hall? — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—Bobby Fischer goes into the playoff of the third game of the world chess championship today holding the initiative over titleholder Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The American challenger, after keeping the match in limbo with protests against ([disruptive men operating]) TV and movie cameras, forced the start of the third game yesterday to a private room offstage.
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The Alliance Daily Times-Herald Alliance, Nebraska Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer Wins Chess Game — Reykjavik (AP) — World chess champion Boris Spassky resigned the third game against Bobby Fischer on today five minutes after the clock was switched on to resume their adjourned game. Referee Lothar Schmid opened Fischer's sealed 41st move. It was bishop to queen six. Fischer was not in sight.
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The Sumter Daily Item Sumter, South Carolina Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 12 — Third Game — UPI chart shows the moves in the third game of the Boris Spasky-Bobby Fischer world chess championship. Chess experts give Fischer a 70 per cent chance of winning (UPI).
The Sumter Daily Item Sumter, South Carolina Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 12 — After 41st Move — Artist's drawing depicts chess board in Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky World Championship game in Reykjavik, Iceland, Sunday, after Spassky made his 41st move. Fischer's 41st move remains sealed in an envelope to be opened when the game resumes today. Experts say U.S. challenger Fischer appears to be headed for his first win against Spassky, of the Soviet Union. (UPI)
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Carroll Daily Times Herald Carroll, Iowa Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 30 — Fischer Gains Chess Initiative From Russian — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—American challenger Bobby Fischer forced the third game of the world chess championships off the stage and into a private room ([actually, that choice was made by the organizers and offer extended to Bobby, according to other sources]), gained the initiative from Russian titleholder Boris Spassky and was given a good chance to win when play resumes today.
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Calgary Herald Calgary, Alberta, Canada Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 2 — Spassky Concedes 3rd Game as Chess Turmoil Continues — Reykjavik (Reuter)—The chaotic world chess championship appeared to be in jeopardy once again today after a decision to move play back to the main auditorium. The ruling came just as American challenger Bobby Fischer seemed poised for the first win of his career over titleholder Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, who requested that the adjourned third game be moved to the main hall.
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The South Bend Tribune South Bend, Indiana Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 5 — Lakefront Fischers — Chess players in the open-air chess pavilion along the lake in Lincoln Park, Chicago, provided these studies in thought Sunday. AP Press Wirephoto
The Times Shreveport, Louisiana Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 1 — Commanding Position Held by Fischer by Ian Westergren — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — The third game of the world chess championship match was adjourned after 40 moves Sunday and experts said U.S. challenger Bobby Fischer appeared to be headed for his first win against world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. Spassky was in trouble as he pondered his 41st move. After he made it, he got up and left the table.
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Newsday (Nassau Edition) Hempstead, New York Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 73 — Position at Adjournment — The position at adjournment is displayed here, on a more prosaic board than one in use in Reykjavik: Fischer black, Spassky white. Each player retains a bishop and a queen, but Fischer has six pawns to Spassky's five.
The Indianapolis Star Indianapolis, Indiana Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 9 — Bobby Seems Headed For First Victory In World Chess Tourney — Reykjavik, Iceland(UPI)—The third game of the world chess championship match was adjourned after 40 moves yesterday and experts said United States challenger Bobby Fischer appeared to be headed for his first win against world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
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The Charlotte Observer Charlotte, North Carolina Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 1 — Tell-It Line: If You're Turned On by Fischer vs. Spassky, Here's a Beginner's Chess Tournament For You — How can I get into a chess tournament? I'm 11 years old, and so far I play only with my father. I usually beat him. I guess the Bobby Fischer- Boris Spassky match has me all excited. D.L., Charlotte.
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The Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 6 — Fischer's On The Threshold of First Win Over Spassky — Reykjavik, Iceland — U.S. challenger Bobby Fischer was on the threshold today of his first victory in the world chess championship match. Defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, ahead 2-0 in games, was in serious trouble at adjournment on the 41st move of Sunday's game. He was a pawn down and very nearly enmeshed in a mating net.
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The Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer Scores First Victory — Sealed Move Defeats Spassky—Reykjavik, Iceland — Bobby Fischer won his first game ever from world chess champion Boris Spassky today — and he wasn't even present. The controversial U.S. grandmaster was still en route to the sports hall here when Spassky resigned their adjourned third game in the protest-plagued world chess title series.
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The Honolulu Advertiser Honolulu, Hawaii Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 46 — Play by Play for a Chess Fan — To local fans, yesterday's chess match between Russian world champion Boris Spassky and American challenger Bobby Fischer was the most important world event of the day. For some three hours, an enthusiastic local chess player sat in the Honolulu office of United Press International watching the play by play chess moves come over the teletype machines from Reykjavik, Iceland, where the games are being played.
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The Capital Times Madison, Wisconsin Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 17 — Fischer Plays In True Form by Pete Dorman (State Chess Champion) — The third game between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer has been adjourned in a position that looks like a win for the American challenger. Fischer is a pawn ahead, and Spassky will have to give up at least one more in order to save his threatened king. At last the true Bobby Fischer emerges; the chess wizard whose deadly accuracy cuts through the toughest opposition.
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 10 — Fischer In Dominant Position as 3rd Chess Game Adjourns —Reykjavik, Iceland—The third game of the world chess championship between titleholder Boris Spassky and U.S. challenger Bobby Fischer was adjourned Sunday night with the American in a commanding position. If the challenger triumphs today—and there are few experts here who doubt that he will—it will be his first victory over the Russian and will put him back in the running for the championship.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 8 — Letters to the Editor: Challenging Game — To the Editor: Cheers for publishing the first game of the Spassky-Fischer match. You can hardly imagine how much chess players appreciate being able to play over the games soon after they take place. Chessplayers are a small minority — some say a misguided minority.
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The Guardian London, Greater London, England Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 18 — Novel Fischer Move by a Correspondent — After 20 moves of the third game of his match with Spassky, Fischer looked set to pull off his victory: but whatever the outcome, his startling conception on his 11th move makes all the haggling seem worthwhile. Fischer's imaginative 29th move in the first game, be it good or bad, will be much talked about by all future generations of chess players.
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Albuquerque Journal Albuquerque, New Mexico Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 1 — Good Morning — Fischer, In Iceland, Melts His Icy Demeanor And Puts Heat On His Red Opponent—And the Pawns Fall.
The Wichita Eagle Wichita, Kansas Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 11 — Fischer, Spassky Arrive for Third Game — …No spectators allowed this round…
Nanaimo Daily News Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 1 — Bobby Fischer Wins As Spassky Resigns — Reykjavik (Reuter) — Bobby Fischer of the U.S. won the third game of the world chess title match against Russian Boris Spassky when the Soviet champion resigned today after 41 moves. Fischer was not in the hall when the end came although Icelandic officials said he had been on his way.
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The Ottawa Citizen Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 1 — Victory for Fischer? — Experts feel U.S. chess master Bobby Fischer will beat Russian champion Boris Spassky in the third match of their 24-game world series when the two resume play today. Fischer, who has never beaten Spassky, has the next move. Fischer is playing the black pieces, Spassky the white. (UPI telephoto).
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Evening Standard London, Greater London, England Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 11 — What Fischer Can Do For A Victory by Leonard Barden — CAN Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky with his extra pawn? This was the question facing the battlers in the world chess championship fight as Fischer planned his next move and a hint of trouble came from the Russian camp. The hint of trouble centres on the venue of play. The Russians want to return to the main auditorium and away from the “little back room.”
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Evening Standard London, Greater London, England Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 6 — Fischer, The Pawn, And The Way To Victory — THE BIGGEST secret in the chess world is today tucked safely inside a sealed envelope. It's Bobby Fischer's next move in the third game of the world chess championship at Reykjavik against Russian Boris Spassky. Can challenger Fischer beat Spassky with his extra pawn?
