AThe Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Tuesday, January 18, 1972 - Page 2
Fischer No Genius, Russian Says
Tigran Petrosian, the former world chess champion from the Soviet Union, said American world title contender Bobby Fischer was no genius. But he refused to speculate on the outcome of the next world title match.
Fischer, of Brooklyn, defeated Petrosian 6.5 to 2.5 when they met in Buenos Aires late last year for the right to play present champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The site of the match this spring has not been chosen.
Petrosian said in an interview by the official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug that he felt Fischer “is certainly not a genius.” But asked to speculate on the outcome of the spring title match with Spassky, Petrosian would say only, “It is important to play—not to win.”
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