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...other Los 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...
...first game was played across the $5,000 marble and mahogany chess table on the stage of Reykjavik's Sports Hall. On the 29th move, when it seemed that the game was destined to be a draw, Fischer boldly picked off an unprotected pawn with his bishop. A gasp of astonishment swept the 2,000 spectators in the hall. It was, as any amateur could see, a "poisoned pawn." Trapped behind enemy lines, the bishop fell six moves later, and Spassky, making the most of his advantage, went on to win. The second game, boycotted by Fischer in a dispute...
...late, Bobby has taken to musing about "Once I have the title..." "If" has never entered his mind. When pressed, he modestly rates himself as the "20-to-1 favorite." The prospect of earning more than $100,000 in Reykjavik has him talking about buying houses round the world. "You know, like what's-his-name?Onassis, who has his table set for him in places like London, Buenos Aires, New York." When he first started his all-out quest for the title in Belgrade two years ago, a reporter asked him what chess meant to him. He pondered...
...Boris arrives in Reykjavik two weeks before the match...