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Cumberland Evening Times Cumberland, Maryland Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 15 — Tapping the Keg by J. Suter Kegg — THE BASEBALL ENCYCLOPEDIA is owned mostly by those who use it to look up an occasional record. The Jim Williams family of Clarysville keeps the huge book in their home only, it seems, to prove to others what it already knows.
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The Ottawa Journal Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 6 — Soviet-Russian Imperialists Laugh To See Such Sport — Whether they win or lose the chess or the hockey, the Russians have thus far won the propaganda warfare that surrounds the games. Bobby Fischer's personal conduct ([in retaliation to Soviet muddling of pre-match organization]) in his approach to the chess match and the NHL's exclusive attitude to the building of an all-Canadian team have given momentary substance in the world's eyes to the classic communist invective that North America measures its civilization in money.
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Spokane Daily Chronicle Spokane, Washington Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 4 — It's Summer Fun in the Park — The intensity, if not the caliber of play, rivals that of grandmasters Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in a playground chess match at Edgecliff Park.
Daily News New York, New York Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 2 — Bobby and Boris Adjourn No. 3 by Robert Byrne — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 16—Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky adjourned the third round of their 24-game match for the world chess championship tonight with the brilliant 29-year-old challenger ahead by a pawn and holding strong winning chances. Chief referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany stopped play after Spassky had made his 41st move and Fischer had handed in his reply move in a sealed envelope.
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The News-Messenger Fremont, Ohio, Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 12 — Summer Chess — Spurred by the Fischer-Spassky tournament in Reykjavik, interest in chess has received a boost. In Helsinki, Finland, chess is played outdoors during the summer. Vesa Ahlquist, 10, shows the technique in playing with modern- design chessmen weighing eight pounds. The game can be played as late as 3 a.m. during the northern country's lengthy summer days. (AP Wirephoto)
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New York Times New York, New York, Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 21 — Spassky Resigns Without Resuming Play in 3d Game by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 17—Bobby Fischer today won the third game of the world championship chess match without even being there. It was his first victory in the match and the first time he had ever defeated Boris Spassky.
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New York Times New York, New York, Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 21 — Spassky Appears Weak on Opening by Al Horowitz — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 17—The two games played thus far in the world championship chess match have disclosed that Boris Spassky, the champion, seems to be lacking in knowledge of the openings. In both games, the American challenger, Bobby Fischer, by playing an unusual defense, stole the initiative in the first few moves and was not punished for it.
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New York Times New York, New York, Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 21 — Kissinger Phone Call To Fischer Disclosed by Undisclosed Source — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 17—Fred Cramer, a spokesman for Bobby Fischer, said today that Henry L. Kissinger had telephoned the American chess star here. Mr. Cramer, a vice president of the United States Chess Federation, would give no details of the call. He would not say when it had been made or what had been said.
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New York Times New York, New York, Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 21 — In Moscow, Fischer Is the Favorite of Many by Theodore Shabad —Moscow, July 17 — “When is Bobby Fischer going to stop ([abiding by rules that permitted Fischer to protest, even boycott and demand removal of cameras that were purposely placed to disrupt his concentration… against the rules of engagement and then further, organizers attempted to mislead via world press on the details of actual rules]) and get down to playing chess?”
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 1 — Chess Rivals Step Up Pace in 4th Battle — (AP) — Referee Lothar Schmid switched on the clock, starting the fourth game in the world chess championship today but neither Boris Spassky nor Bobby Fischer was on the stage. It was the first time the Russian title holder had not been waiting at the chess board as the game opened. Fischer, playing white pieces this time, had the first move.
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The Arizona Republic Phoenix, Arizona Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 10 — Fischer Wins 3rd Chess Test — (AP) Reykjavik, Iceland — Bobby Fischer scored his first victory in the world chess championship against Boris Spassky yesterday with a move he had sealed in an envelope. The Soviet titleholder resigned the third game playoff before the U.S. challenger even showed up. Fischer had sealed his 41st move in the envelop Sunday after Spassky called for an adjournment. It was bishop to queen six, a move most grandmasters here had predicted would be the decisive one for the game.
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The Sumter Daily Item Sumter, South Carolina Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 12 — After Third Game — World chess champion Boris Spassky (left) leaves third game of World Chess Championship match in Reykjavik, Iceland, Monday grim-faced after having lost the first time to American challenger Bobby Fischer, who leaves smiling. Spassky, in giving up after his 42nd move-marking the first time Fischer ever beat him-now holds the edge with two games to one. (UPI)
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Edmonton Journal Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 2 — Fischer Fourth Match and (AP) “Soviets Arrive Four Minutes After Start of Clock” — Reykjavik (Reuter) — The fourth game of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess championship began today when American challenger Fischer moved pawn to king four, his usual opening. Fischer arrived at the chess-board 10 minutes late.
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Edmonton Journal Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 2 — Fischer Fourth Match and (AP) “Soviets Arrive Four Minutes After Start of Clock” — Reykjavik (Reuter) — The fourth game of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess championship began today when American challenger Fischer moved pawn to king four, his usual opening. Fischer arrived at the chess-board 10 minutes late. ([According to a report by (AP) “Soviets Arrive Four Minutes After Start of Clock”]).
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Dayton Daily News Dayton, Ohio Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 2 — Bobby Beats Boris — Reykjavik, Iceland—It was the greatest triumph in his career, yet Bobby Fischer missed the moment by arriving late. Ten minutes before the 29-year-old American challenger rushed into the exhibition hall, titleholder Boris Spassky resigned, giving Fischer his first win in the drive to take the world chess championship. His win the third game in the 24-match world championship cut Spassky's lead to 2-1.
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The Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 7 — The Happy Look of a Winner — Wearing a victory smile, Bobby Fischer leaves Exhibition Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, after defeating Boris Spassky in the third game of the world chess championship. Man at right is unidentified.
Statesman Journal Salem, Oregon Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 18 — Soviet Media Labels Fischer As Dangerous — Moscow (AP) The Soviet news media reported Bobby Fischer's third game chess victory over the Soviet champion Boris Spassky Monday night and one expert said it shows the American “is a very dangerous opponent.”
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Journal and Courier Lafayette, Indiana Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 18 — Two Inferior Moves Cost Spassky Game by Isaac Kashdan — Los Angeles (AP)—When world champion Boris Spassky appeared in the playing room for the resumption of the adjourned third chess game with Bobby Fischer, it was to face the inevitable. For the first time in their careers, Spassky was to surrender to Fischer. Spassky watched referee Lothar Schmid open the envelope and reveal the move B-Q6ch, which Fischer had made the night before.
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The State Columbia, South Carolina Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 2 — Russian Paper Conceded Before Game Resumed — Moscow (UPI)—The chess commentator for the government newspaper Izvestia conceded victory Monday to American challenger Bobby Fischer in the third game of his world title match with Boris Spassky even before the two men sat down to resume their adjourned game.
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The State Columbia, South Carolina Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 2 — Spassky Concedes On 42nd Move — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — American challenger Bobby Fischer defeated Boris Spassky in the third game of their $250,000 world championship chess match Monday and cut the Russian champion's lead to one point. Fischer's win, his first ever over Spassky, came when the Russian concede the game on the 42nd move, his position hopeless.
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Journal and Courier Lafayette, Indiana Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 18 — Fourth Chess Championship Game Due--Without Turmoil — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer was back in the running for the world chess championship today, and it appeared that the fourth game might start this afternoon without the turmoil that has kept the match on the world's front pages for nearly two weeks.
