APittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Friday, January 21, 1972 - Page 23
Where Pittsburgh Chess Mates Gather by Mike Kalina
…In addition to sponsoring many local tournaments, the chess club also invites chess luminaries here to engage in simultaneous exhibitions with area players. Bobby Fischer, the U.S. chess whiz who soon will be competing for the world championship, played here a few years ago thanks to the backing of the Pittsburgh Chess Club. And he walked away with 154 victories out of a possible 155.
“Fischer is quite a player,” said one chess club member, not prone to overstatement, “and we here at the club feel that he is going to win the world title.”
If, indeed, he does, he will be the first chess shark to take the world championship trophy out of the Soviet Union since 1937.
The chess club also has a library for its members (more books have been written on chess than on all other games combined) and also publishes a house organ called “En Passant” — which is French for “in passing”, a certain chess move.
Where Pittsburgh Chess Mates Gather Fri, Jan 21, 1972 – Page 23 · Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com
