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...wills between World Chess Champion Boris Spassky of the U.S.S.R. and Challenger Bobby Fischer of the U.S. took a subtle but significant turn in Reykjavík, Iceland, last week. Boris, rumored to be suffering from defeatism, professed a new-found determination: "The first half of this match was not very interesting for me. The second half will be." The usually difficult, demanding Bobby, on the other hand, seemed downright congenial. After taking a commanding lead in the match, Fischer at one point uncharacteristically consented to attend a cocktail party at the U.S. Information Agency in Reykjavík. Reports...
...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...
...negotiations were going so poorly, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger revealed last week, that he felt compelled to intervene "for the good of the country." Kissinger was not referring to his latest secret maneuverings for peace in Viet Nam. He was talking about peace in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the confrontation between Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the world chess championship. After weeks of petty infighting, the stormy encounter of East v. West, of Boris the witty, urbane champion v. Bobby the temperamental, demanding challenger, had grown into an international incident. To avoid...
...draw strength also from his near reverence for the game. "Chess brings out man's creative powers," he says. "It is not only struggle, it is a sphere where humans can fight for justice because there are strict laws." Those laws have served Spassky well. Before the match in Iceland began, Spassky had played Fischer, the highest-rated player of all time in the F.I.D.E. scoring columns (a statistical scale based on tournament results and strength of competition), five times and never lost. He won three times and gained two draws...
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...