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The Orlando Sentinel Orlando, Florida Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 2 — World Chess Champion: Game 3 — Arrow Shows Fischer's Winning Move … Game took 41 moves first day, 1 more second.
Belvidere Daily Republican Belvidere, Illinois Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 4 — Bobby Fischer, Here We Come by David Englund — The Fischer-Spassky chess match (or is it a non-match?) inspired me to play in the Rockford Forest City Open, an annual chess tournament rated by the United States Chess Federation (USCF). This year's tournament attracted 93 players, an increase of about 20 over last year's total.
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The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 8 — Fischer, Spassky in a Draw — Reykjavik, Iceland — (UPI) — Play in the fourth game for the $250,000 world championship of chess got off to a brisk start today after it appeared for a few minutes that challenger Bobby Fischer might walk out once again.
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Tucson Daily Citizen Tucson, Arizona Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 7 — 4th Chess Game Gets Under Way — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — An adamant Bobby Fischer threatened another walkout today only minutes before the start of the fourth game of the $250,000 world championship chess match but agreed to play if ([crews of men operating large, bulky, human-operated]) television cameras were not used. Only 15 minutes before referee Lothar Schmid started the clock for today's game the firm which bought film rights to the match tried to re-install the cameras.
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The Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 28 — One For Fischer — (UPI Telephoto) American chess challenger Bobby Fischer won his first game yesterday in the world championship match against Russian Boris Spassky. Fischer who had written out his first move after Sunday's adjournment, was not present as Spassky viewed the move, then conceded.
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer Wins Third Game for His First Defeat of Spassky by Isaac Kashdan — Bobby Fischer defeated world chess champion Boris Spassky Monday in the third game of their $250,000 match in Reykjavik, Iceland, cutting the lead of the Russian champion to one point. Fischer was not in the room at the moment of victory.
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Daily News New York, New York Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 56 — HOOPla! — Jo Jo White, sensational Celtic guard, calls his new three-year contract “surprising.” Surprisingly good or surprisingly bad? “If it was bad, do you think I'd have signed?” he asks…The only unsigned veteran Knick is Bill Bradley, vacationing in Greece. President Ned Irish says, “I expect him to play one more year.”
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The Times San Mateo, California Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 25 — Chess Duels Flourish In San Mateo County by John Horgan — Their heads are bent low as they ponder their martial moves. They murmur to one another as the hints of tactics and grand strategy become apparent. There is an aura of tension, a distinct feeling of combat, pervading this room. The action unfolds on the array of tables spread across the enclosure.
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The Fresno Bee The Republican Fresno, California Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 10 — Soliloquy — “Fischer and Spassky, by holding out for a record $250,000…May go down in chess history…As the Cheque Mates!” — Fails to elaborate on USSR selecting Anti-American, Racist Iceland who restricted entry of blacks and news coverage. Finicky, overbearing demands and complaints of European organizers who refused for months to work out details pre-match.
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Aiken Standard Aiken, South Carolina Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 6 — Aiken Club on World Chess Championship by Dr. Lee Hyder —(Editor's note: The Fischer-Spassky World Chess Championship match has brought a renaissance to the ancient game. Yet, the various complications of such a match, the positions, the notation often escape the inexperienced player.
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Grand Prairie Daily News Grand Prairie, Texas Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer-Spassky: Chess Club Follows Title Game — Chess - a game somewhat regarded for the aloof and intellectual - may be taking on a new image in the United States. That is due to the fact an American, Bobby Fischer, is challenging world title holder Boris Spassky in Iceland. The United States has never before had a world champion in chess.
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The Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer Win Apparent In Film Fight: Cameras Removed as Chess Resumes — Reykjavik (UPI) — Bobby Fischer, playing white for the first time, went after his second victory in his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky today after apparently winning his fight to have ([disruptive crews of men operating large, bulky]) television cameras removed from the hall. Fischer used the opening he traditionally employs whenever he has the first move of a game, advancing his king pawn two squares.
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The Sedalia Democrat Sedalia, Missouri Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 6 — World Chess Title Rides With Fischer — For the past several days the dateline of Reykjavik, Iceland, has been eclipsed by Miami Beach. But now that the Democratic National Convention has departed from center stage, we can turn our attention to the battle for the international chess title.
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The Guardian London, Greater London, England Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 4 — A Novel Win for Fischer by Leonard Barden — Bobby Fischer won the third game of the world chess title match in Reykjavik when Boris Spassky resigned as soon as the referee opened the envelop containing Fischer's sealed last move at the end of Tuesday's session and played 41. … B-Q6ch. Fischer was not in the hall when Spassky resigned. Whey did Spassky resign? After Fischer's check with the bishop, white checkmated no matter where he places his attacked king.
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The Guardian London, Greater London, England Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 4 — Classic Move by American by Michael Lake, Reykjavik, July 17. — Bobby Fischer scored a convincing victory over Boris Spassky here tonight in the third game of the 24-game world chess championship. Since Fischer was already two games down — one lost …
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The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 1 — Anyone For Chess? — When you know the moves, you know how to play chess — almost. By now you have been told the object of the game, how all the units move, from Pawn to King, how they capture, how check and mate are effected…
The Minneapolis Star Minneapolis, Minnesota Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 23 — Bobby and Boris 'Show' Booms Chess-Sets Sales by John Greenwald — Twin Cities retailers say chess sets usually sell best during Christmas, along with checkers, Monopoly, and other board games. But the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky championship match seems to have caused an out-of-season run on chess sets in some stores. “We're almost sold out of sets,” said Arvilla Ohlgren, stationery department buyer for Powers Department Store on Nicollet Mall.
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The South Bend Tribune South Bend, Indiana Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 4 — A Woman Gets Into Chess — I'm just getting into chess so I've really been following the match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I've never seen in any of the news stories how these chess tournaments get started. Also, since I'm a female and an advocate of women's lib, why's it always the men?— M.S., Niles, Michigan
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The Miami Herald Miami, Florida Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 100 — Chess Tests Brains and Patience by John Pennekamp — CHESS could well be the world's oldest “think” game. It is not a game for impatient persons and, in its upper elevations, expert levels, not even for persons of average patience. Much of the game, say the authorities, is “played off the board,” in an effort to upset your opponent's tranquility.
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Simpson's Leader-Times Kittanning, Pennsylvania Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 7 — Capitalistic Chess — Unfamiliar with the profit motive, the Russians were aghast at Bobby Fischer's dilatory approach to his world championship chess tournament with the titleholder, Boris Spassky, at Reykjavik, Iceland. Americans are much less concerned about the commercial aspects of Fischer's recent moves, accustomed as they are to that springtime phenomenon, the baseball holdout, and its most recent and broadest manifestation to date, the baseball strike.
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Daily News New York, New York Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 4 — Boris Sees Bobby's Move and Gives Up by Robert Byrne — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 17—Boris Spassky resigned game three of the world chess championship match to Bobby Fischer tonight without further play. The Russian world champion's lead was reduced to 2-1.
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The Age Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 10 — Fischer Poised to Make it 2-1 by Michael Woodhams of the Melbourne Chess Club —Challenger Bobby Fischer put himself back in to the world championship match with Boris Spassky by establishing a commanding position at the adjournment of the third game. The game featured the first of the innovations prepared by the players and their aides.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 44 — Those Chess Games With Dad: Better (at Times) Than a Fight — Rita Reif, noting current world chess champ match between Fischer and Spassky, comments on increasing popularity of chess as family game.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 45 — Spassky Plays to a Draw With Fischer in 4th Game by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 18—After a nerve-racking, wearisome five-hour session of play this evening, Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer drew the fourth game of the world's chess championship match. After 45 moves, both players looked at each other, there was a tacit understanding and Fischer offered his hand, which Spassky took. The score now stands at 2½ to 1½ in favor of the Russian.
