Word: icelander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles bureau members. After 23 moves, when the West Coast wood pushers' victory seemed assured, they revealed that they had used former U.S. Champion Larry Evans to direct their game. This week, with Hillenbrand already at his next assignment in Saigon, Chess Expert Evans is in Reykjavik, Iceland, reporting for TIME the play-by-play drama of the Fischer-Spassky confrontation...
After a week of petulant demands and infuriating delays, U.S. Grand Master Bobby Fischer, 29, finally showed up in Reykjavik, Iceland, for his best-of-24-game match with World Champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union (TIME, July 17). But he was still bellyaching. He griped about the lights and the chessboard at Reykjavik's Sports Hall, and he ordered his own $500 swivel chair to be air-freighted from the U.S. Even after the start of the first game -for which he arrived seven minutes late-he staged a 35-minute walkout because, he said...
REYJAVIK, Iceland--World chess champion Boris Spassky resigned the third game against Bobby Fischer on Monday five minutes after the clock was switched on to resume their adjourned game...
...said World Chess Champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, "then we will all go home. It's as simple as that." But nothing is ever simple when U.S. Grand Master Bobby Fischer is involved. After winning the right to play Spassky for the world title in Reykjavik, Iceland, the Brooklyn bad boy played a defiant gambit that threatened to stalemate the "Match of the Century." Not satisfied with a record $125,000 purse (previous record: $12,000) and a 30% share of TV and film rights, Fischer at the last minute demanded a 30% cut of the gate...
Fischer's belated arrival only served to heat up the cold war in Iceland. While Bobby slept, his second went in his stead to the noon meeting to determine who would have the first move in the best-of-24-game match. Spassky appeared but instead of drawing lots he stalked out of the room without explanations. Later he declared that he was "insulted" by his opponent's delaying tactics, that Fischer had "jeopardized his moral right to play" and must suffer some "just punishment before there is a hope of holding the match." Spassky, who maintained...