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The Evening Sun Baltimore, Maryland Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 3 — Chess Kings Tie In Fourth Game —Ready For Battle—Bobby Fischer, U.S. chess player, arrives at hall in Reykjavik, Iceland. The fifth match in the 24-game series will take place Thursday. Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)— Boris Spassky was stony-faced and Bobby Fischer smiled and waved after their fourth game in the world chess championship ended in a draw Tuesday night.
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The Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 38 — Fourth Chess Title Game Drawn: Boris Had A Win—Until 29th Move — Reykjavik, Iceland—A slight inaccuracy by Boris Spassky turned a victory into a draw here Tuesday in the fourth game of the world chess championship match. The defending champion had U.S. challenger Bobby Fischer on the ropes in an exciting game when he erred by moving his rook on the 29th move.
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The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 2 — After 5 Hours: Fischer Gains Draw in World Chess Duel — Reykjavik, Iceland — The fourth game of the world chess title clash between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer ended last night in a draw on the 45th move. This made the score in the 24-game series 2½ to 1½ in favor of Mr. Spassky, the Russian world champion.
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The Indianapolis Star Indianapolis, Indiana Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 10 — 4th Game Ends In Tie As Boris, Bobby Battle by Jim Ward —Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—United States challenger Bobby Fischer won a battle over television cameras last night but had to settle for a draw with Boris Spassky after 45 moves in a see- saw fourth game of the world chess championship. Spassky offered the draw with a simple inclination of his head after Fischer made his 45th move, a pawn to his queen bishop three, and Fischer accepted immediately. The two shook hands across the table and Fischer got up with his glass of orange juice in his hand and strode from the hall.
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The Ottawa Journal Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 6 — Spassky Now Appears to Be Employing a Classic Russian Defence...! — Chess No Longer Considered a Game for Slow-Moving Graybeards by Leonard Barden — Reykjavik. The world chess championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in Reykjavik marks a new high in public awareness of a game which has radically altered its old image of an introverted refuge for slow-moving graybeards.
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The Sheboygan Press Sheboygan, Wisconsin Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 7 — Spassky Nearly Defeated Fischer In Fourth Game by Isaac Kashdan — Los Angeles (AP)—Boris Spassky came close to defeating Bobby Fischer in the fourth game of their world championship chess match. Spassky was the aggressor for the first time, building up a powerful attack, but he missed his way by reversing moves at the critical point. On his 29th turn, Spassky should have played B-Q3, threatening mate. Fischer would be forced to move his king. Then on 30 R-R1 would follow.
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The Central New Jersey Home News New Brunswick, New Jersey Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 16 — A Word From the Sidelines — Fred Kramer, left, a representative of U.S. challenger Bobby Fischer, has a word with Fischer upon their arrival at Laugardalsholl Hall, in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the fourth game in the championship chess match with Boris Spassky. Fischer, who had first move, arrived 10 minutes after the clock was started, signaling the beginning of play. AP Photo.
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Dayton Daily News Dayton, Ohio Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 3 — Here's How Board Looked When Spassky Offered Draw — Fischer accepted gesture with almost imperceptible nod.
Dayton Daily News Dayton, Ohio Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 3 — Fischer Takes Spassky 45th Move Draw Offer — Reykjavik, Iceland—(UPI)—Bobby Fischer all but danced off the stage. Minutes earlier the 29-year-old challenger had clasped Boris Spassky's hand after accepting a draw on the 45th move of the fourth game for the world chess championship.
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The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 4 — Advantage to Fischer — Reykjavik, Tuesday. — U.S. challenger Bobby Fischer, following his first victory against world chess champion Boris Spassky, of the Soviet Union, is favoured to win again in the fourth game of the series. The game begins tonight (3 a.m. Wednesday, Sydney time). A win for Fischer would even the score at 2-2.
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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 56 — Fischer-Spassky World Chess — At Reykjavik, Iceland Fourth Match Fischer (White) Spassky (Black). Spassky (needing 12 points) leads Fischer (needing 12½ points) 2½-1½. CAPTION: It's A Draw—This is how the board looked at end of fourth game in world chess championship. (AP)
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The Times Shreveport, Louisiana Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 1 — Bobby Fischer Arrives for Fourth Game in Chess Match — …ends in draw after five-hour struggle.
Newsday (Suffolk Edition) Melville, New York Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 79 — Spassky Arrives for 4th Game — AP Photo
The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 1 — Spassky's 29th Move Provides Turning Point by Isaac Kashdan —Boris Spassky outplayed Bobby Fischer in the fourth game of their chess match, built up a winning position, and then missed his opportunity by reversing moves at a critical moment. The diagram below shows the position after Fischer's 29th move.
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The Age Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 9 — “Actually, I'm not too keen on my terms either — 10 years in Siberia if I lose.”
The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 35 — The 2 Chess Games by Sydney J. Harris — There are two games called chess really — one is the game that persists in the popular imagination, and the other is the game that is played by experts over the board. The first game is tedious, abstruse and mathematical, presided over by Olympian graybeards with prodigious memories, infinite patience, and the uncanny ability to project a dozen moves ahead.
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The Age Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 10 — Aiming for 2-2 — Reykjavik, July 18—United States challenger Bobby Fischer, fresh from his first-ever victory over Russian world chess champion Boris Spassky, is tipped to even the 24-game title series in the fourth game which begins here tonight. Fischer, trailing 1-2, will have the advantage of white's opening move for the first time in the match.
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The Des Moines Register Des Moines, Iowa Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 4 — Fourth Spassky-Fischer Game Ends in a Draw After 5 Hours by Michael Lake, 1972 Manchester Guardian — Reykjavik, Iceland—The fourth game of the world chess championship ended in a draw here Tuesday, after getting underway in a comparatively orderly manner although both Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky arrived late for the start of the game.
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The Orlando Sentinel Orlando, Florida Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 6 — Experts Seesaw With Ebb and Flow of Game by Sentinel Services —Running comments of world chess experts and reporters during the fourth game draw Tuesday at Reykjavik, Iceland, reflected the tenseness of the seesaw struggle. Dmitri Bjelica, Yugoslav commentator: Fischer is playing the Sozin attack to the Sicilian Defense and he knows more about it than anyone else in the world.
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The Guardian London, Greater London, England Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 26 — Spassky and Fischer Draw on the 45th by Leonard Barden — The fourth game of the world chess championship match in Reykjavik between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer finished in a draw last night on the 45th move. The game reached a completely level ending with bishops of opposite colors and four pawns on each side. Spassky now leads the 24-game series by 2½ points to 1½, with the next game scheduled for tomorrow night.
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Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 80 — Chicago Chess Addicts Find Lakefront Home by Frank Blatchford —Every afternoon when the weather's nice, Nathan Rochmes, who's in his fifties, grabs his plastic satchel and rushes out of his office as soon as the day's trading is over. At the chess pavilion he takes out the battered set of chessmen, a cushion for himself, and begins to play. One can't spend an hour watching the players without realizing that chess is more than a world championship match between Boris Spassky of Russia and Bobby Fischer of the United States.
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Daily News New York, New York Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 4 — (Soviets Wanted Media Blackout. Used Disruptive Camera Men to Achieve It.) Battle Ends in Draw by Robert Byrne — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 18—Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn and Boris Spassky of Russia ended the fourth game of the world chess championship today in a draw after 45 moves and five hours. Fischer used the opening he almost always employs when he has the first move of the game, advancing his king's pawn two squares. Spassky, in a surprise start, used the Sicilian defense, which is Fischer's favorite.
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The Windsor Star Windsor, Ontario, Canada Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 11 — Fischer Fan — Sir: It is a great reflection on the intelligence of Windsor people when The Star editorial can sneer at Bobby Fischer who, it is still possible, could become the only world chess champ the English-speaking world has produced. Win or lose he is internationally a man of respect and stature but not, it seems in oh so smug Windsor. Shame.
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Rocky Mount Telegram Rocky Mount, North Carolina Wednesday, July 19, 1972 - Page 13 — Personally Speaking... by Ronnie Smith — That ancient, ancient game of chess is once more capturing the excitement of millions of fans across the world. With the world championship being played in Reykjavik, Iceland between champion Boris Spassky and challenger Bobby Fischer, small chessboards have sprung up in nearly every conceivable corner of the world.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 30 — Spassky and Fischer Play With Intense Drive to Win by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 19 — As they say in poker, the players came to play. Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer have confronted each other over the board only three times in the world championship chess match, but it is clear that both the titleholder and the challenger are fighting for the points and are not likely to settle for “grandmaster draws.”
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New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 30 — U.S. Chess Unit Presses Challenge on Forfeit — The forfeit point awarded to Boris Spassky in the second game of the world championship chess match between Spassky and Bobby Fischer is still being challenged. Col. Edmund Edmondson, executive director of the United States Chess Federation, said yesterday that a reversal of the forfeit would be sought at the World Chess Federation convention in October.
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Albuquerque Journal Albuquerque, New Mexico Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 5 — The People's Column: Appreciates Chess Play — I WANTED to write to say how much I—and a lot of other people—appreciate the space you are giving the Spassky-Fischer chess match. It is very easy for a paper to ignore something as special and esoteric as chess, especially with the Democratic Convention going on. We chess fans appreciate the Journal's care in running the wire-copy reports on the match regularly.
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Philadelphia Daily News Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 28 — Fischer Wants Chess Match Televised But on Reasonable Terms (As Previously Understood and Agreed Upon) — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—Bobby Fischer wants his $250,000 world championship match with Boris Spassky of Russia televised to the world, but he cannot accept an arrangement that would hurt his concentration at the chess board, a representative of the American challenger said today.
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The Catholic Advance Wichita, Kansas Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 3 — Priest 'Second' To Fischer In Chess Playoff — Father William Lombardy, an International chess grandmaster in his own right is the “priest-behind-the-scene” at the world's most publicized chess match being held at Reykjavik, Iceland. A longtime friend of American chess whiz Bobby Fischer, the 34-year-old New York archdiocesan priest and Bronx high school teacher is serving as second, adviser and game analyst to the American chess champion in his match with Boris Spassky of Russia, the current world champion.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 2 — Silence To Reign In Chess Game — Reykjavik (UPI) — Organizers of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess championship Wednesday said they hoped television cameras would be back in the hall for Thursday's fifth game. Workers built sound-proof boxes at the entrances to the playing hall during the afternoon to block the sound of clattering dishes and voices from a nearby cafeteria.
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The York Dispatch York, Pennsylvania Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer Quiet: Chess Match Begins With No Word of Protest — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky sit down at the chess board again today. But this time it is different—Fischer isn't threatening to walk out. The fifth game of the 24-game world chess championship match began this afternoon, with titleholder Spassky, a 35-year-old Russian, playing white—which means he makes the first move.
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Tucson Daily Citizen Tucson, Arizona Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 1 — 'The Big Game' Ain't Baseball by Judith Terlizzi, Citizen Staff Writer — When your neighbor asks about today's game, chances are good that the contest he's referring to was played in Iceland, not Yankee Stadium. The Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world chess championship tournament has local tongues tripping over “Reykjavik,” and local hands dusting off chess boards and sweeping chess books off store shelves.
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The Amarillo Globe-Times Amarillo, Texas Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 1 — Psychological Nonsense — The psychological warfare at the Fischer-Spassky chess match in Iceland is mild ([says who? So far threats have been made on the lives of Fischer, his entourage and the “foreign” press. Underhanded tricks and malicious schemes by Soviets have scarcely been mentioned in press, albeit, real as they are. The location cherrypicked by the Soviet is notoriously Anti-American and Racist for starters, and certainly no “accident”
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The Shreveport Journal Shreveport, Louisiana Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer, Spassky Begin Fifth Game — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — The fifth game of the $250,000 world championship chess match started on schedule today—without the television cameras opposed by American Bobby Fischer. Sources in New York said a tentative agreement was reached earlier in the day permitting the ([CLOSED-CIRCUIT, automatic, un-manned, stationary]) cameras to record the event.
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Chippewa Herald-Telegram Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 16 — Fischer 'Only Just Started': No Protests During Fifth Game of Chess Title Match — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky sit down at the chess board again today. But this time it is different—Fischer isn't threatening to walk out. ([if that's so, it's because Soviets aren't forcing disruptive men with cameras in Fischer's face to throw his concentration off balance]).
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Des Moines Tribune Des Moines, Iowa Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 21 — Des Moines Chess Players Excited About Publicity - They're Watching Spassky-Fischer Match Closely by Stephen Gross — DEDICATED Des Moines chess players are excited about all the publicity the game has been getting lately, but the general public seems to be greeting the whole thing calmly. Members of the Des Moines Chess Club, headquartered at the YMCA, and local high schools teams that compete around the state and sometimes the nation are following the international championship between Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and American Bobby Fischer enthusiastically.
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Honolulu Star-Bulletin Honolulu, Hawaii Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 6 — Fischer Wins, Evens Series With Spassky — Reykjavik (UPI) — U.S. grand master Bobby Fischer tonight forced world champion Boris Spassky to resign on his 28th move and won the fifth game of the world chess championship. Fischer's surprise victory in what had been an even game through 22 moves evened the score in the 24-game, $250,000 world championship at 2½ games each.
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The Ottawa Citizen Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 3 — Fischer, Spassky Spats Spark Local Moves: Chess Sales Climb by Patricia Cote — The ERRATIC WORLD-CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP in Iceland may be responsible for the increase in sales of chess sets in some Ottawa stores. Nothing like in Iceland, mind you, where the sudden enthusiasm for chess finds people playing in the streets, but at least three Ottawa stores have had anywhere from a slight to a 50-per-cent increase in sales.
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The Havre Daily News Havre, Montana Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 3 — Editorials: Back Bobby Fischer — Some people have goose bumps over the world championship chess match being played in Reykjavik, Iceland and fans find the battle of personalities involved, that of Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the USSR, is more interesting than the movement of the pieces on the chess board. Master chess players we are told are sensitive folks who for the most part have keen minds and are thinking many moves ahead of the ordinary chess player.
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The Miami News Miami, Florida Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 22 — You Don't Have To Be an Intellectual To Play Chess by Jeff Klinkenberg —Bernie Schmidt was trying to explain a chess move used by Bobby Fischer to someone who just could not understand so finally he said he had an idea and ran out the door. He was back in a moment, carrying a cardboard box under his arm and he said, “I always keep a chess game in the trunk of my car. I'm always equipped.” He dumped the pieces onto the board and began setting them up.
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The Lexington Herald Lexington, Kentucky Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 35 — Uncertainty Keys Chess Match — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—The score of 2½ points for champion Boris Spassky and 1½ for challenger Bobby Fischer was the only matter of certainty on the eve of Thursday's fifth game of the world chess title match. Still alive was the question whether Chester Fox's movie cameras will be back in the hall for the fifth match. Fox, who has sunk a reported $160,000 into exclusive movie rights, says they will.
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Aiken Standard Aiken, South Carolina Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 14 — The First Draw In The Fischer-Spassky Match by Dr. Lee Hyder — Newcomers to the game of chess frequently wonder how a game of chess can arrive at a draw, or indecisive result. The rules of chess specify several in which this can happen. A game is drawn in case of stalemate. This occurs when one player can make no legal move, but his king is not under direct attack. (Position 1).
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 187 — Fischer-Spassky Moves: Valley Chess Club to Replay Icelandic Games for Analysis by Pat Bryant — SUN VALLEY—Russian chess champion Boris Spassky's games with American Bobby Fischer will be replayed with magnetic pieces on a four-foot-metal board—and then analyzed—on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m. at the Valley Chess Club. The Iceland world championship matches will last a maximum of 24 games.
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The Des Moines Register Des Moines, Iowa Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 5 — Chess Fans Check American Mate — There hasn't been a world champion of chess from the United States in more than a century, and American chess buffs are rooting for Bobby Fischer enthusiastically. Reporter Stephen Gross talked with chess players in Des Moines recently, and records their excitement for the tournament—and for the game—in tonight's Tribune.
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Pacific Daily News Agana Heights, Guam Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 38 — U.S. Chess Champion Bobby Fischer arrives at the Icelandic hall where he meets Boris Spassky for the World Chess Championship appearing confident and wearing a smile. Spassky has the edge in the series, 2½ to 1½ over the American challenger. (UPI)
The Age Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 12 — Fischer Recovers to Force a Draw by Michael Woodhams of the Melbourne Chess Club — American challenger, Bobby Fischer, yesterday recovered from an almost hopeless position to force a draw in the fourth game of the World Chess Championship series. The score is now 2½ games to 1½ in favor of the Russian champion, Boris Spassky.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Fort Worth, Texas Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 5 — New Quarters Sought For Fischer, Spassky — Reykjavik (Reuter) — Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky relaxed Wednesday in their hotels in preparation for new living quarters for them. The Russian world champion is leading 2½ points to 1½ in the series after the fourth game Tuesday night was drawn.
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Pants On Fire: Fischer Already Had The Authority To Remove The Cameras — So emboldened are the Soviets they here do boastfully declare their rule-breaking shoddy treatment they're doling out upon the U.S. challenger. Assuming Americans are too slow for the many contradictions to sink in. “Fischer's Demands Rejected” presumably this further admission of tormenting Fischer is to elicit standing ovations and cheers from Americans for those righteous Soviets cheating and misleading the public lie by gradual lie!
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To Protest... Or Not To Protest? Fischer “Demands” Threaten Match? … Fischer Not Protesting This Time. How can it be both? They lied already, claiming Fischer sought authority to demand removal of cameras, when he ALREADY possessed that right. Oh, now he’s “demanding” new living arrangements? But another journalist already confirmed new living quarters were being sought for both Fischer and Spassky.
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Centre Daily Times State College, Pennsylvania Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 16 — Byrne Still Expects Fischer Victory by Joan A. Kurilla, Times Staff Writer — Donald Byrne, the University's chess coach, still hopes to see a new American World Champion, but has some reservations as to whether the current match will ever be completed. One of the 10 best chess players in the nation, Mr. Byrne says U.S. challenger Bobby Fischer is better at the game than the world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
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The Maryville Daily Forum Maryville, Missouri Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 8 — Chess Enthusiasm: Elmo Wright and Aaron Brown of the Kansas City Chiefs by Steve Cameron — Liberty — He's not quite ready to take on Boris Spassky, but Elmo Wright is a chess freak. Wright, the Kansas City Chiefs' second-year wide receiver, took up the game just three years ago, but he packs a portable chess set with magnetized pieces and will play in his room, on airplanes and anywhere else he can find an opponent.
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Wisconsin State Journal Madison, Wisconsin Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 6 — No Wonder Soviet 'Chess Machine' Wins — Sirs — I was disappointed to see The Wisconsin State Journal endorse Russian Boris Spassky in the current chess championship. ([And no doubt endorses the Soviet Empire, altogether in other matters.]) The USSR takes chess very seriously and spends a great deal of money and effort to insure that a Soviet player is always the world champion. By training children and providing state support for promising players, the Soviet “chess machine” has completely dominated the game since 1948.
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USSR Will Lose Championship. Their Time Grows Short to Pack Even More Biased Anti-American Nonsense Into Headlines — With the Soviet succeeding to bury the match, by isolating the tournament in the very Anti-American, Racist Iceland, the Soviet has monopolized the ability to control the narrative coming out of Reykjavik and has basically, smeared Robert Fischer's desire for the tournament to be properly filmed, in his face.
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The Charlotte Observer Charlotte, North Carolina Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 16 — Thanks For Chess Coverage — Thank you so much for the excellent coverage of the world championship chess match. The Observer's circulation area has many chess enthusiasts, from duffers like me to experts, and we are all ecstatic about being able to play the games the next day. It's the next best thing to being there. — Frances W. Brown, Charlotte.
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The Holland Evening Sentinel Holland, Michigan Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 1 — Chess Fans in Moscow — Soviet chess master Yuri Katkov discusses moves from the fourth game of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer championship series with fans at the Moscow Chess Club. The fifth game got under way today after some difficulties concerning televising of the match in Iceland. UPI Telephoto
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The Leader-Post Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 11 — World Chess Moves — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—The moves in the fourth game of the world chess championship between defending champion Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer.
New York Times, New York, New York Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 32 — Spassky Obviously Rattled by Al Horowitz — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 20—As far as this chess columnist can remember, no world champion has ever made such a terrible blunder as Spassky made on his 27th move in the fifth game of the match with Bobby Fischer today. But even without his fatal mistake, the Soviet champion was not at his best today. Russian chess reporters in the tournament hall conceded that Fischer had the better of the game despite playing Black.
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New York Times, New York, New York Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 1 & 32 — Spassky Resigns After Blunder; Match Is Even Through 5 Games by Harold C. Schonberg — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 20—Bobby Fischer, swooping down on a blunder by Boris Spassky, forced the champion's resignation today in the fifth game of their world championship chess match.
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New York Times, New York, New York Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 32 — Delight and Sympathy Mingled Among Marshall Club Observers — There was incredulity at the Marshall Chess Club here yesterday when Boris Spassky resigned to Bobby Fischer. Some delight was expressed, too, because most of the 50 or 20 persons there were rooting for Fischer. But the delight seemed subdued. Indeed, when the result was learned at 4:40 P.M., the Fischer backers seemed quite stunned.
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Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 27 — ...Meanwhile, Chess Fans Back Home Contemplate — While Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer contend for the world chess championship in Iceland amid fanfare and publicity, chess buffs back home continue to play in solitude and quiet contemplation. Mike Healy, 801 18th Ave. N, appears deep in thought planning the next move in a solitary game at the St. Petersburg Chess Club Thursday. Healy, a first-year student at St. Petersburg Junior College, said he thinks Fischer will win the chess title because “he comes up with some fantastic moves.”
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The Pantagraph Bloomington, Illinois Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 7 — Boris Evens Score — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—World chess champion Boris Spassky resigned Thursday night in his fifth championship game with American challenger Bobby Fischer, evening the match score at 2½ points each. Spassky's resignation after 27 moves and 3½ hours of play stunned the spectators. He had been judged in a slightly weaker but not impossible position.
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The Pantagraph Bloomington, Illinois Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 7 — American Wins with 27 Moves — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—The moves of the fifth game of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess championship. How it ended: This was position on the chess board when Russia's world champion Boris Spassky resigned after 27th move in match with American Bobby Fischer. If Spassky captures bishop, Fischer takes king's pawn with his queen. (AP Wirephoto chart).
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Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 2 — Spassky Resigns: Fischer Wins Chess Game No. 5 by Larry Evans — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 20 — Under the inexorable pressure of time, Boris Spassky made an incredible blunder on his 27th move in today's fifth game of his match against Bobby Fischer, and promptly resigned.
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Honolulu Star-Bulletin Honolulu, Hawaii Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 25 — Fischer and Spassky Now in Chess Tie — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—Bobby Fischer took the fifth game of the world chess championship last night after a bad blunder by Boris Spassky and only 3½ hours of play, evening the score at 2½-all. “It was just what we expected,” said Frank Skoff, vice president of the U.S. Chess Federation. “The general opinion of the American camp is that Fischer will win—even with the forfeit.”
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Lebanon Daily News Lebanon, Pennsylvania Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 28 — Fischer Scores To Even Chess Match — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—World champion Boris Spassky stared at the polished marble board and then moved his white queen one square. Without looking up Bobby Fischer inched closer to the table in his black metal and leather swivel chair. Then he pushed forward a bishop three squares to take a pawn and offer a calculated sacrifice that was as devastating and as final as the chop of a guillotine.
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Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 1 — Action Line — These are the best of times for chess players. I can't wait to start experimenting with the Fischer-Spassky strategies. Is anyone going to publish a move-by-move account of all the games in the international match?—E.N., Southfield. Check, mate. Simon and Schuster plans to strike while chess is hot, has grand master Svetozar Gligoric busily taking notes in Iceland.
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Tucson Daily Citizen Tucson, Arizona Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 45 — Spassky's Error Akin to Fischer's in First Encounter by Isaac Kashdan, International Grand Master — Following is an analysis of the fifth Fischer-Spassky chess match written for the Associated Press by Isaac Kashdan, an international chess grandmaster. Los Angeles (AP)—The fifth game of the world chess championship in Iceland was marked by as grievous an error by Boris Spassky as the ones that Bobby Fischer committed in their first encounter. Spassky apparently had overlooked Fischer's reply when he made his 27th move. His choice of the square B2 for the queen was to protect his rooks pawn for the second time.
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The Evening Sun Baltimore, Maryland Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 3 — Spassky Relaxes, Tries to Forget Game 5 Blunder by Julie Flint — Reykjavik, Iceland (AP)—Within hours after making what experts consider one of the most costly mistakes of his long chess career, Soviet world champions Boris Spassky was out playing tennis with one of his seconds today.
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The Shreveport Journal Shreveport, Louisiana Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 18 — Top Players Not Surprised By Outcome — Chicago (AP)—The black and white pieces clicked together on a checkerboard battleground, forming changing patterns of attack and defense. The struggle shifted back and forth as the chess masters brooded, analyzed and plotted the next move. The scenario: The skittles room between rounds during the first day of play Thursday in the Third National Chess Congress tournament.
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The Town Talk Alexandria, Louisiana Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 15 — Fifth Game at End — This is the way the board appeared at the end of the fifth game in the world chess championship Thursday night in Reykjavik, Iceland. U.S. Grand Master Bobby Fischer won the game, forcing world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union to resign on the 28th move. (UPI Telephoto)
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Dayton Daily News Dayton, Ohio Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 5 — World Champion Russian Loses In Rare Low Number of Moves — Reykjavik, Iceland —(AP)—Moves in the fifth game of the world chess championship match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer, (Spassky-white, Fischer-black). Spassky resigns. Elapsed time: Spassky, white, 130 minutes; Fischer black, 77 minutes.
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Daily News New York, New York Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 4 — Bobby Bags 28-Move Victory by Robert Byrne — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 20—World titleholder Boris Spassky of Russia blundered at the 27th move today in game five of his world championship chess match tonight with Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn and had to give up after the 29-year-old American replied with a haymaker to even up the match at 2½ games apiece. After Fischer played his 27th move, a bishop to his queen's rook taking a pawn, Spassky looked intently at the table for a full minute.
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Press and Sun-Bulletin Binghamton, New York Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 2 — Chess Games To Be Analyzed — Harold C. Evans, former president of the New York State Chess Association, will study and analyze play in the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky championship chess games at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the Binghamton YMCA. Also, Evans will replay some of the games won by Fischer when he was 15 and earned the title of grandmaster. In addition, Evans, a former New York Amateur chess champion, will play a simultaneous exhibition of chess matches against any persons interested in playing.
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The Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 7 — Chess Offered As Viet Move — San Francisco (UPI)— Taking a lead from the success of ping-pong diplomacy, a group billing itself as the nation's first professional chess team has offered its services to President Nixon in an effort to end the Vietnam War.
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El Paso Herald-Post El Paso, Texas Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer Certainly Will NOT Permit Disruptive Crews of Men Operating Bulky TV Cameras — USSR selecting Anti-American, Racist Iceland who restricted entry of blacks and news coverage… 2nd Game Camera Boycott? “instead of..video tape film that didn't make any noise they had guys with film cameras that were..all around..making a racket..and visually you could see them moving around.”- R.J. Fischer.
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Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 34 — Spassky Seen Cracking Under Fischer Attack by Dr. Leroy Dubeck, President, U.S. Chess Federation — With the world chess championship games between U.S. Grandmaster Bobby Fischer and Russia's titleholder Boris Spassky, now even, observers see Spassky cracking under the pressure. Yesterday's game lasted only 28 moves. Spassky resigned immediately after making a blunder in an inferior position.
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The Vincennes Sun-Commercial Vincennes, Indiana, Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 3 — FISCHER WINS! — Russian in Pinch — This was the position of chess pieces when Boris Spassky resigned Thursday, giving the fifth game of his match with Bobby Fischer to the latter. (AP Wirephoto)
Contra Costa Times Walnut Creek, California Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 1 — Fischer Evens Chess Series — Reykjavik, Iceland — World championship chess player Boris Spassky resigned in his fifth title game with American Bobby Fischer Thursday in Reykjavik, Iceland. The Russian resigned after three and one-half hours of play as the American leveled his score with Spassky at two and one-half points each. Spassky's resignation brought a roar of astonishment from the crowd in the huge auditorium in Reykjavik.
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Evening Herald Shenandoah, Pennsylvania Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 4 — Contest's The Thing — A lot of cryptic stuff like this is coming out of Iceland these days: “53. K-B5 K-Kt4; 54. KxP KxP; 55. K-Q5 K-Kt4; 56. K-Q6 Resigns.” That is the windup of the first game in the Spassky-Fischer world championship chess match. Few Americans—perhaps not one in 1,000, or even more—read such game records with understanding, let alone relish. Yet Americans are showing great interest in the match. This may not be so hard to explain.
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Evening Standard London, Greater London, England Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 17 — Did Bobby Turn on Evil Eye? by Leonard Barden — WHAT's WRONG with Boris? Chess masters in Reykjavik and the huge audiences of Russians following the world title match on open-air boards in Moscow are all asking the same question after last night's fifth game. Boris Spassky has seen his comfortable two-point lead over Bobby Fischer wiped out in the space of four days while the challenger has grown in confidence.
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Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 6 — The Friendly Score — ON BEHALF of the many chess players in Michigan, may we commend you on the excellent coverage you have given the Fischer-Spassky match. We are especially pleased to see that you printed the game score of the first game along with a diagram. It is our sincere hope that you will continue to print the game scores as they become available because your paper is one of the first sources we can look to for the information.
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The Age Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 9 — Chess Fever Grips America From Roy Macartney, in Washington — The once-scorned game of chess has come out of the cobwebs and is sweeping the United States. Little-known clubs are now crammed with players, duffers are hunching intently over boards in the parks, and newspapers, radio and television are giving the world chess championship in Reykjavik almost baseball World Series treatment.
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 16 — Inexplicable Blunder by Spassky Spells Defeat by Isaac Kashdan, Times Chess Editor — Bobby Fischer had a slight advantage after 26 moves of his fifth match game with Boris Spassky, but he could hardly have expected the world champion to resign two moves later. Spassky's error on the 27th move was as inexplicable as the one committed by Fischer in the first game. It led to an even more disastrous finish.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 9 — Bobby Fischer—The Area's Top Chess Set Salesman by Dominic Sama of The Inquirer Staff — Bobby Fischer's widespread publicity given to the chess match in Iceland have spurred a boom in the sale of chess sets and chessboards in local stores. “Our chess sales were at a complete standstill before the match,” said Curtis Bronson, manager of Gimbels stationary department at 9th and Market streets.
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The Miami News Miami, Florida Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 6 — Fischer Takes 5th, Evens Chess Match — (AP) Bobby Fischer won the fifth game of the world chess championship last night when Boris Spassky made a blunder after only 3½ hours of play. The score is now 2½-2½. “It was just what we expected,” said Frank Skoff, vice president of the U.S. Chess Federation. “The general opinion of the American camp is that Fischer will win—even with the forfeit.”
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The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 14 — Letters to the Editor - Fischer's Behavior — Sir: I am completely behind Bobby Fischer in his *SEEMINGLY immature behavior with respect to Reykjavik. (* Seemingly. The word seemingly refers to how things look on the surface — how they seem — and it often suggests there's more to the story.) If this were the Orioles, playing an international game, and they did not like the set-up, they would complain. Since, however, this is only chess…
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Newsday (Suffolk Edition) Melville, New York Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 108 — Even a Riot Can't Distract Chess Masters at Work — Patrons of the Chess House in New York follow moves of televised Fischer-Spassky match on their own boards. Their concentration wasn't even cracked by a riot out front, complete with policemen and questions.
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The Capital Times Madison, Wisconsin Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 17 — Spassky Caught In Fischer Trap by Peter Dorman, State Chess Champion — The fifth game between World Champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer ended abruptly yesterday when the Russian grandmaster made a gross oversight on his 27th move. Spassky, his attention focused on intricate defensive maneuvering in a difficult position, overlooked a sharp trap, and resigned the next move.
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The Honolulu Advertiser Honolulu, Hawaii Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 3 — Honolulu Newsstand: Chessnuts by Eddie Sherman — Chess nut John Narcisi has a cloth “board” set up in the City Room, following the Fischer-Spassky moves via info from the UPI wire. John, an artist who plays tournament chess (a C-player) believes it'll be Fischer hands down when it's all over…
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The Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 20 — Strange Development — Bobby Fischer has had an uplifting influence on some college campuses, where the No. 1 dormitory game is now chess.
New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, July 22, 1972 - Page 29 — In Striving for Poise, Spassky Tries Tennis — Reykjavik, Iceland, July 21—Boris Spassky the world chess champion, was playing tennis today, apparently trying to regain his poise after last night's resounding defeat in the fifth match game against the challenger, Bobby Fischer of the United States. The score is now even at 2½ to 2½.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, July 22, 1972 - Page 29 — Russians Puzzled — Moscow, July 21—“You're asking about the blunder?” the young Russian chess enthusiast said. “I think the biggest blunder Spassky ever made was to sit down opposite Fischer to play chess.” The young Russian was commenting at the Central Chess Club on the uproar stirred abroad by yesterday's defeat of the Soviet champion.
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New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, July 22, 1972 - Page 29 — At U. N., Blitz Doesn't Always Mean War by Israel Shenker — United Nations, N.Y., July 21 — The United Nations plays an important role on the international chessboard, and international chessboards play an important role at the United Nations. Every lunch hour the boards are set up in the ground-floor lounge of the Secretariat Building here.
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Press and Sun-Bulletin Binghamton, New York Saturday, July 22, 1972 - Page 5 — It Matters Not How Big the Board--or Boy — Paul Ulmer, 12, a chess veteran of three years, battles Evans with fist-size chess pieces on a carpet board. Evans discussed the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky match and Fischer's early chess play at regular meeting of YMCA's Chess Club.
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The Honolulu Advertiser Honolulu, Hawaii Saturday, July 22, 1972 - Page 42 — Fischer Near Chess Victory — Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI)—Challenger Bobby Fischer was “feeling on top of the world” yesterday following his second win over world chess champion Boris Spassky of Russia and at least one chessmaster said the American could wrap up the championship with one more win.
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The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Saturday, July 22, 1972 - Page 1 — How To Beat The World Champion… — in one easy move. Bobby Fischer, America's chess genius, was playing black in the position above and about to make his next move. Boris Spassky, Russia's world champion, had amazingly just made the kind of error a beginner makes. And with one devastating move Fischer gained such an advantage that Spassky resigned immediately. It happened, to a roar of applause from the spectators, in the fifth game of the world title match, played yesterday in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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The Sentinel Carlisle, Pennsylvania Saturday, July 22, 1972 - Page 2 — Fischer Bothers Spassky — Reykjavik (UPI)—World chess champion Boris Spassky has fled to the seclusion of a downtown penthouse and canceled all appointments amid reports from Russian sources that he is irritated with the American challenger, Bobby Fischer. The Rev. William Lombardy, Fischer's second, said Friday, “Spassky is so ravelled that if he doesn't come around by the sixth game Bobby is going to steamroll him. Spassky has not been himself here. The match Sunday will go two ways—either he will break down or find hidden reserves and come back.”
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Rutland Daily Herald Rutland, Vermont Saturday, July 22, 1972 - Page 2 — Clucking Heard at Moscow Chess Club by Theodore Shabad —Moscow—“You're asking about the blunder?” the young Russian chess fan said. “I think the biggest blunder Spassky ever made was to sit down opposite Fischer to play chess.” The blond Russian had stepped out into the cool air on the balcony of the Central Chess Club and was commenting on the uproar stirred abroad by the defeat of Boris Spassky, the Soviet champion, in the fifth game of the world title match against Bobby Fischer of the United States.
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The Honolulu Advertiser Honolulu, Hawaii Saturday, July 22, 1972 - Page 25 — Kuhio Beach Chess Nuts Say Fischer Will Roast Spassky by Bob Krauss — A Krauss Survey of the chess nuts on Kuhio Beach yesterday revealed that Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky can go home. Their World Chess Championship has been decided. It'll be Fischer 15 games to nine.
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The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, July 22, 1972 - Page 9 — Soviet Analysts Seek New Gambit — Reykjavik (AP)—World champion Boris Spassky went fishing yesterday as his seconds put their heads together to try to save his chess title for the Soviet Union. Said the Yugoslav chess commentator, Dimitri Bjelica, a friend of Spassky: “I am amazed he is not analyzing the game. Things are not going well for him.” After his victory, Fischer made one of his rare sorties from his hotel room to dine at Reykjavik's chic Restaurant Norse.
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Waukesha Daily Freeman Waukesha, Wisconsin Saturday, July 22, 1972 - Page 27 — Chess Played 'Old' Way by John Engelbert, Freeman Staff — CHESS HAS attracted world-wide attention because of the world championship match between Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of Russian now being played in Reykjavik, Iceland. There, at Fischer's insistence, a part of one session was played in a near vacuum. Only a referee was present, and moves were relayed to spectators over closed-circuit television ([as per, Fischer's expectations; silent, automatic, stationary closed-circuit cameras in contrast to large, bulky major sports television cameras operated by crews of men who interfere with concentration]).
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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Saturday, July 22, 1972 - Page 37 — Letters: Fischer Defended — John Hall denounces chess as a “meaningless skill that has little to do with molding the destiny of the planet” and Bobby Fischer for “rudeness, egomania and childish tantrums.” Chess is no more a meaningless skill than baseball, football, basketball, golf, tennis and all sports and games. As for Fischer, his actions are responsible for about 500% improvement in playing conditions and prize money in tournaments.
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